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NEW VICTORIA THAI AND CHINESE RESTAURANT

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DORSET STREET 17 APRIL 2023

This is a very popular take-away business on Dorset Street.

There are many restaurants on Dorset Street and a friend of mine is/was planning to open one later this year (or early next year) but the opening has been delayed because he cannot get suitable staff. A number of restaurants in the area have closed because of energy costs or because of staff shortages and some have reduced opening times to one shift per day or by not opening before 5pm and only opening five or six days per week.

NEW VICTORIA THAI AND CHINESE RESTAURANT

GEORGE COSGRAVE CAR SALES WAS BASED HERE

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WAS IN BUSINESS FOR 37 YEARS

I live near Dorset Street and I believe it to be one of the ugliest streets in Dublin and the George Cosgrave Car Sales building was, and still is, one of the worst examples of how bad the street can be.

I should mention that George Cosgrave died in August 2021. George was well known for his car sales on Dorset Street where he traded for 37 years before moving to Clarehall. George was also an active member of The Irish Jaguar & Daimler Club.

Some early Georgian houses are dotted along the street, primarily identifiable by the stone Gibbsian doorcase entrances, and close to the crossroads with Blessington and North Frederick Streets. Much of the street redeveloped during the Victorian era, with a number of significant buildings built, such as the Gothic style stone-built Dominican priory, designed by J. L. Robinson in 1884–87 at the corner of Dominick Street, while across from it is the red brick Italianette former fire station, designed by C. J. McCarthy and completed in 1903. Much of the street consists of vernacular Victorian terraces, with shops opening straight onto footpaths at ground-floor level. During the latter part of the twentieth century, stretches of the street were again redeveloped by Dublin Corporation for social housing flat complexes near Dominick Street.

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NEW VICTORIA THAI AND CHINESE RESTAURANT [DORSET STREET]

This is a very popular take-away business on Dorset Street.

There are many restaurants on Dorset Street and a friend of mine is/was planning to open one later this year (or early next year) but the opening has been delayed because he cannot get suitable staff. A number of restaurants in the area have closed because of energy costs or because of staff shortages and some have reduced opening times to one shift per day or by not opening before 5pm and only opening five or six days per week.

KOI JAPANESE RESTAURANT IN BRAY

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KOI JAPANESE RESTAURANT AT ST. CRONAN’S HOUSE IN BRAY COUNTY WICKLOW

I very much like the building and the blue.

I really was hoping that restaurants would fully open at the beginning of July but there is now speculation in the newspapers that the reopenings will be delayed until August which could be a problem as my city visits programme was due to begin in the second week of July.

Years ago I worked for KAO, a huge Japanese multi-national, and at a distance I thought the sign on the building was KAO rather than KOI. I had the good fortune to visit Japan and really liked the food however I have never found a Japanese restaurant in Dublin that comes close to any that I visited in Japan mainly because many of them are nothing more than a Chinese restaurant offering sushi. I should mention that I have yet to visit KOI in Bray but I will give it a try later in the year if everything goes to plan..

Detached five-bay two-storey former presbytery, built 1826 but was extended and remodelled in the later 19th century. The building was used as a private house from 1963 until 1980 when it was converted to St Cronan’s Vocational School, and since 1998 it has been in use as Bray urban district council municipal offices until it became the home of a Japanese restaurant.

THE NEW EMPIRE IN RATHMINES – CHINESE RESTAURANT

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THE NEW EMPIRE IN RATHMINES – CHINESE RESTAURANT

They really do use their imagination when decorating the exterior of this restaurant. Every time I pass by it is different.

Rathmines is an inner suburb on the southside of Dublin, about 3 kilometres south of the city centre. It effectively begins at the south side of the Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to the south, Ranelagh to the east and Harold’s Cross to the west. It is situated in the city’s Dublin 6 postal district.

Rathmines has thriving commercial and civil activity and is well known across Ireland as part of a traditional “flatland” – providing rented accommodation to newly arrived junior civil servants and third level students coming from outside the city since the 1930s. In more recent times, Rathmines has diversified its housing stock and many houses have been gentrified by the wealthier beneficiaries of Ireland’s economic boom of the 1990s. Rathmines, nonetheless, is often said to have a cosmopolitan air, and has a diverse international population and has always been home to groups of new immigrant communities and indigenous ethnic minorities.

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