{"id":201317,"date":"2025-11-26T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201317\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:26:11","slug":"irish-restaurants-comet-and-beau-added-to-michelin-guide-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201317\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish restaurants Comet and Beau added to Michelin Guide \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/review\/2025\/07\/17\/comet-restaurant-review-irelands-next-michelin-star-in-the-making-off-dawson-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/review\/2025\/07\/17\/comet-restaurant-review-irelands-next-michelin-star-in-the-making-off-dawson-street\/\">Comet<\/a> has been added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michelin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michelin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelin Guide<\/a>, with inspectors describing it as \u201csomething of a hidden gem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Run by chef Kevin O\u2019Donnell and his wife Laura Chabal, Comet opened in June. The updated Michelin Guide says the wood-panelled restaurant on Joshua Lane, off Dawson Street, \u201chas a simple, intimate appeal\u201d with \u201ca good buzz in the room\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe compact space is run with great skill by the experienced service team, while the chefs prepare dishes pulling influences from both the Mediterranean and closer to home,\u201d inspectors said. \u201cDishes often shine at their simplest, like a bowl of plump baby tomatoes in their own juices, and it\u2019s a good idea to start with sharing snacks like the robustly flavoured liver parfait with fermented blood orange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Also joining the listings is Beau in Belfast, where the inspectors had \u201ca delightful all-round experience\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Belfast restaurant, Beau. Photograph: Instagram\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764167171_843_R22UM46QBZDPVEYEVVBYQCZYAU.webp\"   width=\"800\" height=\"800\"\/>Belfast restaurant, Beau. Photograph: Instagram <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Beau is located in a former warehouse in the Cathedral Quarter, with the guide recognising its smart conversion. Inspectors said the chefs \u201ccraft a concise menu of produce-led dishes designed for sharing, such as a tempura-like langoustine scampi with their take on a sauce gribiche\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In total, some 110 restaurants in the Republic now feature in the Michelin listings, which are updated every month. Some 15 are listed for \u201cBelfast and surroundings\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Inclusion does not equate to a star or Bib Gourmand, which are awarded at the guide\u2019s annual ceremony in February, but it is nonetheless seen as a strong boost to an outlet\u2019s reputation. For the first time, the Michelin Guide ceremony for 2026 will take place in Dublin.<\/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\/2025\/10\/22\/dublin-named-as-location-for-michelin-star-ceremony-could-ireland-be-about-to-get-a-three-star-restaurant\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin to host Michelin star ceremony \u2013 could Ireland be about to get a three-star restaurant?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin restaurant Comet has been added to the Michelin Guide, with inspectors describing it as \u201csomething of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[663,18,117,64254,19,17,22906,5281],"class_list":{"0":"post-201317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-food-month","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-michelin","15":"tag-restaurant"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115616467492670121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}