Bridgestone Guides 2007

Ginger

68-72 Great Victoria Street, Belfast in Co. Antrim

Simon McCance

Tel: +44 (0) 48-9024 4421

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If you can define style as being the preserve of people who have the nerve to be defiant about a lack of style, then Simon McCance is the Christian Dior of his alternative style universe. Christian Dior? Hell, this guy is John Galliano and Alexander McQueen all in one.

The carelessness about the style of Ginger is so funky, so proud, that you would have to travel to Barcelona to see other rooms that have such insousiance, such freedom from the tyranny of design.
As with the room, so with the food. Mr McCance has always had the most individualistic of culinary signatures, his food seeming to pull in influences but never being subsumed by them: haunch of venison with oyster mushrooms and red wine; parsnip and chickpea fritter; puff pastry pie of spinach and ricotta. He cooks the way Aussie and Spanish guys do, bringing flavours to dishes that then positively sparkle with clean, fresh energy and taste, but presenting the food in such a confident, unclichéd way that the overall content of Ginger – its bohemianism, defiance, originality, its style – become all of a piece.

noon-3pm Thu-Sat; 5pm-10pm Tue-Sat

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200m up the street from the Crown Bar, leading out of the city and smack on the main strip of Great Victoria Street.

www.gingerbistro.com