Idyll occupies 438 Ormeau Road, running a brunch menu that changes regularly around whatever produce its kitchen has that week. The team makes as much as possible in house, including its own condiments, syrups, ferments and pickles, rather than buying them in. Coffee comes from Bailies Coffee Roasters, alongside matcha drinks, house hot chocolate and soft drinks made on site. The restaurant trades under the name Eat Local NI Ltd, a small operation with no second branch elsewhere in Belfast. Idyll keeps a short, changing menu rather than a long fixed one, and takes bookings by phone rather than through a table-booking platform. It sits among a run of independent cafes and restaurants that have opened along this stretch of the Ormeau Road in recent years.
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