A lot to be said for Sinnotts.
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Do they still have that carvery. Got it once before at lunch and could barely keep my eyes open all afternoon.
Think they do during the week.
Fine pub grub in the evenings and at weekends.
For tonight? Tomahawk Tuesdays in Hellfire.
Reopened Coopinger is supposed to be good too.
No no, not for a few weeks. A Saturday night.
Gil knew…
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Francis Brennan was on the radio earlier and basically said the industry is fucked.
Rents up, energy up, wages up, VAT up and if you up your prices, the customers will vanish. Also had a pop at the WFH brigade, which has left the city centre a ghost town at lunchtime.
God be with the days when @Bandage would be down to the 51 every day at 12.35pm for the carvery and some networking.
We used to be a proper country.
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Mondays and Fridays dead now.
On top of all that they have let the city centre become a dangerous place…all in all a bad combo for business
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Things change. People have priorities. People stopped going for pints and a lot of pubs closed. Now people are not eating out and a lot of restaurants are closing. That’s the way of the world in business. You can’t make people eat out.
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Chocolatemice was lambasted on here a number of years ago by the neoliberals and good time Charlies for warning about the dangers to our domestic economy if we continued to ignore it.
All.our eggs are truly in the multi national basket now
Library St is v good
Spitalfields is excellent - maybe a bit on pricier side
Amuri on Chatham St is good and nice buzz.
Lotus Eaters on Nassau St is very good food and if a bit of a group they’ll enjoy it more
Maneki on Dawson St I like
Di Luca on Harcourt St is a v nice Italian.
I reckon Library St is the shout here
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Another point on pubs and restaurants. In this country pubs and restaurants worked financially only when the gaffer and the entire family worked in the establishment. In the Celtic Tiger a lot of publicans got hepped up on borrowed money and imagined they were some type of tycoons and filled their pubs with expensive staff. It was always going to end in tears.
The VAT thing is a pure cod. The idea that people will come back out ating in their droves if their mediocre steak is €36 instead of €38 in bullshit.
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It’s a very naive outlook these young chaps have nowadays.
The businesses are busy, they’re just not able to turn a profit, is my understanding.
Then they are in the wrong business.
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Nah, I’m spot on here.
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You can get a steak and chips for lunch in Marco Pierre White or FXB for about 30 euro.
FXBs or Bovinity are as good if not better than Hawksmoor but less salubrious dining room.
Shanahans was of its time. It’s too stuffy for most diners these days.
Dobbins reopened recently. There was some damage done there on Friday afternoons late 1990s early 2000s.
Reality is their real agenda is the extra 10% margin they can put in own pocket is what might make their business viable
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I actually think that fundamentally in the current environment there are hundreds, nay thousands of unviable businesses out there through no fault of the owner. Payroll will be up the guts of 20% based on min wage increases over past few years with ambition of Gov to get the min wage to 15 euro per hour within a few years…