The trend of the day (well, year - years already even) for new pubs in Dublin is Old. As in the pub has to look as if it's been there for around 100 years.
Some places do a fairly good job of this, but are let down by how new everything looks - 1021705 Porters falls in to this category. Some, like the one at the other end of the same building (South City Markets) - 1020516 O'Regans do better, but miss in some way or another - the seating layout and the toilets aren't 'right' for me in O'Regans for whatever reason.
MJ Wrights doesn't suffer from these, though. Whether that is down to the experience of running some olde-worlde-style pubs within the Wright chain, possibly some re-use of fittings from their other premises, or just re-use of fittings from the Rustic Stone restaurant and winebar which formerly sat on this site; I don't know - but the pub feels suitably lived in for something only a week old when I visited it.
My complaints about the place are the prices - but it is the city centre - and the stools being too high at the large table-thingy towards the back. Not inauthenticity or trying too hard, like they so could have been.
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