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Should an English pub be opened in Dublin?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    The LVA will never have them in order to protect their overpriced monopoly. Remember the proposed café bars?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    gurramok wrote: »
    The LVA will never have them in order to protect their overpriced monopoly. Remember the proposed café bars?

    It's only a themed pub we're on about. All it would take is an existing pub owner to do a bit of a makeover.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,134 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    A few of their brewdog pubs wouldn't go astray tbh.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,358 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    WEll, as someone mentioned, all Englishpubs tend to have game machines.

    There are great English country pubs, truth be told.

    A lot of pubs in towns / fair sized villages here have them as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Wetherspoons are depressing, the only people who go to them where I live are old people and rough looking down and outs. No music or sport either and horrible carpets, eugh makes me shudder.

    Ditch the carpets and I'm there.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Irish pubs are ****e abroad so on that basis I think no. Let's leave pubs just be pubs in their own country. Themed pubs have no soul.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Leave it, it's not worth it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,398 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Madam wrote: »
    The best English pubs are usually way out in the countryside in a small village or town - at least the most authentic ones are:) Believe it or not there are still real gems of Irish pubs hidden away from the tourist traps and Dublin.

    Agreed, I've been to loads of english pubs in towns and villages in yorkshire and they're great. The standard of food pisses all over the equivalent irish local bar too, and the choice of beer is 10 times better.


  • Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭ElvisChrist6


    Yeah! And while we're at it, we should open Irish curry shops in India! And sell space dust to Martians!

    Edit: I do agree however that more ale needs to be available in Irish pubs!


  • Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Formation


    It would be burnt out.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Davidth88 wrote: »
    Well the part of London I am from ( NW ) , most of the real pubs have been knocked down to re-develop . Then the only pubs left are the Wetherspoons or similar on the high street ( usually in old Woolworths )

    of course I am generalising :)

    Nip over to Hampsted for a pint, there are some great traditional pubs there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,948 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I worked in an Irish pub in London, one of the O'Neill's chain owned by Bass Breweries. They had a precise formula for what made an "Irish pub", which involved nailing various things to the walls: violins, washtubs, old Guinness signs, brooms, and so on. I'm not kidding.

    The only reason I can think of to do an "English" pub here would be for the beer - but then it would probably be too expensive, charging €4 or more for a pint of bitter. There are already decent smaller breweries in Ireland who don't get in to pubs, so ...

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Is the Lincoln Inn on Nassau street not an english pub.

    But all I remember is beig made feel like a VIP in pubs in england. Very Irish Person. paddy, drinker.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Davidth88


    Nip over to Hampsted for a pint, there are some great traditional pubs there.


    Do you mean Jack Straws on The Heath :)


    I know there are still some , but where I am from ( Ruislip/Harrow ) most of the ' landmark ' pubs have been knocked , or burnt down for insurance


    Terrible , all the landmarks of my youth disappearing


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Steven81


    Think they should open, then they can all go over and communicate with each other and act the fool in there rather than going to the Irish pubs and us having to listen to them. Great idea


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    bnt wrote: »
    I worked in an Irish pub in London, one of the O'Neill's chain owned by Bass Breweries. They had a precise formula for what made an "Irish pub", which involved nailing various things to the walls: violins, washtubs, old Guinness signs, brooms, and so on. I'm not kidding.

    The Irish do the same, to be fair. The pubs in Temple Bar are one lazy cliché after another.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Davidth88 wrote: »
    Do you mean Jack Straws on The Heath :)


    I know there are still some , but where I am from ( Ruislip/Harrow ) most of the ' landmark ' pubs have been knocked , or burnt down for insurance


    Terrible , all the landmarks of my youth disappearing

    the Flask is my favourite, in Flask walk. There's also a great one kind of opposite the tube, next to where Jamie Oliver used to live. Apparently he moved because he got fed up with people ringing his door bell at 11:30 and asking him to knock up some kebabs!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Beefy78 wrote: »
    The Irish do the same, to be fair. The pubs in Temple Bar are one lazy cliché after another.

    I was in the one in Earls Court with a friend who was in London for the first time. He was trying to work out why a pub in West London that had Australian lagers served by Kiwis would have "enjoy the craic"plastered across the walls.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭previous user


    That gin palace in on the corner of parnell street and upper liffey street has an english feel to it with its red wallpaper and ornamental lightfittings.


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    I was in the one in Earls Court with a friend who was in London for the first time. He was trying to work out why a pub in West London that had Australian lagers served by Kiwis would have "enjoy the craic"plastered across the walls.
    The word Craic is not uniquely irish there is a variation in shakespeare somewhere .....i believe .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    That gin palace in on the corner of parnell street and upper liffey street has an english feel to it with its red wallpaper and ornamental lightfittings.

    Alas there is no selection of cask (Real Ale) on tap, so it cant have that true English pub feel to it.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    Abrakebabra should open a pub!! You could get a pint with your taco chips! :D

    Yeah you could enjoy them under the neon blue anti junkie lights.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 339 ✭✭SurferDude41


    I think it's a super idea, Absolutely loved drinking real ale in quaint country pubs when I lived in the uk.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    kfallon wrote: »
    John Smith's is the Devils piss, why on earth would we want that manky stuff served over here? :confused:

    That stuff is so bad i brought a few full cans to the local park and left them on a bench for people to take


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    wetherspoons tried to open on capel st a few years back and the local pubs just werent having it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    df1985 wrote: »
    wetherspoons tried to open on capel st a few years back and the local pubs just werent having it.
    Weaterspoons not welcome here.
    Gets Celtic Jersey and placard...:mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭dodohert


    The Jackeens need someplace to go worship their queen so why not. ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    go screw your sheep


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Wetherspoons are depressing, the only people who go to them where I live are old people and rough looking down and outs. No music or sport either and horrible carpets, eugh makes me shudder.

    They're not all so bad. I don't miss the music you get in most pubs. That said, I only go there for lunch and I have trouble hearing people at the best of times, so I'm biased to some degree. They do tend to have 'visiting' drinks besides the stuff that's always available.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭raymann


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    There are some pubs that I love in Dublin. But here in merry England I have to say the range of old and new pubs, cheap pubs, fancy gastro ones etc is just amazing. Also the range of beers on tap is fantastic. The opening hours are much better too. Altogether a much better drinking experience, we should take on board some of their practices in Ireland for sure.

    this. completely better than ireland in every way. and always cheaper as well. especially the 'high end' pubs serving amazing food but not in a fully formal restaurant setting.

    that said im in france now and it they havent a clue. for example my gf is from a village in he mountain where they have one bar for 6000 odd people. and its empty!

    as other people have said i would love a larger selection of biers and ales available in ireland.


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