What happened to all the Abrakebabra franchises?

Grab All Association

Thurles, Clonmel, Cashel, Templemore, Dungarvan are just a few of the big number of takeaways that closed recently. Was it the Jedward and Edward happy meal thing they had that scared off the customers?

Duff

Probably the fact that it's utter dogshít.

somesoldiers

Maynooth one is now Pizza Dog

biko

Someone said "Abracadabra" and they all vanished

AboutaWeekAgo

The crazy high prices might have something to with it.

gramar

What happened to all the Abrakebabra franchises?

Have they all disappeared?

Doctor Jimbob

Chris___ wrote: »

Thurles, Clonmel, Cashel, Templemore, Dungarvan are just a few of the big number of takeaways that closed recently. Was it the Jedward and Edward happy meal thing they had that scared off the customers?

They're shite.

RobYourBuilder

More likely they closed due to the poor standard of food they served and better late night takeaways opening up.

TaosHum

Still in Carlow & Kilkenny

MonkeyTennis

Bad food at horrendous prices.

SEPT 23 1989

I would murder a taco fries now

syklops

Duff wrote: »

Probably the fact that it's utter dogshít.

There's always one.

iDave

This thread has made me hungry

Going Strong

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

More likely they closed due to the poor standard of food they served and better late night takeaways opening up.

Do these other takeaways have drunken fights outside the place on the hour, every hour? If not, then they're of no use as Abrakebabra replacements. Watching two blind-drunk foolahs fighting over the square root of feck all of an evening and trying to smear each other's faces across the window is part and parcel of the Abrakebabra experience.

"Abra-Abra-Kebabra. Gonna reach out and stab ya."

SEPT 23 1989

iDave wrote: »

This thread has made me hungry

there should be a ban on food threads before 1pm

Grab All Association

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

More likely they closed due to the poor standard of food they served and better late night takeaways opening up.

To be fair the Templemore franchise was good. Nice food reasonable prices. It did very little business though even in the celtic tiger era. Then again what business does make money there. Templemore is no longer classed a town these days just a suburb of Thurles.

The Cashel one was alright too.

keithclancy

The one in my locality was nicknamed Abrakestabra.

Mainly because someone had been stabbed there and a year after that one of the Staff stabbed a customer.

Mountjoy Mugger

gramar wrote: »

What happened to all the Abrakebabra franchises?

Have they all disappeared?

Don - er..

syklops

keithclancy wrote: »

The one in my locality was nicknamed Abrakestabra.

Mainly because someone had been stabbed there and a year after that one of the Staff stabbed a customer.

He sounds badass. :pac:

MRnotlob606

Duff wrote: »

Probably the fact that it's utter dogshít.

I don't know how the hell you can berate dog **** like that !!!:mad:

MRnotlob606

Abrakebabra is the ryanair of the fast-food industry.

Dan_Solo

TBF they were often the only place open 3ish when you wanted the feed. Food wasn't great alright. Kebabs were grand filler at that hour. I've had their burger and fries in the daytime sober as a non-alcoholic judge and it wasn't all that toxic.

Menas

This is the second thread today that has left me starving for a Kebab.

Grandeeod

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

there should be a ban on food threads before 1pm

A Food thread?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

cloud493

They charged 2.50 for 3 tiny pieces of chicken, they can go **** themselves :mad:

FGR

I just wish someone would publish the recipe for their hot bbq sauce.

EDIT: when I say recipe - i really mean Supplier :pac:

Iranoutofideas

I stopped eating there about 14 years ago when I noticed scabs all over the hands of the girl behind the counter.


Forever known as scabby hands. Puke.

EB_2013

They were always dead during the day so I'm surprised they could afford to stay around for as long as they did.

I used the one in Fairview once but after seeing the toilets that was my last time. It became a kebab place after that and it's now a cafe.

jester77

I was back in Galway recently and there was a coffee shop where they used to be. Who the hell wants a coffee after a night on the beer Their taco fries were legendary when not sober.

wp_rathead

jester77 wrote: »

I was back in Galway recently and there was a coffee shop where they used to be. Who the hell wants a coffee after a night on the beer Their taco fries were legendary when not sober.

In Galway and you would choose Abrakebabra taco chips over The Charcole Grill's taco chip? for shame jester! for shame!

steveone

Going Strong wrote: »

Do these other takeaways have drunken fights outside the place on the hour, every hour? If not, then they're of no use as Abrakebabra replacements. Watching two blind-drunk foolahs fighting over the square root of feck all of an evening and trying to smear each other's faces across the window is part and parcel of the Abrakebabra experience.

"Abra-Abra-Kebabra. Gonna reach out and stab ya."

All to do with the way people queue for food. Abra was an experiment to investigate the behavioural patterns of people queueing side by side as opposed to single file. The results speak for themselves:-)

Nodster

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

.....Forever known as scabby hands. Puke.

Ah I remember....Iris the Virus?

Greenmachine

Don't forget the one in westmoreland street dublin is gone too. One in leixlip went about 15 years ago.

RobYourBuilder

Chris___ wrote: »

To be fair the Templemore franchise was good. Nice food reasonable prices. It did very little business though even in the celtic tiger era. Then again what business does make money there. Templemore is no longer classed a town these days just a suburb of Thurles.

The Cashel one was alright too.

Never impressed, to be honest. Even for fast food, I thought that they were pretty bad. That said, I had American friends over not so long ago and they were raving about the Abrakebabra in Temple Bar. Brought one home with them any night that they ended up in town.


Iskanders and Zaytoon are pretty alright here. Got chips, a lamb kebab and a tin of orange for €9 one lunchtime not too long back.

The kebabs here in Ireland pale in comparison to those you can get in continental Europe. My ma lives nearby a lovely little Italian family owned pizzeria. Not a chain. I was in there over the summer after a Dublin game, hemming and hawwing, when the girl told us that their kebabs are good and that they make their own pitta. Their ingredients are pretty fresh, for an Irish pizzeria, so I thought I was onto a winner.

They then served it with this cold, pinkish gloop that was masquerading as chilli sauce. So close!

Son Of A Vidic

Duff wrote: »

Probably the fact that it's utter dogshít.

But since they largely appealed to the pisshead market, I doubt their clientele were ever too bothered about the quality of end product.

lufties

As a younger man, I used go there for a curry chip and cheese with bacon and a doner kebab..absolutely wonderfully tastey but by jesus was it unhealthy.

Agent Coulson

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Abrakebabra is the ryanair of the fast-food industry.

A Ryanair flight is probably cheaper than a Abrakebabra meal.

Ruu

Supermacs lite, still a few of them around. Apparently they tried to enter the UK market and failed.

salamanca22

It was way too expensive and the portions were way too small.

Ohh and I guess it didn't help that it tasted like crap.

markmacken

They've slowly become less and less of a presence in Dublin alright. In fact, I'd struggle to think of where you'd find one in Dublin now. Maybe that one near Break for the Border? I haven't been up that way in a while.

Have to say btw, there's only one time I ever got food-poisoning in Dublin, and it was from a burger I got in Abra on O'Connell St (across from The Spire, now long gone). I'd say it was just to do with that franchise though, as I never had the same problem with any other Abrakebabra.

KungPao

I actually like their kebabs!

cloud493

The one in pavilions in swords is still there, least it was a month ago. And the one in rathmines by the e-cig shop?

TwoShedsJackson

salamanca22 wrote: »

It was way too expensive and the portions were way too small.

Ohh and I guess it didn't help that it tasted like crap.

If the food was that bad why would you want a larger portion?

SuperS54

Nothing better than a garlic chicken roll and garlic cheese chips after a feed of porter. The drunken nights I spent slobbering down that stuff while watching fight club inside and out will stay with me and my clogged arteries forever.

Actually got a shag out of a particularly violent incident in the Abrakebabra in Dundalk, was cowering in the back near the jacks and got talking to a little lovely, once everyone else had been arrested or was dead there was no queue so we ordered, received and carefully avoiding the pools of blood and vomit headed back to hers!

Do feel sorry for my brother who had to share a room with me and to all the passengers on the bus who had to endure my garlicy snores and emissions the morning after!

Just remembered, on one occasion I went to Abrakebabra sober in the afternoon, all looking forward to my lovely chicken and garlic feast ~ it was absolute muck, couldn't finish it. I think they've died out because there's less drinking out being done.

RobYourBuilder

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

If the food was that bad why would you want a larger portion?

Because one is rubber drunk?

flanzer

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Abrakebabra is the ryanair of the fast-food industry.

More like Laker Airways

uck51js9zml2yt

I used to work in westmoreland St in the 90's. Was a miracle getting out alive after a night shift between knives and drug dealers. Regularly had the drug kingpins in for a kebab.

Donny Brook is still there.

paulbok

Chaim Fluffy Scanner wrote: »

I used to work in westmoreland St in the 90's. Was a miracle getting out alive after a night shift between knives and drug dealers. Regularly had the drug kingpins in for a kebab.

Donny Brook is still there.

Ah Donny Brook, Irelands answer to Donny Brasco

Dan_Solo

http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/donnybrook

paulbok wrote: »

Ah Donny Brook, Irelands answer to Donny Brasco

deadybai

Chris___ wrote: »

Thurles, Clonmel, Cashel, Templemore, Dungarvan are just a few of the big number of takeaways that closed recently. Was it the Jedward and Edward happy meal thing they had that scared off the customers?

The owners doner runner. :pac:

Tabnabs

A mate of mine in college worked in their Dun Laoghaire branch in the 90s. He "inherited" the job from his sister who left after she witnessed a guy dying from a kick to the head (neck snapped when his head hit against the counter as he lay on the floor). The first day on the job my mate accidentally dropped a polystyrene cup into the chip deep fat fryer. He apologised to the manager thinking he would get the sack; manager looks around to see if anyone saw it and carried on serving chips to the punters for the rest of the day.

Even my mate went up the road to McDonalds for his lunch instead of eating their stuff...