Our team is a growing community that stretches around the world: farmers, growers, producers, foragers, chefs, wine lovers, scientists, nature lovers, food enthusiasts, craftspeople architects, designers, and diners. We care about people, and working with experts allows us to learn, share, and develop. Our space will only improve and grow these relationships. Harvesting and preserving the optimal flavours and innate characteristics of our ingredients is where we innovate, amplifying their natural qualities to create authentic dining experiences that stay with you.
The Ómós restaurant is under construction, and our guesthouse, well, it's under restoration. You can follow along with our journey here.
Ómós is our evolving story. A travelling caravan of ideas; collaborations of food and innovations; and investigations surrounding what we eat. The word comes from the Irish language, meaning homage, duty, and respect.
Our next iteration of Ómós takes the shape of a restaurant, guesthouse, and 4-acre farm, located 2km from the town of Abbeyleix in Co. Laois, Ireland. For two years now, we have been searching for the perfect space to call home—an environment to cultivate our ideas and a place to celebrate great food, art, and community, and, alas, to coexist with nature. Surrounded by ancient beech trees, rolling hills, a millpond, and an abundance of history, we believe we have found that home.
Cúán is an Irish chef and writer. He is the owner and Founder of Ómós, an Irish restaurant, guesthouse, and community in the making.
Cúán is an alum of restaurant Noma and Geranium, in Copenhagen. Following his time in Denmark, he returned to Ireland in 2019, where he became the head chef of Bastible restaurant in Dublin.
In 2021, he established Ómós and has been building his hospitality vision ever since. He has held international pop-ups in New York, Bangkok, Berlin, and Iceland, using these experiences to build relationships, while testing and developing his research. Cúán believes that more can be brought by working together through the process of communication, learning, and understanding others' crafts and inspirations. Ómós Restaurant and Guesthouse is under construction. Keep up to date with the project by signing up to the Ómós Digest newsletter.
The Ómós Digest newsletter focuses on the sharing of ideas and knowledge. We feature writing on food, hospitality, and community.
A question for people who have yet to fall in love with the world of newsletters is, ‘Why write in a time when nobody reads?’ It’s true, never before have people had shorter attention spans and busier lives, exchanging reading for more immediate forms of entertainment.
But here’s the thing — as a consequence, never before have we had such little connection with each other. Never has anxiety been so prominent. Never have we felt such isolation. The Ómós Digest is an opportunity for reconnection otherwise absent in our lives. Sure, it demands focus, but in return, we provide enormous amounts of respite and the chance to learn, take a deep breath, and pause.