Toners

You'll find yourself in one of Dublin's most atmospheric old boozers, where the mahogany snugs and stained glass windows have barely changed since Yeats was propping up the bar. The narrow Victorian interior feels genuinely untouched by modern pub makeovers - brass fittings gleam, conversations echo off high ceilings, and the Guinness is pulled with proper reverence. Toners draws a brilliant mix of southside locals, literary tourists hunting Yeats's ghost, and office workers from the Georgian streets nearby. The crowd gets livelier as evening draws in, but even on busy nights there's something wonderfully civilised about the place. It's the kind of pub where you pop in for one and emerge three hours later, having solved the world's problems with complete strangers.