Best Irish Bar You've Been To??

Skuxx · 26-02-2010 08:04PM #1

I'm just wondering whats the best Irish Bar people have been in while on their travels? What made it good? Did you get special treatment because you were Irish??

Personally, Rosie O'Gradys in St. Petersburg would be the best I've been to. It had a good atmosphere and seemed a really popular place. The guiness there was absolute pot though! It was pre poured and sitting in a fridge and pulled out when asked for

O'Neills in Leicester Sq, London was also a really cool one. The place was jammed and hod a good few other Irish people there, seemed very expensive though!

DublinWriter · 26-02-2010 08:08PM

They're all over-priced pish-holes with signposts on the walls and bicycles on the ceilings.

I used to go to such places when first on my travels, but soon started going native as it was usually much more fun and educational.

flowersagogo · 26-02-2010 08:09PM

"paddy irish pub" written in green sellotape on the window in schwabing,munich. run by sayid and ali from pakistan. so dodgy guinness would'nt serve them. top spot,early and late house+spliff

Nodster · 26-02-2010 08:11PM

The Irish Bar off Sutter Street in San Francisco - nice place without oodles of diddly Oirish music blaring out while suppin the brew

bazmaiden · 26-02-2010 08:14PM

When in Uni in london all of us Irish went to O' Neills in St. Albans.

Absoultly fantastic place to go, and yes all the irish people at the end of the night were automatically selected for the lock in

xw2lj9uspm1eyh · 26-02-2010 08:16PM

I've only been to one.Not very glamourous it was in Coventry when my aunt took us all out for a drink.O'Neills it was called nice pub shockingly though.When I asked the barman for a bag of taytoes he didn't know what i was on about you have to call them crisps there too:(.

Dunjohn · 26-02-2010 08:21PM

Only ever been to two, one in Warsaw and one in Krakow. The one in Warsaw was your typical foreign Irish bar with random paddy memorabilia all over the walls and the widescreen tv turned to American football on Sky Sports.

The one in Krakow, though, was excellent. It was called Nic Nowego and it was exactly like a normal pub you'd find in Ireland, rather than some sort of ex-pat's wet dream. It had a couple of tasteful framed photos of Irish cityscapes, and Irish newspapers for reading, but thankfully didn't ram the oirishness down your throat.

Most Irish pubs abroad tend to be a bit of an overload so I prefer the local ones.

IvySlayer · 26-02-2010 08:31PM

I don't get why Irish people going on holiday go to Irish bars. Spend a lot of money paying for a holiday, no sooner they unpack, people are off to the Irish bar. A holiday is getting away from Ireland for a bit.

Minstrel27 · 26-02-2010 08:32PM

I have never been to a good Irish pub abroad. They were all so fake and stereotypical it is hillarious. I try to avoid them.

kenneth5 · 26-02-2010 08:36PM

Only one I've been in was Ganley's in Wimbledon. Was in there for the first leg against France. Great atmosphere, very friendly. They had Harp Ice and Kronenberg on tab which means it had a better selection than your average irish pub. Not expensive either really.

I usually don't bother with irish pubs for the reasons already alluded to above

Sea Sharp · 26-02-2010 08:36PM

There is one in Frankfurt, right beside the main train station, that do a surprisingly good pint of Guinness (for a foreign country).

Spanish Eyes · 26-02-2010 08:39PM

Was in Nice and we went to Cannes for the evening. As you do, we were walking around and found a pub, in we went, had a couple of beers and then the best rock band ever started up. Obviously can't remember who they were, and maybe they would be crap here, but holidays and drinkies, you get the drift. Manic night. It was Morrisons Irish Bar. We never looked at the name before going in. All French in there having a ball, great mix of ages.

Got talking to a few and they said the Irish bars have the best atmosphere, as they are only used to the cafes etc.

We fell out of there about 2.30am and had to pay 40 yo yos to get back to our hotel in Nice, but it was well worth it.

strobe · 26-02-2010 08:46PM

Any Irish person that spends their time in an Irish bar in a foreign country should be pelted to death with balls of their own sh1t. (I'm gonna run from this thread now)

banshee_bones · 26-02-2010 08:46PM

Molly Blooms Toronto, Canada

Mostly Irish lads working there summer we were there, was the nearest pub to us and was an absolute kip, but the drink was cheap and the craic was good and all the food was deep fried! and all the students from U of T went there. Karaoke on Monday nights, hilarious to watch. ahhh good times

My name is URL · 26-02-2010 08:49PM

I go to Mulligans Irish Bar whenever I'm in Amsterdam.. great music at weekends, the Dutch really like traditional Irish music so it's always full of locals, not just ex-pats and tourists

26-02-2010 08:52PM

Jono's in Ealing

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 26-02-2010 08:55PM

Shenannigans in Darwin

If those walls could speak

Biggins · 26-02-2010 09:03PM

Ma Nolans in Nice, Southern France.
http://www.ma-nolans.com/
The food, the drink, the smells and character of the place within the old french quarter, out of this world.
Heading back that way soon.

D.R cowboy · 26-02-2010 09:04PM

keilys in Donnybrook greatest places ever

flowersagogo · 26-02-2010 09:08PM

yo cowboy,as a nortsider i'd have to agree -thats a foreign pub allright

ToTheSea: · 26-02-2010 09:09PM

DublinWriter wrote: »

They're all over-priced pish-holes with signposts on the walls and bicycles on the ceilings.

I used to go to such places when first on my travels, but soon started going native as it was usually much more fun and educational.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure you're right. However these two words so close together in a sentence usual make me doze off..

Shivers26 · 26-02-2010 09:11PM

Wouldnt be mad into Irish bars when abroad, generally prefer seeing what the local nightlife is like.

However, there is this pub called The Celt on Talbot St in Dublin and it is just like how Irish pubs are in movies. In fairness, good live music Saturday and Sunday and great atmosphere but something slightly surreal about the place like you should hate it, but cant

Stevecw · 26-02-2010 09:14PM

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

There is one in Frankfurt, right beside the main train station, that do a surprisingly good pint of Guinness (for a foreign country).

That would be O'Neills, i'd say, great spot. Was there on a stag and went in for 1 or 2 to watch a match in the afternoon. Ended up staying there till the end. Had everything pool tables, big screens, great women and loads of beer!! Best thing about Frankfurt as the city itself is not up to much.

flowersagogo · 26-02-2010 09:30PM

Shivers26 wrote: »

Wouldnt be mad into Irish bars when abroad, generally prefer seeing what the local nightlife is like.

However, this is this pub called The Celt on Talbot St in Dublin and it is just like how Irish pubs are in movies. In fairness, good live music Saturday and Sunday and great atmosphere but something slightly surreal about the place like you should hate it, but cant

thats a great spot shivers,plenty of foreign flange in there from the hostel upstairs...

Paparazzo · 26-02-2010 10:03PM

IvySlayer wrote: »

I don't get why Irish people going on holiday go to Irish bars. Spend a lot of money paying for a holiday, no sooner they unpack, people are off to the Irish bar. A holiday is getting away from Ireland for a bit.

strobe wrote: »

Any Irish person that spends their time in an Irish bar in a foreign country should be pelted to death with balls of their own sh1t. (I'm gonna run from this thread now)

Shivers26 wrote: »

Wouldnt be mad into Irish bars when abroad, generally prefer seeing what the local nightlife is like.

Pub snobs! I'm going away tomorrow, at least I know I can find an irish bar to watch the rugby in. Very few places DON'T have them, I even watched 6 Nations games in Ryans in Accra. It's interesting to see Irish bars around the world. I wouldn't spend all my time there, but any time I'm abroad, I always pop in for a pint to see what they're like. In madrid they seem very popular with the locals. Full of spanish and no irish (a bit like temple bar)

Lauder · 26-02-2010 10:06PM

Irish pub (cannot remember the name) in Volgograd (formerly known as Stalingrad). Did an attempt at an Irish/English Brekkie too.

They kept giving us free pints, as they wanted to know if there guinness was any good. Gave us free Stalin medals and hat aswell.

Was langered and still ended up driving over 200miles that day. Good old Russia

Crann na Beatha · 26-02-2010 10:09PM

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nibtrix · 26-02-2010 10:09PM

The Wolfhound in Seoul, not too Oirish and surprisingly good Guinness

The Mad Hatter · 26-02-2010 10:10PM

The Dubliner in Harajuku, Tokyo, was a suitably surreal experience.

Paparazzo · 26-02-2010 10:13PM

I went to a horrible one in Prague. Called "shea guevara". On the menu it advertised a "full english breakfast" and the only thing Irish were the irish prices. Full of the usual drunk idiots in celtic jerseys paying €4 a pint when you could get them for 80 cent around the corner

bogtotty · 26-02-2010 10:13PM

The Emerald Isle in Berlin is probably the best I've been in.

I rarely go to Irish pubs when I'm on holidays, but when you live in a place for a while, the Irish pub is an important way of staying in touch with home/forming local networks/beating the odd craving for tayto/Barry's tea/proper cheese. Sure, the places often fill up with plastic paddies and Irish/British lads on a stag night too unimaginative to go find a decent local bar, but good Irish bars usually have a set of real Irish people running them and drinking in them who do a lot to keep long-term expats sane.

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