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To be sure, it’s a croc!
Belfast is getting a taste of down under with crocodile and kangaroo additions to the menu of the city’s MORNING STAR restaurant. In Ireland these are considered to be pretty exotic foods. However, the restaurants Australian owner Corinne McAllister, who is importing the meat, is used to controversy. She previously shocked regulars with ostrich steaks. “I know there will be a lot of gasps when they see the menu, but people will try it,” she said. Ms McAllister admits some customers may be a little put off with the idea of dining on a piece of Skippy or one of Crocodile Dundee’s mates. |
Best Of Northern Ireland Tourism Rewarded One of Belfast’s oldest pubs, the Morning Star in Pottinger’s Entry, the first pub in the annual British Airways Tourism Awards to receive an award. There was a record number of entries from this year from projects and initiatives across the province, further confirming the renewed hope and optimism which the tourist industry is currently experiencing. Anne Gregg, presenter of the popular BBC programme ‘Places Apart’ adn local UTV presenter Paul Clarke co-hosted the Awards at a gala banquet in the Europa Hotel... ...This year, awards were presented in a totoal of 7 categories with the Chairman’s Award going for the first time to a winner in the licensed trade, the Morning Star. |
We are included in the following publications:-
Taste of Ulster Guide Let’s Go Britain/Ireland Guide Best 100 Pubs in Ireland Bridgestone’s Ireland Good Food Pubs of Ireland Georgina Campbell’s Winner of the British Airways Tourism Award ‘Best Pub Food’ Short listed for the ‘All Ireland Seafood Pub’ 1999 |