The winners of the Georgina Campbell Food & Hospitality Awards 2025 were announced at a gala lunch at the InterContinental Dublin Hotel this week, with seven of the top awards going to Northern Ireland.
Stove Bistro on Belfast’s Ormeau Road took the Bijou Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year title while Wine & Brine in Moira lifted the Neighbourhood Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year award. Square Bistro in Lisburn was honoured with the Casual Dining Neighbourhood Restaurant Award.
The Traditional Pub of the Year title was taken by The House of McDonnell in Ballycastle. Other awards went to Cyprus Avenue, Belfast (Irish Breakfast Award, Neighbourhood Favourite), The Walled City Brewery, Derry (Irish Craft Drinks Award) and Dunluce Lodge, Portrush (Newcomer of the Year 2025).
- Bijou Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year: Stove Bistro, Belfast (pictured, Sinead O’Callaghan with hotelier John Brennan and Georgina Campbell)
- Irish Breakfast Awards, Neighbourhood Favourite: Cyprus Avenue, Belfast
- Newcomer of the Year 2025: Dunluce Lodge, Portrush, Co Antrim (pictured, Sinead McDonnell with hotelier John Brennan and Georgina Campbell)
- Casual Dining Neighbourhood Restaurant 2025: Square Bistro, Lisburn, Co Antrim (pictured, Stephen & Cristina Higginson with hotelier John Brennan and Georgina Campbell)
- Traditional Pub of the Year 2025: The House of McDonnell, Ballycastle, Co Antrim
- Neighbourhood Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year: Wine and Brine, Moira, Co Down (pictured, Davina McGowan and Fiona Cameron with hotelier John Brennan and Georgina Campbell)
- Irish Craft Drinks Award 2025: Walled City Brewery, Derry Co Londonderry (pictured, Louise & James Huey)
Ireland’s longest running food and hospitality awards, the annual Georgina Campbell Irish Food & Hospitality Awards were established by the well known food writer in the 1990s, with the aim of giving recognition where it is deserved across a broad range of destinations and lead customers – both Irish and visitors – to genuinely hospitable experiences where they will enjoy great food that ‘speaks of the real Ireland’. Unlike some commercially-led awards schemes, businesses cannot enter themselves for these awards, which are based solely on independent all-year assessments by a team of experts, who book anonymously and pay their bills like any other guest.