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Best Pub You've Ever Been in?

  • 20-07-2010 2:57pm
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    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,881 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    To be a bit more upbeat than the "dodgiest pub" thread, what's the best pub you've ever been in?

    Mines was in a pub called Zum Uerige in Dusseldorf, we walked in, sat down and within about 3 seconds we all had a glass of Alt beer (the local brew) in front of us with one having asked for it. Everyone else was drinking the stuff so we couldn't figure out if the waiter just likes to take the piss out of tourists or if he decides that everyone has to drink beer. Aside from that the place was class, really clean, had seemingly taken over half the street outside with beer garden space and had a pub grub menu that was full of manly dishes consisting solely of meat, bread and cheese.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I don't remember. I sure I must have been in at least one good pub.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Ma-Nolans in Nice, France.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    The Steering Wheel in Limerick , it's an adrenaline rush .:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭Live4Ever


    McDaids


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Moe's Tavern


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 261 ✭✭kevthecelt


    A sportsbar in Vancouver. Flatscreens on every square inch of the walls AND a mini golf course going round the entire bar. Awesome


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,397 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    http://www.cocobongo.com.mx/home.php?Lenguaje=en

    Check out videos of this place on Youtube (cant provide links, in work).

    Its mental, they recreate Hollywood movies with acrobats.

    Should check out "The Passion of the Christ"!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭RichTea


    Conor108 wrote: »
    Moe's Tavern

    I prefer Boe's Cavern.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Was Blue Note.
    Now Salt House.
    Rabbitt's an honorary mention.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


    The Quids-Inn,
    Douglas, Isle of Man.

    £1 entry fee, then every drink is £1 all day everyday:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,529 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Dicey's Mon-Tues-Wed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,351 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    diceys garden! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭wobbles-grogan


    Salt house is overrrated. it just seems like a really expensive sauna!

    In galway, its gotta be O'Connels for sure. Nicest pint of stout around!

    A pub in vienna, forget the name of it, stayed open till dawn, beer and music all night. Great place.... prob the best pub ive been in so far!

    Edit: I remembered! It was Cactus bar!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭BUBBLES1978


    PeteEd wrote: »
    The Quids-Inn,
    Douglas, Isle of Man.

    £1 entry fee, then every drink is £1 all day everyday:D


    what a place jaysus thats brought back memories :):D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    I've been in lots of good bars/clubs, but after a quick thought, i really loved the krazy kanguruh, St Anton, Austria..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Fibbers!! both old and new! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Can't remember the name of this one but it's in Victoria on Vancouver Island.
    It's a tiny little place where all the bar staff look lie lumberjacks in dungarees, and everyone who comes in wrties a not and glues it somewhere on the wall.
    Also, many of the ladies who visit are courteous enought to hang their bra/knickers from the ceiling.
    But to top it all off you get a bucket of roasted and salted monkeynuts with every drink and you just throw the shells on the ground. The floor of the bar is about 6 inches deep in monkeynut shells.
    I've never seen any place like it, its a great laugh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    Zold Pardon in Budapest, great place so's it is :) 24hr outdoor club with different areas with diff styles of music, a pool bar and games etc. Deadly.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    hoops bar in glasgow :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    candy-gal1 wrote: »
    Fibbers!! both old and new! :)

    you don't get out much do ya?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


    what a place jaysus thats brought back memories :):D

    Good times alright, especially on a Thursday night, get chucked out of the Quids and then head up to Studebakers nightclub for Buy-1-get-1-free!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    The Red Parrot in Drumcondra :eek: :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    you don't get out much do ya?


    Well yeah i do lol :p, but iv been to a good few bars and both fibs, and bruxelles (albeit a bit expensive) would be the best imho :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    Quinns Drumcondra.....but that was 2 years ago....now its ****!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭The Paws


    I love a couple of pubs both inside and outside in Prague, Munich and Holland. I cant think of the names!! but these are in the city centre area. I think it has to do with the crowd we had and a few of others join in with us and we had a ball. Beers are great there.

    In Paris by the Louve area I think it is what they spell? It was lovely to have a glass of wine or two outside by the rest./bar and when it gets dark - all the street lights switched on...it was beautiful...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Lord Panic


    Second on the Krazy Kangaruh!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    The Woolshed in Dublin for World Cup matches. Its amazing how many different nationalities living in Dublin


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    kevthecelt wrote: »
    A sportsbar in Vancouver. Flatscreens on every square inch of the walls AND a mini golf course going round the entire bar. Awesome

    That sounds like hell.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Another vote for the Quids Inn. What a way to spend a bleak winters day on the Isle of Man.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭Gillington


    The Dow Jones bar in Barcelona . A stockmarket style bar where we spent most of a stag weekend in!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    'Zacks', donegal town, now closed.

    not sure if you can call it a pub, 'cafe del mar' in ibiza, only for the mojotos and the sunset.

    and 'irish daisy', zell am see, austria


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    Bukowski's Tavern in Boston. About 30 craft beers on tap, sufficiently dingy, fantastic buffalo wings, and a lock-in in a city where they are fundamentalist about closing on time.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Sergeant wrote: »
    Bukowski's Tavern in Boston. About 30 craft beers on tap, sufficiently dingy, fantastic buffalo wings, and a lock-in in a city where they are fundamentalist about closing on time.

    i agree with this statement


  • Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've been in lots of good bars/clubs, but after a quick thought, i really loved the krazy kanguruh, St Anton, Austria..

    That place is just demented. Not only the best pub for apres ski but the best one overall


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 492 ✭✭HoPpiE


    Salt house is overrrated. it just seems like a really expensive sauna!

    In galway, its gotta be O'Connels for sure. Nicest pint of stout around!

    A pub in vienna, forget the name of it, stayed open till dawn, beer and music all night. Great place.... prob the best pub ive been in so far!

    Edit: I remembered! It was Cactus bar!!

    +1 on the points made about the Salt House and O'Connells.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭sealgaire


    candy-gal1 wrote: »
    Fibbers!! both old and new! :)


    Fibbers? In Galway? Ha, you must be from Mervue!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    sealgaire wrote: »
    Fibbers? In Galway? Ha, you must be from Mervue!


    I'd imagine it is Fibbers in Dublin, a pub on Parnell street that smells like a can of cat piss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    kevthecelt wrote: »
    A sportsbar in Vancouver. Flatscreens on every square inch of the walls AND a mini golf course going round the entire bar. Awesome
    Jesus, how could multiple flat screens and a crazy golf course make a pub good. Sounds like a nightmare to me. Each to their own I suppose. Grogans, South William st. Dublin for me!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Sergeant wrote: »
    I'd imagine it is Fibbers in Dublin, a pub on Parnell street that smells like a can of cat piss.

    and where the women hang like a wizards sleeve


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭Turnstyle


    Cafe Mambo in Ibiza ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    There was one in Wales, I can't remember it's name. Did a mean Indian curry, great to tuck into with a few pints of their local ale.

    Took a trip down to Galway recently, was in a bar called the Salthouse. Great selection of beer, and drunken jenga. Hard to beat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Brendog wrote: »
    Quinns Drumcondra.....but that was 2 years ago....now its ****!!

    Yeah the students have it ruined.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Have all been in Germany and Belgium. Not really able to separate a lot at the very top. Dax BierBoerse in Hannover being a particular highlight, couple of bars in Leuven, Belgium.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    J Each to their own I suppose. Grogans, South William st. Dublin for me!


    Now I love an authentic Dublin pub, but Grogan's would put the temper on me. Lots of self-styled arty types, too much tweed and leather patches, and disgraceful toilets. I hate how pubs think they are keeping it real by having the jacks as a public health hazard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Sergeant wrote: »
    Now I love an authentic Dublin pub, but Grogan's would put the temper on me. Lots of self-styled arty types, too much tweed and leather patches, and disgraceful toilets. I hate how pubs think they are keeping it real by having the jacks as a public health hazard.
    I suppose you're right about the jacks but the pints are massive and the atmosphere is spot on despite your fear of tweed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭CoDy1


    Sam Jacks in Newcastle. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 492 ✭✭HoPpiE


    I suppose you're right about the jacks but the pints are massive and the atmosphere is spot on despite your fear of tweed.

    How can a pint be massive?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Jesus, how could multiple flat screens and a crazy golf course make a pub good. Sounds like a nightmare to me. Each to their own I suppose. Grogans, South William st. Dublin for me!

    Yep. No music, no TVs. A toasted cheese sandwich with plenty of mustard and a pint of Guinness at lunch time... wonderful stuff.

    And personally I wear a corduroy jacket.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭AskMyChocolate


    Yep. No music, no TVs. A toasted cheese sandwich with plenty of mustard and a pint of Guinness at lunch time... wonderful stuff.

    And personally I wear a corduroy jacket.

    Haven't been there for a while but you used to be able to get a large bottle of McArdle's there which is always a treat. Usually, it's just Smithwick's that's available for ale-drinkers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭rocky raccoon


    the sky bar on the 33rd floor of traders hotel, kuala lumpur. look out over KL and the petronas towers. cool location, cool music, great cocktails


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