Dublin

Nassau Street Porterhouse would be the nearest one to Pearse Street pinefox

Only thing I cared about on Dawson Street was the bookshops and there's only one now :(

murder inc rip

Dawson st's just a nice one to wander, i find. Coffeehouses and upscale gent's outfitters and ok bookshops are gone but i remember them fondly

Porterhouse to which i refer is at the west end of temple bar area.

There's a great run of embassies around wellington rd in ballsbridge

Phoenix park is nice, and enormous

Heuston is like a railed port for famine ships bringin the hopeless back west, you'll always meet a fella there you know 'from before'

there is a porterhouse in westport now, while we're logging them.

This is probably the emigrant in me speaking, but by far my favourite thing about Dublin is simply "being in Dublin".

If I had to make a top three:

- Running in the Phoenix Park
- Grogan's on Castle Street (not a regular haunt of mine but quite special)
- TCD Front Square late at night (so peaceful it barely feels like you're in a city at all) and at dawn

Not sure anyone needs to see Chapelizod before they die ime.

it's best imagined using phonetic prophecy

last time i was home my friends took me to crackbird on south william st, which is a sort of pop up fried chicken place, good fun and a good atmosphere. may contain irish version of hipsters.

bar-wise i'm fairly out of the loop but georges street has many of the best imo, or if you go further south from there there are some good pubs a lot of the way along.

Yeah, I mainly frequent the hipstery bars so i'm keeping quiet on that score. Not a hipster though I swear

what are the hipstery bars? i tend to go to the bernard shaw just cos i used to dj with bodytonic so i am always likely to meet some of the old pals there, that and they sell decent beer.

Hipstery bars of my time (1999-2001): Modern Green Bar, Hogan's

The Shaw, Pygmalion, Twisted Pepper. Generally at the Bodytonic spots just cause they book good people

Whelan's, depending on who was playing

Whelans is hipstery to an extent but it's just too much of an institution now

I recall a dance club, not so noteworthy on its own, but which hosted a weekly DJ set consisting of 80s/early-90s indie, shoegaze, space rock & such.. That was always a reliably great night out & hipster central full-stop.

idk i dont like dublin that much, i guess i would probably say top three douglas hyde gallery, the luas, and getting late coffee on south williams street, which i guess makes me super boring

I would like to add to the top of my bottom three: Registering w/ the Garda - the fucking worst!

Ronan will sort that one out for you.

Best part of living in Dublin for me, as someone who goes to a lot of gigs, is simply having access to a wider variety of live music. Like i lived in Galway for years and it was always immensely frustrating having to travel to Dublin or miss out. Galway has actually gotten a lot better in that respect in recent years though, basically since i left

pub wise I have had some of my best times in the Lord Edward

also the Stag's Head
O'Neill's, granted it's a sprawl
and Nealon's which was once the Vicar's local
in fact that pub on or near Camden Street which was the Vicar's local later on was also good

went to Guinness Brewery with Lara Byrne once, that was a good time

All those pubs are solid choices. To be honest, when I lived in Dublin I went to Doyle's more than anywhere else (lol student) so I still have a lot of affection for there even if it's pretty unexceptional.

doyle's is a fixture alright

What's the place opposite, or close to opposite dublin castle? Thomas read's? Good pub.

and Nealon's which was once the Vicar's local

still possibly the pub I go to the most, as SF book club always ends up there.

in fact that pub on or near Camden Street which was the Vicar's local later on was also good

this is Devitts, a nice old man / local pub (ie not for hipsters, except to extent that I am a hipster). I don't go there much now as it is not so near me (and sad old vicar does not go to pubs so much anymore either).

Rathmines really is a desert for decent pubs.

Just read the new answers now. Glad to see the ILX hivemind subconsciously directed me to the Porterhouse last night (staying directly opposite). Good food and beer. Just walking back from the gaol now - definitely worth a trip. Is the Guinness Storehouse any cop? A bit put off by the fact it's not actually a brewery tour. Oh, if anyone's up for a pint Sunday, or indeed tonight, I'm in town.

Honourable mention for the Chester Beatty Library, by far my favourite museum in Dublin (since they closed the crazy Victorian-science Natural History Museum anyway).

Storehouse is a bit weak imo. View from the top is nice though

The Natural History Museum (aka the Dead Animal Zoo) is open again, huzzah.

Yeah, the Chester Beatty is a gem. I wuv the cafe there.

Mr Kappa - Guinness Storehouse is a huge building and you get a great view of Dublin from the top. I've never done the tour but I was there for an event once. If you like views and industrial architecture it is worth visiting. If you were living the tourist dream you could do it as the first part of a triple header followed by the Irish Museum of Modern Art (in the olde Royal Hospital Kilmainham) and Kilmainham Gaol (where our dead patriots were killed by the evil foreigner).

Chester Beatty library is stunning. So much interesting stuff.

The Kilmainham tour is definitely worth doing as well.

i'm djing at mother in copper alley on saturday btw...dubliners.

The gaol tour was worth doing. It's the prison from The Italian Job! The storehouse was pretty shite though, interesting how they set it up, but the whole thing was just a giant advert. Decent view but it was already dark. The screens where you can watch the vintage Guinness TV ads were good though.

I think a lot of film scenes were done in Kilmainham, probably because it is one of few oldschool jail-like buildings that are not in use as a jail.

mmm, slightly less films than I thought, but they include THE FACE OF FU MANCHU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmainham_Jail#Films

BAH! I always forget to put links on a separate line, as a way of avoiding the horror that is Full Justification.

I think a lot of film scenes were done in Kilmainham, probably because it is one of few oldschool jail-like buildings that are not in use as a jail.

The reason is that the guys wanting to restore the gaol had no money and hiring it out to film crews was the only way they could raise the cash!

dmac in dublin is 'a thing'

aside from becoming an urbanite wretch of the highest and totally selling out my heretofore begrudging stony grey soil of mayo disavowal of all things east of tarmonbarry, i'm quite looking fwd to a few years amongst the enemy.

Aside from evening courses, five a side at ucd, boardsdeals-funded meals out, long and brisk walks around muggers and heroin-users along the canal, and three hours on the 16a from the centre to terenure, any clues from the locals as to what to expect?

Bear in mind that i'm in the bottom 5% of ilxors as rated by culture, though as to whether that's been environmentally-stymied thus far or not is open to (short and bad-natured) debate.

You are staying out in Terenure? Noice.

when i burn my bridges i nuke em

terenure/rathgar is, indeed, noice, but it is, unfortunately, temporary.

Is daft.ie the best way to find accommodation, or should we register with a few agencies? Bear in mind that we're not going to be able to come up with much in the way of references, having lived 'at home' for the past few years.

Any clues/advice as to area? Kilmainham/inchicore seem like a winner in terms of the price/transport/decent accommodation available balance.

I can get to work from anywhere but ms mac is stuck out at eastpoint (near clontarf) which is a bit of a pain.

Daft does the job I think. How about Stoneybatter? Near the Luas and stuff.

I'd say you'd be able to get somewhere with a garden etc. in Kilmainham/Inchicore for a similar price to what you'd pay for something pokier in Stoneybatter. But if you like hipster street parties and the like then go for it. I live in Drimnagh, so i can vouch for that end of town but i rent from a friend so i never ran into any problems with references or anything.

do i come across as hipster street party guy? i must be doin somethin wrong

thought that might be a red flag

Despite the supposed hipster cachet over here in D7, there were a posse of mucksavages knocking a sliothar about at the bottom of my street today, so you'd probably fit right in.

new rule- if you can't spell it you don't get to complain about it

dublin what's good

recommended things to do & places to eat? there first weekend in august

1. Find a nice pub (lots of suggestions upthread)
2. Have a Guinness
3. Go to step 2

otm, all of the pubs upthread well worthy of your time. Whereabouts you stayin

I'd suggest fap but i'm in kinsale that w/end

I have a weird relationship with Dublin but sometimes I fall so hard for the city all over again.

if you want hipster food go to bear or crackbird, google away. if you want guinness go to keogh's on south anne street. if you want music i'd say maybe twisted pepper (good lineups but venue is okayish at best) or bernard shaw (loads of children but a decent pub with good beers relative to dublin in general)

not sure about good high end restaurants, it's been too long for me and my friends don't seem to know. winding stair was the last one that people rated and still seem to.

some of my recs may be out of date, don't live there.

hang on, i think cozen likes craft beer, if so "against the grain" is dublin's craft beer bar, and in a fairly vibrant part.

i am ready to be told i don't have a clue tho, the longer i live away, the more i tend to spend my weekends home in suburbia cos i enjoy how totally different from london it is.

Also good for interesting beer is Mulligans in Stoneybatter (where I spent most of today)

*chicken fillet roll

i’d characterise it more as a roll than a sandwich, yeah

it was a chicken club on an onion bap

philistine, dunno why i bothered

he had a right go about black panther but it was background noise i was talkin to a cute blonde at the time

can confirm that "the one north of manhattan" also known as "the one spiderman attended" is indeed columbia fyi

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can confirm that "the one north of manhattan" also known as "the one spiderman attended" is indeed columbia fyi

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except it's in the north of manhattan, not north of manhattan

everything's relative smartass

look just as long as we can all agree that it’s the alma mater of peter parker, the amazing spider-man

yeah i was hardly off by miles

i got sunburned btw, thanks for nothing dublin

actually, Peter Parker attended "Empire State University" in the comics

an why you be like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLA67dbBLAc

they were puns about miles morales and nyu

Any suggestions of particularly good pubs within about a 15 minute walk of Trinity College?

that's pretty much all of them!

but more specifically, The Long Hall (Georges Street), Mulligans (Poolbeg Street), Grogans (South William Street)

Thanks! Yeah I don’t have my head around the distances yet, I suspect everything is closer than it looks on a map.

I used to like O’Neills in Suffolk St but haven’t been there in about 10 years.

everything is walkable.

the whiskey bar beside/adjoining porterhouse nassau st is good for whiskey

upstairs at rustic stone for cocktails

upstairs at central hotel for sherlock holmesy ambience

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BUSARAS

all my Busáras memories involve being cold