N1130 Foxhunter

One of the back-from-the-dead pubs, that Press Up seem to be doing a lot of now (this being their fourth in Dublin alone). 

I spent a lot of money here as a teenager, but not in a manner that qualifies it for an automatic tick - I (briefly) went to school in the nearby CBS and had friends living nearby, with this hosting a reasonable off-licence at the time. The licence number is even the same as it would have been back then - there's no case of this being a new licence on an old premises. But I never drank *on* the premises back then.

Sold for 17m in 2008 (long after I'd stopped going there!), it then rapidly ceased to be successful and closed in 2012 and was eventually sold to Press Up in ~2019. Lockdown affected reopening, and for quite some time the pubs extensive carpark was used to offer Wowburger and Elephant & Castle service from temporary buildings while building work continued slowly on the pub. 

And those brands are now still the main offering here, with the drinking specific sections of the pub being a little limited in comparison, and offering just the now normal Heineken Ireland monoculture of taps; at premium prices.

Meh. Its fairly nice looking inside, like most Press Up properties; but for once quite unappealing from outside - a massive wall blocking it from the road, presumably to make outdoor drinking/dining less obnoxiously noisy. It's expensive, it's limited, it's out of the way on foot for most of the town. It'll probably still do fine.