Munier restaurant serves up €317k profit hike

The Dublin restaurant owned by Masterchef Ireland presenter Nick Munier has served up tasty profits for its most recent financial year.

Newly filed accounts for Dillmel Ltd — the holding company of Pichet, the Dublin restaurant co-owned by Mr Munier and business partner Stephen Gibson — show a €317,107 rise in profit.

Last week, the Masterchef judge caused a stir when he threatened legal action concerning a review of the restaurant on the website Tripadvisor.

The reviewer — known only as TST2 — claimed Mr Munier had been rude to a party of eight that had turned up 10 minutes late, and had looked at his watch in a disapproving way.

However, Mr Munier has said that he was not in the restaurant on the night in question, did not wear a watch and that he would not speak to customers in such a manner.

Now, new figures underline the growing popularity of the eatery, with Companies Office filings showing that the accumulated profits at Dillmel increased from €344,549 to €661,656 in the year to the end of last Feb 29.

Dillmel’s cash pile grew by €278,751 to €566,185 last year, while Mr Munier and Mr Gibson provided an additional €48,833 in loans to the company to bring to €70,350 the total amount owed to the two by the firm.