Pop-up pizzeria in Johnny Ronan property shut down
A POP-UP pizzeria was issued with a council enforcement notice for flouting planning laws.
Rogue Pizza near Baggot Street in Dublin city centre was serving pizza from a converted kitchen in one of developer Johnny Ronan’s million euro properties.
The temporary pizzeria, run by Ronan’s son John and his chef girlfriend Suzanne Taylor, from the kitchen of a Georgian house in the capital’s leafy embassy belt, closed its doors this week.
Nonetheless Ms Taylor said she is excited for the pizzeria’s future.
‘This is my first business and the pop-up has been fun… I am so excited now by the prospect of the permanent location and, like everything else so far, the process of finding a permanent home has been a serious learning curve.’
As it is her first business she may have been unaware of the planning regulations required. She said: ‘It’s just a pop-up restaurant, so we don’t need planning permission. We are just trialling the menu.’
However, planning authorities said permission for a ‘change of use’ is required by anyone intending to sell food from their home. Failure to comply with this leads to an enforcement case and possible heavy fines.