Increasingly, our idea of a good night out starts at lunchtime, and ends in time for Pointless. So it’s good to know that in this city, it’s always the middle of the night somewhere. And drinking beer at noon on Tuesday in Lime Street might not be as glamorous as Sheryl Crow’s Santa Monica Boulevard exploits (for one, there’s no giant car wash for miles), but the Saturday afternoon karaoke at McHale’s Irish American Bar (55 Lime Street) reminds us what we’ll be missing when this great street ‘evolves’, while the girls knocking out ‘Sex on Fire’ at Coopers (13 Cases Street) have been known to set off the smoke alarms in Clas Ohlson. Then again, there’s always Smokie Mo’s Wild West theme bar - it’s like The Revenant, with 2 for 1 vodkas. True, if you’re not in the mood, Saturday afternoon up Mount Pleasant way (or at its sister pub in the Mathew Street Quarter) might make you wish you’d been left for dead in Montana. But, as an antidote to the rather miserable pall that’s settled on us this week, it’s sort of brilliant. All this fun, and you can still catch a train home.

Posted January 10, 2016 by SevenStreets – 2 comments
  • Nick T

    What an institution, I don’t understand why they can’t offer up the new units to the old owners, spruce up the street and keep the residents happy. Also what’s up with the empty cavern quarter shopping centre, haven’t seen many articles on it at all, it’s like a Vivienne Westwood, a nice cafe and like 10 empty shops. So many parts of the city crying out for love (and offering up space for startups, out of the way but still central)

  • Flange

    The blob shop is der place to go