{"id":126293,"date":"2025-05-23T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126293\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:34:15","slug":"good-food-a-tandem-and-celebrating-the-best-of-ni-why-life-after-retirement-is-flourishing-for-the-gourmet-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126293\/","title":{"rendered":"Good food, a tandem, and celebrating the best of NI: Why life after retirement is flourishing for The Gourmet Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As The Gourmet Boys\u2019 popularity shows no signs of slowing, neither does their commitment to celebrating what Northern Ireland and beyond can offer in terms of hospitality\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Gourmet Boys. Photo: Kevin Scott\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bt_kscott_216453.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Gourmet Boys. Photo: Kevin Scott<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s a sunny Friday morning and Weekend magazine is being entertained by two very well-dressed gentleman in the Grand Central Hotel\u2019s ground floor caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brian Haslett and Mark Irvine, also known as The Gourmet Boys, have become well known for their support of hospitality, travel, food\u2026 and more. Their social media is peppered with engaging content, with recent inclusions from Shines Seafood, Lotus Emeya S, Atlantic Coastal Cruises and Olly\u2019s Cocktail Bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As The Gourmet Boys\u2019 popularity shows no signs of slowing, neither does their commitment to celebrating what Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[16264,2378,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-126293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-aine-toner","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114559298105626365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}