Food for thought as always in Chef Cúán Greene’s Ómós Digest https://omos.substack.com/, the ‘exploratory food newsletter from Ómós https://www.omos.co/ an Irish restaurant and guesthouse in the making’ – the ‘restaurant, guesthouse, and caravan of ideas’ that Cúán and his team are developing near Abbeyleix, Co Laois.
The content varies (and how Cúán finds the time to write it all is mystery), but a lot of fascinating new information about the project has been revealed in the last few weeks and a recent edition was inspired by a New Year visit to Le Doyenné https://ledoyennerestaurant.com/ , a restaurant, farm and rooms in the rural outskirts of Paris.
This memorable stay has (among other things) left Cúán asking himself: ‘what exactly defines a guesthouse and are people aware of what our offering at Ómós will consist of?’ What defines a guesthouse (or a B&B, or an inn, or a restaurant with rooms, or even an hotel..) are questions that a lot of people have asked themselves over the years and this makes a fascinating read.
In Ireland, however, there is a specific definition (as there is for ‘hotel’), which is laid out on the Failte Ireland https://www.failteireland.ie/ website: “Under the Tourist Traffic Acts 1939–2016, any tourism business calling itself a guest house must be registered with Fáilte Ireland. In order to become registered as a guest house, your business should have a minimum of seven guest bedrooms with private en-suite bathrooms, and no more than 30 guest bedrooms also with private bathrooms. Breakfast should be provided.”
The definition may be important – legally if for no other reason – but, to answer the question Cúán asked himself, in the end it will be the personality of Ómós itself that will create an understanding of what the offering will be. And it is certain to be something special.
Food for thought as always in Chef Cúán Greene’s Ómós Digest https://omos.substack.com/, the ‘exploratory food newsletter from Ómós https://www.omos.co/ an Irish restaurant and guesthouse in the making’ – the ‘restaurant, guesthouse, and caravan of ideas’ that Cúán and his team are developing near Abbeyleix, Co Laois.
The content varies (and how Cúán finds the time to write it all is mystery), but a lot of fascinating new information about the project has been revealed in the last few weeks and a recent edition was inspired by a New Year visit to Le Doyenné https://ledoyennerestaurant.com/ , a restaurant, farm and rooms in the rural outskirts of Paris (interior image above from Ómós Digest).
This memorable stay has (among other things) left Cúán asking himself: ‘what exactly defines a guesthouse and are people aware of what our offering at Ómós will consist of?’ What defines a guesthouse (or a B&B, or an inn, or a restaurant with rooms, or even an hotel..) are questions that a lot of people have asked themselves over the years and this makes a fascinating read.
In Ireland, however, there is a specific definition (as there is for ‘hotel’), which is laid out on the Failte Ireland https://www.failteireland.ie/ website: “Under the Tourist Traffic Acts 1939–2016, any tourism business calling itself a guest house must be registered with Fáilte Ireland. In order to become registered as a guest house, your business should have a minimum of seven guest bedrooms with private en-suite bathrooms, and no more than 30 guest bedrooms also with private bathrooms. Breakfast should be provided.”
The definition may be important – legally if for no other reason – but, to answer the question Cúán asked himself, in the end it will be the personality of Ómós itself that will create an understanding of what the offering will be. And it is certain to be something special.
*Image below from Ómós Digest 134 / 21.4.24: The future guesthouse. Stablisiation works in progress. Photo by Shantanu Starick
