{"id":282355,"date":"2026-02-05T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282355\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:58:08","slug":"the-tannery-restaurant-in-dungarvan-to-close-its-doors-after-30-years-in-business-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282355\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tannery restaurant in Dungarvan to close its doors after 30 years in business \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrated restaurant<\/a> The Tannery in Dungarvan<\/a>, Co Waterford<\/a>, is to close at the end of 2026 after 30 years in business. Husband and wife owners Paul and M\u00e1ire Flynn said the decision to close was being made \u201con their own terms, and with enormous pride\u201d.<\/p>\n

The couple \u2013 chef Paul and front-of-house expert M\u00e1ire \u2013 will continue to run The Tannery Townhouse accommodation and Cookery School from spring to autumn and will offer dinner to Townhouse residents. The Tannery restaurant will hold its last service on January 1st, 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone had handed us a crystal ball in 1997 and said \u2018You\u2019ll still be at this in 30 years\u2019, we\u2019d have bitten their hand off,\u201d Paul said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had the run of our lives. We\u2019re closing because we can, not because we have to, and that\u2019s a great position to be in. Hospitality has thrown everything at us over the years and we\u2019ve always managed to dodge most of it. Navigating storms is our superpower.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that 30 years \u201cfeels like a good, round number\u201d, and that the couple wanted to scale back on their own terms \u201cbefore I\u2019m wheeled out of the kitchen\u201d.<\/p>\n

Echoing her husband\u2019s sentiments, M\u00e1ire paid tribute to The Tannery\u2019s 25 staff, who were told of the closure plan earlier on Thursday, and said the decision \u201ccomes from a place of gratitude and confidence\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel incredibly proud of what The Tannery has become and of the people who built it with us,\u201d said M\u00e1ire. \u201cOur staff are the beating heart of this place, with so many with us for years. We\u2019ve watched families grow up through this restaurant.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"MáireM\u00e1ire and Paul Flynn in the Tannery in 1997 <\/p>\n

The Tannery has grown over its three decades along with the culinary reputation of the area around it. It was a key player in the annual Waterford Festival of Food, which has welcomed a long list of internationally notable chefs. The Tannery kitchen itself has also produced a number of eminent alumni, including Mickael Viljanen<\/a> of Michelin<\/a>-starred Chapter One. <\/p>\n

Paul is also a Michelin veteran, having led the kitchen at Chez Nico in London while in his 20s, later returning to Ireland to work in La Stampa in Dublin and before then establishing The Tannery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrated restaurant The Tannery in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, is to close at the end of 2026 after 30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56840,61,60,5861,80,6513],"class_list":{"0":"post-282355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-dungarvan","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-restaurant","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-waterford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282355","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=282355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}