{"id":283830,"date":"2026-01-14T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:18:08","slug":"sceal-bakery-to-expand-in-dublin-with-south-circular-road-opening-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283830\/","title":{"rendered":"Sc\u00e9al bakery to expand in Dublin with South Circular Road opening \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Artisan bakery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/2025\/09\/06\/for-the-love-of-bread-the-couple-telling-the-real-sceal-of-artisan-baking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/2025\/09\/06\/for-the-love-of-bread-the-couple-telling-the-real-sceal-of-artisan-baking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sc\u00e9al<\/a> is returning to its origins in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin<\/a> 8 with the planned opening of a new bakery and cafe on South Circular Road in mid-February. The Greystones, Co Wicklow-based business is taking over the cafe space occupied by Little Bird, which will continue to run its yoga studio from the building near Leonard\u2019s Corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The expansion comes at a busy time for Sc\u00e9al, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/2025\/12\/17\/sceal-bakery-returns-to-dublin-with-wilton-park-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/2025\/12\/17\/sceal-bakery-returns-to-dublin-with-wilton-park-opening\/\">last month said it would open in Wilton Park<\/a>, the new city quarter on the Grand Canal between Leeson Street and Baggot Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Dublin 8 opening brings the bakery back to where it was established by Charlotte Leonard-Kane and her now-husband Shane Palmer in 2016, operating from the nearby Fumbally development. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Sc&#xE9;al's new premises on South Circular Road in Dublin 8.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WZPQEICNKNF4ZBC5BZXFG2OPUE.JPG\"   width=\"800\" height=\"711\"\/>Sc\u00e9al&#8217;s new premises on South Circular Road in Dublin 8. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ben Leonard-Kane, bakery shareholder and brother of Charlotte, said the team had felt some \u201cguilt\u201d when they subsequently departed Dublin 8 for Co Wicklow, leaving customers behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cDublin 8 played a huge formative role in the early stages of the business,\u201d he said, welcoming the chance to repay customer loyalty with a \u201cmini-homecoming\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The new operation will have both indoor and outdoor space, with 18 seats inside and six tables under an external awning. It will contain commissioned art by Domino Whisker, whose work also features in Sc\u00e9al in Greystones, with further work to be commissioned from a Dublin 8 artist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emphasising the family nature of the business, Mary Leonard, mother of Ben and Charlotte, will make seat pads for the new outlet from a tweed collection owned by the siblings\u2019 grandmother. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWhat\u2019s really important to us is to create an experience,\u201d said Leonard-Kane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artisan bakery Sc\u00e9al is returning to its origins in Dublin 8 with the planned opening of a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-283830","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115893417338928334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283830","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=283830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}