Price of a pint in Cork City.

fergie24

gimmick wrote: »

Could a vague night time price list be put together for town I wonder?

For lagers

Vicastown €5.30
Sober Lane €5.20
Mardyke incl Woolshed €5.05
Brog €5
Woodford €5.30
Soho €5.40

Was in Deep South few months ago, Tom Creans was €5.80. havent been back there sense

rob316

A couple of Wetherspoon owned super pubs in the city would definitely see other publicans take a serious look at there prices.

Cantillon and McCabe bang on about how they don't just offer a pint for €5 they offer an experience. In fairness to them they do run some pretty nice establishments and are very well run but something has got to give on the price of the main reason people are there - the alcohol.

I don't expect them to drop there prices in the current form, why would they? their pubs are jointed every weekend. But when a competitor is serving a pint of Heineken for 43% less than you are, any time of the day or night you know you need to make a change. Wether they ever step foot in wetherspoons is irrelevant, your customers will start to take a lot more notice of what they are paying and see how much they are been overcharged.

€2.95

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€5.20, somewhere in there your customer isn't going to give a toss about the experience and atmosphere.

Aldi/Lidl turned the grocery market upside down, its time the same was done to the pub trade. They plan to have 30 pubs here in the coming years, you would imagine in major cities like Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Galway. 30 of those will have a huge effect.

Arnold Tanzarian

Cant wait for Wetherspoons, seriously gonna be some spot for the all dayers.

the beer revolu

While I really look forward to Witherspoon's value craft beer and cask offerings, I do worry about the all day drinkers that it might attract. Hopefully it will be big enough for one to avoid the drunken idiots. I assume that they'll have a sensible serving/door policy regarding drunks, anyway.

KCAccidental

wetherspoons are usually pretty proactive about security especially during the day in the city centre pubs. The suburban ones might be a bit different.

smurgen

If weatherspoons charges those prices i cant see it being anything other than a success. earnest and co are selling an experience are they?in what way? there's rarely live music in any of the bars bar sobar lane. at the end of the day you go to be with your friends and socialize, right now the two big player is the cork city pub market are charging anti social prices and i cant wait to see it bite them on the arse!

who_me

I still can't believe the prices the Birdie Bar (front bar in Reardan's) is charging. Was in there over the summer and it's a fine spot too when the weather is (was) nice. I'd love to see other places follow their lead, but I'd worry it's more likely instead the place will get more popular and prices will go up.

mickdaly

Charlies Union Quay by the City Hall - Sundays €3.10 all day and evening for pints of Beamish Carling and Fosters. Was live music there last night. Will grant a free Carlsberg pint to Marquee concert ticket stub holders for that night's gig as well whilst the Marquee is on (June/July).

€3.50 pints of Fosters in the Bishopstown Bar all day/night.

Markcheese

A lot of pubs last year were doing the free pint with a ticket stub - we ended up in the sextant- think the idle hour were doing the same - all Benny McCabe's pubs were doing it .
Haven't been to any gigs yet this year

run_Forrest_run

who_me wrote: »

I still can't believe the prices the Birdie Bar (front bar in Reardan's) is charging. Was in there over the summer and it's a fine spot too when the weather is (was) nice. I'd love to see other places follow their lead, but I'd worry it's more likely instead the place will get more popular and prices will go up.

but isn't their selection of beers very limited at those prices? we went there once for pizza and they only had Carlsberg at the low price which was fairly lame really.

gimmick

Was out last night to the Market Lane. No table so they took my number so we could go for a drink. Went to Oliver Plunket. A Carlsberg and G&T was €12.90. €2.30 for the mini mixer.

Market Lane hadn't yet called when we finished. Went into the Oak and the same round was €9.90.

That's an utterly scandalous difference. I'll never darken the OP again.

kooga

gimmick wrote: »

Was out last night to the Market Lane. No table so they took my number so we could go for a drink. Went to Oliver Plunket. A Carlsberg and G&T was €12.90. €2.30 for the mini mixer.

Market Lane hadn't yet called when we finished. Went into the Oak and the same round was €9.90.

That's an utterly scandalous difference. I'll never darken the OP again.

The linen weaver would of cost €8.25

rob316

Old Oak has always offered good value. I also noticed the price difference on a mini pub crawl recently. There isn't any justification for the difference, both offer free music/entertainment and the Old Oak is a decent bar atmosphere and clientele wise.

gimmick

kooga wrote: »

The linen weaver would have cost €8.25

Was hardly going to go all the way over there while waiting on a call from Market lane now were we

Nonoperational

New place on Bridge street €6 for a Brooklyn beer. Won't be back.

Reputable Rog

gimmick wrote: »

Was hardly going to go all the way over there while waiting on a call from Market lane now were we

Its a 3-4 minute walk. Not like he was suggesting the Franciscan Well.

gimmick

Reputable Rog wrote: »

Its a 3-4 minute walk. Not like he was suggesting the Franciscan Well.

Paul St to the top of OPS is 3-4 minutes? Fair play to you.

EOB32

Paid over 5 euro (can't remember how much exactly) for a pint of Murphy's in Oliver Plunkett. That's outrageous in my book. Surprised anyone goes there tbh

Lemmy Scott

smell of fish in plunkett whenever I was in there presume its the food

Herb Powell

I'm also baffled by the place.

The music venue upstairs was nice while Crowley's were putting on gigs there, but I would never go there for pints.

Rebel1987

€4.70 for a pint of Guinness in East Village last night. First time in there to watch a match, plenty of screens and a good atmosphere. I'll certainly go back there again.

Kazbah

EOB32 wrote: »

Paid over 5 euro (can't remember how much exactly) for a pint of Murphy's in Oliver Plunkett. That's outrageous in my book. Surprised anyone goes there tbh

I'm happy to pay the prices in the Oliver Plunkett. They charge a premium for drink because they have live music seven nights and they have to pay the bands/singers.

ROY RACE

5,50 for a pint of heineken johnos douglas never again will i return.

2 jeggerboms with a can of red bull was 15 euro


unreal

ROY RACE

Kazbah wrote: »

I'm happy to pay the prices in the Oliver Plunkett. They charge a premium for drink because they have live music seven nights and they have to pay the bands/singers.

seems to be very popular place in town at the moment alaways jammed and full of totty :P

run_Forrest_run

ROY RACE wrote: »

5,50 for a pint of heineken johnos douglas never again will i return.

2 jeggerboms with a can of red bull was 15 euro


unreal

Johnos has been gouging for a long time now, I will not give them business at those prices.

Reputable Rog

€3.95 dearest pint in Spoons last night. Cod and chips and a Beamish with an extra portion of onion rings for €12.25

keithclancy

Reputable Rog wrote: »

€3.95 dearest pint in Spoons last night. Cod and chips and a Beamish with an extra portion of onion rings for €12.25

What's it like, IMO the Wetherspoons in the UK are full of skangers, alcos and stag/hen parties.

run_Forrest_run

keithclancy wrote: »

What's it like, IMO the Wetherspoons in the UK are full of skangers, alcos and stag/hen parties.

there's already a thread on Spoons in the Cork City forum, seems to be getting a decent mix of all sorts.

Herb Powell

Shoutout to Charlie's, paid €3.10 for a Beamish there last night.

zweton

where has the best beamish in cork?