From top: Lab pizza takeaway (arrowed right) and the Vicar St venue: Harry Crosbie, The Lab’s Rory Gleeson and Vicar Street staff member, Caroline Marsh; Harry with The Lab’s mode of delivery
This afternoon.
Vicar Street, Dublin.
Joanne writes:
‘Over the past year Harry Crosbie has worked on upgrading the iconic Dublin venue – Vicar Street. From a new mural on the main bar wall featuring award winning local singer, Imelda May amongst others, to new flooring in the auditorium and today Harry unveils something new – Pizza by Pram.’
Harry explains:
“Next door to Vicar Street, Lab makes delicious woodfired sourdough pizzas but he only has one table. We have 50 tables in an empty, well ventilated room literally meters away, so I thought we could do something together that would be fun hence delivery by pram.
“For a limited period we are offering two Pizzas and 2 pints or 2 glasses of wine for €35 on Friday and Saturday between 12 -6 and we will see how we go. An extra incentive is that every day we will raffle a pair of tickets to a gig at Vicar Street”.
Pizza By Pram Available at Vicar Street – Starting this Friday and Saturday.
25 euro for a pizza then.
We’re running a comp tomorrow so you might get one for free. Or you could make your own.
Or I could buy one for 15 quid somewhere else and not have to buy two pints for a special price.
Ouch
If we assume a drink is about €6.50 then it works out at €11 for a pizza.
€25 for a pizza?
I think maths may not be your strong point!
The offer is two pizzas and two drinks for a total of €35.
So, €17.50 per person.
So, around €11 for a pizza..
I hate Harry Crosbie.
I heartily agree Sara.
Another wide boy bottom hole.
Had to interact with him for my work in a State body a few years ago. He literally tried the ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ line when I wouldn’t break procedure for him.
To paraphrase Clive Anderson….Le Tosser.
Banville writes very highly of him in his Dublin memoir.
He does. But then Banville’s a tosser, as anyone who has met him knows.
In case you didn’t catch Imelda May on the Late Late, she’s always in Vicar Street ;)
Yeah she is getting a lot of exposure, but she always struck me as a decent sort.
Yes. The joke here is that RTE and media companies regard her as a ‘national treasure’ and keep rolling her out regularly, so she’s never not on a screen, wireless or venue wall. They do this to many an artist.
You can catch Imelda more places than Covid at this stage.
LOL- very good.
Excellent.
i thought crosbie was moaning that none of his old venues (point depot, grand canal theatre) would give him vip membership. he must have held onto vicar street so.
remember something vile about the bailout in 2008 that fintan o toole spotted. if crosbie wanted to buy his businesses back he only had to pay a fraction of the cost, not the amount of debt on them. in effect a bail out of the builders.
though is crosbie a necessary evil. he did build the vicar street and grand canal venues which are great to have. i wouldnt be able to do that.
he does have great ideas. i means a win win with one pizza restaurant with no tables and vicar street with empty tables at that time. i heard he is actually quite good at writing novels which he has done for charity.
Peprami on mine please
You lean-into this pram for a goo
At a babby you think must be new:
But instead there to greet-ya
Is a fresh sourdough pizza
An alternative to Deliveroo.
Heheheheheh
Nice !
I do adore a fine pizza – wood-fired only, thin-base – none of your Americanised “pies” with their obscene embellishments thank you very much.
…….
“She was a pizza-monger
And sure twas no wonder
Didn’t her father and mother come from old Napoli.
As she wheeled her perambulator
Wielding a parmesan grater
Crying pizza. fresh pizza from Crosbie to thee”
Top class: Should we get on to O’Brien Press and bring out a book – for the Christmas market like?
Only if you ever dreamed of winning a Nobel Prize, Paulus ….
I’m with you, extra thin and crispy and simple good ingredients,
Margherita all the way for me @Janet – the rule of three !
That said i have been known to push the boat out and add a fourth ingredient depending on what the menu has to offer.
I was traumatised after ordering a Margherita or “cheese” pizza as it was called in a pizza restaurant in Boston. I was asked if i’d like a little cream cheese, despite my better instincts i said “Sure.” The waiter took the pizza away – when he brought my pizza back it looked like the cream cheese had been lashed on by a cement lorry or a generous plasterer’s trowel. Of course i didn’t complain. From that day on I swore to keep it simple, like you said.
ham, artichoke and olives
or ham, mushrooms and roquette
Janet – you’re still Northside right?
Roberto’s in Clare Hall
Awesome Pizza – nice Italian style thin base. Only found them over lockdown. Savage stuff
https://robertospizzapasta.com
oh thanks for the tip,
I used to like Brezzi’s in Portmarnock but was slightly disappointed last order,
I’m Northside – do I get a discount if I mention your name!? Will deffo try them out.
Vincenzo’s in Donnycarney / Baldoyle do a good pizza too
Like those combinations Janet.
show yer boobies
(_,_) | (_,_)
My asciI che)(eky was renown back in the days of gay.com- which is now just weird men pretending to be females in the transgender space.
I’ve never even been in the place Ferg. I just order online.
So no discount I’m afraid. ;)
We went off Vincenzo’s as the fries were always soggy when they arrived.
Pizza was pretty good in Vincenzo’s though. Only they were always loaded with cheese, even after we asked for not too much.
Only ever ordered pizza there Micko and I do like cheese but will deffo give Roberto’s a whirl.
Alas I’ve no booby credentials Janet – might whip me mickey out and wizzle it around or perhaps my world famous elephant impression? Got me barred from a boozer once when I was young, dumb and full of beer and spirits I couldn’t handle.
I’ve been smoking weed and just ordered a 10″ vegetarian.
I’m not sure if that was from Deliveroo or Grindr.
Time will tell.
Splutter!
tee-hee
:-D
You raise up your head and you ask, “Is this where it is?”
And somebody points to you and says, “It’s his”
And you say, “What’s mine?” and somebody else says, “Well, what is?”
And you say, “Oh my God, am I here all alone?”
But something is happening and you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?
Is it not ‘Sir Harry Crosbie’ anymore?
https://politics.ie/threads/sir-harry-crosbie-obe.198491/
Maybe English knighthoods are not so fashionable any longer, following the nasty Brexit business and all that.
isn’t it fun that in the great British Bake off this year, the best bakers are Italian and German….Brexit lol
It’s always been the case
What’s the great thing about being a british baker?