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Foxhunter Pub Closed by Revenue ?

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    #362
    Walter Sobchak III
    Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭Walter Sobchak III


    Back open it appears. Website up and running.



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    #363
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Yep think the grand opening for Wow burger and Elephant and Castle is tomorrow

    According to Google it appears to be open now. Good to see it reopened after all these years



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    #364
    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭degsie


    Anybody visit yet? Whats the setup like?



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    #365
    Walter Sobchak III
    Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭Walter Sobchak III


    Went up there on Tuesday evening on the assumption it was open. Only builders on site. Not open yet but no far off I'd say.



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    #366
    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭degsie


    Now open



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    #367
    monty_python
    Registered Users Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭monty_python


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119425431#Comment_119425431

    Any good?? How much is the pint?



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    #368
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    It's a Wowburger and Elephant and Castle. Pints are typical restaurant prices, e.g. about €6.50, iirc



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    #369
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,834 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Went in. Wouldn't bother going back. Basically every other pub in Lucan is better. And probably still all cheaper too. And most/all of them sell more than Heineken products + Guinness



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    #370
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,901 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465959#Comment_119465959

    **** me that's depressing. It used to be alright, then it closed and we got this thread 10 years ago in the depths of the biggest recession anyone alive had ever seen. And here we are 10 years later and we end up with this?



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    #371
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    It's not supposed to be a pub though. It's a Wowburger and an Elephant and Castle. Casual/fast food dining.

    Anyway, judging by the business it's doing, it's in demand. Funnily enough, speaking of Lucan pubs, I was in Kenny's two Thursdays ago and the place was rammed both I doors and outdoors. Loads of people there for the Thursday night table quiz. Anyway, we decided to pop over to Carrolls. You'd swear it was last orders. Only about 10 people there at 10pm. Quite a contrast



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    #372
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,903 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I passed it today, it doesn't look very inviting. The wall obscures most of the outside from the road. I remember it back in the old days when they had a Sunday lunchtime jazz thing. Grub was great in the carvery and the kids could play in the huge outside area. Won't be going to wowburger, not that there's anything wrong with it, just not my scene.

    To echo a pp, was in Courtneys one lunchtime during the heatwave. Hadn't been for years. Was really good, the outside courtyard area is well done, and we sat by the stream and watched the ducks. Quack Quack, will go back.



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    #373
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    I was in Reeds on the River in Courtney's last night. First time there. Best described as "alright".

    I'm really hoping the new Tapas place because Ulster Bank will be decent. God knows, we need somewhere half decent in Lucan. Due to open in two weeks apparently



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    #374
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,901 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Looking forward to the tapas place too. Heard good things about it. Spanish tapas chef is teaching the local chefs how it's done!



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    #375
    brick tamland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭brick tamland


    I think the jazz's back on in the foxhunter. Wouldn't be rushing to it anyway, not a huge fan of the press up group.


    Is there a website or anything for the tapas place yet



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    #376
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119495760#Comment_119495760

    I was there for the soft opening this evening. Lovely food. Not the traditional Tapas but Tapas with an Asian fusion twist.

    Very enjoyable and the staff are all lovely and very excited about the main opening on Thursday. Apparently bookings are going extremely well.

    I'll definitely frequent the place in future. Definite thumbs up and badly needed in Lucan



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    #377
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,901 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    You own a local business @Heroditas?



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    #378
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119545820#Comment_119545820

    No, just lucky enough to get an invite from one of the staff who's a neighbour



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    #379
    average_runner
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    Lucan badly needs a good restaurant. We lack any quality at all. Maynooth miles ahead.

    Village is a mess, just one big car park full of fumes, nothing attractive about it



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    #380
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119546197#Comment_119546197

    Bad planning coupled with awful NIMBYism. The village could have been lovely and people-friendly but some people cmplained that they need to be able to park right outside wherever they want to go. The village is a kip currently and is unlikely to change anytime soon.



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    #381
    Spanish Eyes
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    Has the tapas place got a name?



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    #382
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119554489#Comment_119554489

    Seasons on the Weir



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    #383
    bogmanfan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭bogmanfan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119546197#Comment_119546197

    Lucan village is such a missed opportunity.

    Traffic is constant. The Laraghcon development should never have gotten planning permission without a new bridge over the Liffey outside the village.

    Parking is a total mess. Shouldn't be parking on both sides of Main St near the River Cafe - it's just too tight. A decent car park near the church or behind Sarsfield Park, and pedestrianise the area around the triangle and as far as Ulster Bank.



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    #384
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Yep they could build a decent car park behind the fruit and veg and butchers but I have no idea who owns that land. Opportunity is probably long gone now.



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    #385
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,206 ✭✭✭emo72


    The reason the village is a mess with traffic is because motorists are avoiding the m50. It's chapelizod or lucan to avoid the m50. it's a major problem and isn't going to be solved soon. Oh yeah, they'll do away with loads of village parking, so now locals can walk through the village watching the m50 avoiders! Irish planners are special.



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    #386
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,845 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119883639#Comment_119883639

    Or close off the main St between certain hours like they do in every other town to allow it to grow!!! Village is such an eye sore right now, it needs to revamp, get rid of all the parking spaces on main street and in the triangle area.



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    #387
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120021738#Comment_120021738

    Do you not recall the war a year ago because the council were going to remove just 11 spaces? Most of the furore was by retailers who wanted people to be able to park right at the door. It was a disgrace that the triangle now continues to be an unfriendly village centre with queues of traffic for most of the day with much of it not even stopping in the village but simply trying to avoid the M50 toll.



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    #388
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,845 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120022002#Comment_120022002

    Oh, I do and i know a few of them also.

    I asked them what did people do in the 80's/90's when the car was a luxury. We walk!!!!

    Down in the country you don't get the right to park outside the surgery I tell ya!!



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    #389
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Christ don't get me started on the village and the state of it. I remember when people were registering their comments on the Corpo site. The majority were a C&P protesting at the proposed development.

    One of the business owners who was involved in the lobbying against the development/parking spaces owns the office supplies shop. He can't be too hard up for business because any time I've gone in there I was made feel most unwelcome. He can shove it to be honest, I'll get what I need elsewhere



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    #390
    Walter Sobchak III
    Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭Walter Sobchak III


    Up for sale again according to the Sunday Times Business Section. Can't post the link as it is behind a pay wall. No surprise really.



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    #391
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ^^^

    The Sunday Times believes that the company is mulling the sale of the Foxhunter in Lucan, Ashton’s in Clonskeagh and Thomas Rody Maher’s, formerly Larry Murphy’s, on Lower Baggot Street.

    ...

    The development company purchased the Foxhunter near Lucan village on the N4 motorway in 2019. It paid about €3 million for the site, which in 2007 had sold for €17 million to a consortium that included the property developer Bernard McNamara and the retailer Simon Burke. Oakmount completely refurbished the pub, and Press Up opened an Elephant & Castle restaurant on site. In 2022, An Bord Pleanala refused planning permission for the company to build 161 apartments on the land.

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/press-up-owners-to-put-trio-of-landmark-dublin-pubs-up-for-sale-wmz7dq2tg




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