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Where for a pint

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  • 13-03-2010 1:36am
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    Dr_Phil
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    So I bought a house in D3 and I would appreciate some clues about where to go for nice pint over there?


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    OutlawPete
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    Beachcomber in Kilester, especially next week for Cheltenham ;)

    Dublin County North Forum


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    Alessandra
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    I think you've mistaken AH for the DUBLIN forum.


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    Dr_Phil
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    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Beachcomber in Kilester, especially next week for Cheltenham ;)
    Are there gonna be any tracksuits? I've got a fecking allergy to them...


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    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    Dr_Phil wrote: »
    Are there gonna be any tracksuits? I've got a fecking allergy to them...

    Then you're in the wrong county, my friend.


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    ScumLord
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    A Pub?


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    Dr_Phil
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    A Pub?
    Which one? I used to go to Quinns, but Gaffney's sounds cool.. whats worth a go lads?


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    OutlawPete
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    Dr_Phil wrote: »
    Are there gonna be any tracksuits? I've got a fecking allergy to them...

    Loads, pop down to The Yacht in Clontarf if you wish to avoid the 'riff raff', tell G Ryan I said Hello.


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    ScumLord
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    Dr_Phil wrote: »
    Which one? I used to go to Quinns, but Gaffney's sounds cool.. whats worth a go lads?
    I like Sally Longs.


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    matrim
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    Dr_Phil wrote: »
    So I bought a house in D3 and I would appreciate some clues about where to go for nice pint over there?

    You should go to barcode. How can you go wrong when it has reviews like this


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    Dr_Phil
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    Is there actually anyone who wants to meet and have a little pub crawl around D3?

    @ No barcode, thanks... Heard of a guy killed at Fairview Park.


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    Sharpshooter
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    Moved from After Hours.


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    Dr_Phil
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    Sharpshooter wrote: »
    Moved from After Hours.
    Good man.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Dr_Phil wrote: »
    Good woman.

    Fixed that for Doc, just glad your not a gynecology.


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    admiralofthefleet
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    if its a 'pint' your after then go to gaffneys in fairview, its not far from dublin 3 (its actually in d3)


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    Spore
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    The Yacht - Newly refurbished, looks like Cafe en Seine. Younger Crowd. Music.
    Clontarf Castle - Posh pretensions, older buisness-man crowd. No music.
    Harry Byrnes - Old School Redbrick pub, no music except occassional trad band. Great for the rugby.
    Beachcomber - Older crowd, betting slips and tracksuits not uncommon.
    The Fingal - Lovely 'beach' front pub. Golfing societies and trad music. Older local crowd. Semi-working class, but good fun. No music.
    The Parlour Bar - Piano bar (Piano is rarely played though :confused:) Marble coutertops and a bit schmaltzy. Music on weekends.


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    _blank_
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    Harry Byrne's is one of the best pubs in Dublin. Great outdoor section, it does get packed at times though. They have real barmen too, who know how to do multiple orders at once. Good for watching a match, but there are quiet corners too if all you want is a chat.

    Kavanagh's on the Fairview end of the Malahide Road is another kind of Old School pub, the barmen actually walk around at 11.30 asking if you want anything else for Last Orders.


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    judas101
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    Cant believe no one has mentioned the Sheds.

    Great little pub


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    spurious
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    Cusack's on the North Strand is a good pub.
    +1 on Gaffney's in Fairview too.


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    Dub13
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    Des wrote: »
    Harry Byrne's is one of the best pubs in Dublin. Great outdoor section, it does get packed at times though. They have real barmen too, who know how to do multiple orders at once. Good for watching a match, but there are quiet corners too if all you want is a chat.

    I cant believe Des is the only one to mention Harry Byrne's,its the best pub in the area.


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    mojesius
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    Agreed on Kavanaghs, great local.


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    humberklog
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    Dub13 wrote: »
    I cant believe Des is the only one to mention Harry Byrne's,its the best pub in the area.

    While I like it and drink in it...well... it's a bit golfbally posh. There's a lot of yellow V neck sweater/ black rollneck combo action going on in the bar.
    Also there's is a long standing barman there that pours the Guinness right up on one pour, well ok he leaves it about 15mm shy of the top and the 2nd pour is merely a top up. I've questioned him more than once on this and wasn't impressed with his reply each time..."it's the future". Hmmm, his golfy bar prop cronies agreed. "Golfing, as a hobby, is nearly too good for that lot of ye" I thought to myself.

    Cusack's by a long mile ftw in D.3.


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    humberklog wrote: »
    Also there's is a long standing barman there that pours the Guinness right up on one pour, well ok he leaves it about 15mm shy of the top and the 2nd pour is merely a top up. I've questioned him more than once on this and wasn't impressed with his reply each time..."it's the future". Hmmm, his golfy bar prop cronies agreed.

    I bet you a pound to a penny that you couldn't tell the difference between a single pour and a double pour pint in a blind test.

    It's a marketing gimmick, a myth propagated by Guinness and sustained by Diageo.

    Here's why.

    Back in the day, Guinness WAS double poured, because it came from two different casks. The first pour was from a fresh cask, the second lot in was from an older cask, which had been left to mature. The skilled barman would know the mix that each customer preferred, and the taste difference between the two casks was vast.

    That was before the days of the nitro-pint though.

    As I said, pound to a penny. :) I bet you I could even trick you on a visual test too.


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    humberklog
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    That's as maybe Des but it's a bit like cork in a wine bottle for me. It's the asthetics of it all.

    I never really go on about good/bad Guinness. It's very rarely that I'd notice a funny one as it's always too cold these days. But I do like to see it all going on. The 2/3 then 1/3 pour is what I'm programmed to experience and I've splashed a lot of cishcash over the years on that programme.

    Asthetics...and conditioning. And I don't like being told. And I like waiting. And I don't like his golfy buddies.


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    Dr_Phil
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    Great choice I see I have, thanks for all the suggestions folks. Once I settle in the new place I will have to give a try and test few of them. Some of them seem to be really nice from what I read here. Thanks again.


    PS: Up until now I didn't have a clue about double poured Guinness!!


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    Dub13
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    Very interesting about the double poured Guinness,I will be using that in my next sh1t talk session in a pub.


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    WindSock
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    Yeah according to the internet the double pour thing is obsolete. Still though, I like it to be. Tradition n'all.


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    BraziliaNZ
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    Harry Byrne's looks really nice, but no comfortable seats. And it's packed with total ARSEHOLES!!! I never saw so many pin stripe shirts, suit jackets, jeans and shoes in my life last time I was there. Stinks of upper-middle-classness. I used to like it but I don't sit well with those types.
    Beachcomber is lovely for a pint, nice crowd there. I live closest to Kavanagh's though, they serve late there, must have been pushing midnight last night when got last pint, not bad for a Sunday.


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    The Fool
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    judas101 wrote: »
    Cant believe no one has mentioned the Sheds.

    Great little pub

    +1


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    BraziliaNZ
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    lol from that site someone posted earlier, check this for a review of Barcode

    d place is kickn thursday 2 sunday d place 2 be.we all go dwn d barcode and reck it.3 euro a drink wat mre do i av 2 say d bouncers d nly ting dat ruin d ngt


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