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POPULAR JAPANESE RESTAURANT Izakaya is to reopen “new and improved” in Dublin next week after an electrical fire shut it down for weeks.
There was significant damage to the bar downstairs and some smoke damage to the restaurant but manager Seana O’Brien told TheJournal.ie that the restaurant on the ground floor will open next Wednesday.
“It’ll be another week or so until we get downstairs good enough to reopen but the restaurant will be ready,” she said. “We’re opening with a modified menu and a few new cocktails so we’re keeping all the classics but giving something new as well.”
O’Brien said all staff at the restaurant were given shifts in sister restaurants over the last two weeks and will return when it reopens.
“It was fortunate and unfortunate at the same time because if it was close to Christmas it could have crippled us business-wise,” she commented. “But now we’ll have a brand new bar and a fresh start in time for Christmas and we already have all the Christmas bookings coming in.”
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Is this really news? My suspicions are that the owner has a friend or two in the journal….
My thoughts exactly, or a journalist fancies a free meal.
Not sure Paul. Michelle also wrote about the fire in the church. Unlikely she personally knows God as well. But then stranger things have hapoened..
You’ve missed the point.. Is she going to run a story about the church reopening? ……don’t think so.
good on them, may have to head in for a selection of hot dumplings.. mmm
Popular ? Been a Dub all my life and have never even heard of it ?
I’ve been to all of them. Not worth a second visit to be honest.
Stick to your coddle and boxy then
Delighted to read that
Smoked bacon is the chef’s special
Went there once and the person sitting at the table next to me was wearing a soccer t shirt. If they let undesirables like that in it will never be classy.
Where is this ‘well-known’ restaurant ?
In the old Bewley’s in George’s Street, yes?
Great to see you back! The other side of Georges Street just wasn’t the same! Yum Yum
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