Is Temple Bar A Tourist Trap?
Channel: Love Ireland
Date: 2022-10-11

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Is Temple Bar A Tourist Trap?
Local Dubliners will be adamant that the Temple Bar neigbourhoud is a tourist trap with overpriced pints, too many tourists and rowdy bachelors parties.

But visitors flock to this area, Temple Bar is a high-profile tourism destination attracting approximately 3.5 million visits a year.

Which are the most popular pubs in the Temple Bar area? Tourists flock to most of these regardless of price.

The Temple Bar Pub
The Temple Bar dates all the way back to 1840 and you can’t knock anywhere that offers over 450 different types of rare whiskey (the largest collection in Ireland). It’s also got a pretty cool bronze statue of James Joyce.

Oliver St. John Gogarty’s

If you are planning to visit Dublin, then Gogarty’s must be on your list. An award winning Restaurant serves the best in traditional Irish food & a lively Bar has traditional Live Irish Music sessions every day of the week. Accommodation offers Self Catering Apartments & affordable hostel options in the heart of Dublin city.

The Quays

A visit to Dublin would not be complete without a trip to the
Quays Irish Restaurant. With their ‘craic agus ceol’, live music and friendly staff, you won’t be disappointed!

Old Storehouse Bar

A classic Irish Bar located in the heart of Dublin’s Cultural Quarter at 3 Crown Alley, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. The Old Storehouse location is between Dame Street and The Halfpenny Bridge directly behind the Old Central Bank building. 

The Palace Bar

Untainted, unspoiled and unperturbed by the passage of time – that’s what makes The Palace Bar one of Dublin’s best-loved original Victorian pubs.

Owned by the Aherne family since 1946, we bottled our own whiskey under the Palace Bar brand, a commonplace practice among Dublin pubs throughout the 1940’s , 50’s and 60’s. However, with the development of on-site distillery bottling this practice disappeared from Dublin in the 1970’s only to be resurrected by Cooley Distillery and The Palace Bar in 2011.

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