{"id":196739,"date":"2025-12-17T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196739\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:02:08","slug":"sceal-bakery-returns-to-dublin-with-wilton-park-opening-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196739\/","title":{"rendered":"Sc\u00e9al bakery returns to Dublin with Wilton Park opening \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular artisan bakery Sc\u00e9al<\/a> is to open a bakery and cafe in Wilton Park, the new city quarter on the Grand Canal between Leeson Street and Baggot Street in Dublin<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The expansion of Greystones-based Sc\u00e9al will help to build a cluster of food and beverage offerings at Iput Real Estate\u2019s multi-use development. <\/p>\n

Sc\u00e9al says it is on track for a summer opening, while chef Mark Moriarty<\/a>\u2019s private dining and event space is already slated to open there in late spring. Iput is expected to announce further details of a casual dining offering plus a wine bar and small plates outlet in the early months of 2026. A restaurant with 80-100 seats across an indoor and outdoor space, led by an Irish chef, will follow later in the year. <\/p>\n

The Sc\u00e9al bakery and cafe will mark one step in the business\u2019s return to Dublin, where it was founded in 2016 by Charlotte Leonard-Kane and Shane Palmer. It subsequently moved to Greystones in Co Wicklow, with Charlotte\u2019s brother, shareholder Ben Leonard-Kane, describing the team\u2019s \u201cdelight\u201d at the move back to the capital. He said there had been \u201ca layer of guilt\u201d about leaving behind a loyal customer base when Sc\u00e9al relocated to Greystones.<\/p>\n

As well as Wilton Park, Sc\u00e9al plans to open another cafe in Dublin city next year as it seeks to grow via a \u201chub and spoke\u201d model, where a bakery acts as a hub and cafe outlets both on-site and in a secondary location as the spokes. As part of this, it is also seeking a further premises in south Dublin to act as a spoke off Greystones, Leonard-Kane said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the way we want to grow the business,\u201d he said, acknowledging that bakeries are \u201chaving a moment\u201d as people drink less alcohol and seek alternative ways to socialise.<\/p>\n

At Wilton Park, which includes headquarter offices for LinkedIn, Stripe and EY as well as Mary Lavin Place<\/a>, Sc\u00e9al will occupy a glass-fronted premises that opens directly on to the development\u2019s restored one-acre public park, with views across a Victorian fountain. Leonard-Kane said the location, with its natural light and outdoor space, had been chosen with the bakery\u2019s team in mind, with some starting work as early as 3.30am. <\/p>\n

\"ScéalSc\u00e9al founders Shane Palmer and Charlotte Leonard-Kane. Photograph: Shantanu Starick \"MaryMary Lavin Place at Wilton Park. Photograph: Tom Honan <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to bring the outside in and the inside out,\u201d Leonard-Kane said, noting the \u201cvery extensive design process\u201d that was going into the project, helped by specialist firm Kaneco. Their goal is to make exterior seating just as good as interior seating, aided by an overhang and canopy. Sc\u00e9al would also like to provide space for the work of artists who will have studios in Wilton Park as part of the project\u2019s cultural programme.<\/p>\n

When open, Sc\u00e9al with operate seven days a week from 7am, offering a seasonal lunch menu with sandwiches and salad. Over time, it will look to replicate its Greystones model offering evening pizza and wine, possibly up to three nights per week. The Mark Moriarty private dining and event space, which aims to have the feel of \u201ca private home with restaurant features\u201d, will also operate as a more traditional restaurant on Friday evenings, with booking there to open early in the new year.<\/p>\n

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Iput chief executive Niall Gaffney said the company had sought with Wilton Park to create \u201ca public space that feels welcoming, human and grounded in design\u201d. He said Sc\u00e9al\u2019s commitment to provenance, care and community exactly reflected what the company wants Wilton Park to be known for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popular artisan bakery Sc\u00e9al is to open a bakery and cafe in Wilton Park, the new city quarter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4507,5983,61,31543,60,69986,5861],"class_list":{"0":"post-196739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dublin-2","10":"tag-greystones","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-iput","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-mark-moriarty","15":"tag-restaurant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}