What would you look for in a Good pub?

rodrob111 · 01-12-2011 09:46PM #1

i'm a barman and working (bored) in a bar with 2 customers at the moment.
just wondering wat Irish people look for in a bar
i.e decor, price etc...
For me I like a bar not too modern but not shabby.
Clean toilets are important.
As long as the price of the pint (I drink lager) is under a fiver i won't be too worried.
A nice simple food menu including a selection of Bar snacks (Wings, Gougons etc..).
Plenty of Tv's for sport (its so quiet in here I have Crocodile Dundee II on the big screen).
Would use any tips that'd suit the bar but in general just lookin to see wat other people think

robman60 · 01-12-2011 09:48PM

I thing having beer is important in a bar.

Aodan83 · 01-12-2011 09:48PM

Don't turn the music up so loud I can't hear the person next to me talking. What point is there going to the pub if you can't talk to anyone because you have no idea what anyone is saying?

Gordon · 01-12-2011 09:49PM

No TVs.

summerskin · 01-12-2011 09:49PM

rodrob111 wrote: »

i'm a barman and working (bored) in a bar with 2 customers at the moment.
just wondering wat Irish people look for in a bar
i.e decor, price etc...
For me I like a bar not too modern but not shabby.
Clean toilets are important.
As long as the price of the pint (I drink lager) is under a fiver i won't be too worried.
A nice simple food menu including a selection of Bar snacks (Wings, Gougons etc..).
Plenty of Tv's for sport (its so quiet in here I have Crocodile Dundee II on the big screen).
Would use any tips that'd suit the bar but in general just lookin to see wat other people think

No food served, it's a pub not a restaurant. Reasonable decor but most importantly plenty of high stools and a couple of tvs.

Thing is, it's the people that make the pub, nothing else really.

massiveattack · 01-12-2011 09:49PM

Staff that dont post on boards during their shift

pdbhp · 01-12-2011 09:49PM

The entrance.

Snakeblood · 01-12-2011 09:50PM

rodrob111 wrote: »

i'm a barman and working (bored) in a bar with 2 customers at the moment.
just wondering wat Irish people look for in a bar
i.e decor, price etc...
For me I like a bar not too modern but not shabby.
Clean toilets are important.
As long as the price of the pint (I drink lager) is under a fiver i won't be too worried.
A nice simple food menu including a selection of Bar snacks (Wings, Gougons etc..).
Plenty of Tv's for sport (its so quiet in here I have Crocodile Dundee II on the big screen).
Would use any tips that'd suit the bar but in general just lookin to see wat other people think

Pornography playing instead of the match at the weekend. You could bring women in then.

Samich · 01-12-2011 09:50PM

rodrob111 wrote: »

i'm a barman and working (bored) in a bar with 2 customers at the moment.
just wondering wat Irish people look for in a bar
i.e decor, price etc...
For me I like a bar not too modern but not shabby.
Clean toilets are important.
As long as the price of the pint (I drink lager) is under a fiver i won't be too worried.
A nice simple food menu including a selection of Bar snacks (Wings, Gougons etc..).
Plenty of Tv's for sport (its so quiet in here I have Crocodile Dundee II on the big screen).
Would use any tips that'd suit the bar but in general just lookin to see wat other people think

How are you on boards and working in a bar at the same time?

KeithM89_old · 01-12-2011 09:51PM

One of those machines with the little tubs of jelly beans.

Underground · 01-12-2011 09:51PM

cheap pints,friendly staff and a clean jacks-preferably one with those dyson hand dryers..they're epic.

MagicMarker · 01-12-2011 09:51PM

Samich wrote: »

How are you on boards and working in a bar at the same time?

Magic

Richard Hillman · 01-12-2011 09:52PM

A 3.50 pint of either Tuborg, Bavaria, Olm, Fosters, Carling or any other lager
fast service
plenty of seats
No riff raff
Sport on tv
Clean toilet
heated smoking area
WI-FI

Mint Sauce · 01-12-2011 09:52PM

A quick exit.

Just in case.

Keith186 · 01-12-2011 09:52PM

Hot women getting drunk.

That'd draw a crowd in.

Bigtoe107 · 01-12-2011 09:52PM

Some craft beers preferably on tap, anything other than bud, coors etc

Kevin Duffy · 01-12-2011 09:53PM

Women. Scantily clad, adventurous, friendly, tipsy, emotionally stable women.

If I have to lose any of those features, I'll do without the emotional stability.

laoch na mona · 01-12-2011 09:54PM

cheap beer
plenty of culchies
opened during the day
shop pub combo so i can drink while i shop
(this is a description of my local)

01-12-2011 09:54PM

No food unless is a gastro pub, and then I only go to them for a bite to eat and leave if I want to have a drink and the craic. All chairs and stools to have a back on them and plenty of them. Music not too loud, I can go to a disco bar or club for that. Good prices, I will leave somewhere if they ask for more than a fiver for a pint. Friendly barman who remembers your drink (not from the week before but from the last round). Half decent choice of bottled beers and beer on tap (not just Guinness, Carlsberg and Smithwicks). I guess what really makes a good pub though is the customers.

IcedOut · 01-12-2011 09:55PM

an Alcoholic beverage is what im lookin for when I go to a pub

senorwipesalot · 01-12-2011 09:56PM

Heineken,yes plenty of heineken.
Makes a good pub for me ,fcuk your wifi and fancy jellybean dispensers.

rodrob111 · 01-12-2011 09:59PM

On break at the moment and like i said only 2 people in the bar. Have everything cleaned twice in the place.

Yea there is nothing worse than music too loud in a place. A lot of bars do not realise that really loud music in a bar with 50 people is fine, but the same volume with 8 people is unbearable.

I also like a lot of stools and counterspace in a bar as thats my fave place to sit.

mattjack · 01-12-2011 09:59PM

I want a bar with cowboys , injuns , a sherrif and somewhere to tie up my horse

maxfresh · 01-12-2011 10:00PM

Cheap beer and a barmaid with big t*ts ,that is all

Napper Hawkins · 01-12-2011 10:04PM

I tend to judge a pub by whether or not there's a guy in the jacks who is employed to help me wash my hands.

If there is I consider it a **** pub.

Jazzzman · 01-12-2011 10:06PM

Barmen who do their job and don't spend their time posting on internet forums.

Get back to work ffs.

Underground · 01-12-2011 10:06PM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

I tend to judge a pub by whether or not there's a guy in the jacks who is employed to help me wash my hands.

If there is I consider it a **** pub.

Nothing worse than making drunk conversation with those lads, since I'm pretty sure that they couldn't give a sh*t what I have to say.

Dont be at yourself · 01-12-2011 10:10PM

No surprise the bar is empty if you're showing Crocodile Dundee 2.

A good pub should have:
- no TVs
- dim lighting
- good Guinness
- good, quick barmen
- no music, or quiet music
- no leather or plastic sofas, chairs etc
- A deck of cards, board games or a few auld books

Oddjob · 01-12-2011 10:13PM

rodrob111 wrote: »

On break at the moment and like i said only 2 people in the bar. Have everything cleaned twice in the place.

Yea there is nothing worse than music too loud in a place. A lot of bars do not realise that really loud music in a bar with 50 people is fine, but the same volume with 8 people is unbearable.

I also like a lot of stools and counterspace in a bar as thats my fave place to sit.

How is really loud music fine in a bar with 50 people?

overshoot · 01-12-2011 10:14PM

good stout for a start, so id hope the lines are regularly cleaned!
pint below €4.50
seats in the smoking area
all types of seats in the bar from the high bar chairs to benches to sofas and armchairs
decent relaxed backgound music (stuff like stone roses not chart shit)
a guitar somewhere for occasional use (like a wednesday night)
possibly an out of the way dartboard/pool table
option of peanuts or chese and onion crisps incase the munchies set in.

oh yes and pints until the wee hours

A lot of bars do not realise that really loud music in a bar with 50 people is fine, but the same volume with 8 people is unbearable.

people are sound absorbers, brick walls, chairs reflect it

flas · 01-12-2011 10:14PM

a pub with anything other than feckin bud, heineken, carlsberg etc, get some nice booze in, and sell it at a price that wont bankrupt you! somewhere you can have a laugh with your friends and the barman, bit of banter and messing! dont really like places that have their staff wearing stupid uniforms, like shirts and ties and the like, its a pub, im going for a few pints, not a meeting!

What would you look for in a Good pub?

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