Crean's Place won't be reopening in downtown Kilcullen
After three years, the business is giving up its lease in downtown Kilcullen. For the next couple of weeks David Hogan and his son Jason will continue to do sourdough bread, pastries and coffee takeaways. They're open to suggestions as to where they might continue with the bakery side of things.
Meanwhile, head chef and partner in the business David Byrne will be moving out on his own with a private and corporate catering enterprise. He is currently setting up a website and working on developing the branding of his venture, the name of which will be revealed shortly.
"It's not quite the best time for this, with issues around social distancing," he told the Diary this evening. "But that can be overcome. For instance, I did a private family event last week where I did the cooking in the garden, and that worked out very well."
Crean's Place shouldn't be allowed to leave the stage without a big shout out for their contribution to the cocooned community in Kilcullen over the recent weeks of lockdown. They have provided meals for the KCA-Garda local initiative which has been supporting the older and the vulnerable.
Since October 2017, the restaurant offered innovative day menus and some interesting takes on special evening events. The recent addition of bakery products has been very well received. Most of all, perhaps, the insistence on a range of sustainability solutions in both food production and packaging made all of us more aware of our own impact on the planet, and how we might improve how we think and do things as individuals. The business did things differently, and made a difference,
Crean's Place may be moving on and changing place and purpose. But in its three years in Kilcullen it has changed us too, for the better.
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