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John Wyer and the making of Forêt

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John and Sally McKenna
Apr 03, 2025
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Running restaurants is easy.

Well, if you talk to John Wyer, of Dublin’s Forêt, it sure sounds easy.

“Let’s just open a simple restaurant and do lovely food, don’t rip people off, under-sell and over-deliver.”

That’s how Wyer describes his game plan for Forêt, currently one of the hottest dining rooms in the capital, a bistro that has been full since the d…

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