Restaurant review: Classical fine dining at Restaurant Forty One
Residence Members Club, just a stone’s throw from the Shelbourne Hotel, was the quintessential Celtic Tiger project, founded by hip young entrepreneurs (the Stokes Brothers of Bang Restaurant). Residence was for guys (and a few gals) who would never have been seen dead in the Kildare Street or the Stephens Green Hibernian Club, and they probably didn’t even own ties so would not have been admitted anyway.
The Stokes twins are long since bankrupt but Residence has survived and has been owned for a number of years now by a US based tech-entrepreneur who also has a home in Killiney with a large garden which chef Graham Neville uses to grow herbs and vegetables.
