EDO x Belfast Whiskey Week 2025: Exclusive Bottlings Fine Dining

Name: Belfast Whiskey Week 2026
Start: 2026-07-24
End: 2026-08-01
Location: Belfast

Filed: 15 Jul 2025
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 4 min
Ref: BWW/25/428

There are evenings that linger long in the memory — not just for what was poured, but for the full sensory world that surrounded it. The collaboration between EDŌ and Belfast Whiskey Week 2025 was precisely that kind of night: a meeting of two crafts, each demanding the best from the other, held in one of Belfast's most quietly celebrated dining rooms.

About This Event

We are Delighted to announce a very Special Collaboration between One of Belfast’s most sought after Fine-dinning Restaurants and some of Ireland’s most prestigious and distinguished whiskies.

With exceptional attention to detail the team at EDŌ have developed a whiskey pairing that will gravitate both the exceptional whiskies and the exquisite produce from the kitchen.

This is a unique opportunity to taste EDŌ in a slightly different environment, part of a perfectly curated evening.

EDŌ brings you a relaxed dining experience where you can enjoy the tastes of the best ingredients from around Europe. Award winning owners Jonny & Charlotte bring a huge passion for food from their extensive experience working across Europe, including for top chefs Gordon Ramsay and Gary Rhodes.

EDŌ is ideal for those wanting to experience a range of tastes through a sharing themed menu. For those who prefer a more traditional service, the starter and main course format is still available. Edo is one of only a very small number of restaurants to cook using a Bertha oven, which allows for the chefs to cook with apple and pear wood to give dishes a distintive, smokey flavour.

Looking Back

EDŌ has built its reputation on restraint and intention. Owned by Jonny and Charlotte, whose combined experience spans the kitchens of Gordon Ramsay and Gary Rhodes across Europe, the restaurant brings a distinctly European sensibility to Belfast's food scene without ever losing sight of the exceptional local and regional produce at its disposal. What makes EDŌ particularly singular is its Bertha oven — one of only a handful in Ireland — which burns apple and pear wood to impart a soft, fragrant smokiness to dishes that feels more like a whisper than a shout. On the evening of 21st July 2025, that subtle smoke met the deeper, more complex smoke of some of Ireland's most prestigious whiskey bottlings, and the results were quietly extraordinary.

The event centred on a set of exclusive bottlings commissioned specifically for Belfast Whiskey Week 2025 — expressions chosen not merely to be tasted, but to be understood in the company of food. Each pairing had been developed with real care by EDŌ's team, and it showed. Where one whiskey carried orchard fruit and vanilla, a dish arrived that echoed those notes through roasted produce and a careful hand with sweetness. Where a dram leaned into spice and dried fruit, the kitchen answered in kind. This was not the kind of whiskey dinner where the food plays second fiddle; both elements had equal standing on the evening's programme, and both delivered.

Guests could choose between EDŌ's signature sharing-style menu — which suits the convivial spirit of a whiskey evening particularly well — or the more traditional starter and main format for those who prefer their meal to unfold at a steadier pace. Either way, the room carried the easy warmth of people who had chosen to be exactly where they were: no hurry, no performance, just good uisce beatha and the kind of food that rewards attention. It was, in the truest sense, a duchas evening — rooted in hospitality, unhurried, generous.

Events like this one sit at the heart of what Belfast Whiskey Week does best: connecting whiskey to the wider culture of eating, gathering, and appreciating craftsmanship in all its forms. If the Tasmanian Whiskey Dinner explored how whiskey culture travels across hemispheres, and Roam X BWW: Is 30 Old? asked searching questions about age and maturity, then EDŌ x BWW offered something more intimate — a reminder that some of the finest whiskey experiences happen not in a tasting room, but around a table set for pleasure. For those curious about the full range of exclusive bottlings that defined BWW 2025, the Belfast Whiskey Week collection is well worth exploring.

At £60 a head, this was an evening that represented genuine value for what was on offer — fine dining, exclusive Irish whiskey, and the kind of considered pairing that takes months to develop properly. Those who attended left with full glasses behind them, a meal to think about, and the particular satisfaction of having spent a Monday evening in July exactly as it deserved to be spent. Sláinte mhaith.