Bakers to close

zuroph

Wanted to put this seperate to the business closing thread til after weekend to allow as many people see it as possible,

tomorrow night Bakers shuts up for the last time. I believe the Wicked chicken is going with it. Sad times.


Get yourself along to the final gig to say goodbye.

sioda

Bakers i must admit havent fequented in years but the chicken a huge loss. No more foreign beers good music and good craic and decent kebab afterwards. Plus where will mickeys staff go on their breaks and nights off.

zuroph

cobblestones would have made a class brewhouse.

Berty

zuroph wrote: »

cobblestones would have made a class brewhouse.

We'll see yet.

sioda

Berty what do you know?

zuroph

itd be an epic brewhouse, built perfectly for it. theres also another venue opening up town in a few weeks that i expect to pick up a bit of that business also.

lorcanthrope

Wow... I'm moving from Limerick in two weeks and I'm very sad to see Bakers go... had far too much of a good time in there over the years.

Amazotheamazing

Surprised the Chicken is closing, haven't been there in an age but it always seemed busy enough.

Casperbhoy

Big Loss to Limerick:mad:

Insect Overlord

zuroph wrote: »

Wanted to put this seperate to the business closing thread til after weekend to allow as many people see it as possible,

tomorrow night Bakers shuts up for the last time. I believe the Wicked chicken is going with it. Sad times.


Get yourself along to the final gig to say goodbye.

Do you have a source for this? As a patron of both establishments for over 4 years, I'm particularly interested in this story.

AaronEnnis

Looks like the dank of Costellos will have to suffice...

Big loss though, had some great nights and many many hazy memories of the place.

bullets

Limerick needs a new Quinns!
/thread

~B

Insect Overlord

Just saw their Facebook page. I can't believe it.

the drifter

no no this cant be...i refuse to believe it...

tof2006

:eek: big loss, and in a very short notice ( they had a couple of bands lined up ....)

RonMexico

The writing is on the wall for the city.

I suspect that this summer is going to be the end for a lot of businesses.

kilburn

Thats terrible, used to like the Chicken but it had gotten very quiet over the last few months.

CiaranMT

F*ck sake.

Last time I was in there during RAG Week, they were pretty empty. Sad to see.

Insect Overlord

Hopefully someone who cares about the Bakers/Wicked Chicken legacy will be able to re-open it once things start to turn around again. It'd be great if someone new could take it on and stay true to what made it such a great place for so long.

Berty

About 6 years ago I know somebody who was considering taking over the license but there were massive debts on it. They ran away rather quick.

Unfortunately this climate is much worse so the likelyhood that somebody could even entertain the idea is slim.

JerryHandbag

Damn shame. This makes me sad. Sign of the times

Amazotheamazing

Just had a last pint in there. Very sad to see it closing tbh. Remember sneaking in there when I was underage and remember when it closed before. Hopefully it'll be brought back again.

h3000

Balls

seachto7

I wouldn't say it's the death knell for the city. How come Costelloes always seems to have a crowd around through thick and thin.

It's a bad blow for alternative venues in Limerick. Where can original bands play now? Only in Dolans?

pappyodaniel

Where are us trendy hipsters all gonna go now? Mickey's is just too small and Cobblestone Joe's is also too small.

krudler

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Where are us trendy hipsters all gonna go now?

Ironically go to Icon

Kess73

bullets wrote: »

Limerick needs a new Quinns!
/thread

~B

Better yet, Limerick needs the old Quinns back.

donutheadhomer

Kess73 wrote: »

Better yet, Limerick needs the old Quinns back.

in complete agreement

moby2101

Shame to see it go..

Its been YEARS since I've been in Bakers...Spent WAAAAAAY too many Saturday nights there around 94 -98 !!

Great Days
Anyone remember the kick-ass cover's band Easy Singles that used to play there on Saturday nights??
They were incredible, they could literally play anything from the Beatles to the Wonderstuff!!!
Then the Club downstairs played the best indie set around at the time...
Great great memories!!

As a previous poster said, Limerick is in a dire situation...Hopefully having an influential Cabinet Minister will bring some much needed direct investment into our proud City.

Simon Adebisi

Just saw this Big loss. Literally no good pubs for music left. Unless you like Diddly aye.

vkid

was never a fan of the night club but the Wicked Chicken will be missed even though it was dead quiet last few times i was there..