I was always a bit unsure about whether I "had" to visit this pub or not - I was 99% certain I'd had a sneaky pint here in a previous guise of the pub when I was 17. But I couldn't remember which pub on Georges Street it was; so erred on the side of caution and marked none of them down until I (re)visited for certain.
15 years later, I've now definitely had a pint here - fully legally - and I've also completed the entire set of Bodytonic pubs. In Dublin, that is - they have one pub in Ennistymon in Clare which is significantly outside scope!
This is along the lines of the non-sportsbar Bodytonic ventures, although it does have TVs, and a ping pong table. There's a lot of pub here; and on the night we visited the upstairs was mostly closed - there was still access via the back stairs to the toilets even though there are others in the basement; but this was a weeknight in that weird bit of the year where every day is a Sunday and nobody goes far from home for a pint.
The premises received a substantial refit as "Whiskey Fair" in about 2014, a venture which did not last long, and contributes to a quite confusing interior fit currently as there is a mix of the deliberately shabby Bodytonic look along with the remains of the high end former life.
This was an improvement in atmosphere over the previously visited pub, by quite a substantial margin, but we had a dinner timeslot to go to so it was a single pint visit.
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