{"id":481252,"date":"2026-05-12T18:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481252\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:16:15","slug":"michelin-starred-restaurant-chestnut-in-ballydehob-to-close-in-the-autumn-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481252\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin-starred Restaurant Chestnut in Ballydehob to close in the autumn \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rob Krawczyk and Elaine Fleming of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/food-and-drink\/restaurant-reviews\/restaurant-chestnut-west-cork-wonder-puts-city-restaurants-to-shame-1.3628309\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/food-and-drink\/restaurant-reviews\/restaurant-chestnut-west-cork-wonder-puts-city-restaurants-to-shame-1.3628309\">Restaurant Chestnut<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/west-cork\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/west-cork\/\">west Cork<\/a> are shutting its doors at the end of October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> in Ballydehob was awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michelin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michelin\/\">Michelin<\/a> star a year after opening in 2018 and has retained it since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cBringing Chestnut to life, in this space in Ballydehob, receiving a Michelin star and then retaining it for eight years has meant the world to us, said Krawczyk, who grew up in nearby Schull. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said the couple has no plans to move elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe won\u2019t be going anywhere.We love west Cork and we love what we do. We\u2019re just going to be doing it differently after this season,\u201d he added. \u201cOur story is rooted here in west Cork, and it\u2019s the place where our next chapter will begin.\u201d<\/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\/2026\/04\/07\/chef-adam-nevin-to-leave-michelin-starred-morrison-room-at-carton-house\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chef Adam Nevin to leave Michelin-starred Morrison Room at Carton HouseOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Krawczyk said he and Fleming would \u201cbe revealing our plans for what comes next in due course\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Rob Krawczyk in Restaurant Chestnut, Ballydehob\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/36LDFEHN6EEOJ3ZUJFSJ7NUHEA.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"449\"\/>Rob Krawczyk in Restaurant Chestnut, Ballydehob <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Restaurant Chestnut offers three dining options \u2013 a casual prix fixe dinner menu comprised of two courses for \u20ac55 per person, a \u20ac125 tasting menu and a short four-course tasting menu priced at \u20ac78 per person. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/2025\/07\/16\/the-best-restaurants-around-ireland-worth-travelling-to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/food\/2025\/07\/16\/the-best-restaurants-around-ireland-worth-travelling-to\/\">Ireland\u2019s restaurants worth a journey<\/a>, Irish Times food critic Corinna Hardgrave last year described Krawczyk as \u201cone of the country\u2019s top chefs\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Krawczyk and Elaine Fleming of Restaurant Chestnut in west Cork are shutting its doors at the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,22906,5281,22676],"class_list":{"0":"post-481252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michelin","13":"tag-restaurant","14":"tag-west-cork"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116562977612497910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481252","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=481252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}