Who doesn't want to go drinking with The Blues Brothers? For reasons unknown to me, The Manhattan has a Blues Brothers themed outdoor seating area - and a very substantial one at that.
Relatively recently called the Cock & Bull as a sister pub to the one in Coolock; you may think that the current name is part of the recent-ish trend of naming various things in Dublin after bits of New York. Nolita, N0088 Bleecker Street, the original idea of calling HSQ "Soho", and so on. But it isn't - its the original name of the pub from the 1840s
The pub is heavily food based, but its also very large so there is still plenty of space to sit for drinks. The drinks options are numerous as there is the full standard macro range; and then an equivalent number of craft/"fraft" taps of various kinds. Having seen one Hope IPA on the taps and ordering that, I was asked "which one?" - as they had both the standard and the session. I think there were actually four different Hope taps, as well as other Irish craft.
If you arrive at a time when there's a lot of food service going on, it'll be quieter to sit outside. Google is turning up absolutely nothing for the Blues Brothers connection, but there's plenty related to it out there to look at.
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