06-07-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
Declan Lynch: Make Captain America's great again — with a retrofit that is truly retro
If the Grafton Street diner wants to win back my custom and thrive after examinership, it should return to exactly what it used to be when I first visited as a young lad up from the country
The company behind Captain America's on Grafton Street has gone into examinership. You could call it the end of an era, except you'd need to specify which era you're talking about. When a restaurant has been in business for 54 years, it has seen a few eras come and go.
To give you some sense of the era I'm talking about, while still a raw youth, I'd started working for Hot Press magazine, where the production methods would go something like this — articles would be laid out and affixed to the page using Cow Gum. Headlines would be applied using Letraset.
