Northern lights
No sooner had Lady Gaga and Co stormed the city for the MTV Europe Music Awards, than the Christmas lights were being switched on at City Hall. Next up is 2012, and a Titanic Festival to mark the 100th anniversary of the Belfast-built liner’s maiden voyage.
As it transitions from Troubles to tourism, however, you’d have to wonder whether Belfast’s restaurant scene has kept pace. The Observer’s Jay Rayner recently trashed the “miserable cooking” at Made in Belfast, Northern producers have never been ones to proclaim themselves from the mountaintops, and Michael Deane was stripped of the country’s only Michelin Star this January.
