A quiet pub in dublin city ( YES I KNOW )

ronano

I'm going for a few drinks with a friend and i'd like to be actaully able to converse so suggest quiet enough pubs in the city or failing that cheap pubs

impr0v

first date?

SteM

Karma on Fishamble Street - quiet and cheap!

whosurpaddy

oreillys which is under tara st dart station is lovely, even a beer gdn if ya wanna sit outside.

Sleipnir

Bow's on Fleet st.

ronano

Originally posted by impr0v
first date?

hah, he wishes :P nah just a mate

Static

O'Neill's on Pearse street, The gingerman, top of westland row. The white horse on the quays, when there's not a match on.

karlh

Mulligans on the corner of Leeson St and Stephens Green, completely empty 90% of the time. great to go and do nothing but talk and drink. cheap too.

jd

mahaffy's pub- westland row?

Kêrmêttê

The Stags Head or The Long Hall.
A smidge grotty but good atmosphere and nice for a drunken chat

Marq

Stag's used to be good but it's always packed these days. Mulligan's don't even play the radio, and as Karl says, it's always empty. Used to drink there a lot when I was in school up the road - God be with the days.

ReefBreak

Peter's Pub across the road from the Hairy Lemon. An oasis of calm. No music or TV.

silverside

Kennedys at corner of Tara St and the quay. Full of aul fellas, bit dingy, but I like it.

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by SteM
Karma on Fishamble Street - quiet and cheap!

is that place a bit of a gay bar?

silverside

Is that new? the only pub I know on fishamble street is Handels.

Not that I am interested in gay bars.

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by silverside
Is that new? the only pub I know on fishamble street is Handels.

Not that I am interested in gay bars.

karma is in the handel hotel...

I only asked because i was supposed to meet some work friends before our xmas party last year in handels on thomas st, but i went to the wrong one and it seemed a bit gay to me...

maybe i was wrong but i just got that feeling from the place....

monkeyfudge

I recommend Grogans and The Palace Bar

The Palace Bar is lovely, but it suffers from the fact that it is in Temple Bar, and as such you get the occasional loud English person stumbling in the door...

SteM

Originally posted by Third_Echelon
is that place a bit of a gay bar?

Dunno mate. Cheap beer and a relaxing place though. They don't put the pints on crotched doilies or anything.

Jim

White Horse is teh win tbh.

Mantel

Neptune Bar on Abby street, just on the corner with Marlborough street. It's the downstairs one, not the pub on street level. Kinda dodgy area but the pub is quite nice. Never seen it packed to stuffing proportions, always got a seat (well sometimes after waiting a few minutes) No scumbags and the music is at a nice level and full of good aul rock and 80's songs. Pints where priced well last time I visited it. Mainly a bikers bar, they like thier fourmla one races and being undistrubed.

jesus_thats_gre

Originally posted by Third_Echelon
karma is in the handel hotel...

I only asked because i was supposed to meet some work friends before our xmas party last year in handels on thomas st, but i went to the wrong one and it seemed a bit gay to me...

maybe i was wrong but i just got that feeling from the place....

Obviously your womans intuition kicking in there

or the ghey radar kicked in.. obviously just needed the right jolt

adonis

its pretty cool,
on the quays,
dunno if you southside computer dudes would head there though.

impr0v

Originally posted by Kêrmêttê
....The Long Hall.

The only reason I will ever go in there again is if somebody offers a large bounty on ignorant bar-staff. As you can imagine, given the amount of practitioners in this particular country, for a bar tender to distinguish himself in the ignorant arts he must have an exceptional talent for them.

Basically, unless you have drank in there since you were five and invited the owners to every brithday party since then, prepare to wait a long time to get served. You'll find yourself straining to find reflective surfaces just to make sure you haven't become invisible while the ignorant pricks serve people two waves behind you.

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by jesus_thats_gre
Obviously your womans intuition kicking in there

or the ghey radar kicked in.. obviously just needed the right jolt

no i think it was more the fact that i saw your boyfriend in there....

smuckers

TP Smiths ( used to be called Ryans) beside The Quays across from Jervis Centre. The staff are nice and food isn't bad either.

smuckers

The Water Loo on Baggot St is another good place. You'll never be able to hear each other in Karma.

Hackfest

Originally posted by smuckers
TP Smiths ( used to be called Ryans) beside The Quays across from Jervis Centre. The staff are nice and food isn't bad either.

Yep, good spot. And IMO the food's great. Maybe I'm not an epicure like yerseff smucks?

And ignorant staff in the Long Hall? Never happened to me and I wouldn't have been what you would call a regular. An occasionaller maybe.

Gillo

Try the Bleeding Horse, I can be a bit loud at the weekend though. but if you get in early enough you'll be able to get the snug. Great staff, great pints and easy to get to.

Yes they do have a snug, before someone asks.

Kone

Originally posted by impr0v
The only reason I will ever go in there again is if somebody offers a large bounty on ignorant bar-staff. As you can imagine, given the amount of practitioners in this particular country, for a bar tender to distinguish himself in the ignorant arts he must have an exceptional talent for them.

Basically, unless you have drank in there since you were five and invited the owners to every brithday party since then, prepare to wait a long time to get served. You'll find yourself straining to find reflective surfaces just to make sure you haven't become invisible while the ignorant pricks serve people two waves behind you.

Sounds like Carnival (used to be Da 2) across from Whelans, I waited 30 minutes last night at the bar whilst the world and it's mother got served behind/beside me, after 30 minutes of being pushed and squished I decided to ask the bargirl if there was any chance of a pint (no I wasn't drunk or abusive, I was just trying to purchase my first pint of the night!), she replied with "Wait your turn!", I then politely explained that I had been propped up against the bar for over 30 minutes and she replied with "30 Minutes? huh? Wait your turn!"

Obviously I left, there is no way I am going to spend my saturday night fighting for the attention of some snotty bargirl! Needless to say I won't be drinking in there again! Funky beer garden or no funky beer garden!

/Kone

RuggieBear

I alway's liked Ned's of Townend St.....always quiet, fantastic drink...i'd say the best Guinness and Smithwicks in Dublin. Bit old fasioned compared to these new uber trendy places that are sucking the heart and soul out of drinking in Dublin...but still fantastic.

P

Kone

If there is hope for Dublin it lies in the old fashioned old man pubs...........