The Old Storehouse Bar and Restaurant

You'll find yourself in a space that's done the Temple Bar thing without the worst excesses—exposed brick, timber everywhere, the kind of bar where locals actually belly up alongside tourists. The menu's straightforward Irish fare: fish and chips that don't pretend to be fancy, proper beef and Guinness pie, colcannon done right. The crowd's genuinely mixed, the noise level's proper rowdy when it's busy, and there's real character baked into the floorboards rather than manufactured.