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Best bar/nightclub in Wexford

  • 11-04-2007 4:52pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭xebec


    Ok, so what's your favourite bar or nightclub in Wexford? And why?

    I've sampled quite a few around the county, but still really enjoy going to the Stores, mainly for the atmosphere and the nice surroundings - I'm not really a big fan of ancient dives (bad memories of the Castle)!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 598 ✭✭✭arseagon


    xebec wrote:
    Ok, so what's your favourite bar or nightclub in Wexford? And why?

    I've sampled quite a few around the county, but still really enjoy going to the Stores, mainly for the atmosphere and the nice surroundings - I'm not really a big fan of ancient dives (bad memories of the Castle)!
    The castle was Legend* what are you talking about man?
    Vertigo in the Bailey Bar is pretty popular but probably only because it's still new.

    *Not True


  • Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ Christine Shy Revolver


    Was just chatting about this with a mate..

    Finnegans was great - but think its gone now?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭kinkstr


    Was just chatting about this with a mate..

    Finnegans was great - but think its gone now?

    Yup its gone now, not sure what there putting there in its place, just know its not going to be a pub.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


    if you just want a drink and/or a meal, i think the golf club is great for luch or whatever, really good food at very reasonable prices


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭hamsterboy


    Yeah I do like Vertigo in the Baileys, well I think I do, only ever been there at the end of a long days pinting.
    Beats Bennies anyway, what a crap excuse for a club


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭Cos88


    For me a good night out in Wex would be a few pints in The Crown and then onto The Stores. Don't really like any other of the nightclubs in town....

    Also like The Sky and The Ground but hardly ever venture down that far.


  • Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ Christine Shy Revolver


    The Wrens Nest was a great place to take somone too... nice 'old school' pub and was quiet..

    THough in the summer it can get quite packed. Still a nice pub though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    The Wrens is my local..... except when it gets crowded when I beat a hasty retreat.

    I also like the Crown, Dakota and The Sky (the bro's local) and that's about it. Hate The Stores late at night as they always let too many people in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭Zhane


    kinkstr wrote:
    Yup its gone now, not sure what there putting there in its place, just know its not going to be a pub.

    i wouldnt count on that.


  • Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ Christine Shy Revolver


    RadioRetro wrote:
    The Wrens is my local..... except when it gets crowded when I beat a hasty retreat.

    I also like the Crown, Dakota and The Sky (the bro's local) and that's about it. Hate The Stores late at night as they always let too many people in.

    Haven't been to the 'new' Stores.. seems just like a Dublin club.

    Whats the name of the place on the quays, think it was Mooneys, was a really 'modern' pub but had this club that was this old storehouse and hadn't really changed since 1890!
    Used to put on Spanish football on Sundays. That place was class!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    It's three places now, on the left Mickey's Sports Bar, multi screens showing different sports, in the middle Springsteen's, a bar & restaurant, good for steaks, and on the right there's Sinatra's, a nightclub with the entrance down Roman Alley to the right and a policy of attracting a slightly older clientele than The Stores.

    The piece de resistance, however, is the new casino upstairs, entrance via a door to the left of the entrance to Mickey's I think, well around there anyway, maybe it's into Mickey's and up the stairs, can't remember.


  • Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ Christine Shy Revolver


    That was a regular, along with Finnegegans during my school days...

    It was cool though that you went from plasma screens and leather couches to brickwork done in about 1798!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    I'm from Gorey, so Blues is my hangout, failing that, Oscars.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 jac83


    chocolate is ok for a drink in the bar but i definietly wouldnt head upstairs to the nightclub part,has a lot of the younger crowd there. dakota is ok or the crown down that end of the town ,the stores is grand but a saturday night gets way to full,the sky in the ground is also a good spot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    I love the burgers in chocolate. They remind me of the Porterhouse.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭xebec


    I love the burgers in chocolate. They remind me of the Porterhouse.

    Really?! Have never eaten in there, will have to give it a try!

    On topic: for a quiet drink I really enjoy the Thomas Moore Tavern in Cornmarket.


  • Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ Christine Shy Revolver


    xebec wrote:
    On topic: for a quiet drink I really enjoy the Thomas Moore Tavern in Cornmarket.

    Class place!! really nice old pub


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 42 squiggy


    Class place!! really nice old pub

    It wont be that for much longer if they get there planning permission :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭jd


    xebec wrote:
    Really?! Have never eaten in there, will have to give it a try!

    On topic: for a quiet drink I really enjoy the Thomas Moore Tavern in Cornmarket.
    I preferred it when Cora (and Mike) had it.
    jd


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭Zhane


    squiggy wrote:
    It wont be that for much longer if they get there planning permission :D

    They got it, they are starting construction pretty soon.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭jd


    Zhane wrote:
    They got it, they are starting construction pretty soon.

    After the Opera Festival, I presume?
    jd


  • Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ Christine Shy Revolver


    squiggy wrote:
    It wont be that for much longer if they get there planning permission :D

    Thats something I find a bit sad about our pubs; I was over in London recently enough and the amount of old style, dark, quaint old pubs is quite high, and these are pubs in the City!

    Whereas here all pubs seem to be turning into the superpub/club type which is not as cosy... :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭europerson


    Whereas here all pubs seem to be turning into the superpub/club type which is not as cosy... :(
    I have to agree. The old-style pubs in Wexford, as well as everywhere else, are much better. Cosier and better craic too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    jd wrote:
    I preferred it when Cora (and Mike) had it.
    jd

    Ah, the late Mike Watson, a legend, God rest him. A Scottish Cup winner with Clyde in the fifties, he also played for Celtic when a planned posting to Peru (where he met Cora, an air stewardess as they were called then) was delayed for a few months.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 42 squiggy


    all pubs seem to be turning into the superpub/club type which is not as cosy... :(

    Totally agree with you on this one i miss The Yacht it was the type of pub you could go to in your trackie!! You just dont have that in the town anymore :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭Zhane


    jd wrote:
    After the Opera Festival, I presume?
    jd

    I'm not entirely sure when exactly they are starting, but I heard late summer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    Spiders in new ross is the best pub in all of wexford. :cool:


  • Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭bazzer06


    The Sky and the Ground all the way (although having worked there for 4 years i'm a bit biased!) Also like chocolate (but totally agree bout upstairs - not great at all) especially blue monday during the summer... Stores except for saturday night, when moving is obviously considered unnecessary by Monsieur Tierney. Maggie Mays is nice for a couple of quiet ones


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,271 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    your all too old

    stores on saturday ftw :D:p

    cant believe no-one mentioned colony, that wasnt a waste of money at all ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    mdwexford wrote:
    cant believe no-one mentioned colony, that wasnt a waste of money at all ;)
    Indeed, since renamed Exile on Main Street (see what they did there?) and limited to live acts only.


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