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Limerick Businesses Closed V 2.0 [Mod note post 1]

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    #1202
    Umekichi
    Registered Users Posts: 474 ✭✭Umekichi


    Cookiemunster wrote: »
    Is the building part of the Hanging Gardens development? Maybe they're being forced to close/move.

    They aren't, they weren't making enough to keep going.


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    #1203
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    Cookiemunster wrote: »
    Is the building part of the Hanging Gardens development? Maybe they're being forced to close/move.

    No, that building is owned by St. Michael's Sporting Club.


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    #1204
    highlydebased
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Cafe noir in town closed as of today


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    #1205
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    highlydebased wrote: »
    Cafe noir in town closed as of today

    That's a pity. I loved Cafe Noir for a coffee on Saturday mornings after the market.


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    #1206
    Tefral
    Registered Users Posts: 4,350 ✭✭✭Tefral


    tippman1 wrote: »
    That's a pity. I loved Cafe Noir for a coffee on Saturday mornings after the market.

    You can go to the Nook now.

    Apparently its being changed to a pizza place of some description


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    #1207
    Jofspring
    Registered Users Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    cronin_j wrote: »
    You can go to the Nook now.

    Apparently its being changed to a pizza place of some description

    Hopefully a proper pizza place and not another pizza, kebab and burger fast food spot. Tried Cobblestone Joes pizza recently, best in town id say.


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    #1208
    Red King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Red King


    Jofspring wrote: »
    Hopefully a proper pizza place and not another pizza, kebab and burger fast food spot. Tried Cobblestone Joes pizza recently, best in town id say.

    Cobblestone Joe's is nice (bit too spicy though) but Da Vincenzo is in a league of its own.


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    #1209
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    Jofspring wrote: »
    Hopefully a proper pizza place and not another pizza, kebab and burger fast food spot. Tried Cobblestone Joes pizza recently, best in town id say.

    Another dodgy indian pakistani turkush place no doubt


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    #1210
    Red King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Red King


    bigpink wrote: »
    Another dodgy indian pakistani turkush place no doubt

    Dodgy? What is dodgy about them? Kabana and Turkuaz do excellent kebabs.


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    #1211
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,846 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    The Bind Pig is closed since the weekend.


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    #1212
    bennyl10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,560 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    The Bind Pig is closed since the weekend.

    Galway bay going in there though afaik


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    #1213
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,846 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    bennyl10 wrote: »
    Galway bay going in there though afaik

    I can't see something like Salthouse doing as well in Limerick. Hopefully, I'm wrong! :pac:


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    #1214
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    I can't see something like Salthouse doing as well in Limerick. Hopefully, I'm wrong! :pac:

    The Blind Pig were operating on a shoestring. Maybe the Galway Brewing Company will be able to put a bit more investment into it and make it work.


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    #1215
    Red King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Red King


    zulutango wrote: »
    The Blind Pig were operating on a shoestring. Maybe the Galway Brewing Company will be able to put a bit more investment into it and make it work.

    Hopefully less of a clique too. Really put me off the Blind Pig, felt unwelcome unless you were one of their buddies.

    Seems par for the course with trendy hipster places, which is why they inevitably close.


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    #1216
    Berty
    Registered Users Posts: 26,149 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    The Salthouse is one of my favourite bars in Ireland. That's just me. The bar attracts a broad customer base and not very cliquey or crusty which used to be peoples opinions of craft places.

    Nearly every bar has some level of craft beer on sale now.


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    #1217
    Red King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Red King


    Berty wrote: »
    The Salthouse is one of my favourite bars in Ireland. That's just me. The bar attracts a broad customer base and not very cliquey or crusty which used to be peoples opinions of craft places.

    Nearly every bar has some level of craft beer on sale now.

    I'm quite into craft beer myself. Just not into the hipster artsy scene which does tend to go hand in hand with craft beer or at least used to before it became more popular in other bars.


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    #1218
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    Red King wrote: »
    Hopefully less of a clique too. Really put me off the Blind Pig, felt unwelcome unless you were one of their buddies.

    Seems par for the course with trendy hipster places, which is why they inevitably close.

    Absolutely, not too bad when it was busy but if it was realtively quiet I felt sometimes I was interrupting a private party.


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    #1219
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    Shoerack in cruises street is gone


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    #1220
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    bigpink wrote: »
    Shoerack in cruises street is gone

    They moved out to the Parkway a few weeks ago.


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    #1221
    Jofspring
    Registered Users Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    It was mentioned by someone a few pages back that Sextons on Henry st was closing/closed.

    To avoid confusion and to be fair to the business I just wanted to say that it is still open.


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    #1222
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,846 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Good! I quite like Sextons. Would be a shame to see it go!


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    #1223
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Question - it was reported a few pages back that a Cafe Noir had closed, but not the exact specific one. So... is the one across from Smyths still open?


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    #1224
    Bored_lad
    Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Bored_lad


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Question - it was reported a few pages back that a Cafe Noir had closed, but not the exact specific one. So... is the one across from Smyths still open?

    That's the one that was closed afaik.


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    #1225
    Limerick91
    Registered Users Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Limerick91


    One across from Smyths is closed

    Going to be another Kebab shop


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    #1226
    jmch81
    Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭jmch81


    Limerick91 wrote: »
    One across from Smyths is closed

    Going to be another Kebab shop

    About time, I hate having to walk around the corner to the other twenty kebab places.


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    #1227
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    How are so many kebab shops getting permission to open?
    Market Quarter is a farce


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    #1228
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,224 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    There are no specific laws or rules against the number of kebab shops that can open in one area, the same way there are no specific laws or rules against the number of coffee shops or discount stores that can do the same.


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    #1229
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,814 ✭✭✭phill106


    Now all we need is a monorail to bring all the tourists to the kebab quarter.
    I can say with absolute certainty it will bring approximately 10 million euro to the local economy...


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    #1230
    Red King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Red King


    The Market Quarter could be a real gem with a bit of vision but once again an influx of copycat businesses have soured the place considerably. Now it is just a rowdy, noisy, dirty mini Temple Bar - an absolute zoo at night and a deserted litter zone during the day.


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    #1231
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    Red King wrote: »
    The Market Quarter could be a real gem with a bit of vision but once again an influx of copycat businesses have soured the place considerably. Now it is just a rowdy, noisy, dirty mini Temple Bar - an absolute zoo at night and a deserted litter zone during the day.

    Yep, we tend to pat ourselves on the back in Limerick and gush about the Milk Market while ignoring the absolute disgrace that is the whole area around it.

    Don't get me wrong, I think it is a fantastic asset for the city, but we need a plan to fix up the general area around it. There's really beautiful old stone buildings that are falling down and in need of immediate attention. There's very poor use of urban space in the surface level car parks. These are council owned and the easiest of the problems to sort out but because there's a significant revenue stream accruing to the council it won't readily address it. There's reasonably new buildings in the area which are mostly terrible. They're here to stay and won't be fixed until market forces come into play. There's the general appearance of the streets too, which is shoddy at best. And there's the Watergate flats. A very poor job at refurbishing them was done in the 90's.

    Most of those problems are in the hands of the city council and there are varying levels of difficulty in fixing them. But it must start with a plan, and there isn't one.


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