Celebrity chef cooks up a profit at his Michelin-star Dublin restaurant

ONE of the country’s most exclusive restaurants, the Michelin-starred Thornton’s, owned and operated by celebrity chef Kevin Thornton, returned to profit last year.

Abridged accounts just filed to the Companies Office by Conted Ltd, trading as Thornton’s Restaurant, show the 80-seater Dublin restaurant recorded an after-tax profit of €37,990 to the end of August last year, compared to a post tax loss of €17,354 in 2008.

In spite of the return to profit in a financial year which saw the closure of another Dublin-based Michelin-starred restaurant, Mint, Conted Ltd had total net liabilities of €52,590 at the end of August last year.