First Look: The Leinster – is Dublin’s ‘luxury lifestyle’ hotel the hottest opening of 2024?

Parisian chic, batch cocktails, Toto toilets and Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s first Irish restaurant are coming to Dublin

Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten visited The Leinster this week (composite image)

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“It’s like The Merrion, only more craic,” says Melanie Nocher.

The Leinster’s general manager is showing me around Dublin’s newest stay, a 55-bed on Mount Street billed as the city’s “first luxury lifestyle hotel”.