We have had many new amazing openers in Dublin this year but a venue inspired by New York's gangster hangouts in the 1980's was not on our bingo card.
When business partners Nick Twomey and Ben Mulligan decided to open a cafe, they were originally inspired by the aesthetic of the epic crime thriller The Departed. Even the name of the cafe, Mr French, is derived from one of the characters there.
While the Martin Scorsese film was actually based in Boston, it was New York that inspired most of the cafe interior. Mr Twomey told Dublin Live: “We took a lot of influences then from like 1980s New York and just kind of the whole lifestyle and the fit outs, we like that dark walnut wood and the marble countertops.
