RAVENOUS (Part 2)

[artfoley]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Not sure. There’s new Revenue BIK rules but they’d hardly hit yet. Looks like as leases come up for renewal lads are letting them go as margin is gone. Maybe Covid payments unwinding and they can’t fund them ?

surely hawksmoor has taken a chunk out of their market?

[TheUlteriorMotive]

It probably has. It was sort of of its time and market has moved on.

I’m old enough to remember the Baton Rouge in that building.

It’s a great location for a new restaurant

[tallback]

Steak has gone mad price wise in Dublin

[Spidey]

Tax warehousing from Covid coming home to roost for a lot I’d say

[TreatyStones]

I know someone who does birthday cakes etc, input costs gone through the roof so they are calling it quits. Can’t justify the increases to customers.

[Fagan_ODowd]

For what’s its worth I though Hawksmoor was superior to Shanahans but I doubt it will survive long either.

[Mac]

I had a post written about Shanahans being overpriced in comparison to other restaurants nearby like One Pico where you’d get proper quality food for a fraction of the price. I looked up One Pico’s menu there to check the going rate and see their full set menu is now the guts of 100 quid. That’s bonkers

[Mac]

@Spidey and @TheUlteriorMotive - while we’re on the topic, give me the best intersection of quality food at a price that isn’t obnoxious within 15 mins walk of Stephens Green!

[Horsebox]

The tasting menu in Six by Nico on Molesworth Street is very good value for what you get.

[peddlerscross]

A lot to be said for Sinnotts.

[Loko_Cove]

Do they still have that carvery. Got it once before at lunch and could barely keep my eyes open all afternoon.

[peddlerscross]

Think they do during the week.

Fine pub grub in the evenings and at weekends.

[Spidey]

For tonight? Tomahawk Tuesdays in Hellfire.
Reopened Coopinger is supposed to be good too.

[Mac]

No no, not for a few weeks. A Saturday night.

[gilgamboa]

Gil knew…

Rip Off Ireland - A thread for rip offs

Minimum wage increase by 12.5% on Jan 1st on top of load of other wage factors like pension auto enrolment etc have made Ireland v expensive place to do business v quickly…said it before on here there is gonna be a bloodbath in hospitality in the short term No justification for the tolls tho really…who owns them the government??

[peddlerscross]

Francis Brennan was on the radio earlier and basically said the industry is fucked.

Rents up, energy up, wages up, VAT up and if you up your prices, the customers will vanish. Also had a pop at the WFH brigade, which has left the city centre a ghost town at lunchtime.

God be with the days when @Bandage would be down to the 51 every day at 12.35pm for the carvery and some networking.

We used to be a proper country.

[gilgamboa]

@peddlerscross

Rents up, energy up, wages up, VAT up and if you up your prices, the customers will vanish. Also had a pop at the WFH brigade, which has left the city centre a ghost town at lunchtime.

God be with the days when @Bandage would be down to the 51 every day at 12.35pm for the carvery and some networking.

Mondays and Fridays dead now.

On top of all that they have let the city centre become a dangerous place…all in all a bad combo for business

[Fagan_ODowd]

@peddlerscross

Francis Brennan was on the radio earlier and basically said the industry is fucked.

Rents up, energy up, wages up, VAT up and if you up your prices, the customers will vanish. Also had a pop at the WFH brigade, which has left the city centre a ghost town at lunchtime.

God be with the days when @Bandage would be down to the 51 every day at 12.35pm for the carvery and some networking.

We used to be a proper country.

Things change. People have priorities. People stopped going for pints and a lot of pubs closed. Now people are not eating out and a lot of restaurants are closing. That’s the way of the world in business. You can’t make people eat out.

[Kyle]

Chocolatemice was lambasted on here a number of years ago by the neoliberals and good time Charlies for warning about the dangers to our domestic economy if we continued to ignore it.
All.our eggs are truly in the multi national basket now

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Library St is v good

Spitalfields is excellent - maybe a bit on pricier side

Amuri on Chatham St is good and nice buzz.

Lotus Eaters on Nassau St is very good food and if a bit of a group they’ll enjoy it more

Maneki on Dawson St I like

Di Luca on Harcourt St is a v nice Italian.

I reckon Library St is the shout here