pints under 5euro dublin city center

thebourke · 23-11-2019 2:19pm #1

Any place in dublin city centre for pints under 5euro.

thebourke · 23-11-2019 2:20pm

is there any website that gives a list of prices for beer in dublin pubs?

23-11-2019 2:31pm

Assuming, OP, you don't want an actual muc or kak "Pint of Guinness"

mmm.. your options might be constrained lil but.

Have a stroll around Portobello.

Otherwise you might be experiencing the likes of Mexican Food squits instead of say post Guinness squits.

BENDYBINN · 23-11-2019 2:40pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Assuming, OP, you don't want an actual muc or kak "Pint of Guinness"

mmm.. your options might be constrained lil but.

Have a stroll around Portobello.

Otherwise you might be experiencing the likes of Mexican Food squits instead of say post Guinness squits.

Exactly, the dearer a pint the better it is...

barrier86 · 23-11-2019 2:41pm

Cleary’s In amiens street. 4.40 for a Guinness and it’s very nice

Del2005 · 23-11-2019 2:41pm

thebourke wrote: »

Any place in dublin city centre for pints under 5euro.

Diceys Garden on Harcourt Street

rubadub · 23-11-2019 7:41pm

wetherspoons

Gavin "shels" · 23-11-2019 8:54pm

The Snug on Stephen St Lower is cheap afaik.

BeerNut · 23-11-2019 10:24pm

If you get a Guild card from JW Sweetman, the house beers are under €5 a pint.

John_Rambo · 24-11-2019 1:47am

rubadub wrote: »

wetherspoons

I got curious and nipped in to a Wetherspoons pub for a quick walk around and quickly decided it's a place where fun goes to die. All that's missing is slot machines.

The decor, the undercooked chips, the lighting, the atmosphere, the general tattiness and cheapness is everything that an Irish pub is not.

I know I'm not being very helpful here by not finding pints for under €5 in the city, but I'd avoid Wetherspoons for ones sanity.

Del2005 · 24-11-2019 3:07am

John_Rambo wrote: »

I got curious and nipped in to a Wetherspoons pub for a quick walk around and quickly decided it's a place where fun goes to die. All that's missing is slot machines.

The decor, the undercooked chips, the lighting, the atmosphere, the general tattiness and cheapness is everything that an Irish pub is not.

I know I'm not being very helpful here by not finding pints for under €5 in the city, but I'd avoid Wetherspoons for ones sanity.

It's a cheap alcohol and food pub chain from the UK, it's not supposed to be an Irish pub. Even in the UK people avoid them!

retalivity · 24-11-2019 10:45pm

Pints of guinness, €5 in Fallons in D8.
O'Reillys under Tara st station seem to have some variation of beer offer every night of the week.
Drunken Fish in the IFSC had pints of Heineken for €4.90 last time i was in.

w/s/p/c/ · 25-11-2019 10:50am

Had a pint of Weatherspoons own Pale Ale yesterday in the Silver Penny on Abbey Street. Was EUR 3.75 and wasn't too bad at all!

Collie D · 25-11-2019 8:02pm

Was in Ryan’s on Store Street yesterday and they’re selling Beck’s for €4.60. Never tried it myself but I’m sure someone must like it.

DoraDelite · 26-11-2019 11:15am

The Little Tree in Summerhill does a Guinness for 4.50

landofthetree · 26-11-2019 8:37pm

Porterhouse central has a pint of the day for 4.50

Monday Temple bar Larger
Tueday Plain porter
Wed Yippy IPA
Thurs Pilsner
Friday Nitro Red
Sat Dublin Pale ale.
Sun Oyster Stout

antimatterx · 26-11-2019 8:48pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

I got curious and nipped in to a Wetherspoons pub for a quick walk around and quickly decided it's a place where fun goes to die. All that's missing is slot machines.

The decor, the undercooked chips, the lighting, the atmosphere, the general tattiness and cheapness is everything that an Irish pub is not.

I know I'm not being very helpful here by not finding pints for under €5 in the city, but I'd avoid Wetherspoons for ones sanity.

It's absolutely ****e. I hate it, I'm even bored when I with my friends there. I'd quite happily (and do) pay more a pint in a place with some atmosphere

ooter · 26-11-2019 8:54pm

the metro in parnell street.

Culchie_85 · 06-12-2019 6:35pm

The Silver Penny on Abbey St

It's a Wetherspoons but its cheap and good drinks for less than a fiver.

Pint of John Smith's is 3.50.

John_Rambo · 06-12-2019 10:49pm

Culchie_85 wrote: »

The Silver Penny on Abbey St

It's a Wetherspoons but its cheap and good drinks for less than a fiver.

Pint of John Smith's is 3.50.

It's desperate though. Beige, bland, cheap (and I mean cheap without value), soulless, faux, mean & nasty. If Deals did a pub it would be Wetherspoons. There's a sense of Pound shop, detergent & lipstick on a pig about it.

Ush1 · 07-12-2019 10:56am

John Smith's tastes like dirty dishwater also, only Brits would drink it.

jr86 · 07-12-2019 11:03am

The Wetherspoons in Abbey St is awful, the one in DL is too busy, but the one in Blackrock isn't all bad. Avoid after 7pm but during the day midweek or even a Saturday it's nice and quiet and they do great food, which is insanely cheap. You can get a good big chicken wrap, chips and a pint for 7 quid like. The same could be at least 15 euro in other places.

Back to the OP, a friend of my father who is retired in Dublin says a few places do drink offers in City centre during week during the day, ie a certain price before 5pm or 8pm or whatever

I know that the Clock on Thomas Street do cheap Guinness and it ain't the worst place on a Saturday afternoon

various artistes · 07-12-2019 12:24pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

I got curious and nipped in to a Wetherspoons pub for a quick walk around and quickly decided it's a place where fun goes to die. All that's missing is slot machines.

The decor, the undercooked chips, the lighting, the atmosphere, the general tattiness and cheapness is everything that an Irish pub is not.

I know I'm not being very helpful here by not finding pints for under €5 in the city, but I'd avoid Wetherspoons for ones sanity.

Spoons is a godsend. I used to love a meet up in the likes of the Grand Central or Fitzgeralds but I just can't justify paying 6 euro a pint when I can get them for 3.40 down in Spoons. You might say Diceys has operated similar for years but the place is like ****ing Hillsborough, an absolute sardine can.

A more pertinent question would be what pubs sell Tuborg and/ or Fosters on draught? Not bad beers at all and they're always a euro or two cheaper than the more established brands.

O'Reillys under Tara St station do cheap pints but it's a dark, sometimes chilly, studenty dump in fairness.

John_Rambo · 07-12-2019 11:28pm

various artistes wrote: »

Spoons is a godsend. I used to love a meet up in the likes of the Grand Central or Fitzgeralds but I just can't justify paying 6 euro a pint when I can get them for 3.40 down in Spoons

That's just a race to the bottom. It's comparable to a bag of cans in the park on a winters night to save a few €.

rubadub · 08-12-2019 1:01am

The hyperbole/hyperbollocks you hear about spoons always gives me a giggle. Many have their mind firmly made up before going in.

I have only been in the one in blackrock here and have set foot in MANY far worse pubs, FAR worse.

Some might not like one of their pubs, fair enough, but for many I would bet if they did not know it was a spoons their "reviews"/comments about it would be a hell of a lot better.

Still Ill · 08-12-2019 1:05am

The Pav in Trinity.

The Snug, if you don't mind mixing with some nefarious characters.

L1011 · 08-12-2019 1:57am

If you drink Beamish and/or Smithwicks nearly every older pub is a fiver or less. Used to be that Smithwicks was dearer than Guinness but I've started to notice it being cheaper.

cson · 08-12-2019 2:22am

DoraDelite wrote: »

The Little Tree in Summerhill does a Guinness for 4.50

Heard the barman loves a good shot.

andekwarhola · 08-12-2019 9:18pm

rubadub wrote: »

The hyperbole/hyperbollocks you hear about spoons always gives me a giggle. Many have their mind firmly made up before going

Exactly. Most of it isn't even logical.

It's like a hysterical denunciation on behalf of the hoary idea of the perfect Irish pub. If it was an Irish chain as opposed to a British one, nobody would care enough to rant about it so much.

You may as well make a similar observation about hotel or airport bars. It's a different pub offering. Just because it's not Grogans or the Stags Head doesn't invalidate it.

John_Rambo · 08-12-2019 10:21pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

Exactly. Most of it isn't even logical.

It's like a hysterical denunciation on behalf of the hoary idea of the perfect Irish pub. If it was an Irish chain as opposed to a British one, nobody would care enough to rant about it so much.

You may as well make a similar observation about hotel or airport bars. It's a different pub offering. Just because it's not Grogans or the Stags Head doesn't invalidate it.

I visited the one on Abbey st. in Dublin with an open mind and did not like it one bit.

It's obviously fine for yourself and Rubadub.
But for some, what makes a good pub isn't just cheap beer.
Ambience, surroundings, decor, lighting, layout design, furnishings, tone and aesthetics come in to play for the more sensitive type like myself!

Have a quiet pint in the Flowing Tide and then wonder up the road to Wetherspoons. It's like walking out of a library to visit one of those leisureplex places.

All said, I'm don't drink a huge amount of pints when I'm out, so price wouldn't be a factor for me so my posts aren't really in the spirit of the thread.

the_syco · 08-12-2019 10:51pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

The decor, the undercooked chips, the lighting, the atmosphere, the general tattiness and cheapness is everything that an Irish pub is not.

Was this at the new Abbey St Wetherspoons? Haven't been there yet, but AFAIK, it's the only pub so far in Ireland that they built fresh, as opposed to taking over an existing establishment.

The Three Tun Tavern (Blackrock) or the Old Borough (Swords) are nice, but I'm sure were nice before Wetherspoons came along.

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Diceys sell drink at €2 a pint on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but at about 5pm the queue gets long because of the Brazilians.

pints under 5euro dublin city center

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