LONDON-BASED celebrity chef Richard Corrigan is to open a restaurant in Dublin this year having acquired Browne's Brasserie and Hotel on St Stephen's Green.
The Michelin-starred chef, who was born in Co Meath, has two restaurants in London, Lindsay House in Soho and Bentley's Oyster Bar & Grill in the West End. It is understood his new Dublin venture will be based on Bentley's.
Corrigan (43) has said that he intends to work in the kitchen of the Dublin restaurant on a regular basis, dividing his time between there and London, and that he intends it to serve the middle market rather than competing with its near neighbours, Thornton's and Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud.
The Dublin version of Bentley's is due to open in early June but Browne's will continue trading in the meantime.