Denise Mcbrien

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Covid squeeze: paying a deposit to secure a restaurant reservation is likely to become the norm. Photograph: iStock/Getty
No-shows: Restaurants that don’t take deposits have ‘only themselves to blame’

Paying a deposit to secure a restaurant reservation is likely to become the norm, as restaurateurs respond to a new wave of no-shows that are threaten(...)

People are being urged to plan Christmas Day carefully, keeping the guest list short. Photograph: Getty Images
Government offers suggestions on how to navigate Christmas safely

Advance booking for Mass, no sitting on Santa’s lap and off-peak shopping are among the Government’s suggestions for navigating Christmas safely as th(...)

Covid-19 signage on a bar in FIRE restaurant. Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
Restaurant bookings surge before reopening with ‘busiest December’ ahead

Anyone looking for a dinner reservation in the run-up to Christmas may already have left it too late as a surge in bookings ahead of restaurants reope(...)

Vanessa Murphy and Anna Cabrera at their restaurant Las Tapas de Lola on Camden Street, Dublin. “There are not very many restaurants in the city with enough outdoor seats to make it viable to open,” says Murphy. Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
‘We are shell shocked’: Dublin restaurants angry over indoor dining ban

“I find it hard to believe that they will close us this evening, but we saw it happen in Kildare.” Denise McBrien, general manager of The Old Spot in (...)

Nick Munier plans to open up a new restuarant in Dublin: “I want the restaurant and not the main chef in the kitchen to be the focus.”.Photograph: Alan Betson
MasterChef’s Nick Munier: ‘The celebrity chef thing is over’

When Nick Munier talks about selling his share in the Dublin restaurant Pichet, and his plans to open a new city-centre restaurant and bar early ne(...)