16 thoughts on “The Winding Ancient Stair”

        1. theo kretschmar schuldorff

          Great spot, awful fate.
          If they come after Simon’s Place, I’m coming after them (Taken style)

          1. Don Leary-Dort (formerly Tara Strete, formerly Sydney Parade-Gates, formerly Herr Coach, formerly Buzz Eireann, formerly Hughie Luas)

            I was eating sandwiches there BEFORE it was Marks Bros.

  2. goldenbrown

    anyone remember The Alpha caff?

    “The “luncheon” menu consists of daily specials, such as roast beef with horseradish sauce, mashed potatoes and carrots, with a dessert of Eve’s Pudding and custard, and a pot of tea (£4.50). Most evocative of days gone by though, is the Special Evening Tea (from 4 p.m.) which consists of half a sandwich, either a pancake or two deep-fried potato cakes, a slice of sponge cake, bread, butter and jam, and a pot of tea – all for £2.95″

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/where-the-mixed-grill-is-king-1.252332

    1. Janet, dreams of sleep

      omg I lived in there with as a student, it smelled like your grans house, it was zero frills and absolutely charming

    2. Don Leary-Dort (formerly Tara Strete, formerly Sydney Parade-Gates, formerly Herr Coach, formerly Buzz Eireann, formerly Hughie Luas)

      Alpha caff was great, but the aul wans in the house coats put me off.

      Dinty Moore’s – what a memory. The roar of the busses outside, the smell of the delied diesel inside.

      Preferred the service team in The Coffee Inn. Legendary carafes and spag bol, club biscuit on a saucer.

      Don’t start me on The Manhattan.

      Happy days before Dublin became boring and rich. Una Mullally wasn’t even born.

      2. bisted

        …ah the Manhattan…was doubting it’s existence until that first magic night…never worked out the difference between a number one and two fry…I miss Dublin…

      3. Shawnee Poole.

        Having to go to the Milky Way across the road when the Manhattan closed for 2 weeks every Autumn.
        For a salad sandwich and a pinta milk.
        Honourable mention for Ma Byrnes in Liffey St. during the daytime.

      4. goldenbrown

        “before Dublin became boring and rich”

        indeed Charger, but would you not have been locked away in boarding school somewhere away from durty Dublin?

        I kinda liked the oulwans tho….battleaxes perhaps but they did know their business….you never sat at a table which still hadn’t yet been cleared and cleaned, never saw dirty cutlery and always always got your shepherds pie (made properly on lamb mince) piping hot despite the dummy waiter rigmarole

        1. Liam Rick Munchen (formerly Don Leary-Dort, formerly Tara Strete, formerly Sydney Parade-Gates, formerly Herr Coach, formerly Buzz Eireann, formerly Hughie Luas)

          Don’t forget The Golden Abbatoir Avatar Hari Krishna restuarant operation in Temple Bar (Fownes St?). Always good for daycent veggie fare, free if you could ignore the proselytism. The lads there never seemed to notice that the same students kept coming back though they were all freemasons from Trinity.

  3. Don Leary-Dort (formerly Tara Strete, formerly Sydney Parade-Gates, formerly Herr Coach, formerly Buzz Eireann, formerly Hughie Luas)

    Paddy Cosgrave looks well.

  4. Slightly Bemused

    Wonderful place, spent many a day studying there, and many a day just reading

    I used have glasses like that. Must have been a thing of the time.

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