Restaurant review: Jules Restaurant, Dublin 2

ONCE upon a time, there used to be a restaurant in Dublin by the name of Les Frère Jacques, an establishment overseen for almost 30 years by Jean Jacques Caillabet.

His story is worth recalling. Caillabet moved from Brittany to Ireland in the late 70s, when he opened two French brasseries — one in Cork (Café de Paris, Queen’s Old Castle) and one in Dublin (Galeria Café de Paris, St Stephen’s Green).

In the mid-80s, he closed down these restaurants in order to concentrate on a new venture, the Dublin-based, upmarket Les Frère Jacques, which was an instant success.