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Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

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  • #2552
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Well it's obviously been sold, and being redone, and I saw a cryptic tweet from them about it, so I think it was at least planned


  • #2553
    D Trent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭D Trent


    Why is Wetherspoon’s more expensive in Cork than it is Dublin?
    http://jrnl.ie/2325433


  • #2554
    PWEI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,593 ✭✭✭PWEI


    D Trent wrote: »
    Why is Wetherspoon’s more expensive in Cork than it is Dublin?
    http://jrnl.ie/2325433

    The prices in Cork are the exact same as the one in Swords.

    As far as I know that menu from Blackrock is out of date.


  • #2555
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,820 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    visited the one in Enniskillen there last month, which is now there for a few years so service well bedded in.

    Found the food to be spot on, I had the steak and the wife a salad. They got our order mixed up and had chips rather than mash for the kids, which they fixed by simply supplying an extra portion of mash.

    Service was good and the asking if anything was ok actually was useful as we then could ask for the kids deserts to be brought out without needing to go to the bar and ask.

    For drink, they had 330ml cans of budvar for 99p which was savage value , but i went for whatever was on tap as part of the meal deal. (Cant remember what it was unfortunately) Would have had a can or 2 if I wasnt driving to Antrim afterwards!

    all in all, a grand feed for the family and hopefully what the southern weatherspoons will eventually become once the service gets sorted out.


  • #2556
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    D Trent wrote: »
    Why is Wetherspoon’s more expensive in Cork than it is Dublin?
    http://jrnl.ie/2325433

    They tend to open at a higher rate to keep the "undesirable" element out and then prices come down or normalise after a few months.


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  • #2557
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Well that's just untrue.

    For starters the prices are still lower than everywhere else. Where so these "undesirables" go that's cheaper again?


  • #2558
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Well that's just untrue.

    For starters the prices are still lower than everywhere else. Where so these "undesirables" go that's cheaper again?

    You can get a pint of Beamish for about the same price all over cork city and lots of places have lagers for 3-3.50 range (fosters, carling, etc) so there's no incentive for people who drink in the "rougher" pubs that tend to do €3-3.50 pints or 3 for a tenner deals to leave their regular haunts and move to 'spoons.

    After a few months when they've gotten into their stride and the curiosity factor wears off the prices come down.

    The same thing happened in Blackrock and Dun Laoghaire and in the 2 spoons that opened near me when I was living in the UK.

    The prices are cheap but they aren't so cheap that it becomes worth peoples effort to go out of their way if all they are looking for in a cheap pint of lager or stout.


  • #2559
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,834 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    They tend to open at a higher rate to keep the "undesirable" element out and then prices come down or normalise after a few months.

    There are a lot of people with plenty of money who I consider undesirable ;)

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #2560
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    You can get a pint of Beamish for about the same price all over cork city and lots of places have lagers for 3-3.50 range (fosters, carling, etc) so there's no incentive for people who drink in the "rougher" pubs that tend to do €3-3.50 pints or 3 for a tenner deals to leave their regular haunts and move to 'spoons.

    You'll be doing well for that to apply to Dublin.


  • #2561
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    They've bought another place in Dublin, on Lower Abbey Street, a former church, which they're going to merge with the old TSB they bought earlier in the year.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/jd-wetherspoon-buys-former-church-in-dublin-1.2422908


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  • #2562
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Pub could end up with a rather odd name due to their normal naming schemes for converted buildings and the two extremely different uses


  • #2563
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    "The Render Unto Caesar". Job done; that'll be €500 please.

    My beer blog | The Twitter | My other beer blog



  • #2564
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,047 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    As you walk along Lower Abbey street from OCS towards Busaras, is this on the left or right?


  • #2565
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The building in the picture is on your left as you walk towards Busarus, across the road from the VHI building. It doesn't look like a church, especially compared to the Presbyterian one across the road. But it's called "FBC", which I presume means "F****** Baptist Church" or sometihng.

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  • #2566
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    I laughed at the letters over it as they're perfectly suited for the building, Former Baptist Church.

    I've sat outside that building so many times when in traffic and never really noticed it because you're drawn to the other, prettier, church across the road from it. That, and the fact there's usually parked buses blocking the view of it if you're in a car, another bus or luas.


  • #2567
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Fellowship Bible Church, according to google


  • #2568
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    IIRC that place was used in the 1970s and 80s as a district court specializing in parking cases, it ceased to be used as a courthouse when the Richmond Hospital in Nth. Brunswick St. moved to the new hospital in Beaumont and the courts service took it over.


  • #2569
    D Trent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭D Trent


    coylemj wrote: »
    IIRC that place was used in the 1970s and 80s as a district court specializing in parking cases, it ceased to be used as a courthouse when the Richmond Hospital in Nth. Brunswick St. moved to the new hospital in Beaumont and the courts service took it over.

    JD's response:

    "That's cute "

    😂


  • #2570
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    If it was formerly a Baptist Church, does that mean there's a full immersion baptism font? The mind boggles if it's still there and the place opens as a pub - endless opportunities!! Craft beer Jacuzzi anyone?


  • #2571
    D Trent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭D Trent


    coylemj wrote: »
    If it was formerly a Baptist Church, does that mean there's a full immersion baptism font? The mind boggles if it's still there and the place opens as a pub - endless opportunities!! Craft beer Jacuzzi anyone?

    The Abbot will fit right in


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  • #2572
    D Trent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭D Trent


    Hell they should rename it Lower Abbot St


  • #2573
    Simon2015
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Simon2015


    Is there any update when the Camden St Wetherspoons is opening ?


  • #2574
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Simon2015 wrote: »
    Is there any update when the Camden St Wetherspoons is opening ?

    Thanks for the reminder. Ill be getting the bus from Camden street in a couple weeks. It'd be nice to be able to wander in for a 3 euro pint on the way home.


  • #2575
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Don't think so. I'd say it'll be a long-drawn-out planning process, but as far as I can see even that hasn't started yet.

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  • #2576
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,834 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I'd be pleasantly surprised if it's open by this time next year.

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #2577
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Simon2015 wrote: »
    Is there any update when the Camden St Wetherspoons is opening ?
    Planning application has been lodged: reference 2045/16. The drawings aren't online yet but hopefully will be soon.

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  • #2578
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,609 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Is there anywhere I can find a JDW menu for the Swords venue with the prices on it? Their website lists menus but no prices on them.


  • #2579
    poitinstill
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭poitinstill


    well be assured they will have more cask and cheaper prices than anywhere else. going off the cork branch. cask ale 2.50 if not less on managers special.


  • #2580
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    poitinstill wrote: »
    well be assured they will have more cask and cheaper prices than anywhere else. going off the cork branch.
    Are they getting the hang of cask in the Linen Weaver? I was only in it once and they had lots of tap badges on display but only one actual handpump pouring, and not a good beer either.

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  • #2581
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Is there anywhere I can find a JDW menu for the Swords venue with the prices on it? Their website lists menus but no prices on them.

    They seemed to take off the prices a while back, I noticed that Dun Laoghaire Forty Foots ones were removed also. Rumour had it was that they didn't want people to realise that some of their branches were cheaper than others.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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