which pubs in city centre do good pints of guinness?

JAMMYK

A fastpour Guinness from Croke Park! Nothing like the taste of ass on a matchday!

Jev/N

Birchalls, Ranelagh.

Good atmosphere and even better pints

Triangular

Mulligans, Chaplins and or the Oval bar. Also the Findlater does a good one too, if you're on northside of town.


Not in town but the Airport arrivals and surrounding hotels all have a very high quality of (Guinness) pint due to the taste team enforcing proper practices on the taps and serving, to try and encourage touring tourists to continue to drink Guinness around the island.

saintsaltynuts

Toners, Baggot St.
Smyths, Haddington Rd.
Beggers Bush, Haddington Road.

Slattsy

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Toners, Baggot St.
Smyths, Haddington Rd.
Beggers Bush, Haddington Road.

Was in Toners on Saturday, pint was cat.

Why bother when O'Donoughue's is beside it, huge gap in quality.

Manuva

Surprised that no one has mentioned McDaids (Off Grafton Street), never heard a bad word about there Guinness

kinsy

Slattsy wrote: »

Was in Toners on Saturday, pint was cat.

Why bother when O'Donoughue's is beside it, huge gap in quality.

I have to say, O'Donoghue's has been home to two of the worst pints of Guinness I have ever tasted. It's on my black list. Once they tried to serve me a pint by topping up a half poured one that had been sitting on the bar for ages. I was there long enough to see that it wasn't a fresh pour.
Really really bad service. I gave it back and the guy just muttered something and stuck me on a new one.

I am pie

kinsy wrote: »

I have to say, O'Donoghue's has been home to two of the worst pints of Guinness I have ever tasted. It's on my black list. Once they tried to serve me a pint by topping up a half poured one that had been sitting on the bar for ages. I was there long enough to see that it wasn't a fresh pour.
Really really bad service. I gave it back and the guy just muttered something and stuck me on a new one.

The bar staff in there are desperate. I'd stopped going as they were so miserable. Returned recently and they haven't improved. I was in one night a while ago and heard one of the dealing out the worst abuse to one of the asian lads collecting glasses. We upped and left. Showers of miserable dckheads imho.

ps..The wee Dawson Lounge also does a good pint.

kinsy

That's pretty grim.

Yeah, my few experiences there were enough to ensure I never return.

On a more positive note, in addition to some of the other places mentioned here (Brogan's, Mulligan's, Grogan's), I find Anseo on Camden St does a pretty nice pint with the bonus of good tunes if you find yourself in that mood.

My absolute favourite was always The Mount Pleasant Inn (Corrigan's) On Mount P Ave between Ranelagh and Rathmines. Was the best pint I'd ever had.
Unfortunately, the last time I was there the standard had dipped. I have not been back so hoping it was a one off... Will definitely return to give it another, well earned chance!

Brokentime

Manuva wrote: »

Surprised that no one has mentioned McDaids (Off Grafton Street), never heard a bad word about there Guinness

2nd this one.

McDaids Guinness is great; I've tumbled out of that place a few times after one too many (and they're shaggin' delicious, can you blame me?). Great location, too.

After that, I heard a few people say Chaplins, and I agree. Brogans is fairly good, as is Peter's Pub and The Lotts.

Slattsy

Brokentime wrote: »

2nd this one.

McDaids Guinness is great; I've tumbled out of that place a few times after one too many (and they're shaggin' delicious, can you blame me?). Great location, too.

After that, I heard a few people say Chaplins, and I agree. Brogans is fairly good, as is Peter's Pub and The Lotts.

Cant take your post serious after this lol
Peters Pub is one of the worst guinness in Dublin i've ever had. Great pub, just not for stout.

Brokentime

Slattsy wrote: »

Cant take your post serious after this lol
Peters Pub is one of the worst guinness in Dublin i've ever had. Great pub, just not for stout.

Never had a bad one or five in there.

admiralofthefleet

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Yes, chaplins has a good pint allright, as long as you don't mind drinking with a crowd that's at least 50% gardai from the massive station that's directly across the road. Still, though, all the more chance of a lock-in i suppose ;-)

i forgot about chaplins, its so long since i was in the place. its a great boozer

the last time i was there was with someone off boards

Ninap

Everyone mentioning the same old traditional Dublin pubs (Stag's, Toner's Kehoe's, Long Hall, etc). Reality is most of them do ok pints. OP presumably trying to find those one or two bars that do exceptional pints. The kind of place you come across by accident in the middle of nowhere in west cork or somewhere. In my experience, The Clock on Thomas St used to have great pints, as did the 108 in Rathgar (now sadly gone). But most pubs outside Dublin are much more likely to produce a great pint

Slattsy

Ninap wrote: »

Everyone mentioning the same old traditional Dublin pubs (Stag's, Toner's Kehoe's, Long Hall, etc). Reality is most of them do ok pints. OP presumably trying to find those one or two bars that do exceptional pints. The kind of place you come across by accident in the middle of nowhere in west cork or somewhere. In my experience, The Clock on Thomas St used to have great pints, as did the 108 in Rathgar (now sadly gone). But most pubs outside Dublin are much more likely to produce a great pint

Tried The Clock after a few recommendations.... was terrible.

People are mentioning the sames pubs because chances are they do a great pint.
The reality is (for example).... The Long Hall does a quality pint. I'll stand by that, as will most people that know a thing or 2 about stout.

admiralofthefleet

yep the long hall is quality

for me in dublin:

crossbar and harold house in harolds cross
the hill and humphreys in ranelagh
gaffneys in fairview
pier house in howth
bachelor inn in town - still a good pint even though its lost its old character

there is loads more thats all i can think of now

Singer73

O'Connells in Portobello has consistently good pints of stout

Singer73

O'connells

monkeysarecool

The long hall or the hilltop bar on thomas street near the brewery was really good

handsomecake

had a pint in mulligans on the advice of this thread

****ing biblical

Slattsy

handsomecake wrote: »

had a pint in mulligans on the advice of this thread

****ing biblical

The best around bar none.