{"id":82084,"date":"2025-10-15T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82084\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:57:07","slug":"dublin-restaurateur-says-a-top-fine-dining-meal-could-cost-e1000-per-person-in-future-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82084\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin restaurateur says a top fine-dining meal could cost \u20ac1,000 per person in future \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A meal with wine<\/a> in a top fine-dining<\/a> restaurant<\/a> could in the future cost as much as \u20ac1,000 per person, an eminent Dublin<\/a> restaurateur told a conference in the city on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Chapter One<\/a> co-owner Ross Lewis said \u201cwealthy individuals\u201d would seek the \u201cultimate luxury\u201d in fine dining and would be willing to pay the highest prices for it. <\/p>\n

Lewis, who also owns Osteria Lucio in Dublin, told the Iput<\/a>-organised panel event on the future of dining that the best restaurants will remain those that have \u201cemotional equity\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou always remember with a restaurant how it makes you feel,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n

He said small employers in the sector are under much more pressure at the moment than restaurants backed by larger groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cLarger restaurants backed by private equity can lose money for up to three years,\u201d Lewis said, adding that such establishments are \u201ceating the lunch\u201d of smaller places.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an uphill battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robbie Bargh of London-based hospitality agency Gorgeous Group told the gathering of chefs and restaurant-owners that restaurants sometimes get too \u201cobsessed\u201d with their food, neglecting the other pieces that complete the jigsaw of a dining experience. Factors such as lighting and glassware should be taken very seriously in helping to create the \u201cemotional correction\u201d diners are seeking, he said.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0How Irish restaurants are changing to stay afloat: \u2018Less people are going out. Thursday is the new Friday\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Food writer Tim Hayward<\/a>, best-known for his time at the Financial Times and the Guardian, said the smartest way to appeal to multiple categories of customer at the same time is to use \u201cthe ancient tool of hospitality\u201d. He said this sees a host taking a customer into their control and the customer yielding to this. Hayward emphasised the importance of simple eye contact.<\/p>\n

Marina O\u2019Loughlin, Financial Times columnist and former restaurant critic at the Guardian and the Sunday Times, agreed, saying: \u201cYou want to walk in and for somebody to make you feel as if you belong.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the future of fine dining, O\u2019Loughlin said people had been predicting the death of fine dining for a decade and a half, but that such restaurants had not disappeared. There will always be a new chef out there \u201cwho wants to paint your face with raspberry jam\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A meal with wine in a top fine-dining restaurant could in the future cost as much as \u20ac1,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,53309,61,31543,60,5861],"class_list":{"0":"post-82084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fine-dining","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-iput","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-restaurant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82084","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=82084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}