Full coverage: Hospitality

Bombay Pantry, the Indian takeaway food chain that operates six outlets across Dublin and Wicklow, has now sought bankruptcy protection from its creditors, a further sign of the growing strain on the sector. What do insolvency experts say about the future of restaurants?

Shareholders, suppliers and the landlord of Brasserie Sixty6 are among the creditors expected to suffer severe write-downs while co-owner and chef Dylan McGrath is preparing to lend fresh cash to rescue the business.

The plant-based food business is stocked nationwide and has three Dublin premises. After a period of rapid growth, it has now appointed an insolvency expert under the Scarp scheme.

New York publican John Mahon outbid Conor McGregor for a landmark pub on Dublin's quays as part of a generational expansion plan. The Longford native's story is one of emigration, luck and hard graft.

The well-known luxury food hall and restaurant no longer holds the tender for the Pavilion Cafe in the People's Park in Dún Laoghaire. All its focus is now on its original Exchequer Street location.

Gerard Loughran has accumulated sufficient profits with the high-end fast-food chain in the UK to support its expansion to Ireland. His local partner Ray McNamara has done the same here with Ann’s Bakery. And they share the same approach to commercial property.

Pat Rigney helped Baileys become a global brand and co-founded Boru Vodka. However, be believes his latest business, a Leitrim distillery that produces Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, could be his biggest play yet.

Craft Cocktails, the bottled cocktail lockdown hit, is just one aspect of Dave Mulligan's ambition to change the way the Irish drink. He talks to Alison Cowzer about the changes coming to the hospitality industry, how to retain staff during a national shortage and his vision for Irish moonshine.

As he transitions from managing director to chairman of Hastings Hotels, Howard Hastings reflects about steering the business through the pandemic, the future of hospitality and the lessons he learned from his father.

After retrenching from Germany at a profit in recent years, Galway-born brothers Brian and Luke Comer have just bought a high-profile hotel in Hamburg. Covid-19 has created the type of opportunity their fortune is based on.