How we will eat out this summer

Tables of six can be drawn from any number of households when outdoor dining and drinking is allowed from June 7

Outdoor dining and drinking in restaurants and bars is to be allowed from June 7 unless there is a significant deterioration in the public health situation. File Picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

There will be no time limit or requirement to buy a substantial meal in order to drink outdoors in beer gardens from June 7, the Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said.

Outdoor dining and drinking in restaurants and bars is to be allowed from that date unless there is a significant deterioration in the public health situation.