The 57 Headline - SCR, Leonard's Corner

sarkozy

Nearly under our noses, the old, sticky, smoky Headline Bar on Leonard's Corner has been transformed into the best addition to the neighbourhood in ages. It reopened late last Friday.

Around 25 Irish craft beers on tap, an incalculable number more of bottled beers, wine. Food to come in time.

The atmosphere's great, and so is the service and barfly conversation.

Get down there!

PauloConn

Was it refurbished or taken over by new management. I saw it had closed recently and then reopened last week.
Good to see it back open again.

Sunnyisland

Always wondered why it was called that name ?

BeerNut

PauloConn wrote: »

Was it refurbished or taken over by new management

Both.

PauloConn

Great news for the area either way

Gavin "shels"

As a past regular in the Headline before John finished his lease, I popped up on Sunday for a quick one en route to town. Was weird to say the least, considering what I was used to with the Headline. Looking forward to them getting a food menu in.

Lawrence1895

Are the toilets still downstairs and not wheelchair accessible?

Gavin "shels"

Lars1916 wrote: »

Are the toilets still downstairs and not wheelchair accessible?

Would be a fairly major job moving the toilets tbh Lars, and would take up a huge space on the middle floor hence why it's 3 floors.

Seaneh

Gavin shels wrote: »

Would be a fairly major job moving the toilets tbh Lars, and would take up a huge space on the middle floor hence why it's 3 floors.

Wouldn't take up that much room to put one wheelchair accessible jacks on the ground floor though, would it?


Disclaimer: never been in the bar, don't know the layout, for all I know the place could be tiny.

BeerNut

realies wrote: »

Always wondered why it was called that name ?

Apparently Blackpitts was a big centre for the printing industry in Dublin up to the '80s. The pub would have had a lot of printmakers and journalists among the regulars.

Hugo_Whoriskey

Went in yesterday evening for 2 pints, lovely job on the interior. Great service, lovely pints too and great selection. Didn't go to the loo so can't comment on where they are. I'll definitely be back, it'll be my new local

drumswan

Hugo_Whoriskey wrote: »

Went in yesterday evening for 2 pints, lovely job on the interior. Great service, lovely pints too and great selection. Didn't go to the loo so can't comment on where they are. I'll definitely be back, it'll be my new local

Same, its really fantastic.

PauloConn

Is it that good? Must try it out. Always liked Leonards although a few of the neighbours swear by the Harold House. Was in McKenna's once and it was an experience.....

Gavin "shels"

PauloConn wrote: »

Is it that good? Must try it out. Always liked Leonards although a few of the neighbours swear by the Harold House. Was in McKenna's once and it was an experience.....

McKenna's is grand! The parents local and I had my formal family 21st part in the function room a couple of years back!

Hugo_Whoriskey

PauloConn wrote: »

Is it that good? Must try it out. Always liked Leonards although a few of the neighbours swear by the Harold House. Was in McKenna's once and it was an experience.....

All depends what you like but it ticks the boxes for me!

Hugo_Whoriskey

There again last night, busy and a great buzz in the place. Toilets definitely still downstairs

older i get better i was

Hugo_Whoriskey wrote: »

Went in yesterday evening for 2 pints, lovely job on the interior. Great service, lovely pints too and great selection. Didn't go to the loo so can't comment on where they are. I'll definitely be back, it'll be my new local

referee?

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Will have to pop in for a look sometime so.

cosmic

Popped in last night for a couple of pints. I love the place! I now have a new local

Hugo_Whoriskey

older i get better i was wrote: »

referee?

Hah, nope, that's not me. Hope no one uses their real name on this!

Lad Of Banter

didn't realise it had reopened despite living practically next door. Shall be making a visit this weekend

Lad Of Banter

Paid a visit yesterday. Quite liked it. Its pure craft bar. The guy at the bar was sound (think he has worked bars all over city & is having a stab at running his own show now), the drink was good, the layout could be improved but nonetheless i enjoyed my visit. I'm hard to please on drinking establishments but would give it a solid 7 out of 10.

****it, might pop over for one right now

Big Nasty

What's the crowd like? Was never in The Headline myself but always gathered it has a bit of a hard mans pub. That said if there's no Bud and Johnnie Blue that crew would take a wide berth.

cosmic

I really can't get enough of this pub these days! They've started doing pies too which is both delicious and dangerous... now I don't even have the excuse of leaving the pub to go home for dinner

Gavin "shels"

What type of pies is he doing? Passed it the other day, nothing about what ones he was doing.

cosmic

Me and the OH are veggies so we both just got that one. It had sweet potato and cheese and was so delicious. It came with a little jar of pickles too which I thought would be a bit rank (I'm not a huge pickle fan) but they worked so well with the pie - seriously nom!

Gavin "shels"

cosmic wrote: »

Me and the OH are veggies so we both just got that one. It had sweet potato and cheese and was so delicious. It came with a little jar of pickles too which I thought would be a bit rank (I'm not a huge pickle fan) but they worked so well with the pie - seriously nom!

Veggies..................someone get the ban hammer!

killbillvol2

I drank there years ago and noticed the new sign outside the other day. Must pop in for a look during the week.

Lad Of Banter

Pies now? I'm off the drink for the next two weeks

nosietoes

They're doing the matador, the shamrock and the free-ranger - all from the pie minister range. 11 euro for a pie and a pint. I had the matador with a dark arts porter.

drumswan

Thank god this place is juuuust outside my laziness range, 5 minutes closer and I'd never be out of it

January

nosietoes wrote: »

They're doing the matador, the shamrock and the free-ranger - all from the pie minister range. 11 euro for a pie and a pint. I had the matador with a dark arts porter.

They must be doing the Heidi too if they are doing the one with goats cheese and sweet potato in it.

cosmic

January wrote: »

They must be doing the Heidi too if they are doing the one with goats cheese and sweet potato in it.

Yep - that's the one I had!

PauloConn

Pies and pints sounds great.... defo getting a look in for the December season now

Hugo_Whoriskey

January wrote: »

They must be doing the Heidi too if they are doing the one with goats cheese and sweet potato in it.

The menu says the veggie one changes from time to time so might not always be the Heidi

Selik

Only live around the corner from this place too (since Feb) and also noticed a sign outside recently which sparked my interest.

Planning on heading there now on Sat avo with a few mates to audition it for the role of my new "local" pub. At the moment I consider Anseo my local as it's one of my fav pubs anyway.

Will report back here next week! :pac:

cosmic

Giles wrote: »

Only live around the corner from this place too (since Feb) and also noticed a sign outside recently which sparked my interest.

Planning on heading there now on Sat avo with a few mates to audition it for the role of my new "local" pub. At the moment I consider Anseo my local as it's one of my fav pubs anyway.

Will report back here next week! :pac:

Enjoy! I can't seem to get enough of the place I was in there last Saturday night and it was packed. Great to see it doing so well.

Lux23

It's quite nice, I intend to make my way through their taps. It's definitely more fun having so much choice beer wise.

Gavin "shels"

cosmic wrote: »

Enjoy! I can't seem to get enough of the place I was in there last Saturday night and it was packed. Great to see it doing so well.

Was there last Saturday myself, not a seat in the place, we got lucky in the end getting a taxi.

Selik

Gavin shels wrote: »

Was there last Saturday myself, not a seat in the place, we got lucky in the end getting a taxi.

What time was that? Going reasonably early on Saturday (5pm-ish) myself but don't wanna be standing!

cosmic

Giles wrote: »

What time was that? Going reasonably early on Saturday (5pm-ish) myself but don't wanna be standing!

I got there late - around 11. It was packed but we did get a seat. We were only standing for less than 5 minutes.

Gavin "shels"

Giles wrote: »

What time was that? Going reasonably early on Saturday (5pm-ish) myself but don't wanna be standing!

I got there just after 10. We got a seat after a few minutes.

Selik

Grand job, might even pop over in a while for a cheeky one if I can brace the wind and rain on the 5min journey

Cianos

Another +1 from me, great place to pop in to after work. The pint and pie is a nice combo for €11, although I'm often still a bit peckish afterwards as it's not quite a full dinner. Haven't been there on a weekend night yet but would definitely recommend the place, great local to have.

killbillvol2

Popped in last night for a few. Nice atmosphere. The lack of a cask beer is a pretty glaring omission though.

Hugo_Whoriskey

killbillvol2 wrote: »

Popped in last night for a few. Nice atmosphere. The lack of a cask beer is a pretty glaring omission though.

I'm led to believe they were installing a cask beer tap last week, here's hoping!

nosietoes

Yep, it's all installed. I think the next cask is going to Metalman. They have gone through a couple of kegs already

PauloConn

nosietoes wrote: »

Yep, it's all installed. I think the next cask is going to Metalman. They have gone through a couple of kegs already

I love metalman.... class stuff, now have a venue to go on Saturday. Superb

vanderlyle

Do they show football?

drumswan

vanderlyle wrote: »

Do they show football?

No

nosietoes

They show international Irish rugby games.