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New Business openings and closures around you?

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  • #62
    ScottSF
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭ScottSF


    Coincidentally went to Camile Thai in Rathmines a few days ago for dinner. They have several tables if you want to eat your takeaway there. The food was pretty good, perhaps a bit pricey for "fast food". We picked spicy dishes and they were indeed hot and spicy so we were glad.

    They are giving away FREE meals each day if you tweet them (not sure how long this deal will last). Check out their twitter profile for details:
    https://twitter.com/#!/camilerathmines


  • #63
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    Got a free lunch last week in Camile using that Twitter. Was lovely.

    There's a sweet shop after opening in the Swan Centre over the Holland & Barrett side. Second one now in Rathmines (Mr Simms on the main street).

    Good luck to them but I've always felt that side of the Centre is cursed. It's too dark and not enough of a variety of shops.


  • #64
    alie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    Sorry to see the Swan centre is such a state, it was a thriving centre when i was growing up, now winos lie on the benches up near Dunnes hardware.


  • #65
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    alie wrote: »
    Sorry to see the Swan centre is such a state, it was a thriving centre when i was growing up, now winos lie on the benches up near Dunnes hardware.

    Jaysus it's not that bad. In it most days and I've never seen a wino lying on a bench. There's security guards in the place


  • #66
    alie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    Well i was down there a few months ago with my kids and there were two of them , my friend lives close by and its a regular thing, when it opened first there were a lot more shops then than there is now, there was a fruit and veg and a big butchers and lots of clothes shops , and kylemore cafe, it seems very quiet these days!


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  • #67
    Gyalist
    Registered Users Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    Mr. Simms on Lwr. Rathmines seems to have closed. They have been shut since last Thursday or Friday and I saw some stock being removed yesterday.


  • #68
    morg
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭morg


    Kiely's Mt.Merrion is closed. It's the big pub beside Flanagan's furniture, which is also closed.


  • #69
    SerialComplaint
    Registered Users Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭SerialComplaint


    morg wrote: »
    Kiely's Mt.Merrion is closed. It's the big pub beside Flanagan's furniture, which is also closed.

    Wow, amazing. It's more than just a pub, it's a state of mind for some people.


  • #70
    EricPraline
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭EricPraline


    morg wrote: »
    Kiely's Mt.Merrion is closed. It's the big pub beside Flanagan's furniture, which is also closed.
    Really? Looked open to me at the weekend.
    SerialComplaint wrote: »
    Wow, amazing. It's more than just a pub, it's a state of mind for some people.
    Are you thinking of the one in Donnybrook?


  • #71
    alie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    Is kielys open or closed?


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  • #72
    morg
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭morg


    Correction, Kiely's is open for business. A friend who lives beside it told me it was closed but I checked today and it's definitely open. Apologies for any alarm caused.


  • #73
    The_Wrecker
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭The_Wrecker


    DLTV has become Boydd barretts clinic.
    Tuthills Bloomfields relocating to Dundrum.


  • #74
    zagmund
    Registered Users Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭zagmund


    The Purty in Dun Leary has closed down 'temporarily'. There's an undated sign on the front saying something like it is closed "for a while". I don't know how long it has been closed for. The pizzareria beside it has been closed for a good while at this stage. It's a pity really - they used to serve nice (and good value) pizza.

    z


  • #75
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    zagmund wrote: »
    The Purty in Dun Leary has closed down 'temporarily'. There's an undated sign on the front saying something like it is closed "for a while". I don't know how long it has been closed for. The pizzareria beside it has been closed for a good while at this stage. It's a pity really - they used to serve nice (and good value) pizza.

    z


    Yeah, Don Mimi.....fecking lovely pizza!


  • #76
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Is Ray Kavanagh's in Glasthule closed? There were barriers around it the other day.


  • #77
    alie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    Did a newsagent in Terenure go on fire?


  • #78
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    An Siopa Beag in Terenure was on fire last week.


  • #79
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Is Ray Kavanagh's in Glasthule closed? There were barriers around it the other day.

    I'll be down that way later - will report back.


  • #80
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,793 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    I'll be down that way later - will report back.

    Its closed at least a couple of weeks, I heard a trader on the radio 2 or 3 weeks ago talking about street parking down there and he mentioned it was gone


  • #81
    annieoburns
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭annieoburns


    "Dealz" is opening in Stillorgan Shopping Centre on Sept 3rd. :)

    It is located where Post Office used to be and also the former Kenneth Hodgkins furniture unit. There is already a branch in Blanchardstown and to be another new one opening in Bloomfield Sh Centre in D Laoire.

    Meanwhile Cosmopolitan the newsagents is closed and with the one that used to be beside Mc Donalds also gone, there is no newsagent serving the area. Always busy places, nowhere to get bustickets etc for miles about...:mad:


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  • #82
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    annieoburns wrote: »
    Meanwhile Cosmopolitan the newsagents is closed and with the one that used to be beside Mc Donalds also gone, there is no newsagent serving the area. Always busy places, nowhere to get bustickets etc for miles about...:mad:

    It's very hard for independent newsagents to survive these days-the likes of Centra/Spar/Londis have put paid to that. They just can't match the prices.


  • #83
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,793 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    annieoburns wrote: »
    "Dealz" is opening in Stillorgan Shopping Centre on Sept 3rd. :)

    It is located where Post Office used to be and also the former Kenneth Hodgkins furniture unit. There is already a branch in Blanchardstown and to be another new one opening in Bloomfield Sh Centre in D Laoire.

    Meanwhile Cosmopolitan the newsagents is closed and with the one that used to be beside Mc Donalds also gone, there is no newsagent serving the area. Always busy places, nowhere to get bustickets etc for miles about...:mad:


    RIP Cosmo, spent many a lunch time in there in my school days browsing the mags for free and getting thrown out. They did a good line in candied popcorn though


  • #84
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    annieoburns wrote: »
    "Dealz" is opening in Stillorgan Shopping Centre on Sept 3rd. :)

    between Lidl, Donnybrook Fair, and now that, I could see Tesco closing in the near future.


  • #85
    EricPraline
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭EricPraline


    the groutch wrote: »
    between Lidl, Donnybrook Fair, and now that, I could see Tesco closing in the near future.
    Just after being renovated? Seems unlikely. Plus it still gets plenty of business. That said, it's still little better than a Tesco Express, and they haven't really addressed the poor layout or understaffed tills.


  • #86
    Aard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Starbucks has recently opened in Nutgrove. Seems an unusual location, given that they'd go for more upmarket areas when out of town. The Nutgrove area is really getting a second wind, what with the retail park across the road, and Lidl close by. The "main street" part where Silvio's is is the same as always, however. Maybe the area is getting some overspill "cred" (not sure how else to put it!!) from Dundrum?


  • #87
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Good to see some investment in Bloomfields. Bestseller have obviously made the decision that Dun Laoghaire has a future.

    It's a shame to see the other shops go though, hopefully one of them will pop up in the old Vero Moda shop.


  • #88
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,249 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Aard wrote: »
    Starbucks has recently opened in Nutgrove. Seems an unusual location, given that they'd go for more upmarket areas when out of town. The Nutgrove area is really getting a second wind, what with the retail park across the road, and Lidl close by. The "main street" part where Silvio's is is the same as always, however. Maybe the area is getting some overspill "cred" (not sure how else to put it!!) from Dundrum?
    . Nutgrove would have been one of the better shopping centers on the Southside prior to dundrum. It then took lost a lot of local buisness to dundrum, however locals are flocking back.as they realise parking is easier and cheaper. It has Tesco, Dunnes, pennys. And its.not as busy as dundrum. You then have lidl and aldi to do your weekly shopping.


  • #89
    alie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    ted1 wrote: »
    . Nutgrove would have been one of the better shopping centers on the Southside prior to dundrum. It then took lost a lot of local buisness to dundrum, however locals are flocking back.as they realise parking is easier and cheaper. It has Tesco, Dunnes, pennys. And its.not as busy as dundrum. You then have lidl and aldi to do your weekly shopping.

    I live close by Nutgrove and it has gone a bit tired looking , the rent went up a while a go and a few shops could not stay open, Tesco have done up the store in recent times , but seem to have let it slip, The freezers are way too cold and lots of the food has frost bite.


  • #90
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    I've always liked Nutgrove. The free and easy parking is a big plus, especially when you compare it to Rathfarnham SC.


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  • #91
    annieoburns
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭annieoburns


    Down the years, Nutgrove was my 'go to' place with both a Penneys and Dunnes together along with "poundshop" and "bookstation" for kidddie stuff, Nicholls for housestuff etc . It never had a decent coffee place so hope Starbucks does well. I find McDonalds does a very decent coffee for 2 euro and new look to place is more adult friendly. We miss Roches and the Motor Tax office of course and it could do with a proper bookshop. There is a new unit about to open on the Burgerking side.... any ideas what/when?


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