Howth once had a significant number of hotels - 7 by my count - from the days when it was an actual tourist resort and not just a painfully expensive place to live near the city. It now has none.
However, three of them still operate as bars. The Summit Inn still retains its hotel licence, as well as a separate pub licence (inexplicably to me) but does only does food and alcohol trade now - and what a volume of that it was doing when I visited.
The proximity to the actual summit of Howth Head, as well as the bus stop serving it bring customers by the door and the weather that day was very pleasant to sit outside with a pint (or a coffee, in the case of the sizeable number of motorbikers using it as a rest stop)
There used to a nightclub - K2 - here, and to the rear there is a former snooker hall although I think not operationally connected; but the days of travelling to a distant nightclub died off soon enough after late licences became more generally available, and there isn't really sufficient walking distance trade to justify one.
The food offerings look decent - I didn't need to eat yet though - and the drinks range includes the nearly local Hope Brewery on tap, which I did buy. The views are nice in good weather, and while it can't beat S0380 The Blue Light in those stakes, it does have more modern facilities and no tourbuses of American tourists!
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