Ireland”s best-loved café…
Bewley”s, Ireland”s best-loved café, is back in business. But the shop, famous for its stained glass windows and sticky buns, has been given a makeover. Gone are the greasy fry-ups and stale beans. These days you are more likely to be offered organic porridge with Drambouie and cream. The café on Dublin”s Grafton Street closed last November after high rents and increasing running costs forced management to cut its losses. Now it has been taken over by two of the city”s up and coming entrepreneurs, Jay Bourke and Eoin Foyle, who have promised to give it a new lease of life. Bewley”s traditional café and patisserie will remain on the found floor while the first floor will house a fish restaurant called Mackerel. Bewley”s Café Theatre will return to the top floor of the building, with cabaret and jazz performances at evenings. When the café closed in November, with losses of over €2.5 million, there was a national outcry. Since then the Save Bewley”s Café Campaign has been campaigning to rescue the café. Over 25,000 people signed a petition to keep the café open . The campaign was headed by Dublin”s Lord Mayor Councilor Michael Conaghan who this welcomed the latest development. “I think Bewley”s on Grafton Street is safe now. We”ve managed to marry business and heritage concerns to keep it open and help make it sustainable.” The first Bewley café was opened in Dublin in 1894
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. It was run by a Quaker family known for their hospitality and generosity. They were the first Irish company to offer their workers a share in the profits and ownership of the company. Source: Mairead Carey, Irish Voice // NASFT press office
