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Restaurant review: These French fusion dishes are now firmly on my must-haves list in Belfast

All roads lead back to a French brasserie. When you’re done with Mexican, Chinese or Indian or even a fresh plate of colcannon, the most demanding fusspot with the Michelin guide in their pocket will return to the French. Because this is where you will always find flavour, volume and sanctuary.

Bank Square Brasserie is serving up tasty, big-flavoured food, writes Joris Minne Korean chicken burger All roads lead back to a French brasserie. When you’re done with Mexican, Chinese or Indian or even a fresh plate of colcannon, the most demanding fusspot with the Michelin guide in their pocket will return to the French. Because this is where you will always find flavour, volume and sanctuary.

Since the wonder days of La Belle Epoque and Froggities RIP around the mid ’90s (those allumette chips, the boeuf bourguignon and the moules frites), Belfast had become a bistro desert and the French flame carried only by l’Etoile on the Ormeau Road died some years later..