Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

hots · 15-07-2019 03:36PM

Was in Friday evening, grabbed plenty of drinks and a bit of food (once the kitchen was back online). Had a round of drinks go missing from an app order and then had a double delivery a couple of hours later on a different order... Few teething issues for sure.

It's definitely a spoons, food was better than other spoons food I've had. Place was absolutely heaving, curious to see what it's like in a few weeks.

Muahahaha · 15-07-2019 03:52PM

Stephen15 wrote: »

DL is more like a airport bar to me. Speaking of airport bars I wonder will Spoons ever try to open up a bar in Dublin Airport as they're in most reasonably sized UK airports.

I might be wrong here but I thought I heard something about the leases being up on the Dublin airport bars and it being re-tendered. Not sure when or if it has already happened but presume Spoons would have been aware of it. In any case I think Tim Martin said a while back once the planned pubs are built and open then that will be that for Ireland, at least till the next property crash anyway.

cashback · 16-07-2019 01:51PM

Stephen15 wrote: »

DL is more like a airport bar to me. Speaking of airport bars I wonder will Spoons ever try to open up a bar in Dublin Airport as they're in most reasonably sized UK airports.

Not Manchester unfortunately, or Liverpool.

Have paid about £6.50 for a Jaipur in Manchester, and Friday evening, I was charged £6.30 for a pint of San Miguel in Liverpool.

magentis · 16-07-2019 01:55PM

cashback wrote: »

Not Manchester unfortunately, or Liverpool.

Have paid about £6.50 for a Jaipur in Manchester, and Friday evening, I was charged £6.30 for a pint of San Miguel in Liverpool.

Ouch.

cashback · 16-07-2019 01:59PM

Yeah, no prices displayed. Went for a comparatively reasonable £5.10 Amstel after the San Miguel.

Ronan|Raven · 16-07-2019 03:51PM

They have bought a premises on Eglington Street in Galway. Currently a night club. It used to be the GPO when I were a pup...

ben.schlomo · 16-07-2019 03:53PM

Wetherspoons have purchased Galway nightclub Carbon and will turn it into a 4000 sq foot pub and 1900 sq ft first floor beer garden if the change/alteration of license is approved. As per Galway Daily on FB.

errlloyd · 16-07-2019 03:56PM

Good news for Bundee Aki's wife.

GooglePlus · 16-07-2019 04:02PM

Any word on the Camden Street opening?

madnessnmayhem · 16-07-2019 04:04PM

GooglePlus wrote: »

Any word on the Camden Street opening?

Plans to be opened in early 2020

Dellboy54 · 16-07-2019 04:12PM

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Nope. Not a single weatherpoons within 200km of Galway.

And the bar in BlackRock always struggled. They even, from the start, tried serving macro beers as well as their own beers in an effort to keep the meager customer base it had when they took it on. It opened well before spoons and was barely making profit for years.

Might'nt be 200km for much longer...;)

https://galwaydaily.com/business/carbon-nightclub-set-to-become-latest-wetherspoons-in-ireland/

Dellboy54 · 16-07-2019 04:17PM

errlloyd wrote: »

Good news for Bundee Aki's wife.

Why?

L1011 · 16-07-2019 04:18PM

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

They have bought a premises on Eglington Street in Galway. Currently a night club. It used to be the GPO when I were a pup...

Best gig I ever went to in Ireland was there (GPO), in 2008.

Its all upstairs isn't it?

Stephen15 · 16-07-2019 05:43PM

cashback wrote: »

Not Manchester unfortunately, or Liverpool.

Have paid about £6.50 for a Jaipur in Manchester, and Friday evening, I was charged £6.30 for a pint of San Miguel in Liverpool.

Hence why I said most not all. Anyway i believe the prices in their Airport bars are considerably higher than their regular pubs but probably not as high as what you've mentioned there.

https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/wetherspoon-in-the-airports

Fan of Netflix · 16-07-2019 07:33PM

Another nightclub gone. I thought someone yesterday said they weren't planning anything else after Waterford and Camden St. You'd have to assume Limerick could be next on the list.

bennyineire · 16-07-2019 07:57PM

Fan of Netflix wrote: »

Another nightclub gone. I thought someone yesterday said they weren't planning anything else after Waterford and Camden St. You'd have to assume Limerick could be next on the list.

I would have thought all the college towns would be on their radar too, maybe Carlow is the test for that

L1011 · 16-07-2019 08:49PM

Missed their chance with a clearly non-core, gigantic Mercantile Group pub & club in Maynooth - sold to Fitzgeralds with an intention to close it and convert to student accommodation!

Fan of Netflix · 16-07-2019 10:39PM

L1011 wrote: »

Missed their chance with a clearly non-core, gigantic Mercantile Group pub & club in Maynooth - sold to Fitzgeralds with an intention to close it and convert to student accommodation!

Is that the old Mantra nightclub? The Duke and Coacheman or something. That place has changed so many times.

I'd say a Spoons in Maynooth would clean up. Not that many pubs and it would land in students pre drinking.

L1011 · 16-07-2019 10:42PM

Fan of Netflix wrote: »

Is that the old Mantra nightclub? The Duke and Coacheman or something. That place has changed so many times.

I'd say a Spoons in Maynooth would clean up. Not that many pubs and it would land in students pre drinking.

Yeah. Still running as the Duke - local nickname of the Four Horsemen due to how doomed it always is - but it'll close if they get permission. Club upstairs closed when the students finished I think.

Fan of Netflix · 16-07-2019 10:46PM

L1011 wrote: »

Yeah. Still running as the Duke - local nickname of the Four Horsemen due to how doomed it always is - but it'll close if they get permission. Club upstairs closed when the students finished I think.

Didn't they spend millions refitting it and doing it up after it changed from Mantra? Would have thought it was a money making machine. The Roost was better I always thought.

L1011 · 16-07-2019 10:56PM

Fan of Netflix wrote: »

Didn't they spend millions refitting it and doing it up after it changed from Mantra? Would have thought it was a money making machine. The Roost was better I always thought.

Mantra II spent millions on the refit from Mantra I. Mantra I spent many millions on the extension from the Leinster Arms

Mercantile made fewer changes; removing a staircase from the bar to the club so they could separate the doors and charge in to the club alone (Mantra charged in to the bar too), and added a small bar to the front that was easier to run when quiet.

I don't think its made money since the Leinster Arms era - its too big for Maynooth. The smoking area out back is using tens of kilowatts of gas for heating 75% of the year even when there's ten aul lads in the front bar on a week day for instance. But its the only place big enough for a 'Spoons in the town that was ever for sale - even including buildings that aren't currently pubs.

irish_goat · 17-07-2019 11:31AM

I worked in Mantra I for a year. Enjoyed the place but in no way surprised that it failed.

Not sure if a spoons in Maynooth would work. There's not much life in the town during the summer months and during term time I don't think students would spend enough to justify spoons investing there.

BeerNut · 17-07-2019 11:42AM

irish_goat wrote: »

Not sure if a spoons in Maynooth would work.

Presumably that's why they passed it up.

Muahahaha · 17-07-2019 05:03PM

L1011 wrote: »

Missed their chance with a clearly non-core, gigantic Mercantile Group pub & club in Maynooth - sold to Fitzgeralds with an intention to close it and convert to student accommodation!

Any ideas how much Louis paid for Mantra? And did he buy out the entire Mercantile Group?

L1011 · 17-07-2019 05:23PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

Any ideas how much Louis paid for Mantra? And did he buy out the entire Mercantile Group?

Undisclosed fee and it was solely the Duke. There was a leasehold/freehold split there and locally its been suggested he bought the freehold also from its owner.

Leaves Mercantile as a Dublin-only operator I believe (I'm probably wrong); was completely non-core and not an obvious location for them.

Muahahaha · 17-07-2019 05:53PM

Ah right. I know Fitzgerald bought Bruxelles for €10m a few months back. Im not sure how he avoided bankruptcy during the crash as he made a lot of huge purchases during the boom. He must have had a friendly bank manager to restructure the loans.

L1011 · 19-07-2019 04:42PM

Abbey St near seating capacity at half 4 today. Tiny amount of outdoor seats which I find odd but also likely realistic based on incessant drizzle in mid July today.

I'm not willing to risk the food but if they could somehow make it better this would be a passable place for a bite with a few pints, but as a drinking pub it falls quite short

n97 mini · 19-07-2019 11:57PM

L1011 wrote: »

Abbey St near seating capacity at half 4 today. Tiny amount of outdoor seats which I find odd but also likely realistic based on incessant drizzle in mid July today.

I'm not willing to risk the food but if they could somehow make it better this would be a passable place for a bite with a few pints, but as a drinking pub it falls quite short

It's been a victim of its own success by the looks of it. Understaffed, certainly. Hopefully it'll improve with time.

Muahahaha · 20-07-2019 12:05AM

L1011 wrote: »

I'm not willing to risk the food but if they could somehow make it better this would be a passable place for a bite with a few pints, but as a drinking pub it falls quite short

I always find pubs with high ceilings feel like they have had the atmosphere sucked out of them. You might stay for a couple of pints but not for drinking the whole evening.

Cienciano · 20-07-2019 08:49PM

I was there yesterday, only complaint is that it's a trek to the jacks from downstairs. Very busy, got there at 4:30 and every table was taken! Finally got one. The app was working perfectly. €22 for a round of 6 random drinks is great, took about 5 minutes to arrive, paid with Google pay through the app, really handy.

Not sure what people think provide atmosphere in a pub, apparently the pattern on the carpet is important to some :pac: but place was buzzing yesterday

Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

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