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Pop up Christmas pub South Anne st

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  • 25-11-2014 3:08pm
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    bigpink
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    Anyone hear about this or been?
    Its a pop up bar called Santas Grotto


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    jimmii
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    Yeh saw it advertised plan on going at some point


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    Birneybau
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    Nice to know. Will avoid it at all costs.


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    Lovely Bloke
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    I'd say the prices are a sight to behold.


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    jimmii
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    Launched on Saturday here is the website no drinks prices on the site or facebook.


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    jimmii
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    Was looking at the pictures and was thinking it looked familiar was just looking at it this morning on daft! They have it as available to move in immediately which I am guessing is not the case!!


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    odyssey06
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    I feel a true popup bar should appear out of nowhere overnight... This using an existing building is just cheating.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    jimmii
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I feel a true popup bar should appear out of nowhere overnight... This using an existing building is just cheating.

    I think they wanted to build a whole building over night but thought it might be a bit tricky logistically so went with the route of using an existing one.


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    AnonoBoy
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I feel a true popup bar should appear out of nowhere overnight....

    And they'd serve pints in pop-up cardboard pint glasses.


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    jimmii
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    And they'd serve pints in pop-up cardboard pint glasses.

    And they'd have to make all the beer themselves from scratch


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    Birneybau
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I feel a true popup bar should appear out of nowhere overnight... This using an existing building is just cheating.

    It should be as simple as opening a very big book...


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    AnonoBoy
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    jimmii wrote: »
    And they'd have to make all the beer themselves from scratch

    And the barstaff should be hand-crafted from artisan papier-mâché each morning.


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    odyssey06
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    jimmii wrote: »
    I think they wanted to build a whole building over night but thought it might be a bit tricky logistically so went with the route of using an existing one.

    Pfft... then what has it "popped up" out of? I would have accepted it had it been built elsewhere, preferably from some sort of paper-mâché, and assembled overnight in a new spot. Clearly a case of misleading advertising. I'll have to complain to my local councillor about this.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    Koptain Liverpool
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    What's special about a place like this that they charge €30 for a crappy meal that you could get in a ton of other places for half the price.

    I mean soup and caesar salad starters and salmon and turkey mains.....
    Sure you could get the same at a pub carvery


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    AnonoBoy
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    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    What's special about a place like this that they charge €30 for a crappy meal that you could get in a ton of other places for half the price.

    I mean soup and caesar salad starters and salmon and turkey mains.....
    Sure you could get the same at a pub carvery

    Pop-up caesar salad though. They don't tell you when it's coming and it springs at you from a little trapdoor in the centre of the table.

    It's traditional.


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    enda1
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    Could someone take a snap of the menu then please?


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    retalivity
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    The Menu is on the website?

    Jesus the website looks horrific. It looks like someone had the great idea to take the gouging from the Christmas market at Stephens Green and cross-breed it with an 'Authentic Christmas Meal'

    As above, i'd avoid like the plague


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    Muahahaha
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    Is it a pub or restaurant only? I wonder where they got a pop up bar license for such a short stint ?


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    endacl
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    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    What's special about a place like this that they charge €30 for a crappy meal that you could get in a ton of other places for half the price.
    They should have popped it up in Temple Bar. It'd seem cheap there.


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    CarefulNow!
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    christmas party is on here... any ideas of drink prices, not looking forward to it but i hate missing a session :rolleyes:


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