S4096 Osteria Lucio

This is one of the growing number of fine dining restaurants in Dublin which holds a full pub licence; allowing it to serve pre- and post-meal drinks without any of the restrictions which a Special Restaurant Licence or Wine Retailers On Licence + Restaurant Certificate imposes. Or at least, allows it when we're not in a phased exit from lockdown; that is. 

This trend was picked up on in the Morriseys / Lisney Licenced 2012/2019 Annual Report, but they were specifically focusing on existing restaurants adding pub licences. In this case, a fine dining restaurant opened in a former pub - the Bridge Bar & Bistro and later Pizza e Porchetta - with an existing licence.

The restaurant is connected to the Michelin starred Chapter One through one of its operators, Ross Lewis; and has the prices to match it.

It doesn't have the food quality to match, though. Everything was fine; but it was not to the level I would expect for the money spent on it. You're paying for the location, realistically.

The premises itself is very interesting, being a railway arch and the ground floor of a renovated industrial building; but without either a price drop or something shaking up the food offerings I wouldn't bother going back.