Irish Pubs
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Sounds like commercial suicide!
Cheers mate, Huddle Bar sounds good to me.
laidlawjock
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Especially as Scotland are playing the same night.
Agree. I detest them. Utter tourist trapsIrish bars are utter dross(most of them anyways)
Buckley
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Irish bars are utter dross
Irish 'themed' bars. Pubs created and run by Irish people are almost all brilliant.* Flat-packing any culture doesn't work for anyone who knows anything about what they are looking for.
*only exception I know is the brief period where the North London Irish pub where everyone we grew up with, well, grew up, was run by a publican who hated the public. He could have just carried on what had been built for decades before him, but he was unique in his ability to make a genuine institution unpopular. Thriving again, in good hands, these days.
LP_IBIZA
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Buckley
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No. Toolans in North Finchley.12 Pins!?
Irish bars are having a moment in the UK too, very weird and I say that as an Irish person. Seems to be a new one opening in Manchester every week and somehow not being viewed as tacky in the way they used to be. Was discussing it with the wife and we think it links to Guinness having their own moment off the back of the splitting the G thing and the success of Fontaines DC and Kneecap.
JayDR8
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There is a real element to this. Here in SW London there is almost a personality type that includes being a 'proper' Guinness connoisseur, which includes many other wanky traits also. It's all very odd as a 'bad' Guinness tastes fine enough, but get a bad lager and it tastes like f***ing vinegar. The Guinness marketing team are GOAT IMO.
My local here in SW London does the picture perfect pint and has one of only a few 0% taps in London. It’s a proper old school little spot and has some traditional Irish music also!
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Digital2013
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Guinness is having a boom, they also can't keep up with production on their 0% version which is the best no alcohol drink I've tasted in fairness.
Who ever came up with splitting the G needs a big pay rise. Get the consumer to neck a third of a pint in one so they buy another one sooner. Genius.
Who ever came up with splitting the G needs a big pay rise. Get the consumer to neck a third of a pint in one so they buy another one sooner. Genius.
Clara
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Thankfully noticed very few of these in MCR last week - which still has plenty of great pubs. Although the beer is getting really expensive.
2H76
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It is generally, but it depends on where you look; if you are in one of the towns on the outskirts of Manchester (ie Bolton/Bury/Wigan) decent pubs (and I don't mean 'Spoons!) sell a pint for will under £4, next time I'm out and about pubcrawling I'll make a list!!
Wonder what it's like down south (ie Didsbury)???
Clara
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I completely understand this - my husband is from Stockport - although that has also become gentrified and more expensive over the last 20 years.
It’s great to see Manchester thriving (thanks to Media City in important) as I have been there since the mid-90s to watch City, then at Maine Road, but a pint is now a lot more expensive in the centre, as is the case around much of the UK. Yet I didn’t feel such a jump in Glasgow when there two week ago (and where I lived from 1998-2010).
My husband felt parts of Manchester were completely unrecognisable compared with even 5 years ago due to all the new development.
2H76
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Hate to write this as a Lanky, but central Leeds trumps Manchester in my book - I'm not really sure what Manchester is these days, tons of skyscrapers in the centre but also run-down areas that need a lot of TLC; and I put the Northern Quarter (hey, if you want an expensive beer...) in that bracket - so much opportunity if it had a brush-up. Also the Gay Village ain't what it was - maybe it's because I'm getting older! But on the plus, Media City in Salford is relatively new and booming, although that's lost a bar since I last went.