Friday 21 June 2019

S1464 Pimlico Tavern

The mononymic street of Pimlico is an odd mix of squat two story buildings, with comparatively very tall 3 story former commercial structures at the end of blocks and 1960s Dublin Corporation flat blocks.

Sitting slightly incongrously in the middle of them is a mid 1990s 4 story building of modern apartments with a large pub on the ground floor. This replaced the previous Pimlico Tavern at the same address. A 1997 planning application to add the oddly mismatched top floor to part of the block mentions converting the first floor from a lounge to further apartments; so if this was fitted out originally the pub would have been vast.

Publin mentions the pub reopening in 2008, so presumably it had closed in the intervening period, but much of the decor likely dates to the mid 1990s still. The prices are closer to the early 2000s, with a pint available for €3.85 when I visited - if you'll drink Beamish.

Its a bit out of the way and feels very much a locals pub compared to some pubs in the Liberties these days, but that isn't a negative in anyway.

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