I asked the team.” The decision was not immediately unanimous among the tight, five-strong kitchen and front-of-house team. It just doesn’t feel safe to do it,” he says. Despite Friday’s announcement that restaurants and gastropubs could reopen for indoor dining, with restrictions, from Friday, December 4th, Grey, and many others in the industry, will remain closed. Lots of the enquiries we are getting are for groups and everyone still wants to come on a Friday or Saturday night.”Instead, they hope to run a Christmas market. * An earlier version of this article said the owner of Hugos had not decided about whether to reopen.

Source: The Irish Times November 28, 2020 06:01 UTC