[5] In 2021, the School moved to the new Grangegorman Campus, where it operates a number of kitchens, bakeries, sensory labs, as well as two restaurants and a retail outlet.
[10] In 2009, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire became the first Irish chef to earn a PhD at the School, with a dissertation entitled 'The Emergence, Development and Influence of French Haute Cuisine on Public Dining in Dublin Restaurants 1900–2000: An Oral History'.
[11] Since then, a dozen PhD researchers have graduated from the School, while a further fourteen are pursuing PhD research as of late 2021 in areas as diverse as wine and food writing, historic whiskey mash bills, culinary education and emotion in food product design.
Both are working classrooms designed as a restaurant setting, in which the students prepare and serve food and drink to paying customers.
The training restaurants have long been a feature of the School,[8][14] dating back to the Cathal Brugha Street location.