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Ivy restaurant for Dublin

London-based Caprice Holdings of a branch of The Ivy Collection of restaurants, has agreed a rent of €500,000 per year for the primary retail area of 743sq m (8,000sq ft) on the ground floor a new office block One Molesworth St, Dublin.

The restaurant will have a distinctive street frontage on to Dawson Street featuring vertical glass fins, solid bronze and an impressive bronze anodised brise soleil. The new business will look directly across the street at another UK restaurant group, Marco Pierre White’s Steakhouse & Grill.

Barclays Bank will move its EU hub to the upper floors of the building.

The planned move by Barclays to One Molesworth Street may well coincide with the opening by the

Movies and more at Glenlo

Glenlo Abbey Hotel & Golf Course has opened its newly revamped Abbey Cinema Theatre, with a library of 50 classic movies from

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'Casablanca' to 'Gone With the Wind'. There are two screenings daily, a matinee at 3pm and an evening screening at 10pm. The 1930’s inspired décor gives a Hollywood Glamour look and feel to the boutique 15 seater theatre, with oversized velvet chairs, velour textured walls and gold guilt edge cornicing. The Abbey Cinema Theatre is primarily for hotel guests, but can also be hired for private screenings and for corporate video launches.

€150 Dublin room rate by 2021

Travel research company STR has released a new forecast stating that the average daily rate of Dublin hotel rooms will rise to just under €150 by 2021, with occupancy rates exceeding 85%.

In May, Dublin's average daily room rate was just under €125 with an occupancy of approximately 80%. The former figure was lower than other European cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona and London, while the latter figure was considerably higher than the European average of 67.7%.

Dublin's revenue per room was up 7% on May of 2016, with occupancy in Ireland as a whole for the first five months of 2017 also being above the European average at 73.2%.

STR noted that during the period January to May 2017, occupancy rates in Dublin were in excess of 90% for 38 days and occupancy dropped below 70% on 35 occasions. Both of these figures surpassed the statistics for the same period in 2016.

Elle Super Smoothie arrives

The Doyle Collection has added the WelleCo Nourishing Protein Powder Boosting Berry Smoothie to The Juicery menu at The Westbury.

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The drink is a blend of almond milk, frozen berries, bananas, dates and Elle Macpherson’s ‘Super Elixir’ Nourishing Vanilla Protein Powder’.

Created by international leaders in nutrition and integrative medicine the newest Juicery offering assists individuals in functioning at the optimal level. The Australian wellness company founded in 2014 by Elle Macpherson iproduces organic wholefood supplements to boost nutrition and keep the body in a healthy alkaline range.

Wetherspoon plans Dublin hotel

Pub group JD Wetherspoon is to spend €15 million on its development of a “superpub” and 98-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.

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The company is set to start work in February 2018, with the pub and hotel set to open early 2019.

Some 200 jobs will be created at the site, which is currently a row of derelict properties on Camden Street.

The pub will be set over two levels and will feature a beer garden. The company also said its hotel bedrooms will be equipped to accommodate people with disabilities.

A number of historical aspects of the derelict buildings will be retained and restored. These include a circular stained glass window which was crafted by Earley & Company.