Top 5 Pubs in Dublin

Maynooth

Well Dubs (and non Dubs) what are yours?

Maynooth

1. The International
2. The Market Bar
3. Hogans
4. Cafe En Seine
5. Doyles

[Jackass]

1. The Temple Bar
2. Eamon Dorans
3. Whealens
4. The Market Bar
5. Doyles

almostagassi

1.mcdaids off grafton street
2.o'neils
3.doyles
4.the globe
5. the pavillion in trinity.

the worst: q bar

ClareBear

1. Sosume - George's St (well it WAS! Fecking "Dragon" now....gay bars are fun but I'm not gay.....I'll miss you Sosume!)
2. Dakota - South William St
3. Samsara - Dawson St
4. The International - Wicklow St
5. Hogan's - George's St

Also Sin, Market Bar, Doyles....ah the list goes on....fecking love Dublin!

rugbug86

1 - Capitol
2 - Sosume
3 - The Outback/Wool Shed
4 - Bruxelles
5 - The Auld Dub

dcr22B

1. Bruxelles
2. Bacchus
3. The Duke
4. Messrs Maguires
5. Bleeding Horse

ClareBear

Oooh forgot about Ba Mizu!


Mmmmm pretty boys galore...drool....

Kernel

Sosume and The Duke are great bars. Bruxelles was great years ago, but has lost something in recent years I think.

Can't understand everyone's fascination with The Market Bar, it's a big huge warehouse ffs, with no music and just hundreds of voices chattering.... drives me mad.

ClareBear

Kernel wrote:

Sosume and The Duke are great bars. Bruxelles was great years ago, but has lost something in recent years I think.

Can't understand everyone's fascination with The Market Bar, it's a big huge warehouse ffs, with no music and just hundreds of voices chattering.... drives me mad.

But it's so big and spacious, I like that.

Third_Echelon

Whelans
The Village
Hogans
The Globe
Thomas Reids

Hounourable mentions:
Keoghs - off grafton st
The Bleeding Horse
Grogans
Porter House
The Pavillion in Trinity
McSorleys - Ranelagh

irlirishkev

The Front Lounge (for the music and ambience)
Ba Mizu (because Viva is gone, and the new place just doesn't have the same feel)
Thomas Reades (for dancin')
Isoldes Tower (also for dancin', but moreso for pints til 4am!)
The Bankers (for that quiet pint)

K.

MonkeyNutz

Palace (picturehouse)
the forum
flannerys (for boggers)
thats it.
pubs are pretty **** these days

Alana

In no particular order

Bruxelles
Eamonn Dorans
Doyles
Ri ras-ok ok its a club but
so sume-hmmm thursday night cocktails...hmmm

Drummer

1. The Temple Bar - nice on a Sat or Sun afternoon to just sit and watch the crowds go by, go there a bit)

2. The Sub - great live bands.

3. Zanzibar - good mix of pub n club, that way we dont have to argue where we go as a group.

4. Messer Maguires - good music, good crowd.

5. Renards - good happy hour !

I love bars that play rock music. Most dont. Most of the above play a decent mix anyway, or at least not so much dance/pop. Heard Bruxelles is a good rock bar, however, i rarely remember to head that way or if i do, my mates wont go.

Kernel

ClareBear wrote:

But it's so big and spacious, I like that.

Hmm.. maybe that explains why skangers drink in fields.

Blondie81

Where is Viva?


What I've always wanted to know about Renards/Lillies and all those sort of places is can the average joe just walk in there or are they fussy about who goes?

irlirishkev

Blondie81 wrote:

Where is Viva?
What I've always wanted to know about Renards/Lillies and all those sort of places is can the average joe just walk in there or are they fussy about who goes?

Viva is on the left hand side, walking up South William Street. Past BaMizu, near the top. It's not called Viva anymore though, can't remember the new name.

With regards Renards, I've been in a few times, mainly on a Thursday night. It's not the kind of clientele I'd surround myself with. Same goes for Lillies. If you try to get in, say late on a weekend, then you might have trouble, but apart from that you should be okay.

Either way, if they're going to turn you away because you don't look rich enough, then you probably don't want to be there :rolleyes:

Kev.

Blondie81

Thanks Kev, was wondering about that....I'm almost certain the people that go there wouldn't be my kinda people anyway. Definitely not!

Kernel

Blondie81 wrote:

Thanks Kev, was wondering about that....I'm almost certain the people that go there wouldn't be my kinda people anyway. Definitely not!

It's easy to get into Renards if you go at a reasonable hour, and the clientele aren't that stuck up either. Have never been to Lillie's, because there are other pubs around there I often drink in instead. Cafe En Seine was full of rich poshies, but I wouldn't mind that, only the drink was utter piss, and very expensive too.

If a pub is going to charge a fortune for a pint, it should at least make sure it's a consistently good one!

Maynooth

Cafe En Seine....full of complete tossers.

ildamiano

Can't believe no-one has included The Gravediggers (Kavanagh) in Glasnevin - if you've yet to go, pay it a visit. My Top 5 would be completed with :

McDaids (off Grafton Street)
The White Horse (near Tara Street Station)
The Schoolhouse (Grand Canal Quay)
The Boar's Head (Capel Street)

Draupnir

haha, the Gravediggers is a dump over hyped by tourists and the graveyard, history link. i live right beside it. however, the guinness is top drawer.

top 5:

1. capitol stephen street
2. handels/karma of fishamble street
3. porterhouse
4. the dame tavern
5. my local! i think everyones local should be in their top 5

ildamiano

Draupnir,

If u live right beside the Gravediggers, then it's your local, right, and your 5th favourite pub in Dublin?

Draupnir

nope, my local would be the sunnybank, a stones throw from the gravediggers and a far better establishment.

bridigo

1. Cafe en Seine
2. Ron Blacks
3. Renards
4. Cocoon
5. Searsons

acorntoast

Hmmm... In town -

1. Neary's
2. Peter's Pub
3. Grogan's/The Castle Lounge
4. The Long Hall
5. The Stag's Head

Market Bar is good for cheap enough* food, but it's like transiting through Ellis Island or something. Hundreds of people crammed into a red bricked warehouse, the babble of voices all around you... I find the acoustics kind of oppressive. I've seen a girl carried out of there because of a panic attack! I kind of know how she felt...

*for Dublin, that is

miami365

1. O'Donoghues Suffolk St
2. Frank Ryans Coke Lane
3. O'Reillys Tara St (purely for the cheap drink)
4. Cassidys Camden St
5. Long Hall Georges St

starn

In no paticular order

The 51
Keoghs
The Pav
McDaids
Ron Blacks

Not top five matierial, But Hartigans a mention

deckie27

My top 2
O'Donoughes (Merrion Row not the other rip of barstewards on Suffock street)
The Gin Palace (on Liffey street/Abbey street)

shqipshume

Sides
The Harp
Tin pan alley
Nightowls
Spirit


After that their all shat,:(

okioffice84

1, Sub Lounge (O'Reillys Tara St.)
2. Doyles
3. The Long Hall
4. Toners
5. Stags Head
(that new place on Fade St. with the snail above the door beside L'Gueuleton
is cool too, don't think it actually has a name, just the place with the snail above the door. Ooooooo how post-modern )

deckie27

shqipshume wrote: »

Sides
The Harp
Tin pan alley
Nightowls
Spirit


After that their all shat,:(

LOL did Sides even serve drink? I was there but can't remember

shqipshume

deckie27 wrote: »

LOL did Sides even serve drink? I was there but can't remember

Hahaha maybe because you had only water Yeah they had wine and ritz lol

RandolphEsq

McGrattons
The Ivory (Dalkey)
The Barge
SU Bar UCD
Flannerys'

Anto McC

Whats up with all these tourist trap pubs? Nobody know any good locals anymore?

1. The Oarsman (Ringsend)
2. Mulligans (Poolbeg Street)
3. Smyths (Fairview)

eirebhoy

bridigo wrote: »

1. Cafe en Seine
2. Ron Blacks
3. Renards
4. Cocoon
5. Searsons

What's this the 5 poshest pubs in Dublin?

Seriously Anto, the Oarsman? My family were thrown out of there for singing. Mainly a bunch of women, a girl with cerebral palsy and they wouldn't have been too drunk. The only time I ever drank there with 2 friends we were told to leave as well. In fairness that was early in the morning after the night before but we were just having a quiet session and it seems to me you have to be well known in there or all eyes are on you.

Anto McC

eirebhoy wrote: »

Seriously Anto, the Oarsman? My family were thrown out of there for singing. Mainly a bunch of women, a girl with cerebral palsy and they wouldn't have been too drunk. The only time I ever drank there with 2 friends we were told to leave as well. In fairness that was early in the morning after the night before but we were just having a quiet session and it seems to me you have to be well known in there or all eyes are on you.

It's a great pub. It's a lot more lax than it used to be. Has trad sessions on Thursday nights, easily the best pint of Guiness in the Dublin 2/4 area and one of the best in Dublin. Covered smoking area if you're that way inclined.

it seems to me you have to be well known in there or all eyes are on you.

Not anymore.

geurrp the yard

Anto McC wrote: »

Whats up with all these tourist trap pubs? Nobody know any good locals anymore?

Yeah, Lets show the tourists,proper Dublin pubs!

1. Noctors (Sherriff Street)
2. Finches (Neilstown)
3. Marble arch (Drimnagh)

Rebelsredzer

1. Stags Head
2. International
3. Nearys
4. Keoghs

Fajitas!

Sín É
Hartigans
No.3 Fade St.
Porterhouse (Temple Bar only)
Nashes (Thomas St.)

I can't understand people liking Doyles... It's a dive. An unbearably loud, smelly, overcrowded dive.

spurious

IMO, any pub with TV screens automatically rules itself out of a 'top pubs' list.

BraziliaNZ

Some of the places mentioned in here are shocking!! Doyles??? Dawson St posh bars???

1. Walshes (Stoneybatter)
2. Bowes (Fleet st)
3. Mulligans (Poolbeg st)
4. Long Hall (Aungier St.)
5. Cobblestone (Smithfield)

Nuff said.

cosmic

1. The Welcome (Parnell St)

2. Grogans (South William St)

3. Brogans (Dame St)

4. The Lord Edward (Christ Church)

5. The Stag's Head (Dame Lane)


These pubs have some of the best Guinness in Dublin. Yum!

Heisenberg.

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humberklog

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Some of the places mentioned in here are shocking!! Doyles??? Dawson St posh bars???

1. Walshes (Stoneybatter)
2. Bowes (Fleet st)
3. Mulligans (Poolbeg st)
4. Long Hall (Aungier St.)
5. Cobblestone (Smithfield)

Nuff said.

Walshes, Mulligan's and The Long Hall are posh enough bars. Good pubs but posh drinkers on the whole. Especially Walshes. Nuff said indeed.


Sin e
Flowing Tide
Shelbourne Bar (not Horseshoe)
Cusack's on Northstrand.
The George.

BraziliaNZ

of all of them Walshes in the least posh, are you sure you know where i'm talking about?

g5fd6ow0hseima

Whats good about any pub. Being a music fan, ive never been to a pub except the Bernard Shaw which plays good music, although there are a few places with good music but are terribly pretentious, ie The South William.

cosmic

Violet Early Teaspoon wrote: »

Whats good about any pub.

Guinness! Very few pubs actually serve top notch Guinness, the ones that do are great.

eoghanie

I can't believe that only one person so far has listed Bowes. It's a hidden gem. Never too busy, great guinness, no loud music. Brilliant

Other four would be:

The Oak/Thomas Reads
Mulligans
McDaids
Brogans

Some of those listed so far are awful!!

humberklog

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

of all of them Walshes in the least posh, are you sure you know where i'm talking about?

I know them all very, very well and in particular Walshes. Wall to wall middle class country types thinking that they're being in someway bohemian after convincing themselves that Walshes is the real deal when it comes to Dublin drinking. Little do they realise that by flooding the door with the likes of themselves they've killed off the very essence of what they think exists there.
I like Walshes a lot and I've also enjoyed what it has become over the last 10 years. Stoneybatter needs a pub like it. But it does attract a crowd that is most definately from the brighter side of the social spectrum.
This opinion on that pub would be very broadly held by the original locals of the area. Pop into any of the other bars along the way Mulligan's, Glimmerman etc. and compare the people drinking in those pubs and then compare the clientel in Walshes. There is a huge social difference.
The same can be done with Mulligan's and The Long Hall as there are pubs close by that a juxtaposition of the social scales can easily be done.
These are good pubs you mention and I'm a regular frequenter of them all but it's wrong to consider them to be proper working class outfits.

Do I know what and where you're talking about? For sure I do.