Popular Derry restaurant, The Sooty Olive, has announced it is to close just days after its owner was named “best chef” in a major industry awards ceremony. Located on Spencer Road in the Waterside, ...

I have a love-hate relationship with Spencer Road. I always do my best to avoid driving along it. There’s never anywhere to park, it’s too narrow, and there are too many other cars squeezing up and ...

Restaurants in Derry/Londonderry are like mushrooms. You wait a lifetime for one to sprout and then half a dozen of them leap out from behind the Peace Bridge at the same time. The Sooty Olive is the ...