Shops / Restaurants / businesses you miss in Dublin

whiskeyman

Anyone remember 'Nude'?
I was just thinking about them the other day.
Used to be green cafes selling wraps, salads, soups and pasta boxes.
There was one of Suffolk Street and Baggot Street as far as I remember.
Suffolk Street branch was where The Counter is now:

I used to pop in at least once a week and treat myself to the carbonara pasta box for lunch. Was a lovely treat and break from boring sambos!
Closed down in 2010 during the recession - was owned by Bonos brother!
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/nude-cafe-closes-doors-as-crisis-curbs-healthy-appetite-1.673312

Seems as a shame as they'd probably have done well in current climate... given the likes of 'Chopped' etc... springing up everywhere.

Are there any other businesses around town that you miss / wonder where they've gone?

fleet_admiral

I miss the soccer shop/soccer city on George's street and Cathedral street
The Earl bakery on north Earl street too, Dennis used to look after the customers in there so well

whiskeyman

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I miss the soccer shop/soccer city on George's street and Cathedral street
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Ah Pat Chaney's Soccer Shop!
Would drag my Mum there when I was a nipper whenver she went into town. Knew I'd never get anything, but just looking at all the jerseys and soccer stuff was enough to keep a little football mad kid satisfied!
Closed down around 10 years ago I think.
Online stores must have ultimately killed it.

SB_Part2

Abbey Discs.

BeerNut

Il Primo. I'd kind of assumed it would be there forever. Used to love Bistro on Castle Market too.

spurious

Roches Stores - for so many reasons.

Speedsie

Roches stores for household stuff.

And for some odd reason I miss the Indian shop 'Shree' . There was one on Grafton St, and one in the Ilac centre.

cactusgal

+1 for Nude, they had lovely wraps and muffins.

A-wear, I loved shopping there.

mockingjay

The Metro Station Cafe & sandwich bar on Tara Street, it was the first time I ever tasted a freshly baked baguette - and the 'exotic' chicken tikka filler. Staff were lovely.

gabria

Tower Records at its old Wicklow street location. it was more like a grand living room than the new location
I don't remember Virgin megastore so well but I think this was class too

Red Kev

Virgin Megastore. I used to get lost in there for hours back in the 80's and early 90's. By the time I had the readies to spend in it, it had closed down. :rolleyes:

tara83

A-wear, I loved shopping there.[/quote]

A wear was a great shop, still miss it. It lost its direction towards the end

c1ans7even

Chinese Restaurant above Millmont House pub in/on Drumcondra Road..was amazing
Finding it very hard to find a chinese restaurant as nice anywhere in the city

Red Kev

Cafolla Cafe on O'Connell St, beside where Supermac's is today. Youi'd be hoping against hope your mother hadn't brought any sambo's with her when we were in the city centre shopping as the only place she was happy to eat was there. She had a lot of time for the Italians after living in London in the 1960's. I loved that place.

Donal55

The Dandelion market.

L1011

Second hand computer game shop under the loop line on Talbot Street. Only place that did second hand PC games. Old Peats - as soon as it moved it was screwed

blue_blue

Gruel on Dame Street.

odyssey06

Roches Stores... my first memory is of a christmas shopping trip there.
The Carleton cinema... for 1980s christmas party movie events.
And MacTuircaills... the site of so many occasions during my college years.

For more practical reasons, Clerys & Boyers.

And I miss the Screen cimena too.

Arbie

blue_blue wrote: »

Gruel on Dame Street.

And its big sister the Mermaid Cafe up the road

Boulevardier

Fan's chinese on Dame Street, and the Alpha cafe on (or just off) Wicklow Street.

vicwatson

Boyers

retalivity

The manhattan & gigs place in portobello.
Silks on earlsfort terrace
Seashell chipper on townsend st.

r93kaey5p2izun

Roches Stores and The Ritz cafe on Middle Abbey Street.

JupiterKid

Bewleys - it was a Dublin institution. Criminal that it closed down all of its coffee shops.:(

Arthur Daley

Clerys, the epicurean. The French bakery on moore st.

imme

Ariana Purple License wrote: »

Roches Stores and The Ritz cafe on Middle Abbey Street.

The sign for the Ritz is still on the building in Abbey Street, saw the sign a few years ago,
A red 'RITZ' letters on the front of the building and wondered what the 'RITZ' was.

There's a couple of pics of the outside of the cafe in the City Council's photo archives some of which are online, just search.

I miss the Screen Cinema, as someone has already said.

Collie D

imme wrote: »

I miss the Screen Cinema, as someone has already said.

I was in the Savoy earlier in the week and I see they've moved the bronze usher statue that stood outside the Screen into their foyer.

imme

Collie D wrote: »

I was in the Savoy earlier in the week and I see they've moved the bronze usher statue that stood outside the Screen into their foyer.

Is the bronze usher in the Savoy now?

Felix Jones is God

Pilau Pinang Malaysian restaurant on O'Connell Street, it was above Burger King, a litttle jewel I loved visiting...It is now a sushi place I believe

Collie D

imme wrote: »

Is the bronze usher in the Savoy now?

Yup. Unless they have always had one too and I have just never noticed him.

imme

Collie D wrote: »

Yup. Unless they have always had one too and I have just never noticed him.

=D I think there was only ever one of them.

This got me thinking of the real life ushers, well more ticket collectors that they had in the Screen, older guys in dickey bows, they were there until 7/8 years ago.

You'd buy you ticket after queueing and then join another queue for the particular film you were going to.

These old codgers would marshal the queue and take your ticket.

The crowds of people ho used to go to the Screen back then.