An odd combo of a traditional Dub-pub on the ground floor and a live music venue in the basement, this is only the second place I've seen an in-pub bookie in Dublin. The other was S1437 Leonards Corner and it may actually have been the same bookie, set up with a laptop and a lock box for cash on a table beside the bar.
I only visited the upstairs, mainly because it was the daytime and nothing was on downstairs. It's all as you'd expect, albeit maybe a little more like a pub in the Liberties than one specifically located where it is.
The nautical name here reflects that the pub looks out over Portobello Harbour, or what was. The harbour was filled in in the 1940s and is now a neat public square. The area is going to have quite a significant change soon, as the graffittied remains of the former Portobello College (merged and moved to the Dublin Business School sites some years ago) and the Ever Ready battery factory that make up the eastern side of the square are to be replaced with a hotel - the standard outcome for any site left empty for long enough!
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