Chef Conrad Gallagher is to go on trial on July 7th at Dublin Circuit Criminal on charges alleging the theft of three paintings.
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Mr Conrad Gallagher
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The trial is scheduled to last up to three days and will involve 12 witnesses.
Mr Gallagher, formerly of Killiney Hill Road, Killiney, is denying allegations he stole three paintings in December 2000.
The paintings were claimed to be the property of the Fitzwilliam Hotel, on St Stephen's Green, Dublin, which was the location of Mr Gallagher's Peacock Alley Restaurant.
Mr Gallagher, who appeared in court this morning, was remanded in custody with consent to bail.
He was granted bail yesterday at a sitting of the High Court in Clover Hill Prison, but will not be freed until his passport has been returned from the US and surrendered to the court.
Mr Gallagher was ordered to surrender his passport to the court and to sign on daily at Donnybrook Garda Station. Bail was set in the region €30,000.
Mr Gallagher was remanded in custody to Clover Hill last week after his return from the United States. He had failed to turn up at his trial in October last year and a warrant was issued for his arrest the following month.
He was arrested outside his bar in Manhattan in April and was held on an extradition warrant at the Metropolitian Detention Centre. He was brought back to Ireland last week.