Wahey! Its somewhere I actually liked finally! Its a hotel bar, though, so not the most likely place to go for atmosphere - but the food is good.
This is a small hotel located on the Main Street in Swords, and has been in operation since at least the 1980s, originally as the Hawthorn Hotel.The bar makes up the majority of the ground floor and seems to do a solid food trade. Its comfortable and the food menu is a bit more varied than a normal pub menu - I had a goats cheese soup, which sounds like it could go horribly wrong but was executed perfectly.
A lot of hotel bar visits end up either having a dry carvery or sitting at a perch in a lobby bar that really doesn't want outside visitors (or advertises to them, but makes it impractical to use) so this was a nice change - and rare enough for a hotel substantially outside the city centre. The town centre location probably provides the business for them to operate more like a pub, and as the hotel isn't huge I'd guess it would provide a decent proportion of their income.
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