anncoates wrote: » b) have a agenda whether it be industry related or political ("Brit" chain oppressing True Gael pubs etc).
flas wrote: » Even the spirits list is spot on and with pricing as well. Some people won't be happy about it though, which is hilarious. It really shows the complete lack of choice in the vast majority of irish pubs and how we have been taken advantage of for so long! Take for example the vodka, 4 different types here all at good value, but you will still have people complaining "sher there is no smirnoff, where's the good stuff?" And I know this for a fact, as i work in a pub in dulin cc with a bit of an middle aged customers and a few months back we got in absolut to start selling as our vodka. We had smirnoff as well but were told to start selling the absolut as our main vodka, cue countless middle aged women and men getting really angry when they ask for a vodka and were given or seen you pouring the absolut into their glass they start giving out they want "the good stuff" I.e smirnoff or that we are trying to rip them off by giving them something other than smirnoff red label!! Its a complete lack of awareness on their part and is something that has been drilled into that generation that it won't go from them any time soon! .
HalloweenJack wrote: » Can definitely see this being the VFI's next marketing campaign, a strongly patriotic push with a tinge of xenophobia.
flas wrote: » Even the spirits list is spot on and with pricing as well. Some people won't be happy about it though, which is hilarious. It really shows the complete lack of choice in the vast majority of irish pubs and how we have been taken advantage of for so long!
Geuze wrote: » A double Redbreast for 5.75 + 2.00 = 7.75, that's under 4 per measure. Huge value.http://www.jdwetherspoon.ie/pdf/irish_menu.pdf A double G&T for 5.95 - how much would that be elsewhere? 9 euro?
flas wrote: » In dublin cc you would be lucky to get a double anything with mixer for under a tenner.
flas wrote: » Even the spirits list is spot on and with pricing as well. Some people won't be happy about it though, which is hilarious. It really shows the complete lack of choice in the vast majority of irish pubs and how we have been taken advantage of for so long! Take for example the vodka, 4 different types here all at good value, but you will still have people complaining "sher there is no smirnoff, where's the good stuff?" And I know this for a fact, as i work in a pub in dulin cc with a bit of an middle aged customers and a few months back we got in absolut to start selling as our vodka. We had smirnoff as well but were told to start selling the absolut as our main vodka, cue countless middle aged women and men getting really angry when they ask for a vodka and were given or seen you pouring the absolut into their glass they start giving out they want "the good stuff" I.e smirnoff or that we are trying to rip them off by giving them something other than smirnoff red label!! Its a complete lack of awareness on their part and is something that has been drilled into that generation that it won't go from them any time soon! As long as they're around the vinters will be happy, but its twenty years down the line where the vinters will have real problems and the ones who have adopted will flourish, the ones who stay peddling inferior products and calling them premium and charging premium for them will go under and it will be good riddens.
recylingbin wrote: » How f*cked up has the world become where JD Wetgerspoons, the poundshop of pubs, is getting discussed as a top, top drinking establishment by hipsters.
anncoates wrote: » It's blindingly obvious that some of the people in here slating JDW have a) not been in a lot - if any at all - of them b) have a agenda whether it be industry related or political ("Brit" chain oppressing True Gael pubs etc).
anncoates wrote: » "Did Robert Emmett die roaring on the scaffold to see the lackeys of perfidious Albion whore the looted cask ales of their empire for a few miserable shilling in their foreign establishments that never witnessed a brawl 'tween Kavanagh and Behan?"
kooga wrote: » opening soon. as i don' know dublin, good location?big venue Formerly known as the Light Nightclub Westend Shopping Park, Westend Commercial Village, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
Spazdarn wrote: » I might be getting old(I am) but a large soulless room where I can drink cheap beers and talk to my friends sounds an awful lot more appealing than paying quite a lot of money to drink in a tightly packed pub with obnoxious loud pop music blaring in my ears, making any bit of conversation or actual craic impossible.
I actually commented to my friend on Sunday night that I also loved the absence of music. DOesn't suit everyone, but it definitely suits me.
fryup wrote: » is there an english feel to the place... do they have poker machines ?? with chas & dave playing in the background? and a busty barmaid making innuendo whilst pulling pints of bitter?? allo darlin
syklops wrote: » I actually commented to my friend on Sunday night that I also loved the absence of music. DOesn't suit everyone, but it definitely suits me.
JupiterKid wrote: » Wasn't a pub in Blackrock to be changed into a Wetherspoons? Is that up an running? How do people who been there find it?
Grayson wrote: » Big enough. Bit of a kip though.
JupiterKid wrote: » Have any Wetherspoons pubs actually opened in Ireland yet? There's a lot of talk about their atmosphere, prices and food offerings and so on but what about a listing of actual, open Wetherspoons in Dublin and Ireland. Wasn't a pub in Blackrock to be changed into a Wetherspoons? Is that up an running? How do people who been there find it?
dd972 wrote: » Funny how people refer to this 'strange foreign pub' like the difference between a pub that happens to be in Ireland or the fellow anglosphere former centre of government just over the channel is like the difference between an Argentinian Steak House and a Wagamama ! :pac:
