How many Irish Pubs does your city have?

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

I really like the look of those grim, unfashionable Irish pubs in London where you just go underground for ten years and develop cirrhosis in an ashtray.

Not so keen on this, where it looks like you'd end up playing Battleship with some guy from a startup called Plurp.ly.

Looks very "Ottawa".

[JManc]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Irish pubs are kind of reliable lol. My favorite bar in Amsterdam is an Irish pub.

Exactly. If beer selection sucks at most places (not Amsterdam but definitely Paris) you can always count on an Irish pub to have Guinness on tap.

[craigs]

Originally Posted by maru2501

most Irish bars in Chicago don't say TGI McScratchy's on the door

it's a neighborhood bar, owned by an Irish family

That's also true of Boston and its inner suburbs.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by JManc

Exactly. If beer selection sucks at most places (not Amsterdam but definitely Paris) you can always count on an Irish pub to have Guinness on tap.

Controversial take: Irish beer is only average (Belgian, German, and American craft beer are much better) and Irish food is almost as bad as English food.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Controversial take: Irish beer is only average (Belgian, German, and American craft beer are much better) and Irish food is almost as bad as English food.

I'd agree with all this.

Still better than Dutch food, though.

[Wigs]

There's one pub called Paddy's. It's run by a degenerate brother and sister, their charmingly acerbic father and two of their idiot friends.

It may be the worst Irish pub this side of the Delaware River.

[craigs]

Originally Posted by Wigs

There's one pub called Paddy's. It's run by a degenerate brother and sister, their charmingly acerbic father and two of their idiot friends.

It may be the worst Irish pub this side of the Delaware River.

The locals really love it, though.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Controversial take: Irish beer is only average (Belgian, German, and American craft beer are much better) and Irish food is almost as bad as English food.

American craft beer is hard to beat but if I'm at a place that only has shitty IPA's, I'll get whatever Belgian they have or a Guinness if nothing.

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by craigs

The locals really love it, though.

[jmecklenborg]

Originally Posted by JManc

Exactly. If beer selection sucks at most places (not Amsterdam but definitely Paris) you can always count on an Irish pub to have Guinness on tap.

On that note, it's hilarious how there is some effort afoot to drop the Irish from the Irish Car Bomb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql17oPlaw34

When I was 22 or 23 I was at a bar where some exchange student from Ghana named George bought the entire house Irish Car Bombs. It cost him like $250 but he made about 55 friends. I think I hugged him.

[Xelebes]

Edmonton has O'Byrnes, and Duggan's. We have two. In a city of 1.4 million in Canada. Huh.

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Originally Posted by eschaton

Controversial take: Irish beer is only average (Belgian, German, and American craft beer are much better) and Irish food is almost as bad as English food.

It's not that bad, is it?

[10023]

^ That’s English food, plus soda bread. And yes, it’s bad. A full English (or Irish) breakfast is simply not good and that second dish, whatever it is, looks gross.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by JManc

American craft beer is hard to beat but if I'm at a place that only has shitty IPA's, I'll get whatever Belgian they have or a Guinness if nothing.

what kind of bars are you patronizing that only have "shitty IPAs"?

since the craft revolution blew-up nationwide over a decade ago now, i can't recall the last time i was in a bar that didn't have multiple options for different styles of american craft beer available.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Controversial take: Irish beer is only average (Belgian, German, and American craft beer are much better) and Irish food is almost as bad as English food.

I mostly agree with this, but food at Irish pubs are much better than what you get from English pubs... That said, I don't think I've ever been into an Irish pub that exclusively served Irish beer or Irish food.

[samne]

Toronto has a bunch of Irish pubs, but not sure how many are really authentic. Many recreated almost chain-like cartoonish versions.

What Toronto has loads of is more authentic new and really old school British pubs or as there also called “taverns”. Kinds of places that haven’t changed in generations.

[mrnyc]

well who is going to argue corned beef & cabbage? its nice. and i say that as a hungarian even though we do cabbage much, much better and all year round.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Controversial take: Irish beer is only average (Belgian, German, and American craft beer are much better) and Irish food is almost as bad as English food.

here’s another controversial take. irish pubs suck. not because of comfy looks or nice craic music nights, but because the food is lame, beer choices are usually terrible and worst of all the music is aggravating af. i’m talking about real irish bars here run by fresh irish. the house will be guaranteed to be playing 2-3 good songs and just when you start to relax and get your groove on blam they will drop in some terrible all new irish crap song and just kill the vibe.

[pj3000]

I love me some corned beef with potatoes, cabbage, and carrots and love me some shepherd's pie. I could eat the stuff, alternating each day, and be happy (and morbidly obese) with my life.