Roscoff Restaurant is a former restaurant

Restaurant

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 that was located in 7-11 Linenhall Street, Belfast

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, Northern Ireland. It was a quality restaurant

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 that was awarded one Michelin star in the period 1991-1998.

Restaurant Roscoff was established in 1984 under the name Roscoff. Some years later, after the addition of other eateries to the Paul Rankin Group, the name was changed to Roscoff Restaurant.

In 1991 the Michelin Guide

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 awarded its first Michelin star in Northern Ireland to Paul Rankin

Paul Rankin

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. Roscoff and Rankin were highly influential on the contemporary culinary world in the Republic of Ireland

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 and Northern Ireland. Many chefs and head chefs, like Dylan McGrath

Dylan McGrath

Dylan McGrath is an award-winning Irish celebrity chef. He was the owner of the now defunct Michelin star Mint Restaurant in Dublin. He recently opened 'Rustic Stone Restaurant by Dylan McGrath' on Georges Street in Dublin's City Centre and has been announced by RTÉ One as the Judge on the new...

, Michael Deane

Michael Deane

Michael Deane is a chef from Lisburn, Northern Ireland.Deane started his career at Claridge's in London. In 1993 he moved back to Northern Ireland and opened Deane's on the Square with his cousin, the entrepreneur, Haydn Deane in Helen's Bay, County Down...

 and Robbie Millar

Robbie Millar

Robbie Millar was a chef and restaurateur from Ballycarry in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.Millar started his career at restaurants in Corfu, Zurich and London before returning to Northern Ireland to work in Paul Rankin's Roscoff restaurant in Belfast...

, have received a part of their training there.

Forced by financial difficulties, Rankin sold the restaurant in 2005. The building is now occupied by restaurant CoCo.

Paul Rankin was the head chef of Roscoff.

Awards

Besides the Michelin star awarded bij the Michelin Guide

Michelin Guide

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is has also claimd several other awards:

• BBC Good Food Award 1996