best pub in carlow?

patrickc

what is your favourite pub in Carlow?

for smoking areas probably leveritt and fry's used to love the med bar smoking area before it closed..
tully's is a nother favourite of mine
miller's for a footy match during the week

scraggs is a dive

fitzyshea

Well Scraggs was my local for years and now I can barely stay in there for more than half an hour on a saturday nite. Its too packed and full of teeny bobbers! It use to be that you knew everyone in there now I no no one! :mad: Maybe Im too old! :eek:

My fav now would probably be either Lev and Fry (for the smoking area) or the Barracks.

The Med was a fav until it closed down. Anyone happen to know when and if it will reopen? I heard it closed because the guy who owns it couldnt pay for the new building works? Any ideas?

patrickc

fitzyshea wrote:

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The Med was a fav until it closed down. Anyone happen to know when and if it will reopen? I heard it closed because the guy who owns it couldnt pay for the new building works? Any ideas?

yeh thats the story apparently fitzy.. last time i walked by they were doing work to it but seemed to be all external work

lynch_3001

well about the med yesterday i saw some guys putting up scaffolding, sbout 20 of them, so theres something.

scraggs is the the new underager bar. ever time i go in there i just walk straight on out, i cant see why all the guys in my course are like "SCRAGGS!!".

o'loughlins is actually my fav, thats usually just because of the djs, and the smoking and snooke area.

lev and frys is good too cos of the "dance" floor. always agood laugh and atmosphere in lev.

tullys is getting to b the old guy bar. buzzs......does anyone drink there anymore? went up there just tocheck it out at the start of the summer and you could count the amount of people with our fingers.

i hate dinn rí, the bouncers always hassle ya, do nothing when something is going down. and the bar men are just down right rude, most of the time, thats not to say they are all rude, some of my friends worked there, but thank god they left there.

hows the barracks at night, always want to go in there but whe im wit the lads they never want to go in

Undergod

Not a huge fan of leverett and fry's, not sure why. It's always way too crowded, but not much more than O'Lough's where I usually go. I'd still go in there every so often though.

Barracks is pretty chill, especially earlier on in the day when there's fewer people there.

patrickc

the barracks is ok too, but on a sat night yo u can't move in it, particularly the smoking area, buzz's seems to be just the stoners place to drink. yeh o loughlin's is a nice pub too..

Nalz

This all depends if your are a strippy jumpa white runners with gold chain guy or not.

patrickc

Trilla wrote:

This all depends if your are a strippy jumpa white runners with gold chain guy or not.

for where?

cashback

Probably The Barracks. Not sure why, just seems relaxed enough even when there's a big crowd there.
End up in Leveretts a lot, even though I wouldn't be crazy about the place.

It's a pity not one pub in Carlow plays half decent music.

lynch_3001

lets move in a slightly different direction does anyone go to the foundry and why?
i personally hate it, too crowded crap music, played at a level inaudiable to most, and overpriced entry and drinks

the_syco

When I was drinking there, the Barracks or the Dinn Ri.

The Barracks had a decent enough smoking area, but the Dinn Ri wins hands down, as it does food. Also, the Sunday night free-pint karaoke was a good laugh.

Scraggs

Scraggs is a kip! I used to drink there the whole time but now its just so packed its ridiculous and just uncomfortably warm.

I drink in the Barracks or Leverettes for the smoking area, both are really good imo. My local is now Tully's before it was O'Loughlins before I got too old
I usually go to the late bar in Leverettes instead of the foundry nowadays. I haven't actually been there in 6mths I was [am] so sick of the place. Apparantly the smoking area has been completely revamped anybody seen it?

Undergod

The bamboo bar? It's kinda nice. Way too crowded, it's worse there than the rest of the club for some reason.

fitzyshea

Scraggs wrote:

Scraggs is a kip! I used to drink there the whole time but now its just so packed its ridiculous and just uncomfortably warm.

I drink in the Barracks or Leverettes for the smoking area, both are really good imo. My local is now Tully's before it was O'Loughlins before I got too old
I usually go to the late bar in Leverettes instead of the foundry nowadays. I haven't actually been there in 6mths I was [am] so sick of the place. Apparantly the smoking area has been completely revamped anybody seen it?

Yeh was in the Bamboo Bar 2 weeks ago, its fairly small for the size of the nitghtclub but better than wahat was there before it.

In relation tot he Foundry in general I never drink in DInn Ri, never did never will. Ive been going to the Foundry since I was 16 so im a bit tired of it now! I agree though price of drink is mad as is the entry price. It also gets too packed! I rarely go now. Use to go to Cosmo's before they closed it down and reopened it. Had some great nirtes there but defo would not go now. Full of people who cant get into the Foundry for all the wrong reasons!

patrickc

what's the bamboo bar?

i haven't ventured into the foundry in months, used to like Fridays there , best music of weekend and cheapest night in.. would not pay 15 to get in now on a Saturday night, for overpriced drink and to be squashed

lynch_3001

my thought exactly

fitzyshea

patrickc2006 wrote:

what's the bamboo bar?

i haven't ventured into the foundry in months, used to like Fridays there , best music of weekend and cheapest night in.. would not pay 15 to get in now on a Saturday night, for overpriced drink and to be squashed

Bamboo bar is th enew smoking are ain the Foundry its above the toilets as you come into the foundry from the main entrance. It was a tiny place with a hole in the roof before now it has seats and a bar. It €12 in now not €15

patrickc

fitzyshea wrote:

Bamboo bar is th enew smoking are ain the Foundry its above the toilets as you come into the foundry from the main entrance. It was a tiny place with a hole in the roof before now it has seats and a bar. It €12 in now not €15

free gig there on thurs through heineken might venture to that

chillimetro

i had food in lenihans a while back & was decent enough ... that new casino has to be the best bar in carlow tho ....it stays open all night .. free fosters ... gambling and poker ...free grub ... and they send u home when ur either too skint or too drunk...its a great little country ......by the way does any1 know if they need a license for all thise gaming machines??????

fitzyshea

Where is this casino? And yeh you need a licence to sell drink on a premise.

tommycahir

Have to say for a quiet drink or 2 on a saturday nite you cant beat dinn ri.

Has anybody been in the wine bar in town yet? its meant to be decent enough..

must try out the casino soon. I am assuming that is the place beside the taxi rank..

fitzyshea

The wine bar in town I preume you mean Cobbdins on College st? Its great. Have had many a nite in there over the summer. Good wine and they do food as well. I think there doing jazz nites soon if your into that.

lynch_3001

can you keep us up to date on that if you hear anything....im interested i n that where is this wine bar is that the new pace at the end of tullow street

tommycahir

which end of tullow st do you mean? towards shamrock Sq or towards end with buzz's and tullys?

fitzyshea

tommycahir wrote: »

which end of tullow st do you mean? towards shamrock Sq or towards end with buzz's and tullys?

Opposite the Cathedral Its not on Tullow St

ike

Has the Med reopened, whats its like? (don't get out much these days )

wheres me jumpa

ike wrote: »

Has the Med reopened, whats its like? (don't get out much these days )

It was open for xmas afaik.

patrickc

it's definitely open, saw then crowds going in and out, havent made it there myself though

Duiske

Anyone been in Diceys (opposite the boat club) yet ? The building was torn down and re-built. Think it reopened a few months back. Used to be a right kip.

patrickc

not my drinking end of town at all, apart from the loft in years gone

tommycahir

wow had nearly forgot about the loft, is it still open? I used to love heading there for a few during college! was about the only pub in town that had pool tables.