Oh we get Irish theme pubs but they gradually faded from prominence in favour of bars and the various flavours they come in. Nowadays, Irish theme pubs tend to imply cheap and inauthenticity over here. Not like the old days when there was barely any choice, now there is great diversity. Like if I were in Manchester I might haunt The Whisky Jar (obvious specialty) or one of the “hidden” speakeasy places where you enter a laundrette and descend into a table service cocktail joint.
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Now that's a username I haven't seen in a long, long time! Happy to see you pop up again out of nowhere!
And yeah I saw a heavy number of implied Irish pubs in Istanbul too. That was odd, but none of them really managed to capture the actual atmosphere. Few tend to. So odd to see one basically on the border of Russia.
I’m hanging about again on my yearly visit! Been wondering if there is a niche for someone going on about niche electronica again. But then I temper that with years of talking into the void on social media and I feel fatigued.
Interesting about worldwide Irish pubs, I actually bet they are more authentic than the franchise ones that established over here.