Lucinda O’Sullivan’s review: Why Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud should be Ireland’s first 3-star Michelin spot

As Michelin was preparing to dole out its 2024 stars, with all the young bucks chomping at the bit in anticipation of a rubber-tyre accolade (not deterred by the fact that a number of starred or bibbed restaurants had shut up shop or dumped their stars in favour of less-confining casual dining), I was having lunch in Ireland’s longest-standing Michelin restaurant 48 hours before. Some might say it’s the ‘Daddy of them all’ — the 2-star Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud (RPG) on Upper Merrion Street.