No plan to turn restaurant into public house, says celeb chef

Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath told a judge he had no intention of turning his €new €1.4m restaurant in Dublin’s Fade St into a “public house”.

Although he is fighting for a full seven-day public house licence for the new restaurant, Fade Street Social, he told Judge Matthew Deery at the Circuit Civil Court the restaurant would fail if he just tried to run it as a pub.

Mr McGrath yesterday told his counsel, Constance Cassidy, that while he had a number of “bars” built into Fade Street Social, they would be used as bars where customers could sit on stools to have their food and drinks as well as formally at tables.