S3271 Marys

This is another Press Up premises, and features a branch of their burger chain Wowburger in what I imagine used to be the dancefloor - for this is one of Dublins "lost nightclubs", something it served the city as under multiple rapidly changing names - in the five years before it became Marys it was  Basebar, then AKA, then briefly a gay bar called Wilde and then even more briefly Madison. 

But its now branded as a "Bar and Hardware Store", styled on the similar setups that were once extremely common across rural Ireland. This has bene the name above the door for more than five years now, providing a stability that the premises probably hasn't seen since the days when there was the Wicklow Hotel on the site.

The "Hardware Store" part of the name is backed up by a small but baffling range of hardware on the shelves - with an emphasis that it is all for sale, and indeed they are all tagged with Topline Hardware price tags. Presumably these are from wherever they bought them originally as the pub is not listed as an outlet on the Topline website!

The bulk of the pub here is underground - there is a bar and some seating upstairs, but significantly more seating and the large Wowburger area downstairs. It isn't quite the case that "if you've seen one Press Up venue, you've seen them all" - there are a few disparate styles, but this is so similar to some others you will probably feel quite at home.