The Irish Pub is finished.

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Plus you have to reserve a table and then gtfo after 90 minutes.


So call the pub to reserve your table.
Rock up to the place and take your seat. Get your 9 euros bean on toast have maybe 4 pints before you're shown the fcuking door. Price tag about 33 euros. I think 33 Euros would get you a shedload of cans and picnic ingredients and you could stay in the Phoenix Park all day.

Would you be arsed spending that money for 90 mins in the pub and a few pints? The park or a back garden is much better.

Once pubs go down the food route they are no long part of the traditional pub culture imo.

So for me they have slowly dying for years.

Augeo wrote: »

Not everyone who props up a bar 5 times a week or all weekend is an alcoholic.

There's obviously some dependency there. I quit drinking for a month but still went to the pub almost every day and drank copious amounts of sparkling water with lime juice. Because sitting at home can be boring. If the local pub closed I'd find a different one. If all pubs closed (like currently) I'd get beer from the supermarket.

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

No need for all that clutter. Cooking stuff isn’t a mystery. Normal fridge does the job grand. Plenty fellas around here who would love a nice bowl of stew, just like a mama used too a make.

You're probably right. You can have one punter at a table chopping the onions, another lad in the corner peeling the spuds into a bucket. You can have a nice lady doing the carrots on the little ledge beside the jacks and another trimming the meat on the countertop. IF any of them slice off a finger make sure and get them out of there. Also make sure they sign the safety waiver form.

Pubs who want to offer a with food option so that they can open ( talking old style/not normally offering food until now) should offer

2 Pints + choice of Gourmet pie with mash & gravy.
(Steak, Chicken and Mushroom, Ham &Mushroom + Veggie/vegan option)

€ 15 job done.

*Oh and not cheap pies, decent size made by a specialist pie company. ie a 'GOURMET' pie.

Would be easy to set up on one table.(Microwave, Plates, Cutlery, Napkins)
Only difficult thing would be the hot plate containers for mash & gravy.

I come from a small town that when I was in school had one supermarket, one church, one post office, one secondary school and 13 pubs and a night club that was open every weekend.

These days only five or six of the pubs are open and the nightclub only opens on some bank holidays/ Christmas.

You could look at that a few ways, my take is we were wildly over served in the early 00s. No town that small needed 13 pubs.

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Baloney. You think pubs that offered free canapés like wings and cocktail sausages before all this had all that gear out the back? You can bet your life they didn’t.

Either they had a kitchen to prepare it or they had a catering company bring it in.


How do you think they prepared wings and cocktail sausages without a kitchen? I'm dying to know? You think they can store boxes of magic chicken wings, which never rot, in the basement with the kegs and then these wings just cook themselves when you click your fingers and arrange themselves on a plate?

Corben Dallas wrote: »

Pubs who want to offer a with food option so that they can open ( talking old style/not normally offering food until now) should offer

2 Pints + choice of Gourmet pie with mash & gravy.
(Steak, Chicken and Mushroom, Ham &Mushroom + Veggie/vegan option)

€ 15 job done.

*Oh and not cheap pies, decent size made by a specialist pie company. ie a 'GOURMET' pie.

Would be easy to set up on one table.(Microwave, Plates, Cutlery, Napkins)
Only difficult thing would be the hot plate containers for mash & gravy.

You still need a large fridge to store all these gourmet pies. Also the gravy is a meat product. And I don't know if pies are microwaveable. You can't microwave a pizza, can you. It turns to rubber. Just imagine how you would feed guests in your living room if your house didn't have a kitchen?

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Without a kitchen it will be difficult.

Key to it is that they have to be Mircowave-able... and would need large fridge for all food storage... should be doable. Kitchen gives you much more options of course, some pubs don't have them.

Riddle101 wrote: »

Maybe pubs should start a delivery service. Instead of going to the shop and buying your drink, you can send out for some fresh pints on delivery. It might allow them to reopen.

McSorley’s in Ranelagh is already doing this among others.

KiKi III wrote: »

I come from a small town that when I was in school had one supermarket, one church, one post office, one secondary school and 13 pubs and a night club that was open every weekend.

These days only five or six of the pubs are open and the nightclub only opens on some bank holidays/ Christmas.

You could look at that a few ways, my take is we were wildly over served in the early 00s. No town that small needed 13 pubs.

Well it does if you want to do the 12 pubs of Christmas.

The Irish pub died long ago, with plasma TVs, mobile phones and WiFi.

I rarely go to the pub, but when I do, I go to one without a TV , without WiFi, and where phones are discouraged.

Drinking, and chatting to strangers, a bar man that can hold a conversation and is a bit of craic, . that's what it's all about.

A rarity these days, even before covid

Riddle101 wrote: »

Maybe pubs should start a delivery service. Instead of going to the shop and buying your drink, you can send out for some fresh pints on delivery. It might allow them to reopen.

Have you been under a rock for the past three months? That's already happening all over the country.