101 Great Irish Restaurants: Ulster

Antrim

Ox, Belfast

“We wanted a place where people could feel at ease; that meant no starched white linen. If someone knocks a wine glass over on a wooden table, nobody bats an eyelid.” In an interview with The Sunday Business Post in February 2015, Alain Kerloc’h spelled out what he and chef Stevie Toman wanted to achieve with Ox, the restaurant they had opened in Belfast in 2013.

They managed ...