{"id":32903,"date":"2025-07-30T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32903\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:33:13","slug":"il-pirata-ballyhackamore-has-lost-its-mojo-loss-of-italian-restaurant-is-latest-blow-for-belfast-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32903\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Pirata: \u2018Ballyhackamore has lost its mojo\u2019: Loss of Italian restaurant is latest blow for Belfast district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Once thriving area of city known for its eateries \u2018been eclipsed by Ormeau Road\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Il Pirata, which first opened in 2011, closed on July 27 2025. Luke Jervis, Belfast Telegraph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1682132c-6ff6-4b9c-ac78-55ca68682777.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Il Pirata, which first opened in 2011, closed on July 27 2025. Luke Jervis, Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ballyhackamore in east Belfast has \u201clost its mojo\u201d, with restaurant closures and crowds flocking to other parts of the city, it\u2019s been claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After 14 years of offering favourites like duck ragu, whitebait and arancini, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/life\/food-drink\/restaurant-reviews\/il-pirata-restaurant-review-wed-forgotten-just-how-good-it-is\/41263882.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italian venue Il Pirata<\/a> served its last customers at the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once thriving area of city known for its eateries \u2018been eclipsed by Ormeau Road\u2019 Il Pirata, which first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1334,84,19846,59,1335,19847,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-32903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-east-belfast-news","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-margaret-canning","13":"tag-south-belfast-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}