Glovers Alley reopens under Adam Nevin with a €155 menu

Glovers Alley served its first dinner under Adam Nevin on Wednesday 9 September, five months after the Dublin dining room went dark for a change of kitchen.

The restaurant sits on the first floor of The Fitzwilliam Hotel, above St Stephen's Green. It held one Michelin star for four consecutive years under Andy McFadden, who left earlier this year.

What Glovers Alley now charges

A star belongs to the room, not to the chef who leaves it.

Two evening menus are open: Classic, five courses plus savouries and sweets, at €155; and Discovery, seven courses on the same terms, at €190. Lunch follows later in the autumn at €85 for three courses and €125 for a five-course tasting. Bookings opened on 17 August.

Service runs Tuesday and Wednesday from 5.30pm and Thursday to Saturday from 6pm, with last orders at 9pm. Nevin has brought in Jamie Belmont as sous chef, who worked with him previously, and Dylan Shannon, formerly of Terre, as general manager.

Nevin arrives from The Morrison Room at Carton House in Co Kildare, which won its first Michelin star just over a year before he left. He started at 15 as a kitchen porter in Maynooth and worked at Ballymaloe Cookery School, The Shelbourne and the two-star Hand and Flowers in Buckinghamshire.

A star that does not travel with the chef

"I'm really happy with where we are with the food, and I'm excited for people to come and feel at home," Nevin told the Irish trade press before opening, adding that the menus will move with the season. Fergal O'Connell, chief executive of The Fitzwilliam Hospitality Group, called the reopening "a dynamic new presence on the Green".

Michelin stars attach to a restaurant, not to a passport, and inspectors reassess after a change of hands. The guide has said nothing about Glovers Alley since the handover, and its next Britain and Ireland verdict will be the first read on Nevin's cooking in Dublin.

The move is the second high-profile kitchen handover in Europe this month, after Taillevent gave its pass to Philip Chronopoulos. Dublin has few rooms at this price, and €190 buys a lot of competition elsewhere in the city.