Tuesday, 6 November 2018

S1497 Harkins (The Old Harbour)

Ah, a pub that promotes itself around one of its customers dying after drinking there! Sounds like a lovely place....

...which it is really. And actually the Behan link isn't played on as much as it used to be, although as there will be literary tourists visiting it is still mentioned.

A relatively small building, the bar downstairs serves a reasonable range of product but the restaurant upstairs is the main attraction. Fairly newly fitted out in a style that I can only describe as "very fancy greasy spoon", the menu of pub grub standards is done to an exceptional quality. This seems to be a new addition, indeed my menu had "pre launch menu 2018" printed on the top of it.

The pub puts up signage to lure tourists away from the Guinness Storehouse and indeed is the closest pub to it in walking distance terms, however there were only a few tourists there when I visited - the same tourists had even been in S1502 McCanns previously when I was there and clearly made the better choice by moving to Harkins.

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