{"id":447341,"date":"2026-05-13T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:05:09","slug":"michelin-starred-glovers-alley-restaurant-to-close-for-number-of-weeks-as-chef-departs-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447341\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin-starred Glovers Alley restaurant to close for \u2018number of weeks\u2019 as chef departs \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Andy McFadden of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michelin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michelin\/\">Michelin<\/a>-starred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/food-and-drink\/a-fully-immersive-food-experience-at-glovers-alley-1.3543034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/food-and-drink\/a-fully-immersive-food-experience-at-glovers-alley-1.3543034\">Glovers Alley<\/a> in the Fitzwilliam Hotel on St Stephen\u2019s Green in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> 2 is leaving the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement issued by the restaurant, Glovers Alley said it would close on May 17th \u201cto take the opportunity to carry out some essential works and restructure our team and leadership\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It said it looked forward to reopening \u201cin a number of weeks\u201d and launching \u201ca new and exciting version of Glovers Alley\u201d. It did not specify a reopening date but an online booking link allows for reservations from the start of September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Patrons holding existing bookings \u201cwere contacted directly\u201d, a spokeswoman said, adding that \u201dalternative arrangements were made where possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In its statement, Glovers Alley wished McFadden well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Glovers Alley has held a Michelin star for five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">McFadden returned from London to establish the restaurant in 2018. Its previous incarnation in the same space was headed by Kevin Thornton.<\/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\/2026\/02\/10\/michelin-star-restaurants-in-ireland-the-complete-2026-guide\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michelin-star restaurants in Ireland: The complete 2026 guideOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Michelin Guide, which has already noted the closure on its website entry on Glovers Alley, describes it as a \u201cchic, elegant restaurant with subtle 1930s overtones\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It says the cooking is \u201ccharacterised by boldness both in its flavours and textures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This is the second Michelin-starred restaurant to announce closure this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Tuesday, Restaurant Chestnut in Ballydehob, west Cork, said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/2026\/05\/12\/michelin-starred-restaurant-chestnut-in-ballydehob-to-close-in-the-autumn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/2026\/05\/12\/michelin-starred-restaurant-chestnut-in-ballydehob-to-close-in-the-autumn\/\">close in the autumn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy McFadden of Michelin-starred Glovers Alley in the Fitzwilliam Hotel on St Stephen\u2019s Green in Dublin 2 is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[615,93,61,60,709,46885],"class_list":["post-447341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dublin","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-magazine","tag-michelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447341","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=447341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}