Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

Hotblack Desiato

rubadub wrote: »

and the choice of drinks.

Far better than most pubs here. If you want Guinness you can go anywhere.

Blut2

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Far better than most pubs here. If you want Guinness you can go anywhere.

+1

Wetherspoons has a much better craft beer selection than most Irish pubs. And at probably 50% the cost.

poitinstill

wetherspoons has a good selection of craft beer but its fairly stagnant. the one in cork seem to have the same stuff in for yonks. whenever i go in its for the cask ale. what would be a game changer is if they took on some irish craft beer on cask regularly ( even if they had to hike the price a bit)

Idbatterim

I think its going to be very interesting, what happens when you throw in a massive spoon, in an affluent drinking area of dublin, I.e camden street. I doubt that place is going to have flat atmosphere etc!

BeerNut

poitinstill wrote: »

what would be a game changer is if they took on some irish craft beer on cask regularly

Carlow had Brú Red Ale the other day.

Muahahaha

Idbatterim wrote: »

I think its going to be very interesting, what happens when you throw in a massive spoon, in an affluent drinking area of dublin, I.e camden street. I doubt that place is going to have flat atmosphere etc!

When it opens Id say Camden St will be mobbed every night of the week. With pints for 4 euro when everywhere else on the street is 6 many will flock there for at least a few before moving on. I can see it becoming a part of the Flannerys- Coppers circuit.

Idbatterim

Muahahaha wrote: »

When it opens Id say Camden St will be mobbed every night of the week. With pints for 4 euro when everywhere else on the street is 6 many will flock there for at least a few before moving on. I can see it becoming a part of the Flannerys- Coppers circuit.

Six seventy a pint in house Leeson street the other night.young and youngish People just have to many outgoing to go out frequently at the rip off prices. Can’t wait for the spoons. It’s a great place to start even if you don’t want to spend night there

Muahahaha

Yeah pint prices have gone insane in the city. Lots of young people earning 25k cant afford to drop 100 quid on a night out. The Camden St branch will shake things up a bit on that street as huge amounts of people in their 20s and 30s drink in that area but many are price sensitive due to crappy wages.

Even young nurses, guards and teachers arent paid that much starting off these days and many are spending around 50% of their net income just on rent in Dublin alone. So I can definitely see Spoons going down a storm when it opens up in Camden St, I think it will be their busiest pub in the Irish chain bar none.

Bit of competition for them from Lidl of all places in NI. I wonder will they try to do it here too (not sure how comparable licensing laws are between the UK and here).

https://twitter.com/9whitedeer/status/1237453772403679234

BeerNut

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I wonder will they try to do it here too (not sure how comparable licensing laws are between the UK and here

The laws in NI are more similar to here than GB. Lidl already owns a pub licence at its shop in Tallaght.

BaZmO*

BeerNut wrote: »

The laws in NI are more similar to here than GB. Lidl already owns a pub licence at its shop in Tallaght.

When I first heard the news that's were I thought the location was. Interesting to see if that's the next move.

Muahahaha

Wtf would Lidl be doing going opening pubs? Have they done it in Germany or elsewhere?

I dont think mixing drunk people and chainsaws from the middle aisle is such a good idea :pac:

BeerNut

BeerNut wrote: »

The laws in NI are more similar to here than GB. Lidl already owns a pub licence at its shop in Tallaght.

I’d forgot about that til you said it there. That’s the fancy one just off the Belgard road isn’t it?

BaZmO*

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I’d forgot about that til you said it there. That’s the fancy one just off the Belgard road isn’t it?

Yeah, formally The Belgard Inn/Coco's Nightclub

Geuze

BeerNut wrote: »

The laws in NI are more similar to here than GB. Lidl already owns a pub licence at its shop in Tallaght.

Can I ask - isn't every licence for an off-licence also a pub licence?

For example, you must extinguish an existing pub licence and transfer it to the off-licence that you plan to open?

So every off-licence represents a former pub closed?

Reputable Rog

Went to the Linen Weaver today, €5 steak and chips and it was very good.
Beamish also very good, new barman whose very good. Takes multiple orders, chats to the customers, he won’t last.

BeerNut

Geuze wrote: »

isn't every licence for an off-licence also a pub licence?

No. Conversion of pub licences into off licences does happen but not every off licence used to be a pub licence.

L1011

I suspect they converted the licence of Blakes Tavern in Blanchardstown/Blakestown when it was replaced with a Lidl; ditto the two pub to Tesco (without knocking the building - Fingal House and Quinlans) that I know of but its impossible to tell with public records.

L1011

L1011 wrote: »

I suspect they converted the licence of Blakes Tavern in Blanchardstown/Blakestown when it was replaced with a Lidl; ditto the two pub to Tesco (without knocking the building - Fingal House and Quinlans) that I know of but its impossible to tell with public records.

Does blakestown have a bar or do you mean they used that one for Belgard?

L1011

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Does blakestown have a bar or do you mean they used that one for Belgard?

They bought and knocked the Blakes Tavern to build the store in Blakestown; I presume they converted that licence to an off-licence one for use on the same site. But I can't say for certain.

The Dunnes in Blackrock is still using the pub licence from the pub it was built in (as a pub licence allows off-sales), unconverted as far as I can tell.

Geuze

BeerNut wrote: »

No. Conversion of pub licences into off licences does happen but not every off licence used to be a pub licence.

If an off-licence in a Lidl, ALDI, Centra etc., wasn't a previous pub licence, then where did it come from?

As there are a fixed number of licences?

BeerNut

Geuze wrote: »

If an off-licence in a Lidl, ALDI, Centra etc., wasn't a previous pub licence, then where did it come from?

Another off licence?

Geuze

I don't know, but I don't think so?

Surely all new off-licences are former pub licences, extinguished and transferred?

Losty Dublin

BeerNut wrote: »

No. Conversion of pub licences into off licences does happen but not every off licence used to be a pub licence.

To add; there are or at least there were two added advantages of a supermarket holding a full on sales licence. One is that the asset of a full licence could be traded on in the event of the store closing, which is obviously a balance sheet advantage for a business. The other is that a full on sales licence allowed a store a little extra trading time over an off sales licence; obviously this is not the case since the 2008 act stopped off sales from all licensed premises after 10PM.

Barna77

When I was in the US some years ago went to a giant supermarket which had a full bar at the front of the store.

Pints gave me the strength to do face food shopping

donaghs

I guess COVID-19 is going to push back the opening of Camden St spoons.

Idbatterim

with the job losses and the economy the way it is, this will be an even bigger win for spoons, people will be desperate to socialise after this, but many wont be paying E6 plus a pint any more!

Muahahaha

Tim Martin has come out and said pubs should stay open, part of his reasoning is that they are less packed that supermarkets :rolleyes:

RasTa

Now all of his pubs are closed

rubadub

Muahahaha wrote: »

Tim Martin

That's Dr. Tim to you, shame he didn't give the actual figures

"There's hardly been any transmission of the virus within pubs"