Sited in an extension building to Retail Park 2 of the Blanchardstown Centre, this is a fragment of what it once was - as far as I can tell.
Captain Americas outlets are all licenced as pubs, and I believe always were. But the original on Grafton Street and the long-closed Tallaght branch were basically just restaurants with a small bar. This is a sizeable restaurant (without bar seating), with a live music venue (Captains Live) and a rooftop bar (Suas) sitting - as far as I can tell - unused above it. Part of the upper floor is a branch of Wagamama, franchise owned by the same operators and not connected to the pub internally, or at least not for the public.
They have Sky Sports and I suspect that if they aren't busy they aren't going to turn away a drink-only customer. It wasn't busy on the night I attended, but as this was the day before the likely first-pay-since-Christmas day for much of the country - and a Thursday - this isn't unexpected.
Its not decorated with quite the same value of memorabilia as Grafton Street, instead having rows of vinyl records on the walls as their main bits of music history. There is some sporting memorabilia in the main lobby which may have been more for the rooftop bar than anything else.
The burger menu is not the same as Grafton Street, meaning I had to slum it with processed cheese on my burger. It was still fine. Possibly a little dear, particularly when weighed up against the poorer but much cheaper food in Wetherspoons the opposite side of the centre.
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