Welcome

We Opened NICKS WAREHOUSE at the end of 1989. We love the feel of the narrow cobbled streets and the red brick buildings. Number 35 Hill Street had been reduced to an enormous pigeon loft, ignored and neglected in an area once at the heart of Belfast City. Astonishment and mutterings of madness followed us as we set to persuading the pigeons to move on.

NICK'S WAREHOUSE was in fact just that - a warehouse - originally built for the Bushmills Whiskey Co, as a bonded store in 1832. Customers tell us that they can remember buying flagons of whiskey here - or perhaps they mean their granddads can. The original building was quite small, seating only 90 people on two floors - the ground floor being devoted to a wine-bar (Belfast's first real one) and the first floor to more formal business dining (with linen!)

We immediately established a regular following in the local business community built on the promise of excellent food, attention to detail and efficient, informed staff. Within our first year we had achieved listings in all the major guides - Good Food Guide, Bridgestone, Egon Ronay, Michelin, Ackerman etc.