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With the influx of roving supper clubs, the landscape of Belfast’s dining scene seems to be shifting and next week a vacant restaurant premises in Callender Street in Belfast City Centre will be transformed into a new restaurant concept for three months.

A team from Mourne Seafood Bar has taken on the premises for a pop-up restaurant, HOME.  The 50-seater restaurant will be open for business seven days a week, late into the evening and will operate a BYO policy.

Over the next three months, chef Ben Arnold and manager Stevie Haller and crew will transform the space into a new restaurant concept collaborating with ReFound using unwanted and salvaged furniture as the canvas with artists transforming reclaimed pieces into unique, functional furniture for dining and which will also be available to buy.  Everything from the coat stand, tables, chairs, pictures will be available for purchase.

Manager Stevie Haller said, “Pop-up restaurants are the latest food craze with chefs taking over underutilized spaces or vacant kitchens providing an outlet for chefs to express their culinary creativity.”

“Pop-up restaurants are trendy, in high demand and can vanish as quickly as they appear, making them awesome but often elusive for securing a table. We’re already experiencing a high level of interest from prospective diners”.

Jill O’Neill of ReFound commented, “HOME will take our ReFound pop-up shops to the next stage to sit in an environment with our furniture.  The idea of HOME worked perfectly with the ReFound ethos of re-found experiences.  As soon as customers walk in, the food will inspire homeliness and comfort, listening to music will inspire memories and furniture that will remind you of your childhood.  From the moment you walk in, we’ve tried to create and evoke a homely sense.  The environment will change on weekly basis as and when furniture is sold and replenished.

The menu for HOME has been created by chef Andy Rea of Mourne Seafood Bar and dishes on the menu include “Old school” ham shank and split pea soup, organic roast beetroot salad with walnuts and goats cheese croquettes for starters.  Main courses on the menu include Dexter oxtail cottage pie with whipped potato top and seasonal vegetables; cod with wilted greens, roast tomato and shallot confit and polenta fries; local herb roast chicken with Irish style cabbage, potato sauce and bacon bits.  While to finish desserts range from oaty spiced apple crumble with vanilla ice cream and warm chocolate cake with chocolate sauce, berries and crème fraiche.

HOME will open on Wednesday 13^th October from 5pm until January 2012. Reservations will be accepted for evening bookings on 07936292502.

HOME, 8 Callender Street, Belfast.