Which pub should my foreign friend visit if she wants to "hook up?"

toucan · 29-05-2009 5:21pm #1

Asking this for a foreign friend. She's 31 and from a different country. She's in Dublin a couple of times per month for work and would like to find a pub where she could find men. She says she doesn't want anything serious since she travels so much for work...this would be more like someone she could hook up with on an NSA basis.

It would have to be somewhere where she would feel comfortable going in alone as she doesn't really know people in Dublin besides business associates and she says she wouldn't go out with them for something like this..

She wants educated, professional-type and "classy" (her word) guys around 30-40 years old. She hates techno and dance music but likes most other kinds.

Any ideas of good pubs she could visit? I don't live in Dublin so I have no idea where to suggest.

RandolphEsq · 30-05-2009 12:13pm

Doheny and Nesbitt
Shelbourne Bar - guaranteed to be sleazed upon there
William Searson's

Max Power1 · 30-05-2009 12:17pm

Copperface Jacks

lol

toucan · 30-05-2009 8:11pm

Max Power1 wrote: »

Copperface Jacks

lol

Ha ha ha. Any serious suggestions? Even when I lived in Dublin I wasn't big into pubs and clubs so I have no idea. She says she wants "posh men." I'm rolling my eyes even typing that, but it's what she says she wants.

RandolphEsq · 31-05-2009 2:37pm

toucan wrote: »

Ha ha ha. Any serious suggestions? Even when I lived in Dublin I wasn't big into pubs and clubs so I have no idea. She says she wants "posh men." I'm rolling my eyes even typing that, but it's what she says she wants.

Your ''friend''. Sure, I hear you

PCPhoto · 31-05-2009 2:41pm

anywhere around baggot street .... or maybe some places in and around the IFSC.

latenia · 31-05-2009 2:42pm

Why don't you ride her yourself?

Jay D · 31-05-2009 2:51pm

Something I made earlier for desperation:

Jay D wrote: »

Nothing personal to you mate, but these posts scream "I am desperate".

Single girls, or guys if you fancy are everywhere, in every pub, shop, library and office. What is your style? Are you the glamorous trendy individual or snot nosed smelly student

Find where you're at and ask the question, where is a bar that everyone's squashed against everybody else and where's a bar where it's quite decent, etc... It's like half of your original post is seeing whether there might be a singleton on here for you.

Tha Gopher · 31-05-2009 3:02pm

She would be best off starting by not using yank terms like "hook up"

toucan · 01-06-2009 11:51am

Tha Gopher wrote: »

She would be best off starting by not using yank terms like "hook up"

She IS a yank, hence the yank-ism and that's why I put the expression in quotes...I don't know if she is desperate...I suggested using something like gumtree, but she thinks there would be fewer "weirdos" in a pub...not sure I agree..

grenache · 02-06-2009 4:38am

Messrs Maguire near O'Connell Bridge is a good place to meet respectable folk. Lots of men go in there after work for a few drinks too so wouldn't be a bad place to start.

BeachBum25 · 02-06-2009 4:50am

Wait... are we suggesting that there are pubs in Dublin that a women can visit alone and WON'T get picked up??? I find this fascinating (and unlikely).

AnonoBoy · 02-06-2009 10:05am

BeachBum25 wrote: »

Wait... are we suggesting that there are pubs in Dublin that a women can visit alone and WON'T get picked up??? I find this fascinating (and unlikely).

The George.

PCPhoto · 02-06-2009 10:07am

they'll still get picked up there !!! (just not by a guy)

John Mason · 02-06-2009 12:05pm

any pub/bar/resturant in the city centre, on any night of the week

(well that's my experience:p )

jdivision · 02-06-2009 5:11pm

Dawson St pubs, particularly Cafe en Seine TBH if she wants to meet that kind of guy

stovelid · 02-06-2009 6:22pm

Lol @ posh bloke.

Does she think that the sexual prowess of some drinking-since-Friday-lunchtime bloke is going to be any better because he's in a cheap suit and he went to college? :pac:

I guess she does have more chance of having her taxi fare paid afterward though.

GiftofGab · 02-06-2009 9:09pm

where's she from? I love foreign girls. I'll make it look like we just "happened" to be in the same place at the same time

Otherwise coppers.

gccorcaigh · 16-07-2009 9:24pm

apparently Cafe on Seine (if thats what its called) is supposed to be good for meeting halfway decent men. Never been there myself so I couldnt say for sure. If she wants to go somewhere nice, why not Kielys in Donnybrook or Russells in Ranelagh ....nice crowd in both those pubs, she might have some luck there.

A Primal Nut · 16-07-2009 10:06pm

Fitzsimons Friday Night @ 10.00 - look for the tall lad at the bar

Chocoholic84 · 17-07-2009 9:50am

I reckon this should be merged with the copper's thread

edit: Never mind....just saw she's looking for a classy fella...

Kintarō Hattori · 17-07-2009 9:57am

OP are you sure she's not asking you for this advice because she actually digs you? She mentions she's looking for a guy, asks you to help..............

Chocoholic84 · 17-07-2009 9:58am

PCPhoto wrote: »

they'll still get picked up there !!! (just not by a guy)

Not true! I was there before and some weirdo was following me around all night...obviously some desperadoes are starting to cop onto the fact that ladies escape to gay bars to have a night of peace...but follow em anyway :rolleyes:

The Hill Billy · 17-07-2009 11:28am

latenia wrote: »

Why don't you ride her yourself?

The OP would need one helluva schlong seeing as they are in Galway & the horny 'NSA' friend is in Dublin.

Dub13 · 18-07-2009 12:03am

Hold on a sec,24 posts in and not one post asking is she hot...?

I am disappointed.

The Hill Billy · 18-07-2009 1:52pm

Dub13 wrote: »

Hold on a sec,24 posts in and not one post asking is she hot...?

I am disappointed.

It is a bit of a 'given' that she's not. If a bird on her own in any bar in the country couldn't get laid & needs advice on specific 'hook-up' joints to accomplish this, well ... she must be a bit of a boiler.

fptosca · 18-07-2009 5:16pm

There's a pub called the Church near the Jervis Shopphing Center where many women go on their own to "hook up", so men know what they are there for. So I heard.

gccorcaigh · 18-07-2009 5:25pm

Hill Billy wrote: »

It is a bit of a 'given' that she's not. If a bird on her own in any bar in the country couldn't get laid & needs advice on specific 'hook-up' joints to accomplish this, well ... she must be a bit of a boiler.

Whats a boiler?? Is that the same thing as a minger?? hahaha!!

Dub13 · 18-07-2009 10:49pm

Hill Billy wrote: »

It is a bit of a 'given' that she's not. If a bird on her own in any bar in the country couldn't get laid & needs advice on specific 'hook-up' joints to accomplish this, well ... she must be a bit of a boiler.

I was thinking that but she is American and they think different.She could also be super hot and intimidate lads.

xebec · 19-07-2009 2:53am

fptosca wrote: »

There's a pub called the Church near the Jervis Shopphing Center where many women go on their own to "hook up", so men know what they are there for. So I heard.

Really? Never met that many girls on their own there...

gccorcaigh wrote: »

Whats a boiler?? Is that the same thing as a minger?? hahaha!!

Pretty much...

eirebhoy · 19-07-2009 10:47am

The Barge?

Which pub should my foreign friend visit if she wants to "hook up?"

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