Ron Blacks - Whats it like?

Gaspode · 23-03-2009 10:24PM #1

I'll be going to Ron Black's in Dawson St. next week. Anyone know what its like? Is it more a cafe than a bar? Is it dear - will I need another mortgage to but a few drinkies?

arybvtcw0eolkf · 23-03-2009 11:05PM

Gaspode wrote: »

I'll be going to Ron Black's in Dawson St. next week. Anyone know what its like? Is it more a cafe than a bar? Is it dear - will I need another mortgage to but a few drinkies?

Yes, its expensive.

Some say its full of pretentious ****, it does have a few but overall I've enjoyed my many visits to the place - oh, and I'm a Ballymun lad!.. (if your a Dub you'll understand).

MIN2511 · 23-03-2009 11:49PM

Nice place, quite preppy... D4 hangout, expensive drinks, decor is modern... Nice staff but way over priced to be my cuppa

jdivision · 24-03-2009 05:03PM

It's a bar not a cafe and it's normally empty these days cos it's so expensive.

PaulieC · 24-03-2009 08:06PM

isn't it closed down?

MIN2511 · 24-03-2009 09:11PM

Nope... they've been in Administration since 08!!! :P

dudara · 24-03-2009 09:12PM

Ron Black's is actually quite nice during the day and early evening. You can relax in comfy chairs and chat.

It's horrible later in the evening/night when the crowd gets packed in and they turn on the crap music.

It's actually not the most expensive place to have a drink, although it's not the cheapest either.

AnonoBoy · 24-03-2009 10:08PM

I prefer the other Ron Black's. Never get as big a crowd in there!

Reesy · 24-03-2009 10:13PM

We held a work reunion there recently & had a big crowd in the 'Champagne bar' on the 1st floor at the front. No champagne drunk that night, for sure - and expensive pints but fun & nice music. It was a Friday night & the main place downstairs was pretty quiet.

MIN2511 · 24-03-2009 10:34PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I prefer the other Ron Black's. Never get as big a crowd in there!

Thats the basement place?

It's very small! Not called Ron Black anymore, now called Dawson lounge...

jdivision · 25-03-2009 11:51AM

It was the original Ron Blacks, they bought it so they could use the name in the other pub. And yep, it's the smallest pub in Dublin.

MIN2511 · 25-03-2009 07:21PM

Is it? There's a pub on leeson st... thats gotta be the smallest pub ever! We had to drink outside!!!!

jdivision · 25-03-2009 09:01PM

http://www.dublinpubscene.com/thepubs/ronblacks.html
so it claims anyway. the one on Leeson St if I'm thinking of the right one has some room down the back, no chairs or anything though. I used to drink in the Dawson Lounge fairly regularly but one night they put a shamrock on my pint of guinness and I was going wha'? They were also serving underage people so not for me anymore.

MIN2511 · 25-03-2009 09:08PM

Really? Was there about a month ago, like the place... Mostly head there on a friday....

The place on leeson st has a basement? Never knew that... place is great craic, it's good to go with mates/colleagues...

jdivision · 25-03-2009 11:19PM

Maybe I have wrong place on Leeson Street? There's a small one that's like your granny's living room at the Stephen's Green end and that's one I mean, doesn't have a basement, but has steps down to a wide corridor where people drink when it's busy plus a beer garden?
As for Dawson Lounge, yeah, maybe it was a once off but it was a group of clearly underage people without ID that he initially refused to serve.

Ron Blacks - Whats it like?

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