Dining Out

The 12 meals of Christmas: Come early to savour the flavour in west Wicklow’s Grangecon Kitchen

In this series, we are sharing some of our most loved and best-read restaurant reviews of 2023. Here, discover why brunch at the bustling spot of Grangecon Kitchen is worth the wait

Grangecon Kitchen, in Grangecon, Co Wicklow, has two locations: a kitchen and takeaway in a cottage, and a dining area beneath a giant tent. Picture: Bryan Meade

Brunch might just be my favourite meal, so when the opportunity to visit Grangecon Kitchen came up I jumped in the car and hit the road. Found in west Wicklow, on the border of Kildare and Carlow, Grangecon seemed to be a tiny village with one street but we knew where we were headed once we spotted a long queue.

The restaurant is spread across two locations. A small cottage houses its kitchen and takeaway ...