Madrid
The James Joyce, Madrid
Review: **** (Very good)
Date of visit: 10/2024
- Exterior: Small outdoor garden, Guinness neon sign, menu boards
- Interior: Beautiful and cosy in elegant Irish style, coloured virage glasses, wooden panelling, seated boxes, leather unpholstered benches
- Beer: Guinness (Draft), Hop House 13 (Draft), Tennents (Draft)
- Cider: Strongbow Original UK (Draft), Magners Apple (Bottle)
- Whisk(e)y: Classic selection of Irish and Scotch
- Gin: Classic selection
- Other drinks: Baileys, Irish Coffeee
- Food: Full Irish Breakfast (The Irish Fry), Fish & Chips, Pork & Black Pepper Sausages, Shepherd's Pie, Honey Ribs, Burgers, Sunday Roast
- Entertainment: TV sport events (TV's + Big screen)
- Notes: Strongbow (automatic with ice) was served to Guinness glass and Heineken beer mats, 80's music production
Derry, Madrid - Léganes
Review: **** (Very good)
Date of visit: 10/2024
- Exterior: Wooden panelling building, The outdoor garden with Guinness advert awning, Guinness & Hop House neon signs
- Interior: Very nice place in rock style, Guinness historical bottles, wooden panelling and furniture, various advert flags & scarfs on the ceiling, black & white framed pics with world rock musicians, tin & wooden advert signs, electric guitars, map of Ireland on the wall
- Beer: Guinness (Draft), Hop House 13 (Draft), O'Hara's Irish Red (Draft)
- Cider: None Irish or British
- Whisk(e)y: Good selection of Irish and Scotch
- Gin: Good selection
- Other drinks: Baileys, Irish Coffee
- Food: Snacks
- Entertainment: TV sport events, darts, DJ's evenings
- Notes: Official Irish pub, international rock music production, peanuts & chips for free with drinks, friendly staff, good atmosphere, streets in Léganes are named after the bands Scorpions and AC/DC, AC/DC attended the inauguration of the street with their name
Garreth, Madrid - Léganes
Review: *** (Average)
Date of visit: 10/2024
- Exterior: Nice wooden panelling and beams made of solid wood, covered outdoor garden, Guinness & Murphy's neon sign, glass windows displaying historical props of Irish culture
- Interior: Old-Irish style, wooden panelling & ceiling, framed pics with Irish theme, luminaires in the shape of a hop cone
- Beer: Guinness (Draft), O'Hara's Irish Red (Draft), O'Hara's Irish Stout (Bottle)
- Cider: Magners Apple (Bottle)
- Whisk(e)y: Classic selection of Irish and Scotch
- Gin: Classic selection
- Other drinks: Baileys, Irish Coffee
- Food: Snacks
- Entertainment: TV sport events
- Notes: International rock music production, chips & peanuts for free with drinks, without original beer mats for various brands of beers, friendly staff
Dubliners, Madrid
Review: ** (Poor)
Date of visit: 10/2024
- Exterior: The Irish flags above the entrance, glass windows displaying historical props of Irish culture, Beamish neon sign
- Interior: Old-Irish style, musical instruments, black & white framed pics with Irish theme, fireplace, wooden panelling, wooden & tin advert signs
- Beer: Guinness (Draft), O'Hara's Irish Red (Draft), Hop House 13 (Bottle)
- Cider: Magners Apple (Bottle)
- Whisk(e)y: Classic selection of Irish and Scotch
- Gin: Classic selection
- Other drinks: Baileys, Irish Coffee
- Food: Full Irish Breakfast, BBQ Ribs, Burgers
- Entertainment: TV sport events (TV's + Big screen)
- Notes: Inappropriately chosen music production (moder pop music), the same operator as O'Reilly's around the corner, the smell of cleaning agent
O'Reilly's, Madrid
Review: ** (Poor)
Date of visit: 10/2024
- Exterior: Small outdoor garden, Magners tin sign
- Interior: Old-Irish style, green walls, wooden advert signs, framed black & white pics with Irish theme, Jameson advert mirror
- Beer: Guinness (Draft), O'Hara's Irish Red (Draft), Hop House 13 (Bottle)
- Cider: Magners Apple (Bottle)
- Whisk(e)y: Classic selection of Irish and Scotch
- Gin: Classic selection
- Other drinks: Baileys, Irish Coffee
- Food: Full Irish Breakfast (served with strawberry marmelade, over-salted, the worst I've ever tasted), BBQ Ribs, Burgers
- Entertainment: TV sport events
- Notes: Inappropriately chosen music production (moder pop music & rap), the same operator as Dubliners around the corner, staff did not speak English, all draft drinks served in Guinness glass regardless of brand, the waiter didn't have foam for the Heineken so he topped off the foam with a San Miguel