Topics specific to Grand Canal Dock, its environs and, most importantly, its inhabitants

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[QUOTE=“Sandymount Red, post: 1057371, member: 1074”]@Horsebox , Are those big inflatable rugby posts outside Clark’s a usual feature down there during rugby matches. They look fucking awful.

I hear the venerable Bob Prior has sold The Yacht and the upstairs is being gutted out already. Another piece of local heritage bites the dust :([/QUOTE]
They are indeed, pal. I hear that the lads from Body Tonic are taking over The Yacht. Interesting to see what the locals make of that.

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Can you speculate about what is going to happen to The Yacht please. I’ve no idea who these Body Tonic crowd are, but it doesn’t sound good.

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The crowd that used to run Craw Daddy which is good but it has the potential to be a hipster bar which is bad. I would say there will be people drinking there wearing glasses with no lens and drinking glasses of Buckfast with a hint of irony. Most likely this will enrage the locals and a few of the hipsters will get smashed by bricks.

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Body Tonic also ran George Bernard Shaw and Twisted Pepper I believe. Hardcore alternative hipsters. Worse than craft beer hipsters.

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Correct, Mac. It is the Bernard Shaw factor that has me worried that it will be a cuntfest.

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You’ll fit right in then won’t you…cunt!

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twisted pepper on middle abbey st?
they do on occasion get very good trance DJs in tho, i wouldnt give a fuck about the crowd as long as the music is good

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@Horsebox et al, did you see that a “Chocolate Park” is being built in GCD? Work has apparently started on it.

The Boland’s Mills development will encompass office space, apartments and shops, cafes and restaurants.

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[QUOTE=“Bandage, post: 1075536, member: 9”]@Horsebox et al, did you see that a “Chocolate Park” is being built in GCD? Work has apparently started on it.

The Boland’s Mills development will encompass office space, apartments and shops, cafes and restaurants.[/QUOTE]
My barber was telling me about the Boland’s Mills development yesterday evening, pal. Being developed by the same developers that did the building the Barbers is in-some American chaps according to my learned friend. What’s the Chocolate Park thing? Is that going to be the name of the development or is it some sort of homosexual theme park?

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I think it’s a theme park type thing aimed at kids / families with kids. Maybe along the lines of Tayto Park but chocolate based. I don’t know exactly what it entails but I’m expecting amusement rides, slides etc, statues made out of chocolate, little shops selling fancy chocolate designs / products, a museum about the history of chocolate, different chocolate characters. Like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory but a park rather than a factory.

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Bizarre. Where in GCD is this going to be, bud?

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Come out of Herb Street and take a left and walk down past Baker’s, Milano, Spar, the area with the U2 graffiti and head onwards for a bit more and there’s a bleak enough empty piece of land. Apparently it’s going in there.

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In fairness, if I was asked what’s the one thing that Dublin is missing, I’d have to say it’s a chocolate park.

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ELY in GCD is closing this week. The building has been sold and the new owners are either putting something else in or looking for much higher rent.

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Wow - that’s a revelation. I’ll miss Ely for its handiness more than its quality. I often visited midweek for the mixed seafood dish and a glass of wine.

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I was in Herb Street just after 10am and I ordered Eggs Benedict and an americano. I meant to order a sausage with the Eggs Benny but it completely slipped my mind. I was seething with myself when the order came out and I guess I could have asked them to add a sausage to it but it was my mistake and I didn’t want to cause any hassle. I really enjoyed the meal but I still couldn’t help thinking that a sausage would have complemented it nicely.

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what kind of roaster ruins an eggs benedict by drinking coffee and ateing a sausage

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Always found Ely in GCD vastly overrated. Very wide ranging beer selection about the only good thing about it.

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The type that looks forward to going to a restaurant for their homemade chips I’d bet.

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I didn’t eat a fucking sausage. Did you read my post at all?