The story of Jammets Restaurant by Alison Maxwell,  is recorded in a new book based on the diary of sommelier Shay Harpur who died in 2001.

'Jammet’s of Dublin: 1901-1967' recounts the life the famous Dublin eatery whose clients included actors, politicians and business people. They included David Niven, Ralph Richardson, Richard Todd, Boris Karloff, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Neagle; Ronald Reagan; Deborah Kerr, Burl Ives, Rita Hayworth, Vivien Leighand Rock Hudson .

During Harpur’s time at the French restaurant, from 1953 to 1963, Jammet’s – a labyrinthine series of opulently decorated rooms in a Victorian building set between Nassau Street and Grafton Street – was owned and run by Louis Jammet and his artist wife Yvonne. The business had been set up by Louis’s French-born father, Michel, and his uncle François, who had bought the Burlington Hotel on St Andrew’s Street in 1900. They moved to 46 Nassau Street in 1926.

Anyone who worked at Jammet’s is invited to the launch of the book at Lillie’s Bordello, the original Jammet’s site, on next Tuesday, December 13th, at 6pm.