![]() Ryan’s is the pub section of the restaurant and doesn’t have the full steakhouse menu - yet it also lacks the prices that come with a high-end steakhouse. Buckley Steakhouse chain, which was started in the 1930s by high-end butchers (also the same butchers that Joyce’s Leopold Bloom buys his kidneys from in Ulysses). It’s attached to and run by an outpost of the F.X. Think wild Irish rabbit, pâté, ribeye, and oysters. Located across the River Liffey from Guinness’s James’s Gate Brewery, Ryan’s of Parkgate Street has what is widely considered one of the best food menus of all of Dublin’s pubs. These are the best non-touristy Dublin pubs to drink at. ![]() Then leave for a pint somewhere else to enjoy typical Irish craic (banter) in a snug (walled-off section of the pub for small groups). If you feel the need to be a part of the never-ending stream of people with a picture in front of Temple Bar and socialize with other travelers instead of locals, by all means, do so. ![]() All this is to say that it’s easy to find the proper Irish pub experience in Dublin - so long as you avoid the frenzied tourist masses in and around Temple Bar. Nearly all of them pour a proper pint of Guinness. Many have the level of charm that’s made the Irish pub one of the country’s most exported cultural institutions. There are more than 750 pubs in Dublin, not including hotel bars and restaurants. “If everyone has a lager and only one person has a Guinness, probably not a good place for a Guinness.” ![]() “Walk into a bar and if everyone has a Guinness, it’s a good place,” he said. On a recent trip to Ireland, my driver taking me from the airport to my hotel offered up the best advice I’ve heard about getting a good Guinness in an Irish pub. ![]()
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