what major well know shop/store/restaurant would you like to see open in the city?

barone · 10-06-2011 01:46PM #1

im gonna add poll options of food/drink clothing/fashion hardware/software

entertainment/afterhours clubs

select where your choice fits in the poll, or select other if not coverd in the options.

also name your choice and why you would like it here.

im going to start it with a krispy kreme / dunkin donuts shop.

we are seriously missing out here.

?Cee?view · 10-06-2011 01:53PM

Wagamama - good quality food notwithstanding that it's cheap and cheerful.

I can't agree on Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kreme. Those are just cheap sugar laden industrial muck. We've much better bakeries locally.

Stench Blossoms · 10-06-2011 01:56PM

Lush

?Cee?view · 10-06-2011 01:57PM

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Lush

Is that a pub?

galwayboss · 10-06-2011 01:57PM

would love to see dunkin donuts come to galway there coffee is class

ben.schlomo · 10-06-2011 01:58PM

churchview wrote: »

Wagamama - good quality food notwithstanding that it's cheap and cheerful.

I can't agree on Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kreme. Those are just cheap sugar laden industrial muck. We've much better bakeries locally.

Yeah id much rather eat from La Petit Delice or Gourmet Tart etc.
For me it would be H&M or Zara. Shag all places to get decent mens stuff anywhere in town.

Wile E. Coyote · 10-06-2011 01:58PM

Hooters! Smack bang in the middle of Shop Street. That would really give them something to talk about.

?Cee?view · 10-06-2011 02:00PM

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

Hooters! Smack bang in the middle of Shop Street. That would really give them something to talk about.

...but only if it was painted pink!

barone · 10-06-2011 02:19PM

i agree we have fine bakery's right here in the city, but feck all do a decent sugar laden cream and chocolate sauce goodness as well as any other combination you can imagine ..

?Cee?view · 10-06-2011 02:21PM

barone wrote: »

i agree we have fine bakery's right here in the city, but feck all do a decent sugar laden cream and chocolate sauce goodness as well as any other combination you can imagine ..

Horses for course I suppose. There used to be a doughnut shop on Quay Street, but that's about 20 years ago. They'd nothing that radioactive looking though

10-06-2011 02:27PM

There was already a doughnut place on shop street in the 90s - not sure why it didn't survive.

I would like a Nando's chicken restaurant.

The city center could also do with place to pickup or drop off parcels for couriers.

ben.schlomo · 10-06-2011 02:29PM

Deleted User wrote: »

There was already a doughnut place on shop street in the 90s - not sure why it didn't survive.

I would like a Nando's chicken restaurant.

The city center could also do with place to pickup or drop off parcels for couriers.

Cactus Jacks is better than any Nandos i ever had.

biko · 10-06-2011 02:29PM

Every time this is asked I say Maoz, so I'll say Maoz now too

ben.schlomo · 10-06-2011 02:30PM

biko wrote: »

Every time this is asked I say Maoz, so I'll say Maoz now too

booo veggies :P

ben.schlomo · 10-06-2011 02:31PM

biko wrote: »

Every time this is asked I say Maoz, so I'll say Maoz now too

down with vegetarians :P

mikemac · 10-06-2011 02:34PM

Yamamori is a chain in Dublin

I love sushi and of course there are other Jap cuisine options there too. And Saki!

If there is a sushi place in Galway I don't know of it. With the port and the fresh fish (as McDonagh's pride themselves on) you'd think there would be an opportunity.

ben.schlomo · 10-06-2011 02:40PM

mikemac wrote: »

Yamamori is a chain in Dublin

I love sushi and of course there are other Jap cuisine options there too. And Saki!

If there is a sushi place in Galway I don't know of it. With the port and the fresh fish (as McDonagh's pride themselves on) you'd think there would be an opportunity.

Kappa-Ya on Middle St do sushi.

barone · 10-06-2011 02:41PM

i know they do sushi down the market beside st pats school on a saturday if thats any good to you.

for other posters, could you state when you post what type of shop your referring to.. i.e starbucks.. coffeshop

dont know some of the names already posted,be nice to know what they serve and why you would like them in the city, thanks

Stench Blossoms · 10-06-2011 02:55PM

churchview wrote: »

Is that a pub?

No it's cosmetics.

http://www.lush.co.uk/

Karona · 10-06-2011 03:02PM

Gourmet Burger, my god its amazing.

SlipperyPeople · 10-06-2011 03:10PM

proper burrito place

Ficheall · 10-06-2011 03:27PM

ben.schlomo wrote: »

biko wrote: »

Every time this is asked I say Maoz, so I'll say Maoz now too

down with vegetarians :P

/BANNED.

I think we need a Pink Feathers.

Wompa1 · 10-06-2011 04:06PM

I wanted a Pizza Hut...it came and was very disappointing, nowhere near as good as when I go to America...same for KFC and Burger King. Burger King in town seems to be very very hit and miss, some days it is just terrible.

There was a Dunkin Doughnuts down in Limerick years ago and one in Dublin, both were nice but didn't have quite the range of the American stores.

I'd like to get a KFC that does more than an bad version of Original recipe...where the fudge is extra crispy?

A proper Pizza Hut that is easily better than any pizza in Galway if you get a good one, no matter what anyone says about ohhhh it's a multi-national so it's not as nice as our little Napoli bullcrap. Quaint and local doesn't make it better.

A good whopper would kick the crap out of Charcoal Grills bland burgers. I like Scottys but it hasn't seemed the same in the last 2 or 3 years.

A nice small Ice cream parlour would be nice, seems like there's loads of cafes but no real alternatives if you want somewhere nice to sit and talk with someone. I guess the likes of Supermacs would quash that as a possibility too.

I think what Galway could really do with it is more alternatives like Pure Skill, some sort of activity centers that offer an alternative to drinking.

pseudonym1 · 10-06-2011 04:12PM

Lynches castle could be starbucks :pac:

I voted for the last option.

A good indoor market would rock. Where Mc Donaghs used to be would be Peeerrrrfect.

ben.schlomo · 10-06-2011 04:26PM

pseudonym1 wrote: »

Lynches castle could be starbucks :pac:

I voted for the last option.

A good indoor market would rock. Where Mc Donaghs used to be would be Peeerrrrfect.

good shout, a market would be awesome, most towns and cities throughout Europe have them and they are great.

PomBear · 10-06-2011 05:21PM

Panda express would be awesome- Don't think my health would handle it though.

Would like to see a decent nightclub tbh

softmee · 10-06-2011 06:11PM

H&M, Zara, Camaieu and some place like Yosushi

softmee · 10-06-2011 06:13PM

PomBear wrote: »

Panda express would be awesome- Don't think my health would handle it though.

Would like to see a decent nightclub tbh

-agree with nightclub

ArtyC · 10-06-2011 06:19PM

H&m please!!!

pseudonym1 · 10-06-2011 06:26PM

ben.schlomo wrote: »

good shout, a market would be awesome, most towns and cities throughout Europe have them and they are great.

This town would be such a better place if I could designate which shops could go where

Seriously though I wish there was one.

softmee · 10-06-2011 06:26PM

ArtyC wrote: »

H&m please!!!

We should send this thread to some irish H&M management, there is one in Dublin right?

what major well know shop/store/restaurant would you like to see open in the city?

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