Mint (restaurant)

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Mint Restaurant
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Restaurant information
Established1981 (1981)
ClosedApril 2009 (2009-04)
Head chefDylan McGrath
Rating1 Michelin star Michelin Guide
Street address47 Ranelagh Village
CityRanelagh 2
CountryIreland

Mint Restaurant was a

Evening Herald
on 23 April 2009.

Praise

The Sunday Business Post's Ross Golden Bannon reported: "It is a long, long time since a meal actually haunted me in the way a beautiful painting or a thoughtful book might".[1]

Controversy

Main article: The Pressure Cooker

McGrath encountered ire from his fellow celebrity chefs for his alleged mistreatment of his staff which was evident during The Pressure Cooker, a documentary which charted McGrath's ultimately successful attempt at gaining a Michelin star.[2] Kevin Dundon, who appeared in the show Guerrilla Gourmet with McGrath, appeared alongside him on the television chat show Tubridy Tonight and criticised him live on air, describing his attitude as "appalling" and saying that Gordon Ramsay (a British chef) had "a bit of charisma about himself as well and a huge amount of passion".[2] Dundon also questioned McGrath's methods of training his staff and said he would not have been required to shout at them so much if he had taught them better.[2] Kevin Thornton agreed with Dundon – the two appear together on the reality television series Heat – describing McGrath's comments as "a mess" and "a waste of energy" and suggesting that "people like that will not go very far".[2] Thornton was not particularly impressed with what McGrath offered in his restaurant, saying: "It is not my type of food" and that McGrath was "working his balls off and it is good for the city but it is not my cup of tea".[2] Patrick Guilbaud labelled McGrath "sad" on the RTÉ Radio 1 show, Conversations with Eamon Dunphy, after witnessing him shouting and swearing at his Mint staff.[3]

Closure

Mint Restaurant was forced to close down in April 2009 due to the economic recession.

Evening Herald newspaper as the first of Dublin's "exclusive restaurants" to shut down.[4] Dublin chef Derry Clarke was saddened by this, saying that it upset him "to see a restaurant of that calibre go, lesser restaurants I wouldn't mind seeing them close, but not Mint".[4] The Irish Independent described Mint as "one of the most sublime places to enjoy cutting-edge contemporary cooking".[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "About". RTÉ. Accessed 25 April 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Thornton sinks teeth into rival's Michelin star". Irish Independent. 3 February 2008. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
  3. Evening Herald. 15 September 2008. Archived from the original
    on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
  4. ^
    Evening Herald. 23 April 2009. Archived from the original
    on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
  5. ^
    Evening Herald. 22 April 2009. Archived from the original
    on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
  6. ^ "We should all be sorry Dylan is no longer Minted". Irish Independent. 24 April 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2009.

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