Monday 24 June 2019

1015426 Rubys

This is one of my regular lunch spots, being very close to my office. Primarily a restaurant, it does all the regular table service fast food products - except beef burgers. There's an Eddie Rockets next door, probably not worth selling the same products - so pizza, chicken burgers and steaks make up the bulk of the menu. They have a branch in Swords also, but this is not licenced as a pub.

They do however have a bar, and even have outdoor taps for busy events in the 3Arena next door; so I had assumed it must have had a pub licence all along - the Revenue list does not always reflect every potential licence holder; and then finally it appeared in the June 2019 listing. This is the second retrospective visit I've had to record, after 1013222 Hudson Rooms upgraded from a restaurant licence to a pub licence - although I'll inevitably have another pint in Rubys shortly.

I imagine the licence came from the now closed and demolished 1001897 Bunker which was under the public area outside which now has the Exo Building under construction on it. This was in the foundations of the otherwise unbuilt Watchtower Building

The foods good, its fairly cheap and the lunch loyalty card they do has a very quick payback. This is reflected in its popularity - it can be very difficult to get a seat here for Friday lunch, particularly on the last Friday of the month; and nigh on impossible on gig nights

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