Michelin comes to Dublin and gives Ireland little to celebrate
- Lisa Cope
- 7 hours ago
- 5 min read
While it was a night of big celebrations for Forest Avenue in Dublin and The Pullman in Galway, the only two new stars for Ireland in the 2026 Michelin Guide, it was otherwise a damp squib of a ceremony, for a country certain that its time in the spotlight had come. There was widespread feeling across the industry that the guide holding the culinary industry's most prestigious awards in Dublin for the first time was symbolic, and that it was going to be a bonanza year for our little island. Instead we walked away with our worst result in years, and a feeling that yet again the playing field between us and the UK's mainland restaurant is nowhere near level.
