Food & Wine

A match made in cocktail heaven: Bar 1661 and FX Buckley are teaming up on a new drinks list

Dave Mulligan of Bar 1661 is to curate a new cocktail list for Stephen Buckley of The Buckley Collection that draws on the company’s long and storied history

Stephen Buckley (left) of The Buckley Collection and Dave Mulligan of Bar 1661: Mulligan is to curate a new cocktail list for Buckley’s restaurants and bars. Picture: Ruth Calder-Potts

‘Staunchly Irish & Fiercely Independent’ is the bold statement which features on the cocktail list at Bar 1661 in Dublin, and it was this approach to that first drew Stephen Buckley’s attention to Dave Mulligan, the bar’s owner.

Buckley is the managing director of The Buckley Collection, an independent Irish restaurant group made up of the FX Buckley steakhouses and two gastro-pubs –The Bull and Castle in Christchurch and Ryan’s of Parkgate Street.

The Irish-owned ...