Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The bar of The Collins Club. “Bono has been here twice in the last few weeks, so we never know when he might stop in.” That was the explanation from the manager of the new restaurant Jean-Georges at The Leinster in Dublin, detailing why it was even more important than usual to hold a table or two open.
The city’s most famous resident apparently agrees with others in town that the latest outpost in star chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s empire is a hit; so is the hotel which opened in March. The vivid decor of The Collins Club in The Leinster, a new hotel near Dublin's Merrion Square. At first glance, from the outside anyway, The Leinster may look a bit out of place, a new building in the middle of all of those Georgian doorways.
And the interiors are also not what one would expect in this very traditional area just off Merrion Square. The Collins Club cocktail lounge in the lobby is an exuberant , floridly colorful with a crimson bar, walls and banquettes, a feathered glass chandelier, royal blue chairs and lemon yellow table lamps accessorized with Art Deco, zebra and leopard paintings; it was designed by the team of the late, critically lauded, Dublin born designer David Collins and named for him. There’s a DJ and on other nights, live music along with a simple, well executed menu with items such as Korean fried chicken, braised beef cheek croquettes and a lemon chicken piccata Caesar salad.
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