Melody Bar

Walking along my old stomping ground today in the lashing rain I came across a bright neon sign advertising a new bar on Capel Street; Melody Bar.

 

It's a new Chinese run bar and restaurant on the street that's fast maturing into one of the most bizarre streets in the city, with an interesting mix of sex shops / not yet illegal drug shops, pawn brokers, furniture places, fireplace places, pubs, restaurants, hardware stores, cafes, banks, fashion houses, offices, restaurants, apartments, gay resource centers, barbers, antique brokers, soup dragons, bagel merchants...the list goes on, and it's only about 600 meters long.

 

Anyways, I needed a beer. Owen, (his Chinese name was unpronounceable) the manager, gave me the hard sell; showed me all around the place....the sign says they do "probably the best Chinese food in town". I didn't have any, but they look as if they're giving it a good shot. There's loads of private booths downstairs for eating and karaoke, should you be into either. I liked the place. The Guinness was good and the digital jukebox free. Awful quiet though...

 

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