{{Short description|Defunct French restaurant in Dublin, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox restaurant | embed = | name = Jammet Restaurant | title = <!-- If embedding use this for secondary small font title --> | logo = | logo_width = | logo_alt = | image = Jammet Hotel and Restaurant.jpg | image_width = | image_alt = | image_caption = The St Andrew's Street premises c1900-1925 | pushpin_map = Ireland Central Dublin | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = Jammet's on a map of Dublin (second location indicated) | slogan = | established = {{Start date|1901|3|6}} | closed = 1967 | current_owner = | previous_owner = Jammet family | head_chef = | chef = | pastry_chef = | food_type = French cuisine, haute cuisine | dress_code = Formal | rating = | street_address = 26–27 St Andrew's Street <small>(1901–26)</small><br />46 Nassau Street <small>(1926–67)</small> | city = Dublin | county = | state = | postcode = <!-- or | zip = --> | country = Ireland (Irish Free State, Republic of Ireland) | coordinates = {{coord|53.343065|-6.258923|display=it}} | seating_capacity = | reservations = | locations = | other_label = <!-- replaces "Other information" label --> | other_information = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }}

'''Jammet Restaurant''', also called '''Restaurant Jammet''' ({{IPA|fr|ʁɛstɔʁɑ̃ ʒamɛ|pron}}) or '''The Jammet Hotel and Restaurant''', was a French restaurant located in Dublin, Ireland between 1901 and 1967.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jackandjill.ie/a-tribute-to-jammets-of-dublin/|title=A Tribute to Jammet's of Dublin &#124; The Jack and Jill Children's Foundation|website=Jackandjill.ie|access-date=2 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/dd012-jammets-restaurant|title=DD012 Jammet's Restaurant &#124; Dublin City Council|website=Dublincity.ie}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_5dLwEACAAJ&q=jammet+dublin|title=Jammet's of Dublin: 1901 to 1967|first1=Alison|last1=Maxwell|first2=Shay|last2=Harpur|date=October 20, 2011|publisher=Lilliput Press|isbn=9781843512011|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiwdNJt_MFIC&q=jammet+dublin&pg=PT154|title=The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War|first=Lara|last=Feigel|date=January 17, 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781408833483|via=Google Books}}</ref>

According to a 1990s ''Dublin Tourism'' brochure, the "famous Jammet's Restaurant [..] flourished throughout the first half of this century".{{sfn|Dublin Tourism|page=7}}

==History== thumb|Menu from Jammet’s, 1937 Jammet opened on 6 March 1901 at 26–27 Saint Andrew's Street, opposite St Andrew's Church.<ref>''The Irish Times'' (Tuesday, March 5, 1901)</ref> It was previously the site of the Burlington restaurant and Oyster Saloons owned by the Corless family.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dictionary of Irish Architects |url=https://www.dia.ie/works/view/38443/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN%2C+ST+ANDREW%27S+STREET%2C+NO.+026-27+%28BURLINGTON+RESTAURANT%29 |website=www.dia.ie |access-date=14 November 2025}}</ref>

It was established by Michel Jammet, nine years chef to George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan, and his brother François. For a long time it was the only French restaurant in the city.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzUtAQAAMAAJ&q=jammet+dublin|title=Hotel & Catering Review|date=October 20, 2005|publisher=Jemma Pub. Limited|via=Google Books}}</ref>

It was mentioned in James Joyce's ''Ulysses'': (published 1922, set in 1904): a stream-of-consciousness section mentions ''"that highclass whore in Jammet’s"'', while Corny Kelleher later mentions ''"Two commercials that were standing fizz in Jammet’s"'' (i.e. two travelling salesman that were buying champagne).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm|title=Ulysses, by James Joyce|website=Gutenberg.org}}</ref>

Jammet's moved to 46 Nassau Street in 1926.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arrow.dit.ie/jamres/|title=Restaurant Jammet &#124; Places &#124; Technological University Dublin|website=Arrow.dit.ie}}</ref> In 1928, ''Vogue'' described Jammet’s as “one of Europe’s best restaurants . . . crowded with gourmets and wits”, where the sole and grouse were “divine”.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/jammet-s-a-dublin-treasure-crowded-with-gourmets-and-wits-1.1793827|title=Jammet's: a Dublin treasure crowded with gourmets and wits|first=Frank|last=McDonald|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>

Jammet and his wife Yvonne (née Auger) ran the French Benevolent Society during the Second World War, and were staunch supporters of the Free French and Charles de Gaulle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/jammets-restaurant-french-revolution-26733154.html|title=Jammet's Restaurant: French Revolution|website=Independent.ie}}</ref>

One of the earliest surviving menus is from 1949; it shows an idea of ''haute cuisine'' based on the ideas of Auguste Escoffier.<ref name="dit history">{{cite web |last=Mac Con Iomaire |first= |title=The History of Restaurant Jammet |work=Doctoral thesis |publisher=Dublin Institute of Technology |date=2009 |url=https://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=jamres |format=pdf |access-date=5 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702142731/https://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=jamres |archive-date=2 July 2017 }}</ref>

In 1963 Egon Ronay visited, saying "Space, grace, the charm of small red leather armchairs, fin-de-siècle murals and marble oyster counters exude a bygone age. Ritz and Escoffier would feel at home here."<ref name="dit history"/>

The restaurant closed in 1967.<ref name="auto1"/>

==Visitors== Virtually every Dublin and visiting celebrity ate at Jammet's at some point. W. B. Yeats, Lennox Robinson, Liam O’Flaherty, Micheál MacLiammóir, Hilton Edwards and Charlie Haughey were regulars. John Lennon, James Cagney, Rita Hayworth, Danny Kaye, Michael Collins, Aly Khan, Orson Welles, and Senator John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie also ate there.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peploes.com/jammet-guestbook/|title=Jammet Guestbook...|website=Peploes.com|date=March 7, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Smuggling £54,000 to Miceal Collins |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/76201235?searchTerm=jammet%27s%20dublin |website=Mirror |access-date=28 January 2022 |date=4 February 1922}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Parson |first=Michael |date=15 May 2014 |title=How Jackie Bouvier almost married an Irish lawyer |url=https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/how-jackie-bouvier-almost-married-irish-lawyer |work=Irish Times |location= |access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref>

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