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DUBLIN’S ‘HIPSTER TRIANGLE’ is getting a ‘bohemian and arty’ new bar – owned by the people behind The Market Bar.
Called the Chelsea Drugstore, the new venue will be in the shopfront that used to be the Oriental Emporium on George’s Street.
It is currently being refitted, but social accounts have shared some photos of progress.
According to a post on the Market Bar’s Facebook page:
We’re delighted to announce that our new sister bar “The Chelsea Drugstore” will be opening up soon at number 25 Georges Street Dublin.Georges Street has long been the bohemian quarter of Dublin, this new ground floor bar The Chelsea Drugstore will embrace this by being fashionable without being a slave to it, arty without being pretentious and classical without being dated.
The Market Bar is owned by Jay Bourke – who has been involved with a number of high-profile Dublin spots including Pygmalion, The Globe/Rí Rá and the late lamented Cafe Bar Deli - and Electric Picnic founder John Reynolds.
The new bar is currently hiring cocktail bartenders and waiting staff for “Dublin’s most exciting new venue”.
The original Chelsea Drugstore was a high-end shopping mall in 1960s London, used as a location in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and namechecked in the Rolling Stones song You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
Here’s the 1960s building:
And here’s a drawing of the new bar shared by the Market Bar on Facebook:
According to Publin, the Chelsea Drugstore was originally slated to open in March. However, the unit is only now being refitted. DailyEdge.ie has reached out to the owners for more details.
- Written by Michael Freeman and originally published on DailyEdge.ie
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It’s not even open and already its up its own ar5e.
“arty without being pretentious and classical without being dated.”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nailed it.
It’s not even open and already people are criticising it.
By the time it opens, it won’t be cool any more.
It will be nice to have somewhere to read my Peruvian poetry with a nice dandelion beer of a Saturday night …chapeau.
I fknd if you stay in Grogans enough years, it eventually becomes cool enough for the hipsters.Until we run em out, of course.
What a ridiculous name for a boozer in Dublin’s Georges street.
Another one to avoid. At least it keeps the pretentious trend monkeys away from the proper pubs.
Want to do a novel idea in that area of dublin?
How about this for an idea, I know this will sound crazy.,
A pub that’s good value for money, No gimmicky bullplop just good honest drinks at a good price.. Crazy I know but it’s crazy enough that it just might work!!
But where would hipsters go to smell their own farts?
I farted in a room full of hipsters once, and watched as they fought over who smelt it first.
What about that new hotdog place on hardcort st? Craft beers and a sausage on a bun with fancy topping for €100, there was an add (sorry I mean article) on here the other day..
Don’t know about you lads but I want a barman to pull my pints not a mixologist serving me, green tea infused vodka with a splash of elderberry topped with real environmentally sourced Congo raw cane sugar served in a teapot with a rose coming out the spout, with a verse from Ulysses written backwards on the straw.
Yes indeed john, it would seem like a good idea…..unfortunately though the type frequenting this area wouldn’t see it quite like the normal guy/girl on the street…..a decent pub with decent prices just wouldn’t make the cut with our educated
Very good John lets all sign the lumberjack song, and knock out hipsters on sight
What are you talking about? Why would I go around knocking people out for no reason? I’m not a sucmbag, and I don’t condone anyone who does, in fact I love seeing people like that get knocked out themselves.
There’s a few very good videos on YouTube about bullies getting shocked.
excellent, now I have somewhere to eat my banana skins
So it’s a pharmacy?
It’s a rip off of Auther Maynes Pharmacys in Cork and Dublin.Anyway its not Bohemian either in so far as the people involved in that movement were almost always broke and used to frequent grotty little dives, you know real bars.This is more Viennese coffee house where the rich would congregate
Two hipsters walk into a bar. The first one did it before it was cool, and the second one did it ironically.
And in just one paragraph describing itself, it has already become a dated, pretentious, slave to fashion!
Good old Irish begrudgery as usual. Why do people always have a go at these places? It’s Irish owned and a bit different to the hundreds of Irish pubs we already have. If you don’t like it just don’t go! Attitudes like this are why Ireland is turning into an homogenised, chain-store ridden suburb of the UK.
Yeh the usual Irish attitude of everything should be made to suit me and my views, if it doesnt then ill slate it because nobody else would ever be into it
Because hipters are so uncool and sheepish, they think they are cool and unique.
I just spat Starbucks all over my brogues in outrage.
Why did the hipster burn his tongue, because he drank his coffee before it was cool.
“begrudgery”
There it is again, that word being mis-used to suggest criticism is just jealousy.
Cant tell if Guru is ironic hipster or serious
I just hope I get on the guest list maybe they will let me DJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I
So having Chelsea in the name is the way go against this?
@Anton.. Do you mean the NY Dj Guru?? Kinda does a smooth jazz chill out thing? Couldn’t really call that lad a hipster…
Did you hear the latest hipster joke? I have it on vinyl!
Perfumed poncery.
I really wouldn’t like to be in that scene. All boring and pretentious. Give me an ordinary pub with a bit of music and people having the craic.
Lets hope this Hipster craze is over by the time they open. Did the owner of this dump pay the large award made against him at the Employee Appeals Tribunal for mistreatment of a former staff member?
hipster triangle? … .mmmm…..beards beards and more sheep
As a dubliner and the owner of a tourism based business I usually have my finger on the pulse but the hipster triangle got me. …
The pub looks like it’ll be fantastic. So glad that the journal took pictures from some facebook page and made a whole article about a construction site with the real intent of getting a few whiny b***hes to give out about “hipsters”. Articles like this are the reason why people spend 4 years in college to become journalists for award winning websites. I’m sure, if he had been given the chance, Wordsworth would have written such quality titles as “You’ll never believe the pubs where hipsters have wandered lonely as a gentrified cloud.”
Hipster triangle is that the trendy pubic area
Will definitely start drinking there. Just waiting for my beard to grow now.
I really want to go in there and order a plum floating in perfume served in a man’s hat.
Free dinner again? Or paid advert?
Seeing as the last comment was deleted, I’ll ask again… free lunch again or a paid ad?
Sounds like a bit of a gay bar if you ask me !
Can I get a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a bowler hat…..And a smithwicks
I’m so there
the originality of pinching the name from 1960s pop culture. yawwwwn. won’t be darkening the door of any place associated with that billy conman
Great to see new and different places opening…and the owners must have a specific audience in mind so it won’t be beer bellies, packets of crisps and a pint of Guinness, soccer on the tv type customers, but who cares! Plenty of other pubs around the city for you, all “hipster” free zones, so off you go!
Although having said that, of course this place will be pretentious and up it’s own backside!
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