Beloved Kildare restaurant up for sale

A much loved Kildare family-run restaurant is to be sold at auction.

Butt Mullins Restaurant has traded for over 36 years during in a prime location in Naas town. It is to be sold at auction at 3 July at the Kilashee Hotel, Naas with an AMV of €850,000 The iconic restaurant was founded by Mary Mulligan in the early 1990s and has been in the same family for almost four decades. The Mulligan-English family have cherished running this exceptional business for many years. Mary was very active in the life of the town over the years, and the restaurant catered to a number of memorable literary dinners at the restaurant.

Authors included Maeve Binchy, Frank McCourt, and Bill Cullen. These dinners involved great after-dinner debates. At the same time, Mary promoted musical evenings at Butt Mullins which included the launching of Vladimir Jablokov, with his wonderful Vienna evenings.

Over the years, Mary also catered to many special, more intimate and personal occasions, from christenings to weddings and funerals. Many local families have established their own annual celebrations at the restaurant. The restaurant is booked out from year-to-year for Punchestown, with ‘regulars’ coming from near and far.

The owners are now moving on to concentrate on other business interests.

Auctioneer Clive Kavanagh said the restaurant is full of character and in excellent condition throughout.. It has capacity to seat a total of about 80 people inside (excluding the covered patio area).

The sale of the property now offers the discerning purchaser the opportunity to acquire one of Naas’s most popular premises with the potential to further exploit the full trading potential or to convert the entire into another use.

The auction will take place at 3pm on Thursday 3 July at 3pm in Killashee Hotel, Naas. Purchaser to sign contract on day of the Auction with 10% non -refundable deposit.

More information here.