Before
After
Um.
This afternoon.
Fade Street, Dublin 2.
RTÉ’s Will Goodbody tweetz:
Previously open plan, this is what the radical alterations made by the Market Bar in Dublin to enable it to reopen today look like. Individual booths for all customer groups. Capacity has more or less halved as a result, but it still needs the same number of staff.
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I wonder how that has affected the unusual acoustics that place has
I would imagine it has improved the echoiness. impressive building but too vast for a boozer. Would make a nice market Halle Amsterdam style food hall
That place normally sounds like a Turkey warehouse. “Gobble-gobble-Gobble-GOBBLE!”
Now will be like a grave yard
As a restauranteur
Better not to open than endure this
This picture says a thousand words
Looks like a nice setup. Market Bar is one of my favourite places in Duberlin.
sorry? what? I can’t here you…..the acoustics in this place are terrible!
…and that mask isn’t helping.
Haven’t been in there that often when it is packed to the rafters. Mostly daytime drinking.
J’aime la nouvelle tête à tête . Meaningful intimate personal conversations and all that stuff in the movies.
I can’t see pubs surviving like this. The whole point of going to pubs for most young people is to meet other people outside your friend group. If you’re boxed into just your table with your mates all night you might as well be sitting in an apartment/house with them having drinks there, not paying 6euro for a pint to a pub.
Actually- this distancing thing may not be all bad. Pubs nowadays are designed to make you drink as much as possible as quickly as possible. Minimum seating and booming loud music so you keep knocking them back.
Now, no or little music and space to sit is a more civilized experience so they might have a hard job returning to the old ways- at least in the short to medium time.
Although in fairness I don’t remember The Market Bar ever having music?
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