{"id":223292,"date":"2025-12-09T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223292\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:46:12","slug":"lucinda-osullivan-reviews-tallest-restaurant-dion-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223292\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan reviews tallest restaurant D\u00edon in 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\">\nIn a flurry of big openings, D\u00edon on Dame Street certainly stands the tallest, says our critic, with fab views from its perch on the 10th floor of Central Plaza\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deep-fried globe artichoke, sage and tomato, romesco sauce at D\u00edon in Dublin. Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mgdionprint.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)\">Deep-fried globe artichoke, sage and tomato, romesco sauce at D\u00edon in Dublin. Photo: Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan<\/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)\">Dubai has AT.MOSPHERE on the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa, London has Ting on level 35 of The Shard, New York has One Dine on the 101st floor of Manhattan\u2019s One World Observatory and, while we\u2019re not exactly clipping the clouds just yet, Dublin now has its tallest restaurant \u2013 D\u00edon on the 10th floor of the Sam Stephenson designed former Central Bank on Dame Street. Perched 150 feet up, it may be the baby of them all but nonetheless the views out over our fair city are pretty dramatic.<\/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)\">It\u2019s the dream of Alan Clancy, whose House hotels in Dublin and Limerick have just gone into receivership \u2013 you have to hand it to the man, who has worked since he was 15, that he has brought colour and joy with his various establishments not just to Dublin but around the country. Costing up to an estimated \u20ac10m, D\u00edon has been three years in the making, with lawyer Barry McGrath as an investor, Jamie Belton as general manager and Alan Clancy now described as a consultant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a flurry of big openings, D\u00edon on Dame Street certainly stands the tallest, says our critic, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,30901],"class_list":{"0":"post-223292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lucinda-osullivan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115688504840677019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223292","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=223292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}