Most Expensive Pub in Dublin just got worse!

Sizzler

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/timing-is-everything-when-youre-getting-a-round-in-1490345.html?from=dailynews

Sindo wrote:

By John O'Keeffe


Sunday October 05 2008

What a difference a few minutes can make -- that's if you're having a drink in one of the capital's best known late-night bars.

Cafe en Seine, a well-known haunt of politicians and socialites on Dawson Street on the south side of Dublin's city centre, suddenly puts up its prices at 11pm -- and most of the drinkers don't even know.

The pub operates a policy of raising the cost of its drinks at 11pm by over 12 per cent.

When I dropped in for a drink last Thursday a pint of Heineken and a bottle of sparkling water cost €9 at 10.25pm.

But just over half an hour later -- at 11.03pm precisely -- the price rose to €10.10. That's an increase of €1.10.

Recently, Ireland's most famous superpub also introduced a weekend cover charge of €10. This charge is now being levied in addition to the varying drink prices in the pub, depending on the time of the evening you might buy your tipple.

Last week it was reported that thousands of jobs have been lost in the drinks industry over the past seven years because of pub closures. Organisations representing publicans around the country say figures show that 1,500 pubs have closed since 2001, blaming taxes on alcohol, the growth of home drinking and declining consumption of alcohol.

Publicans are now calling for a zero tax increase on alcohol in the forthcoming Budget to save the struggling pub trade.

Up to last year, Cafe en Seine was considered to be one of the pubs with the highest footfall in Dublin. From Wednesday to Saturday each week anecdotal evidence suggested it was standing room only after 10pm -- assuming that you were lucky enough to get in.

Free-spending drinkers and high-rolling revellers have ensured that the superpub in Dawson Street is still successfully fighting off the grim economic news from just across the road in Dail Eireann.

Accounts recently filed for Toji Holdings Ltd, the holding company of the O'Dwyer Brothers' Capital Bars chain, which includes Cafe en Seine, reveals that turnover rose to €60.3m in 2007 from €40.3m on the previous year.

But sales in its bars to July were said to be "flat", which may go some way to explaining the introduction of a cover charge and increased prices after 11pm.

No one for Capital Bars was available to discuss its policy of increasing drink prices after 11pm.

Bad enough slipping in a nice litte price hike after 11pm when people have a few pints on them but now they want a tenner to get into the bin ! Best of luck with that lads :rolleyes:

super_furry

Any idiot that pays that kind of money to drink in that ****hole deserves to be ripped off.

towel401

i think when the price of a pint is that expensive you don't pay for the actual drink, but for the fact that you're surrounded by other mostly rich snobs who don't mind the high price. rather than the scum you would find in a place that charges 3 euro for a pint.

but maybe that expensive place is also full of scum. i don't go to dublin

faceman

I despise that pub. It is a souless cultureless venue that attract mainly souless cultureless people, women who want women to buy them money, and blokes who wear designer shirts which in truth no one has ever heard of.

Its always going to be popular.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

dublin ****e to the dublin forum plz