{"id":409587,"date":"2026-04-21T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409587\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:56:10","slug":"lucinda-osullivans-restaurant-review-of-jaipur-in-dalkey-co-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409587\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s restaurant review of Jaipur in Dalkey, Co 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\">\nHaving totally altered our expectations of Indian restaurants, the culinary genius of Asheesh Dewan\u2019s Jaipur continues to delight a legion of regulars and high-profile diners, writes our critic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mango malai kulfi with berries at Jaipur in Dalkey. Photo: Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MGjapur300.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)\">Mango malai kulfi with berries at Jaipur in Dalkey. Photo: Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan<\/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)\">There had previously been a run-of-the-mill, old-style Indian restaurant on the main street of the colourful coastal town of Dalkey, Co Dublin, but in 2002, when Asheesh Dewan took over the premises while expanding his then new Jaipur restaurant group, he created a lighter, brighter, flock-wallpaper-free vibe that changed our idea of what an Indian restaurant should be. Twenty-four years later, it\u2019s been a regular haunt of the many distinguished denizens of, and superstar visitors to, Dalkey, including the late writers Maeve Binchy and Hugh Leonard.<\/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)\">Apart from food, Dewan always had an interest in art, using his restaurants in a gallery-like fashion, and serving the modern, less-dense kind of cuisine that came on trend in London in 2001 when Atul Kochhar became the first Indian chef to be awarded a Michelin star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having totally altered our expectations of Indian restaurants, the culinary genius of Asheesh Dewan\u2019s Jaipur continues to delight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26016,17940,93,61,60,9879,98032],"class_list":{"0":"post-409587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-brad-pitt","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-lucinda-osullivan","14":"tag-matt-damon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409587","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=409587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}