Chilli And Chocolate

Chilli and Chocolate is a food blog from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Written by Niall and Kelly, the blog covers all sorts of good things: recipes, restaurant reviews and wine reviews, upcoming foodie events in Northern Ireland, and we try to introduce you to some great local producers. We started the blog in November of 2008 as a result of a sudden realisation – our lives revolved around food! What are we cooking for dinner, what restaurant can we next visit, can you recommend a good bottle of wine, do you know a good recipe for XYZ, and so on. It also allows us to record some of the better experiences of our lives for posterity – fantastic dishes tasted, sumptuous wines guzzled, and good local food producers encountered. Is the blog just about food in Belfast? Although we’ll cover a lot of stories and events from Northern Ireland and Belfast in particular, we want this to be more than a food blog, and certainly more than just a Belfast food blog. Anything and everything will end up here, and from every corner of the world. As long as it tastes good! But why Chilli & Chocolate? Quite simply, chilli and chocolate covers the whole spectrum of the dining experience – from the canapes to the dessert course, from savoury to sweet! Another reason is a purely personal one – the title brings back very fond memories of a truly superb slice of dark chocolate and cake, a thin line of fiery chilli between the moist layers, and a great merlot, savoured on a warm July evening at Circular Quay in Sydney. We hope you’ll enjoy it.