Tag: barfly

McDaid's is, as the saying goes, small but perfectly formed.

Of all the pubs I’ve ever got drunk in while wearing a suit, the Old Stand is this one that I would most like to get drunk in again.

Crowbar, in a very direct sense, solves the problem of where to go for a pint before going to the Button Factory.

The invariably brilliant Tuesday evening jazz session in The Leeson Lounge has become something of haunt of mine lately...

If ever there existed a warning against trying to be all things to all people, the folk behind Alfie Byrne's have not come across it.

“Dawson Street?” Anton protests. “Why are you always bringing us to these posh kips?” as we enter Sam's Bar

Peruke & Periwig's four-tiered Dawson Street cocktail bar is flush with hairpieces hung as wall adornments.

We went upstairs in Kinara Kitchen for some cocktails and some Bombay mix.

The Czech Inn is placed on that invisible dividing line between the two Temple Bars and is a doorway to both.

Bono and The Edge's Clarence Hotel houses two iconic establishments: the Cleaver East restaurant, and the Octagon Bar.

Covering the sprawling basement beneath the Octagon Bar, The Liquor Rooms builds on the popularity of Vintage Cocktail Club as a decadent home of mixology.

The Library Bar, perhaps so called for its atmospheric insistence on no music, feels quite a million miles away from the busy intersection of George's and Exchequer Streets it overlooks…

Needless to say, the former Headline Bar, rebranded smoothly as 57 The Headline, no longer smells of puke:

Differentiating itself from local rivals McSorley’s, Birchall’s, Humphrey’s and Smyth’s, The Taphouse has moved away from traditional signage and décor and rejuvenated itself as a gastro-pub that feels almost completely…

Anton is taking on all comers on the Street Fighter 2 machine at the back of P. Mac's

Inside the Bird Flanagan: a squared, open plan affair on two levels, you could be forgiven for thinking that you were almost definitely in Dublin and not Venice.

My actual thirst quenched, I was still parched of the hangover of political intrigue that once inhabited Fagan's, and remain so.

As with any gentrified/gentrifying community, Stoneybatter has its own flagship gastropub: The L Mulligan Grocer.