Graft Guide (Guide No. 07)

Tonight marks Graft Collective’s seventh event. When the collective began back in December, I never imagined it would grow into something so sustained and meaningful.

At its heart, Graft is about bringing people together — to discover something new, to slow down, and to connect with creative, likeminded people. Each gathering is an invitation to step away from the constant rhythm of making and doing, and instead share space, conversation, and experiences together each month.

I’m so happy and grateful to be able to welcome you all to Established for a culinary art experience around a table many of us know well—a surface each of us may have previously “grafted” from. I vividly remember sitting here on a slightly overcast afternoon last May when the idea rst came to me: that Belfast needed regular events where people could come together to experience, discuss, and appreciate art in all its forms.

This evening, the wonderful Yohan Irani will cook a very special seasonal supper celebrating the very best produce of this time of year. It felt important to host a supper club during May’s seasonal “hungry gap”—a moment when ingredients are limited and we are encouraged to make do with what we have. To me, that limitation feels exciting rather than restrictive. It asks us to think more creatively, to look outward for inspiration, and to reconnect with a slower, more intentional way of gathering and eating— something often lost in the pace of the instant world we live in.

I hope tonight offers you a pause from the graft, and that you enjoy dishes and produce shaped by care, patience, and craft— from seed, to design, to plating.

Thank you for taking the time to spend your Friday evening here.

I’m so grateful you came, and I hope you enjoy the night.

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—Clara

Graft Collective Graft Collective is a roaming events and community platform founded in December 2025, bringing individuals together through shared experiences in Belfast and beyond. It focuses on creating welcoming, engaging spaces where individuals from different backgrounds can connect, collaborate, and discover new ideas.

In response to an increasingly crowded and competitive landscape, Graft offers something different: events that prioritise openness, conversation, and genuine interaction. Offering social gatherings, workshops, popups, and collaborative sessions, the aim is to encourage people to meet, share, and participate.

Spanning a wide mix of events, from food and music to storytelling, visual culture, and hands-on activities—Graft re ects the range of things people are curious about today. At its core, it’s about creating inclusive, accessible experiences that bring people together, and make participation feel natural, supportive, and exciting.

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Yohan Irani

Yohan Irani is a doctor, home cook, supper club host and creative based in Dublin. Yohan grew up in South India and later moved to Ireland when he was eighteen.

Having lived in Ireland for close to seven years, he has lived all across the country working as a doctor and cooking at events along the way. His love for food came from his childhood in the kitchen, but was accelerated when he started working in social media with cafes and producers.

This love turned into feeding people at various tables across Dublin, Donegal, Galway, Belfast and many more.

He celebrates people having multiple side hustles, and engages in the analytical, creative and entrepreneurial aspects in daily life. His work is based on slow living and gets joy from hosting and cooking food inspired from his life in Ireland, time in the Mediterranean and upbringing in India—crossing borders and celebrating avour. He wants to create an atmosphere celebrating a visual and gastronomical feast.

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Established Coffee Since opening in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter in 2013, Established Coffee has become one of the de ning spaces within the city’s specialty coffee and creative community. Built on values of collaboration, kindness, empathy, and intentional hospitality, the café has become a cultural meeting point that actively supports artists, musicians, makers, and the wider creative scene in Belfast.

Long before the doors of cially opened, the vision for Established was already bringing people together. In late 2012, a series of community coffee events known as Coffee Calendar were hosted in the Black Box as a way to gauge Belfast’s appetite for specialty coffee and creative gathering spaces. Despite taking place on freezing December nights during a particularly tense period in the city, dozens of people turned up to share coffee, conversation, and demonstrations—proof that there was a real desire for spaces centred around quality, culture, and connection.

Inspired by some of Europe’s leading coffee destinations, the café was created with a vision to bring together exceptional coffee, thoughtful food, design, and genuine service under one roof. Much of the original space was built by hand, with a DIY ethos and support from family helping bring the project to life. That same sense of resilience, openness, and community still de nes the café today.

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Over the years, Established Coffee has continued to shape Belfast’s cultural identity by helping lead the city’s

craft coffee movement, and by creating an environment where creativity and community can thrive side by side.

Tonight’s Growers, Producers, and Makers

With Thanks to Graft’s Sponsors Bold Bean Co. / Clandeboye Yoghurt / Oily Olive Oil

And to the Growers, Producers & Grafters Behind Tonight’s Menu Picked Organic / Tullyveery Farm Produce / Rockvale Poultry / Mike’s Fancy Cheese / Tipperary Marscapone / Millbank Farm

And to the Illustrators & Designers Patrik Zacek / Miles Riley