Regions / Northern Ireland
Every new café, restaurant and takeaway in Northern Ireland, in one weekly list for your sales team.
OpenSoon is a weekly B2B list of every restaurant, café, takeaway, pub and hotel that registers, opens or closes in Northern Ireland, taken from the council food registers. Suppliers and sales teams get it every Monday as CSV and Excel, with each venue's stage, Companies House match and business contacts where found, for £99 a month.
Northern Ireland has just 11 councils, and displaying food hygiene ratings has been compulsory there since 2016. That makes it a compact, well-recorded market: every new venue is on one of eleven registers, and almost all are rated soon after they open.
Covers Belfast, Derry, Lisburn, Newry, Armagh, Bangor, Enniskillen, Portrush and every other council area in Northern Ireland.
Free sample for Northern Ireland
Up to 15 recent venues in Northern Ireland, as an Excel file.
Northern Ireland this week
The Northern Ireland market
Belfast leads, with openings in the Cathedral Quarter, the Lisburn Road and around Titanic Quarter. Derry and Strabane, Lisburn, Newry and Armagh add restaurants, cafés and takeaways.
The Causeway Coast, the Mournes and Fermanagh's lakes add seasonal cafés, pubs and guest houses, many opening for the summer.
Towns and cities covered
- Belfast
- Derry
- Lisburn
- Newry
- Armagh
- Bangor
- Enniskillen
- Portrush
- Coleraine
- Ballymena
- Omagh
- Newcastle
Registers and fields
The 11 councils formed in 2015 each keep a food register and publish it to the FSA. The Food Hygiene Rating Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 made displaying ratings compulsory.
Scheme: Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS): ratings from 0 to 5.
Data sources and coverage · How we check openings and closures
Fields in Northern Ireland records
- Stage, stage timeline and estimated opening date
- Company match at Companies House, website and business contacts, where found
- Area crime level
- Flood zone (England and Wales only)
- Conservation area and listed building (England only)
- Energy certificate band and floor area (England and Wales only)
Who uses the Northern Ireland feed
A small number of councils means one rep can cover every new opening in the country.
Council and postcode on each record make it easy to add new accounts to routes out of Belfast.
Each record shows the legal form and whether a company has been matched at Companies House.
Questions
How do I get a list of new restaurants opening in Northern Ireland?
Subscribe to the Northern Ireland feed for £99 a month. Every Monday you get that week's newly registered, newly opened and closed food businesses in Northern Ireland as CSV and Excel, plus a private web page with past weeks. Venues register with the council 28 days before trading, so many are on the list before they open. A free sample is available first.
Which fields are available in Northern Ireland?
Crime level is included (data.police.uk covers Northern Ireland). Flood zone, heritage and energy certificates come from England and Wales sources, so they are blank for Northern Ireland records.
Are Northern Ireland companies matched?
Yes. Companies House registers Northern Ireland companies (numbers starting NI), and we match them the same way as the rest of the UK.
Northern Ireland: £99 per month. Whole UK: £249 per month. See pricing
Nearby: Scotland, North West