Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This classic bar is the very exemplar of a traditional Dublin pub. The beautiful Victorian bar, wonderful snug and side room have been popular with…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This classic bar is the very exemplar of a traditional Dublin pub. The beautiful Victorian bar, wonderful snug and side room have been popular with…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Known simply as Grogan's (after the original owner), this is a city-centre institution. It has long been a favourite haunt of Dublin's writers and…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
A low-key entrance next to the trendy French restaurant L'Gueuleton leads upstairs to one of the nicest bar spaces in town, consisting of three huge rooms…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
A Victorian classic that is one of the city's most beautiful and best-loved pubs. Check out the ornate carvings in the woodwork behind the bar and the…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This opulent bar in the 18th-century Powerscourt complex combines Prohibition-era cool (staff in Peaky Blinders hats and sleeve garters) and Georgian…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This deliberately ramshackle boozer is probably the coolest bar in town for its marvellous mix of music (courtesy of its owners, the Bodytonic production…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
A daytime cafe and evening wine bar – this relaxing bohemian spot is surrounded by an eclectic mix of books and art. Housed in the previous headquarters…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This lavish bar is tucked into a basement on St Stephen’s Green, with weathered alcoves and cosy corners in which you can hide away with a cocktail. The…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
One of Dublin's best-known literary pubs, this classic boozer was popular with the likes of Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan (both of whom were…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Unpretentious, unaffected and incredibly popular, this cosy alternative bar – which is pronounced 'an-shuh', the Irish for 'here' – is a favourite with…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
An excellent pub for the craft-beer fans, which is no surprise considering it's owned by the Galway Bay Brewery. There's a dizzying selection of ales and…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
The ground-floor cocktail bar at the Drury Buildings is popular for pre-dinner drinks. It also has an Italian lunch menu of sandwiches, salads and other…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This teeny little Tardis of a bar has an eccentric apothecary vibe, with mixologists decked out in bow ties and a cocktail menu that reads like a novella…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Ex-rugby international John Lynch's pub is home to two kinds of punter: the in-for-a-pint-and-a-chat tippler who doesn't venture far from the Victorian…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
It doesn't matter that its name seems plucked out of a trendy focus group and the decor carefully curated to reflect current trends (art deco elements,…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
In a twist of irony, the home of the authentic pub has seen the arrival of a classic McPub, complete with pseudo-old hardware shop at the front and oak…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Our favourite cafe in town is this contemporary version of an Edwardian tearoom. Walnut floors, art deco chandeliers and wall-to-wall displays of handsome…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This sleek and rather saucy cocktail bar is the place to take someone you want to impress – snifters of Prosecco are served while you browse the menu, or…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
The Stag's Head was built in 1770, remodelled in 1895 and thankfully not changed a bit since then. It's a superb pub: so picturesque that it often appears…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Midweek this big contemporary bar is a relaxing hang-out for young professionals, and restaurant and bar workers on a night off. But come the weekend the…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This handsome building has lain dormant for decades, but a recent refurb has created the Lucky Duck, a warm and stylish bar with three floors of cosy…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This Brooklyn-style bohemian hang-out is full of mismatched vintage furniture, American-style pint glasses and an alternative soundtrack veering towards…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
If you’re a fan of latte art, you’ll be swooning at the creations that come out of this cool little cafe on Aungier St. But, thankfully, it’s not all…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Probably as close to a country boozer as you could find in the city, O'Connell's is the kind of place that draws in a solid crowd of locals and regulars…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Always buzzing when the evening draws in, the Camden Exchange does a roaring trade in simple cocktails (the Gin Garden Mojito goes down a treat) and…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
The purple mother of Dublin's gay bars is a long-standing institution, having lived through the years when it was the only place in town where the gay…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
The grandaddy of the city's contemporary bars has steadfastly stuck to the formula that made it cool in the first place: wooden floors, plain brick walls…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Clubbers familiar with the Hakkasan experience – whether in London or in Las Vegas – will recognise that the Opium is trying to do the same thing, albeit…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
An architectural beauty, this giant red-brick-and-iron-girder room that was once a Victorian sausage factory is now a large, breezy bar that stands as a…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
A big, sprawling bar spread across three floors, the Mercantile's stock-in-trade has been tourists, mostly of the stag-and-hen type, who fill the place at…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
A white marble bar, lots of elegant wood and teal panelling…this handsome bar is undoubtedly eye-catching, and popular for post-work drinks or a good…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This massive place is better known as Dicey Reilly's (or just Dicey's) and is one of Dublin's most popular bars, spread across a couple of levels with…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Antiques, eye-catching art and elegant bric-a-brac adorn this bar that quickly established itself as a favourite with the trendy crowd. At the back is…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
This smallish pub with a huge personality is a top spot for an afternoon pint. It has a long bar, stained-glass windows, red-velour seating and a…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
Chart hits and club classics are the mainstay at this club that for a time fancied itself as the late-night dance floor of choice for the city's VIPs and…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it entrance opens up to a spacious bar with elegant 1940s-style decor, adding a touch of ageless cool to a buzzing neighbourhood…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
In rural Ireland you don't go clubbing; you go to 'the disco' for a drink, a dance and – hopefully – 'the shift', a particularly Irish way of describing…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
James Joyce would barely recognise the bar that Leopold Bloom popped into for a Gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of burgundy in Ulysses. It doesn't stop…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
One of a string of off–Grafton St, classic Victorian boozers once patronised by Dublin's legless literati, Neary's is a perfect stop-off day or night. It…
Grafton Street & St Stephen's Green
A true veteran of the city's club scene, Rí Rá – one half of the Irish expression rí rá agus ruaile buaile ('ree raw aw-gus roola boola'), which…