Pubs with drinking areas on public street

strangel00p · 18-07-2013 05:52PM

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

It is great craic

Tis :cool:

mutley18 · 18-07-2013 05:56PM

In this weather I go out of my way to find a pub with tables and chairs on the street, there is nothing like sitting with a cold pint outdoors and watching the world go by.

Lyaiera · 18-07-2013 06:00PM

theglobe wrote: »

Thanks, I will.

I really do hope you complain that they're blocking passage down that part of Patrick St. Be sure to post the response you get back here. At the polite end of the scale I imagine you'll be told there's room to drive two buses down the rest of the footpath that's available.

wp_rathead · 18-07-2013 06:02PM

theglobe wrote: »

You get fined for drinking in the street, but it's fine if some pub sets up some fake perimeter? Do pubs pay extra for this or whats the story?

Not in Galway ya don't
We are cool like that:cool:

Legs.Eleven · 18-07-2013 06:02PM

rubadub wrote: »

I thought he was just wondering about it, rather then complaining..

Sweet, innocent rubadub. When has anyone simply wondered on AH? This is moaning central....but I'll give the OP the benefit of the doubt:

Complaining or wondering, OP?

Edit: Confirmed complaining by a subsequent posts.

Systemic Risk · 18-07-2013 06:03PM

strangel00p wrote: »

Maybe because in Ireland people don't know how to drink in moderation or sensibly. On the continent, one glass of wine or beer and that's it. Over here, 10 pints, a couple of shots and we're ready to roll onto the street and hurl abuse at people. Great craic so it is...

Are we now, remind me not to go for drinks with you if that's what you are up to after a feed of drink.

MickFleetwood · 18-07-2013 06:05PM

I don't even know how to respond to this. It's a good thing.

strangel00p · 18-07-2013 06:10PM

Systemic Risk wrote: »

Are we now, remind me not to go for drinks with you if that's what you are up to after a feed of drink.

ah here, leave it out. no need to be like that.

Karl Stein · 18-07-2013 06:25PM

strangel00p wrote: »

Maybe because in Ireland people don't know how to drink in moderation or sensibly. On the continent, one glass of wine or beer and that's it. Over here, 10 pints, a couple of shots and we're ready to roll onto the street and hurl abuse at people. Great craic so it is...

How dare you misrepresent us fine Irish folk!

I don't drink shorts.

minidazzler · 18-07-2013 06:41PM

theglobe wrote: »

Thanks, I will.

WAHHHHHH WAHHHHHHHHHHH I have to walk all the way around a 3 meter sign.

jimgoose · 18-07-2013 06:43PM

theglobe wrote: »

Genuinely cringed at you calling it The Chat. I can pretty much see what you are now.

I suspect I might be your worst nightmare. I'm a middle-aged well-dressed professional whitebread suburban gangsta playaaah nigga. And I'm going for a pint. Peace out, bee-yotch. :cool:

deman · 18-07-2013 06:46PM

Long story short...

OP was done for drinking on the street and wants payback on others who are drinking on the street, even though they are within the pub boundary.

ScumLord · 18-07-2013 07:37PM

strangel00p wrote: »

Maybe because in Ireland people don't know how to drink in moderation or sensibly. On the continent, one glass of wine or beer and that's it. Over here, 10 pints, a couple of shots and we're ready to roll onto the street and hurl abuse at people. Great craic so it is...

YOu're using behaviour that takes place at 2 in the morning to people having dinner? These outdoor areas are usually taken in by the time the madness happens. They don't want their property being damaged.

I've never seen any problems with people sitting outside on the street in Galway.

April O Neill · 18-07-2013 08:22PM

MonaPizza wrote: »

Methinks the OP is p!ssed off because now the smokers are getting a better deal than the insiders :pac:

Yeah, it's crap the way that only smokers are allowed to sit outside.

Zebra3 · 18-07-2013 08:27PM

strangel00p wrote: »

On the continent, one glass of wine or beer and that's it.

Myth.

Knasher · 18-07-2013 08:31PM

As long as it doesn't take up too much of the footpath then I don't really have a problem with it. I've seen it done a couple of time were it absolutely does cause an obstruction on the footpath, with people walking out into traffic just to get around, and that really shouldn't be allowed.

On a separate note, I was in Paris a while back and I bought a sandwich from a place which had an outside seating area. I was half way through enjoying my roll, when a waiter from the place came out to explain that I wasn't allowed to sit there. Apparently you have to request it, and pay extra for the privilege.

Piliger · 18-07-2013 11:31PM

Knasher wrote: »

As long as it doesn't take up too much of the footpath then I don't really have a problem with it. I've seen it done a couple of time were it absolutely does cause an obstruction on the footpath, with people walking out into traffic just to get around, and that really shouldn't be allowed.

No and it isn't. I love sitting outside myself but there is a balance and some places just take advantage. They pay a pittance to the council and get to make extra profit with almost no overhead.

On a separate note, I was in Paris a while back and I bought a sandwich from a place which had an outside seating area. I was half way through enjoying my roll, when a waiter from the place came out to explain that I wasn't allowed to sit there. Apparently you have to request it, and pay extra for the privilege.

Oh yes ... Paris. You pay EXTRA to sit outside and the prices go down the farther in from the street you are. The gullible tourists pay the highest prices and the waiters are very aggressive.

EyeSight · 18-07-2013 11:45PM

the bar you speak of does not in anyway cause an obstruction on the street. I have a problem when some take up the whole footpath but i don't mind too much.

I dislike using them in Dublin because a few times i've had junkies ask for money and not leave me alone with their sob stories. Took away from the atmosphere

galwayrush · 18-07-2013 11:56PM

strangel00p wrote: »

Maybe because in Ireland people don't know how to drink in moderation or sensibly. On the continent, one glass of wine or beer and that's it. Over here, 10 pints, a couple of shots and we're ready to roll onto the street and hurl abuse at people. Great craic so it is...

Plenty of sensible people here know how to enjoy drink, plenty of drunken assholes on the Continent that don't.
One glass of wine or beer? where is that the norm?:pac::pac:

SolarFlash · 19-07-2013 12:22AM

It's a trashy European thing that only promotes alcoholism they should ban it. Drinkers should stay inside the pub out of sight.

Piliger · 19-07-2013 12:30AM

SolarFlash wrote: »

It's a trashy European thing that only promotes alcoholism they should ban it. Drinkers should stay inside the pub out of sight.

I'd like to take what I said before back. I am not a fan of pubs having drinkers outside. I think it should be limited to cafes and restaurants.

Derpington95 · 19-07-2013 01:00AM

SolarFlash wrote: »

It's a trashy European thing that only promotes alcoholism they should ban it. Drinkers should stay inside the pub out of sight.

By your logic people eating food on the street are promoting obesity.

HurtLocker · 19-07-2013 01:12AM

Piliger wrote: »

I'd like to take what I said before back. I am not a fan of pubs having drinkers outside. I think it should be limited to cafes and restaurants.

Most pubs double as restaurants and it'll be a weird day when you can't enjoy a drink outside with your meal.

Only in Ireland will you hear people wanting to ban outdoor drinking with weather this fine

theglobe wrote: »

How are pubs allowed have their little beer garden out front in middle of street? In Cork for example, there's one pub Le Chateau that covers about half of that part of Patrick St. I just don't understand how they're allowed to do it.

You get fined for drinking in the street, but it's fine if some pub sets up some fake perimeter? Do pubs pay extra for this or whats the story?

feck sake that footpath is massive. I don't even notice it as an obstacle. All I notice is some lucky b*stards enjoying the sun and relaxing.

Some people just want to ban or tax other people's happiness.

StephenHendry · 19-07-2013 12:23PM

i like the idea of having a pint outdoors in a decent enough beergarden or in the front , not being allowed to and having to remain indoors especially if the pub/restaurant has no place out the back is just plain wrong in the good weather we have atm. the problem is bars/restaurants that over extend their areas outside the pubs making everyone else nearly walk on the road !!!

19-07-2013 12:33PM

theglobe wrote: »

You get fined for drinking in the street, but it's fine if some pub sets up some fake perimeter? Do pubs pay extra for this or whats the story?

If drinking on the street is such a big issue never come to Galway during race week or your head will explode

oldyouth · 19-07-2013 01:26PM

Mariah Ashy Infantry wrote: »

If drinking on the street is such a big issue never come to Galway during race week or your head will explode

Shop Street, sunshine, beers, nice food, people watching. Magical place

Citycap · 19-07-2013 01:41PM

strangel00p wrote: »

Maybe because in Ireland people don't know how to drink in moderation or sensibly. On the continent, one glass of wine or beer and that's it. Over here, 10 pints, a couple of shots and we're ready to roll onto the street and hurl abuse at people. Great craic so it is...

15 pints, wet your trousers, lying on the ground in your own vomit,

Time to go on the shorts.

WELCOME TO IRELAND
ENJOY THE CRAIC AT THE GATHERING

McTigs · 19-07-2013 02:47PM

SolarFlash wrote: »

It's a trashy European thing that only promotes alcoholism they should ban it. Drinkers should stay inside the pub out of sight.

Quite right, europeans are very trashy by and large, not to mention roaring alcholics for the most part..... and people enjoying a drink are very offensive to the eye.

19-07-2013 02:59PM

SolarFlash wrote: »

It's a trashy European thing that only promotes alcoholism they should ban it. Drinkers should stay inside the pub out of sight.

Absolute horse s*it. Nothing better than sitting in the sun having a few beers. Its good for the soul. People sitting outside pubs and cafes makes improves the atmosphere of a street a lot too.

Miss Lockhart · 19-07-2013 03:09PM

I think cafes, restaurants and bars having seating on the street is mostly great. It's very plasant for the customers and I think it adds to the atmosphere in a city.

But some locations are just not suitable for the size of these terraces. The one in the OP looks grand though - a nice wide footpath with plenty of space.

The ones that piss me off would be on South William Srreet in Dublin (particularly Grogan's and GBK who have plenty of room to the side on Coppinger Row, a pedestrianised street) and a couple on Dawson Street too.

Pubs with drinking areas on public street

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