S3903 Pygmalion

This is a pub that had eluded me for quite a while, as it is often very busy - even when other places aren't.

I swept up a lot of the South City Centre busy pubs over two Easter Sundays (2018 and 2019), and on both days, Pygmalion had ticketed events on. Other times I've gone past, and there has been a queue outside, with door staff using tickers to confirm the numbers inside.

However, on the day I visited, the city centre was oddly quiet for the time of year, and Pygmalion was even quieter, so I had no issues heading inside. Indeed I think I may have been the only customer inside, as most people were sitting in the external seating area on Coppinger Row.

The other reason is that it just isn't my type of pub - a very hip cafe bar that becomes a nightclub that primarily plays music I have no interest in listening to.

As far as I can tell, this space - in the Powerscourt Townhouse shopping centre which itself is a redeveloped Georgian mansion - only became a pub for the first time in the early 00s, as a branch of the small Ba Mizu chain that also existed in Howth and Belfast. 

I think, but cannot be certain, that the space was originally Timmermans Wine Cellars - its the only unit that goes in to the cellars, that I know of; but this would have had a wine licence, and the pub licence serial number is early 00s. Timmermans vanishes from newspaper records in the late 80s and I don't know what was there before Ba Mizu appears in about 2003.

Ba Mizu lasted under a decade, but Pygmalion is now well in to its second decade, so clearly it is keeping up with changing tastes in pubs and clubs; and I'm not.