{"id":318815,"date":"2026-02-26T19:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318815\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:36:12","slug":"lucinda-osullivan-talks-to-chef-paul-cartwright-of-rolys-bistro-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318815\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan talks to chef Paul Cartwright of Roly&#8217;s Bistro in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nPaul Cartwright, director at Roly\u2019s Bistro, reflects on his 41 years in the industry, from working on navy ships to the three-Michelin-starred La Tante Claire in London and serving top celebrites, as his son Conor joins him in the kitchen\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chef de cuisine and director of Roly's Bistro Paul Cartwright and his son Conor in the Dublin restaurant's kitchen. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2cd56881-8f9a-472c-b31b-0db8fb232e5b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chef de cuisine and director of Roly&#8217;s Bistro Paul Cartwright and his son Conor in the Dublin restaurant&#8217;s kitchen. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When it comes to the hospitality industry, I\u2019ve always been struck by the number of restaurants and small hotels in France and Italy that go back maybe two or three generations, serving their local communities with pride. It\u2019s not a pattern we\u2019ve seen here as the norm, probably because back in the day, apart from a few celebrated Dublin restaurants of yore \u2013 such as Jammet\u2019s and The Red Bank on D\u2019Olier Street \u2013 we didn\u2019t really have a thriving homegrown high-end restaurant industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was really only with the advent of the Kinsale Gourmet Festival in 1976, started by a group of ambitious restaurateurs, and the ensuing 1980s, that things started to kick off. Even nowadays, however, I\u2019d struggle to think of many generational restaurant operations here, apart from a few, such as Farmgate in Cork and the Dunne &amp; Crescenzi group, each now with the involvement of the second gen. It\u2019s understandable, I guess, unless you have a vocation, as it\u2019s a backbreaking business that involves long hours, which can be disruptive to family life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Cartwright, director at Roly\u2019s Bistro, reflects on his 41 years in the industry, from working on navy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26016,93,61,60,6361,9879],"class_list":["post-318815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bono","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-lucinda-osullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318815","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=318815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}