The Sunday Interview: Nick Munier on restaurants and resilience

Restaurateur Nick Munier’s career has been a rollercoaster, with highs including starting the successful Pichet restaurant and appearing on Masterchef and lows such as the ill-fated Avenue venture. Now he’s back with Le Perroquet, a French-style bistro

Nick Munier Pic: Fergal Phillips

CV: Nick Munier

Role: restaurateur at the newly opened Le Perroquet

Age:52

Lives: Clontarf, Co Dublin

Family: two sons, his partner is Alanna Feeney

Hobbies: painting, cinema

As the Brexit cauldron bubbles and the worst threat to economic stability since the Great Recession beckons, Nick Munier is opening up another restaurant. It comes a mere two years after his last venture, a large and flashy place in Dublin’s Temple Bar called Avenue, shut ...