4-storey Dawson Street bar & restaurant gets go-ahead

An application for a new four-storey bar and restaurant on the site of the former Twohig’s travel agency on Dawson Street, Dublin, has been granted to Paddy McKillen.

An Bord Pleanála has overturned a decision by Dublin City Council last February that denied an application for a new four-storey bar and restaurant on the site of the former Twohig’s travel agency on Dawson Street, Dublin.

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Publican Louis Fitzgerald was among those objecting to the original application from Maginotgrange (owned by property developer Paddy McKillen) which was initially rejected as it would erode the ‘retail character’ of the area.

But according to a report in the Irish Times, Maginotgrante successfully appealed the council’s decision to An Bord Pleanála and as a result, work will begin immediately on converting the building which should be open for Christmas.

Paddy McKillen Jnr will run the venue having operated a number of venues in buildings belonging to his father.
However, unlike its Dawson Street neighbour Café en Seine, it’s expected that the new venture will be “the opposite of a superpub”.

Instead it will be aimed at a more mature customer, the company stated, serving ‘high quality’ food and drink similar to its sister venue the Vintage Cocktail Club in Temple Bar.

The McKillen family also plans to open a new boutique hotel, The Dean Hotel, on Harcourt Street replete with a panoramic rooftop terrace next Spring.

Together, the two ventures will create over 100 jobs, stated the McKillens, to add to the 850 currently employed in the family’s bar, restaurant and nightclub empire.

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