The final first class menu served on the Titanic on its fatal journey across the Atlantic is being remade in Belfast. It offers patrons the chance to find out what life tasted like in that extraordinary and ill-fated chapter of history.
This unique meal is being served at Rayanne House, in Holywood, five miles from the Belfast city centre, and was last prepared on the Titanic on April 14, 1912. The contrast between the delicate, refined quality of the food and the fate of the trip couldn’t be more stark.
The nine-course meal was and is unsurprisingly lavish, including canapés, cream of barley soup, foie gras, asparagus and watercress salad, rose water and mint sorbet – all washed down with wine and champagne.
Intriguingly, a different wine would have been served with each course as standard in those times, a feature that will be implemented at the meal.
Conor McClelland, the chef and proprietor at Rayanne House, spent months researching the meal and said: “It was such a beautiful menu. There was so much attention to detail in the food that it really was a first-class feast.”
Described by legendary cook, Delia Smith, as “Simply The Best” the restaurant has sourced from local suppliers – and they managed to find an original wine list too.
