Best AND Cheapest Pubs in city center

Sgt.Peppers

opinions? i think the best pub is the woolshed,players lounge and the temple bar but as far as price goes...not at all

so what are your favorite cheap and social pubs in dublin city center

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Ha

KeithM89_old

Moved from AH

admiralofthefleet

the sunset is a grand little pub

if you think the players lounge is the best op you need to see other pubs

Sgt.Peppers

haha ah dunno i been to a few good ones i just love the music and sports and live close to players lounge .. i find it a grand spot

kkdela6

Messrs Maguire is my favourite spot. Just something about it

The Scientician

O'Reilly's underneath Tara St. is €3.20 a draft pint on Saturday nights and I think some other nights of the week, good music too, and other drinks promotions. Was there on a Saturday a few weeks back and had a deadly time.

Liam Byrne

Does Dublin have a 'center' ? Thought those were just in U.S. cities, with an Irish city having a centre ?

anto2

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Does Dublin have a 'center' ? Thought those were just in U.S. cities, with an Irish city having a centre ?

Yes it has .Everywhere is within walking distance in the center of Dublin .:)

FloatingVoter

Peadar Kearney's on Dame Street isn't a bad pub and with most drinks costing €3.50 until 7 PM on weekdays (5 PM weekends) pretty good value. Had three pints of Carlsberg in there yesterday. Still had 50c left out of my tenner.:)

kona

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Peadar Kearney's on Dame Street isn't a bad pub and with most drinks costing €3.50 until 7 PM on weekdays (5 PM weekends) pretty good value. Had three pints of Carlsberg in there yesterday. Still had 50c left out of my tenner.:)

How the hell did you manage that

FloatingVoter

kona wrote: »

How the hell did you manage that

Whoops, maths was never my strong point

raheny red

Stay away from the Players Lounge. I'm not gonna post the reasons, just stay away!

bobbysands81

raheny red wrote: »

Stay away from the Players Lounge. I'm not gonna post the reasons, just stay away!

Players Lounge is a grand little spot, good music, great for watching sport and nice food. The shooting of the doorman and punters there though will (rightly) turn a lot of people off the place.

Larianne

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Peadar Kearney's on Dame Street isn't a bad pub and with most drinks costing €3.50 until 7 PM on weekdays (5 PM weekends) pretty good value. Had three pints of Carlsberg in there yesterday. Still had 50c left out of my tenner.:)

Was in there yesterday. Pints go up to €5.20 after!! We were out the door then.

RandolphEsq

In the City Centre I enjoy O'Donoghue's on Baggot Street, not great prices though. For price I like Porterhouse.

Sgt.Peppers

haha? well i think you might need to mate im interested

Warper

MacTurtaills on Tara St. is €3.50 for pints every Friday now. It used be 3.50 during the week too though think thats gone now.

HavingCrack

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Players Lounge is a grand little spot, good music, great for watching sport and nice food. The shooting of the doorman and punters there though will (rightly) turn a lot of people off the place.

To be fair a lot of very dodgy stuff has gone on there over the years. Was there not another shooting there a few years prior to that? The previous owners were rumoured to be using it as a front for money laundering if I recall also.

saintsaltynuts

The Bernard Shaw is great with drinks promotions all the time 12 euro for a pitcher of beer 3 bottles of beer for a tenner saturday night isnt bad.

kona

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

The Bernard Shaw is great with drinks promotions all the time 12 euro for a pitcher of beer 3 bottles of beer for a tenner saturday night isnt bad.

erm thats pretty normal value.

jclally

The Celt on Talbot St, good for music in the evening. Thats when its not full of spanish tourists sharing a 7-Up between them taking up every seat in the place.

Paparazzo

I was in Kearney's on dame street, a pint of heineken and a vodka and coke cost me €7 because it was happy hour!
There's been several post about the Players Lounge and it's generally regarded as a dump. Wouldn't consider it city centre either.

michelledoh

Definitely Bernard Shaw and Twisted Pepper do great deals.
10 options which are €10 each, like 3 bottles Brahms, Peroni, 2 cocktails etc.

Twisted Pepper also has unreal coffee!

Dangerous Man

I personally like The Foggy Dew, The Stag's Head, The Gin Palace (when acoustic guitar guy isn't playing), Pravda (although it's a long time since I've been), The Dame Tavern, The International Bar, Grogan's, Hogan's (although can be a tad pretentious), McDaid's, Kehoe's.

I don't think any of them are particularly cheap but pretty much in line with everyday prices.

For the most part I like a bar with no music, no TV, and no young people in tracksuits - or loudmouths.

Green Back

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I personally like The Foggy Dew, The Stag's Head, The Gin Palace (when acoustic guitar guy isn't playing), Pravda (although it's a long time since I've been), The Dame Tavern, The International Bar, Grogan's, Hogan's (although can be a tad pretentious), McDaid's, Kehoe's.

Reminds me of Celtic Tiger days.
Awful place.

The Scientician

It's called The Grand Social now.

Anto McC

Chaplins on Hawkins St (Opposite the Screen cinema) do €4 for any pint, all day. They've also always got various promotions on bottles. And like all proper pubs should do, they've always got the Horse racing on

Larianne

Anto McC wrote: »

Chaplins on Hawkins St (Opposite the Screen cinema) do €4 for any pint, all day. They've also always got various promotions on bottles. And like all proper pubs should do, they've always got the Horse racing on

Oh, good to know, thanks!! I guess they're in competition with MacTs and O'Reillys close by.

GO_Bear

O'Reillys Underneath Tara street dart station, All pints are always 3.20. Nice pub, usually buzzing ( not over busy on week nights tho )

Only problems ;
Metal nights Saturday ( I don't mind but some people might not like )
Woefull barstaff

Wolfe Tone

Any good places for some trad music or some rebel bands?

Sgt.Peppers

players lounge has good rebel music nearly every night ..and theres and dods in Stephens green

admiralofthefleet

Sgt.Peppers wrote: »

players lounge has good rebel music nearly every night ..and theres and dods in Stephens green

do they stop playing when the FA Premier League matches are on the telly?

Jesus Wept

Player's Lounge, where teh gang goes.

Wolfe Tone

Sgt.Peppers wrote: »

players lounge has good rebel music nearly every night ..and theres and dods in Stephens green

Yeah, was looking for something a little bit more central than the players lounge, but that will do I guess!

admiralofthefleet

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Yeah, was looking for something a little bit more central than the players lounge, but that will do I guess!

i think the celt on talbot street plays ballads, not sure about rebel music though

The Minstrel

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Peadar Kearney's on Dame Street isn't a bad pub

One of the most embarrassing fake irish pubs in Dublin I would say.

The trick is to spend the early part of the night drinking in a regular pub when it's all about conversation and then move to the pricier joints when you're gee-eyed. Someone said Messrs, that's got cheap drink if you stick to their own brews rather than mcdonalds-type beers which cost a fortune (carlsberg, miller, bud, coors, heineken etc)