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Restaurant memories

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  • #32
    frankosw
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 809 ✭✭✭frankosw


    Old Kentucky on O'Connell St...remember having my first non-chipper hamburger there before going to see Star Wars in the cinema.


  • #33
    Rochester
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Rochester


    Wolfman Jack's in Rathmines, brilliant.


  • #34
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Rochester wrote: »
    Wolfman Jack's in Rathmines, brilliant.

    Owned by a long haired dude if I remember rightly. He had other restaurants as well I think.

    Chew and Chat pizzeria Harold's Cross, Ranelegh and Rathmines. All three are long gone- wonder what happened to them.


  • #35
    LiamMc
    Registered Users Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    For a few years in early nineties, where Lapella venue on Dame St. is was a late-nite restaurant (but I don't remember if it had a liquor license).
    Used to do a salads with plenty of nuts for about £6/8.
    It was the much-missed Underground music venue before that.
    Catered to the end of nite crowd, great place to meet fellow revellers.


    For burgers New York, New York on Henry St. beside the entrance to the Ilac Centre. It may be the Locker-room shop now.


  • #36
    frankosw
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 809 ✭✭✭frankosw


    LiamMc wrote: »
    It was the much-missed Underground music venue before that.
    Catered to the end of nite crowd, great place to meet fellow revellers.
    .


    Played my first and only punk gig in there in 1990..the gig was aborted when some local troublemakers showed up and tried to gain access.


    The owners of the Underground,Jeff and Noel now own La Paloma restaurant in temple Bar.


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  • #37
    jd
    Registered Users Posts: 5,680 ✭✭✭jd


    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    Owned by a long haired dude if I remember rightly. He had other restaurants as well I think.

    The "long haired dude" who owned Wolfman Jacks is Jay Bourke of The Globe/Ri Ra/Eden etc etc.

    Surprised no one mentioned the Alpha! Great for the auld fry up.


  • #38
    IRE60
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭IRE60


    I don't think there are the same person.

    And a shade little off topic: the fella who owned Wolfman Jacks, did he also have an involvement in the late night hot dog stands on Leeson street which were subsequently 'bought over' by some of the more high profile Dublin Crims from the early 90's?

    Jacks became Radio City if I remember?


  • #39
    jd
    Registered Users Posts: 5,680 ✭✭✭jd


    IRE60 wrote: »
    I don't think there are the same person.
    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/jay-bourke-the-cv-484371.html

    http://www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=414329107&targetid=profile


  • #40
    IRE60
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭IRE60


    JD - I stand corrected - thanks


  • #41
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    jd wrote: »
    The "long haired dude" who owned Wolfman Jacks is Jay Bourke of The Globe/Ri Ra/Eden etc etc.

    Surprised no one mentioned the Alpha! Great for the auld fry up.

    It's all coming back to me now:o


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  • #42
    poisonated
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    Chickenland and Harvest Fried Chicken in Ranelagh, Dublin.


  • #43
    CuppaCocoa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭CuppaCocoa


    The Berni Inn on the corner of Grafton St. Went there every day for lunch when I worked on Dawson St in the late 70s. Downstairs in the gloom they had a salad bar with loads of different salad choices. 'twas delish!


  • #44
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,107 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    'Zachary Stingers' on Abbey Street across from Easons and 'The American Connection' with gangster themed wall paintings where the 101 Talbot is now.


  • #45
    shar01
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭shar01


    Had my first Chinese at the Jasmine House in Bray - must be 30 years ago - eeek!

    The 4 person booths had / have little tiled roofs.

    Have to go back!

    And probably around the same time - lunch in the Clarence before it became trendy.


  • #46
    Hank Schrader
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭Hank Schrader


    Gallaghers, Abbey Street


  • #47
    oceanclub
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭oceanclub


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    More of an American style coffee shop/deli bar Dinty Moore's in Westmoreland Street, anyone remember it?

    Found this thread as I just had nostalgia-brainwave remembering Dinty Moore's as a kid from when I stayed with my dad once a week while mainly living with aunt/uncle. I think I remember it having burgers in onion sauce which were quite tasty. Wonder what year it actually closed down?

    P.


  • #48
    StompToWork
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭StompToWork


    Manifesto in Ranelagh. They had a superb Ceaser Salad.


  • #49
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    StompToWork wrote: »
    Manifesto in Ranelagh. They had a superb Ceaser Salad.

    Did you put it to the testo?


  • #50
    1968
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭1968


    1983 advertisements for:

    - Solomon Grundy’s (now Tolteca)
    - Blazes (site empty)
    - 18th Precinct (now Pacino's)
    - Bananas (now the Restaurant Royale)
    - Captain America’s (still open)
    - The Granary (now Bad Bob's)
    - Le Parigot (now Eddie Rocket's on O'Connell Street).

    Link - http://comeheretome.com/2014/01/02/advertisements-from-the-1983-dublin-theatre-festival-guide/


  • #51
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Anyone remember a place called (I think) The Pirates Den, some where nr St Stephens Green? Remember being brought there after visiting someone in hospital. Early seventies it would have been, Sub basement level if I remember. This was a big deal to me at the time, as visits to the city would have been about once a year. Probably the first restaurant I was ever in!


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  • #52
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Hank Schrader wrote: »
    Gallaghers, Abbey Street

    Was Gallaghers not on O'Connell St?

    What about The American Connection on Talbot Street?


  • #53
    liliq
    Registered Users Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭liliq


    The coffee dock in jury's. It was the go to place for post- everything grub :D


  • #54
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,581 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Was Gallaghers not on O'Connell St?

    I thought Gallaghers was Middle Abbey Street, not Abbey Street?

    Also -didn't realise Bad Bobs still existed- ouch the memories!


  • #55
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    I thought Gallaghers was Middle Abbey Street, not Abbey Street?

    Also -didn't realise Bad Bobs still existed- ouch the memories!

    Actually I saw further back, it was Flanagans on O'Connell St...

    Re Gallaghers, I cannot recall exactly where that was.....(I am sure I was in it) but most likely Middle Abbey St, there was not too much on downtown LA...Lr Abbey St, as I remember.


  • #56
    coldcake
    Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭coldcake


    What was the place over the entrance to the Ilac from Moore st. I used to love the burgers in gravy when I was a kid


  • #57
    Boulevardier
    Registered Users Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭Boulevardier


    Is the Ranelagh Manifesto any relation to the present-day Rathmines place of the same name?


  • #58
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Wendys, the US chain, in dun laoghaire, where elverys is now. They had some cheap meal deal I used to get, place was always pretty empty, I think it was too nice looking and people presumed it was going to be expensive.


  • #59
    gipi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,854 ✭✭✭gipi


    coldcake wrote: »
    What was the place over the entrance to the Ilac from Moore st. I used to love the burgers in gravy when I was a kid

    Harkins or Haskins or something like that?


  • #60
    Hank Schrader
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭Hank Schrader


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Was Gallaghers not on O'Connell St?

    What about The American Connection on Talbot Street?
    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    I thought Gallaghers was Middle Abbey Street, not Abbey Street?

    Also -didn't realise Bad Bobs still existed- ouch the memories!
    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Actually I saw further back, it was Flanagans on O'Connell St...

    Re Gallaghers, I cannot recall exactly where that was.....(I am sure I was in it) but most likely Middle Abbey St, there was not too much on downtown LA...Lr Abbey St, as I remember.

    It was middle abbey st

    Flanagans was its sister restaurant on O Connell St


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  • #61
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Hank Schrader wrote: »
    It was middle abbey st

    Flanagans was its sister restaurant on O Connell St

    Flanagans was also connected to a restaurant on Suffolk st. in the 80s- can't remember which one but they were definitely connected in some way


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