Top chef launches new brand of Lisburn's Cafe with a cause

By The Newsroom
Published 21st Sep 2016, 16:36 BST
Updated 5th Oct 2016, 14:19 BST
Conor Thompson trainee with Stepping Stones with the Lisburn Mayor councillor Brian Bloomfield with local chef Paula McIntyre and Paula Jennings, Chief Officer at Stepping StonesConor Thompson trainee with Stepping Stones with the Lisburn Mayor councillor Brian Bloomfield with local chef Paula McIntyre and Paula Jennings, Chief Officer at Stepping Stones
Conor Thompson trainee with Stepping Stones with the Lisburn Mayor councillor Brian Bloomfield with local chef Paula McIntyre and Paula Jennings, Chief Officer at Stepping Stones
Award winning charitable organisation, Stepping Stones NI have teamed up with top chef Paula McIntyre to launch their new brand The Courtyard Café with a menu.

The Lisburn chef is well known in the culinary world with a huge following of food lovers and hosts the cooking slot on BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Saturday Magazine’ with John Toal.

She trained in Culinary Arts at the prestigious Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island, USA, and returned to the UK in 1993 to open her own restaurant in Manchester.

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She returned to Northern Ireland in 1998, after Paula worked as Head Chef in several establishments including Ghan House in Carlingford and Fontana in Holywood.

The Courtyard Café trains adults with a learning disability in catering with 100% of the profits reinvested to support the work of the charity.