1012867 Temple Bar Inn

This hotel has one of the largest bar/restaurants I've seen in a newer hotel; and when I visited, basically no other customers - two English women, hotel residents, were finishing up and left while I was there.

Part of this is that there is no indication from outside that the bar is even here, and indeed initially there was no bar when the hotel first opened - it bought in the licence from N0741 Edenmore House a year or so after opening.

The hotel surrounds the Tesco on the ground floor of its building - the reception, restaurant and bar are under the Tesco and the rooms above. You need to go down the stairs or lifts immediately after entering, and may need to tell the security guard what you're doing - but there are no problems going in.

If you really need to meet someone in/near Temple Bar, and don't like how busy everywhere else is, this should be perfect - until enough people have realised it's here, I guess.