{"id":358339,"date":"2026-03-21T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358339\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:56:07","slug":"jamie-olivers-restaurant-at-dundrum-town-centre-closes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358339\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Oliver\u2019s restaurant at Dundrum Town Centre closes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jamie-oliver\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jamie-oliver\">Jamie Oliver<\/a> restaurant at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundrum\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundrum\">Dundrum<\/a> Town Centre has closed, it has been confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The restaurant, which opened in 2012, was operated as a franchise by Enforge PCC whose sole director is Gerry Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The business had previous survived a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/food-and-drink\/jamie-oliver-pays-himself-5-9m-despite-restaurant-closures-1.4035042\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/food-and-drink\/jamie-oliver-pays-himself-5-9m-despite-restaurant-closures-1.4035042\">substantial rationalisation<\/a> of the business in the UK in 2019 when 22 restaurants had closed and about 1,000 jobs were closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish Times confirmed the closure with staff at the restaurant on Saturday. Efforts to contact Fitzpatrick were not successful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/review\/2026\/03\/12\/forest-avenue-review-a-michelin-starred-tasting-menu-for-75-that-feels-almost-subversive\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurant review: This Michelin-starred Dublin spot has real quality and a three-course lunch from \u20ac55Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement to the Sunday Business Post, however, a spokesperson for the business is reported as saying the reason for the closure was the expiration of the lease for the 4,500sq ft unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The closure does not affect Chequer Lane, the Jamie Oliver branded restaurant on Exchequer Street in Dublin city centre where another Fitzpatrick company, Enforge Exchequer Street, is registered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jamie Oliver restaurant at Dundrum Town Centre has closed, it has been confirmed. The restaurant, which opened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[84880,93,61,60,15914],"class_list":["post-358339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dundrum-town-centre","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jamie-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358339","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=358339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}