Divillys butchers in the Westside will close next week. Owners (Martin and Audrey) retiring and informing customers today.
Wow, that's a big loss for my dinners
The West / Knocknacarra could do with a good butchers. Joyces butchers gone, now Divillys ..
Whatever happened to the proposed (and announced) James Whelan Butchers outlet in Dunnes Knocknacarra?
It was supposed to open by the end of 2023. it even got as far signage - and then seemed to die a death.
Pulled from dunnes due to the proposed in store location being beside a waste water point or so I have been told by people that work there
With Joyce's gone be glad you survived if you shopped there regularly.
Totally, you could smell the meat was dodgy. It would fail the sniff test once you got it home
Cowboy stuff
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/shop-fined-4000-for-keeping-rotten-meat/26439074.html
Disappointed with Bakebox the few times I have tried it, which is a shame because they did a great job kitting out the bakery and making it look inviting. Its Magpie or nothing for me and that means it usually nothing because Magpie always run out of stock.
It's a bit weird.
BakeBox and Bridie Murphy's are bakeries. They bake bread, buns, cakes etc - and do it very well.
Petit Delice and C'est la «what'sIt» are patisseries. They make pastries - and do it very well. The latter also make breads, in a very white-bread kind of way.
Magpie call themselves a bakery. They make bread. But they make wider range of pastries, and do it very well (better than the bread). However they are chronically incapable of speeding up the customer service: The queue often stretches well out into the mall, and you can be 15+ minutes getting a lovely-but-very-expensive pastry.
ALL of them leave the beloved Griffins and Goyas in the dust. Their staff don't look miserable like Griffins did, or change jobs as often as the ones in Goyas. And there's still O'Connors for the more-traditional taste buds.
We've never been better fed!
None of that is weird and there are inaccuracies too.
Bridie Murphy's is grand, a step up from O'Connor's and O'Hehirs but not exactly exciting. Bakebox is bang average.
Both Petit Delice and C'est la Vie make bread, pastries and have savoury options. Petit Delice also have cakes.
Magpie is a bakery, why the need for "call themselves" I'll never know. They're slow due to people ordering coffee and the amount of people who are extremely slow ordering. The space isn't big enough for the demand, it's simple.
They need a separate counter for coffee .
"Magpie call themselves a bakery. They make bread. But they make wider range of pastries, and do it very well (better than the bread). However they are chronically incapable of speeding up the customer service: The queue often stretches well out into the mall, and you can be 15+ minutes getting a lovely-but-very-expensive pastry."
Is the queue by accident or design? Or a bit of both?
"Underlying this consumer behaviour is the psychological principle of social desirability, that is people imitating others behaviour or the ‘herd instinct’. According to Katharina Kuehn, director of RDG insights, ‘a crowd will always draw a crowd.’ This works best in a lifestyle or occasion category like waiting for a croissant, not a functional category where a queue can act as a deterrent to customers."
The art of queuing: Marketing dream or nightmare | T2 2016 MPK732 MARKETING MANAGEMENT (CLUSTER B)
Not gonna happen in the current premises.
I cant see this on sm, is there a public announcement yet?
I was in there on Saturday and Audrey did say friday is their last day. They are sailing off into the sunset. Its a big loss, they were more expensive than most other butchers but you couldn't fault the quality.
Its great that they get to leave on their own terms. Hopefully the staff will find work quickly.
Do they own the factory out in Carnmore too or is that a different Divilly?
new vape shop open in briarhill, where Mr Han Chinese gadget shop was
Nice addition to the city…
for sure 👍 out this side of the city, no other place caters for such a large selection of these products so hopefully it will stay open, it's doing massive business everytime I've passed by or have been inside it. nice bright and spacious also . good luck to them
Part of a well-known, locally-owned chain of stores, with wide connections in the city.
What's not to love!
Come on Galway Beo…"locals delight with the news that the opening of much loved store brings a badly needed line of nicotine products to the masses in the East of the city".
For those who like their drug dealing to be bright, spacious and paying rates…
Joyce's?
Devaneys
I was driving by the old Gourmet Offensive premises on Newcastle road and there seems to be a new food business in there. No new signage yet. Anyone know who or what it is?
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Subway at the Galway Shopping Centre was closed yesterday with a sign up for Zambrero, coming soon.
hopefully the Planet Entertainment Bowling Alley stays open, many a great evening spent there
It's the people from Indian street food van at the Nicholas market.
Interesting. At one point, there was a Subway by Abbeygate, another on Dominick Street, one by Eyre Square, one out in Salthill, one on the Headford Rd and the one out on the Tuam Rd. When one opened in Athenry, it seemed like a bubble that was going to burst.
How many will be left now? Tuam Road, the one in the shop by the University and the kiosk they moved to in Eyre Square? Quite the contraction. Limerick still has a sh1t load of them.
