BAR HOPPING: Bunratty Pub
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What: Bunratty Pub
Where: 4515 Fredericksburg Road
The digits: (210) 733-1950
Web: Nope
Get your drink on: 7 a.m. to 2 a.m., except Sunday when it opens at noon (what are you going to do for five hours on Sunday morning?)
Hotties quotient: Negligible. This is not a place to pick up hotties, but a place to throw back a few with old bar friends, though I was reassured that later on in the evening there's a younger crowd.
Wallet hangover: Also negligible. The drinks are cheap: $1.50 for a 12-ounce draft, $2.50 for a 16-ounce Dos Equis, $2.50 well drinks and $3 for a Warsteiner. Yes, that's right. A Warsteiner.
The 210 take: I like old man bars (the only thing I don't like is the smoke — hence the minus after the A), and Bunratty Pub is nearly platonic in conception. The place was full of barflies on a Friday evening, and I felt right at home. It's also relieving to find a bar that opens at 7 in the morning. The sun might be just coming up, but you can shut it out completely if you so desire. On Friday nights, they have karaoke and free hot dogs and chips. Saturdays sometimes offer live music, and Tuesdays comes with more food. People ate off the mix-and-match wooden tables scattered around, adding to the authenticity of the wood-paneled walls. Near the pool table, a real dartboard is mounted on a dry erase board and an electronic one stands in the corner. Nearby, there was a Victorianesque portrait of a topless woman, dark and seductive. A few neon signs dotted the walls, and Christmas lights and artificial foliage wound its way around the square wooden posts in the middle of the room. And all the while, Toby Keith crooned his love of the bar over the empty dance floor, half-empty beer glasses and chattering natives. I concur.
Grade: A-
Rico Auto | 210SA contributor
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