The Chips Are Down & Out

Real gone kid… 1SEPT20

e couldn’t help but notice when Giulio’s took over Pineto’s back in July 2019, the man had a lot of previous chippers to his name.

Google Giulio’s Takeaway, and the name pops up in Mulhuddart, in Baldoyle and Blanchardstown, whilst there’s a Giulio’s Fish & Chips in Raheny.

Not that the man himself wanted to talk about any former glories when we caught up with Giulio as he began to deck out the Greystones chipper with some of his old equipment and fittings. “Best you don’t mention those,” he said, without any explanation.

A mere 13 months later, and all that old equipment is gone, Giulio’s Takeaway stripped of all fittings, and even the sign over the door.

Rumour has it, the yearly rent on this main street property is €70,000. Which adds up to a lot of chips. Perhaps too many, given that there haven’t been that many drunks or schoolkids – or, most lucrative of all, drunk schoolkids – passing by since lockdown began in March.

Thankfully, a nice Moldovian couple are chomping at the bit to take over the newly vacant premises, determined to bring Greystones a bigger, better, more badass chipper.

Just where Giulio has gone, we don’t know. The man ain’t answering our emails.

So, reckon we’ll just have to use Google again in a few weeks, to find out where Giulio’s next takeaway has taken him…