What places have closed during the pandemic?

vafankillar

what places have you heard have closed or noticed have closed in dublin city in recent months during the lockdowns?


was in town earlier and noticed 3 that look finished ( probably saw others too just these are fresh)

eurostore up by stephens green

amorino, the ice-cream place at entrance of stephens green

O'Sheas restuarant/pub/hotel on talbot street had the sign gone and looked like it is gone for good (feel free to correct & i'll edit if not the case)

Peregrine

Accents

Bewley's is in a superposition of being both open and closed.

Wishbone Ash

EDIT

whiskeyman

The Burger King at the bottom end of Grafton St (nearest Trinity) has gone.
Good few empty shops around town.
Cath Kitson another.

Caranica

Oasis, Debenhams, Warehouse and some other fashion places I'm forgetting. Quite a few gaps on Grafton Street last time I was there. (I know Debenhams aren't on Grafton Street)

ongarboy

All the Arcadia shops which include Top Shop, Top Man, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, Miss Selfridge, Burton's and some others have closed since being sold to online retailer Asos who won't operate any bricks and mortar stores. Jervis SC will really take a hit from all those departures.

Fallon and Byrne were already in trouble pre COVID, but they've pulled out and cancelled plans to open in Connolly Station and Dundrum.

It's hard to tell at the moment with so many businesses shuttered due to lockdown as to which closures are permanent but time will tell once non essential retail reopens later in the Spring.

Twee.

Aldo is another fashion one that's gone, Grafton St and Henry St.

aquinn

Fat Face gone from Henry St and so has Evans.

Rick's closed too on Dame St.

Hodors Appletart

the mythical burger shop?

L1011

Ricks was closed for a hotel development not due to COVID.

pauliebdub

L1011 wrote: »

Ricks was closed for a hotel development not due to COVID.

I hope it can reopen elsewhere after the pandemic. I loved their burgers

miamee

Monsoon on Grafton Street is also gone.

A lot of business that closes were on shaky legs any way. You will see, new businesses will quickly take the place once there is trade, and people will have a lot to spend after lock down

miamee

Actually there was a very large Carrolls Irish gift shop on Mary Street that has closed down too since Covid.

Deli Suz on Blessington St closed a few months back which I was quite sad about, they did a really good sandwich.

Summer2020

miamee wrote: »

Actually there was a very large Carrolls Irish gift shop on Mary Street that has closed down too since Covid.

One benefit from this pandemic would be the closure of all those horrible Carroll’s gift shops

Thelonious Monk

miamee wrote: »

Actually there was a very large Carrolls Irish gift shop on Mary Street that has closed down too since Covid.

A silver lining. I do be scarleh walking past those things blasting the wolfe tones and staffed by unfortunate foreign students, talk about cheap tat. And awful frontage on all of them.
Can we not have a full time Taste Officer working for DCC who has final say on opening things like another bloody Carrolls?

miamee

I know, terrible to say I was happy to see it had gone, it was a very large shop. Then again they may find it hard to find another tenat, not a huge footfall down that end of the street. It's nearly at Capel Street.

Another shop I thought of - Inglot make up shops are gone into liquidation. They still stock the brand in some Boots stores but no standalone shops or stands e.g. on Sth Anne Street, not sure where else in the city centre.

Mothercare also gone from St. Stephen's Green shopping centre.

HeidiHeidi

miamee wrote: »

Mothercare also gone from St. Stephen's Green shopping centre.

Was that not gone before the pandemic?

ETA - I stand corrected, June 2020

HildaOgdenx

Bookstation on Henry Street, I don't think it ever reopened after the first lockdown.

01902

H&M Ilac centre

ShyMets

I never thought about Carrolls. The majority of their trade seemed to be tourists.

Even if we get back to some normality this Summer you would imagine visitor numbers will be very small.

Hard to see how they can survive

Thelonious Monk

ShyMets wrote: »

I never thought about Carrolls. The majority of their trade seemed to be tourists.

Even if we get back to some normality this Summer you would imagine visitor numbers will be very small.

Hard to see how they can survive

We hardly need these shops selling cheap Chinese plastic rubbish, I'd be glad to see the back of them all.

ShyMets

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

We hardly need these shops selling cheap Chinese plastic rubbish, I'd be glad to see the back of them all.

Agree. There's far to many of them. But when you're a popular tourist city like Dublin you have to put up with a few of them

Thelonious Monk

ShyMets wrote: »

Agree. There's far to many of them. But when you're a popular tourist city like Dublin you have to put up with a few of them

They're just so loud and garish though. And the signage, everything about them is just awful.

r93kaey5p2izun

Interesting to read this discussion. I have not been into the city for exactly one year this week, when usually I would have been there at least once a week. I really miss it, and it's sad but unsurprising to hear of so many closures. Carrolls are a scourge so difficult to be sad about that, but of course every business lost is a concern.

Muahahaha

I had a good long walk around the city centre a couple of weeks back to kill time while a mechanic was working on my motorbike. Obviously everything is closed bar the banks, mobile phone and food shops

But aside from that what was really noticeable was the amount of shops that are not coming back. You can tell they're gone for good because either all their signage & branding above the door or in the windows is gone or theres an estate agents To Let sign in the window or sometimes both. There seems to be a fair few more completely empty units around than the first lockdown. Hard to put a figure on it as some streets are worse than others. On Henry Street Id say about 15-20% of units dont look like they'll be back. Good few units in SSG Centre hollowed out too. Grafton had less empty units than Henry and Dawson had less than both.

Couple of surprises was seeing the McDonalds at the bottom of Grafton Street actually closed for the first time in decades of me passing it and the Burger King a few doors down seems to be gone completely. Asiide from that there was new temporary public toilets in portakabins outside the SSG Centre and they had no less than four security guards working them even though town was dead. There must have been around 6 or 7 homeless living in tents underneath the awning of the Gaiety and a lot more in other areas of town.

HansKroenke

I have gotten some little souvenirs in Carroll's for the German side of our family and they have loved them. The Guinness products are of a decent quality. They also did a hamper of Ireland on their website which we arranged to have posted directly to Germany and it went down a treat.

Those shops selling crappy backpacks need to go to the wall IMO, there is one beside the Carroll's in Stephens Green, to know what I am talking about.

MrMusician18

Howard's Way in rathgar looks like it's gone.

Cienciano

Can't believe Ricks is gone, was my drunken eating place for the last 15 years.

wakka12

Cienciano wrote: »

Can't believe Ricks is gone, was my drunken eating place for the last 15 years.

Ricks is nothing to do with the pandemic , the hotel above/beside it is being enlarged and generally redeveloped and taking up the unit Ricks was in, planning granted about a year ago.

Ben D Bus

Cienciano wrote: »

Can't believe Ricks is gone, was my drunken eating place for the last 15 years.

I went once, simply because I'd heard so many people talking about it.

Very disappointing and some very odd clientele.

In fairness, I did make the mistake of going in daylight, and sober.

mfceiling

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Howard's Way in rathgar looks like it's gone.

It's gone a good while now unfortunately.

For Forks Sake

Ben D Bus wrote: »

I went once, simply because I'd heard so many people talking about it.

Very disappointing and some very odd clientele.

In fairness, I did make the mistake of going in daylight, and sober.

Rookie error that

timeToLive

Cienciano wrote: »

Can't believe Ricks is gone, was my drunken eating place for the last 15 years.

On dame st?

Muahahaha

Cienciano wrote: »

Can't believe Ricks is gone, was my drunken eating place for the last 15 years.

yeah even though it got surpassed by the likes of Bunsen, Wowburger, etc its still sad to see it go. It had become an institution for burgers after pints for the last 20 years

Cienciano

Bunsen is the best, but even sober I'd prefer ricks to a lot of the gourmet places. It was a perfect location for me too. Sad to see it go

strandroad

Cienciano wrote: »

Bunsen is the best, but even sober I'd prefer ricks to a lot of the gourmet places. It was a perfect location for me too. Sad to see it go

Wondering how the hotel is going to use this space if at all. It's a very tight but extremely busy corner for pedestrians and I could see that often it was hard to enter or exit Rick's through the crowds of people waiting to cross the road.

L1011

Still down as a food unit on the planning. All the offices above are becoming hotel rooms so they likely didn't want the noise and burger smells til late from below.

Some amount of businesses gone from the 3rd lockdown. Have noticed lots of branding taken down all over.

Hopefully in a few months, those that are left get the massive cash injection needed.

L1011

GAP currently saying they will close all stores by July and go online-only, presumably to see if landlords blink - but maybe not

They have two standalone stores (Blanch and Dundrum) and a significant concession in Arnotts.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gap-takes-on-landlords-in-shop-closure-plan-cxk9dqnhq

Caranica

L1011 wrote: »

GAP currently saying they will close all stores by July and go online-only, presumably to see if landlords blink - but maybe not

They have two standalone stores (Blanch and Dundrum) and a significant concession in Arnotts.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gap-takes-on-landlords-in-shop-closure-plan-cxk9dqnhq

They are in the same group as Banana Republic who have already done so a couple of years back so will have the data from that move. Would be a pity, the outlet in Blanch can have some gems amidst the tat.

HansKroenke

Insomnia and Cafe Java in Donnybrook both went during the lockdowns, though a different cafe has set up where Cafe Java was.

Strumms

Cienciano wrote: »

Can't believe Ricks is gone, was my drunken eating place for the last 15 years.

I’ll miss there too...after a feed of pints to tuck into one of those massive burgers before getting a taxi home was a pure joy, they were massive in every sense.

Cienciano

Strumms wrote: »

I’ll miss there too...after a feed of pints to tuck into one of those massive burgers before getting a taxi home was a pure joy, they were massive in every sense.

We'll have to pour one out for Ricks when this is over. It's a sad time

doublejobbing 2

Rick's was bleedin awful, I'd be more upset to see BK/ McDonalds closed as has been claimed. Strange that they would, are they predicting that post Covid they won't have the amount of office staff nearby to sustain two joints on the same street?

BK could be strategic. Imagine their lease was up in January. Bail out until May or June then ask to move back in. Landlord isn't likely to find another tenant are they (and I assume it has planning permission as a fast food outlet- they're even less likely to find one of them in time)

Muahahaha wrote: »

. Good few units in SSG Centre hollowed out too. .

Always been a mystery to me how that centre survived at all with its odd shops.

Thelonious Monk

SSG gets by from TK Maxx, Boots and Dunnes pretty much. The other units open and close all the time. Except the barbers with the metal knight, I can remember that being there in 1992!
I actually love SSG shopping centre, always have, I miss going there every day on my lunch breaks.

Corruptedmorals

I noticed staff in Bennetton SSG doing some clear out. Maybe just moving stock, plenty of shops have signs that there is no cash or stock on the premises. But hard to see how they can sustain a unit there and on Grafton Street.

SSG has always had an interesting flow in tenants. They also have an Easons which for some reason is open. Not sure if it can argue school supplies as it doesn't sell any school books. Peter Marks has closed down there in the last 2 weeks. I'd imagine it's far from the only one.

Thelonious Monk

Oh who can forget Asha on the top floor, I first went there about 30 years ago and it's still going strong selling drug paraphernalia and other curiosities

L1011

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

I noticed staff in Bennetton SSG doing some clear out. Maybe just moving stock, plenty of shops have signs that there is no cash or stock on the premises. But hard to see how they can sustain a unit there and on Grafton Street.

SSG has always had an interesting flow in tenants. They also have an Easons which for some reason is open. Not sure if it can argue school supplies as it doesn't sell any school books. Peter Marks has closed down there in the last 2 weeks. I'd imagine it's far from the only one.

News media and office supplies are allowed. Most Eason branches have closed off other areas where possible

Corruptedmorals

That's fair enough. That branch does not have any part blocked off but the one in Blanch does.