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A FEW WEEKS ago, we told you about Porndog, a new bar and restaurant opening just off Harcourt Street.
Tonight the provocatively named bar threw open its doors for the first time and we at DailyEdge.ie were among the first to sample its wares.
So, what’s the deal?
Porndog specialises in selling hot dogs. But not just any old hot dogs.
Fancy hot dogs.
We were treated to a “Mexican” hot dog topped with prawns and a side of sweet potato fries and, reader, it was delicious. (We’re told that the whole thing would have worked out at approximately €16 or €17.)
The hot dogs also helped inspire the name.
The brains behind Porndog told us that they wanted to marry the notion of “food porn” with hot dogs and, hey presto, Porndog was born.
Obviously there’ll be a level of scrutiny and we’ve put our hands up high to be shot off by calling ourselves Porndog. But I think we can stand over it.
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But they’re not just about hot dogs.
There’s also a wide array of cocktails, wine and craft beer on offer.
Our cocktail menu is one of the best we’ve seen around. We’ve got 40 creations, but we only put out 11. There are 10, which are standard, and there’s one that costs €20 and that’s called The Dog’s B***ocks.
The Dog’s B***ocks is still a bit of a work in progress, but they were able to tell us this much…
It’s a €20 cocktail. It comes in a hip flask. It will be presented in a kind of cigar box. If you want to get a refill, it will cost €15.
And worry not, craft beer lovers. There’s something for you as well.
All of our beers are served in growlers. We’ve got our own three craft drafts. They’re coming through three different suppliers we’ve sourced. It’ll be €15 for a litre of our craft beer. You get a chance to keep the growler and if you return it, you get a refill for €12. We’ll also have a two litre growler for bigger groups that want to share them.
And they’ll also have bottle service with your drinks being delivered to your table in this:
Looking around Porndog, there’s exposed pipes, neon lights and street art. Couple the decor with the hot dogs and craft beer, you would be forgiven for thinking it was a little… hipster.
So, what do they think of the hipster label?
Is it hipster in its approach? Yeah, I’d agree with that. There’s a quirky vibe to it. Sometimes quirky is also cool. I think in Dublin at the minute there are a lot of people trying different things, they’re pushing the envelope in a lot of different directions. I think people like to be in a comfortable environment without it being all fluffy cushions. I think people like to be able to feel a little at home. Is that hipster? If that’s what your customers want, so be it.
However, they believe that they can cater to everyone and are particularly eager to target the countless office workers in the area. (Porndog is aiming to become an all-day establishment in the next few weeks with coffee and ”breakfast hot dogs” on offer.)
Fancy checking it out for yourself? It’s open for business on Montague Street from tomorrow evening.
- Written by Amy O’Connor and originally published on DailyEdge.ie
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€16/17 for a hotdog and chips and they’re targeting the harcourt/stephens green area yuppie set for lunch? I’ll take the fiver carvery in diceys myself anyway
Don’t choke on it!
Nearly €30 bucks for a hotdog and a beer.. The recession is officially over..
5 euro carvery???
agreed.. getting bored of these really expensive ‘quirky’ restaurants..
Not another shytehole where you are served by a Bearded Skinny Jean wearing Hipster serving you a Craft Beer in an old Jam Jar..
Ha ha – I came here to have my say, but you put it perfectly. Bravo
“All of our beers are served in growlers.”
I think this is taking the porn theme a little too far.
I was totally wondering what a growler was apart from the obvious!
As long as they’re not hairy growlers…..
don’t knock it till you’ve tried it
Jaysis lads, if you’re with an auld doll whose growler can hold a pint of beer……..
Sir take a bow nearly spilled my cuppa reading your comment
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Amazing the exposure a free meal can get you these days.
I’m guessing the owners of porndog are crying into their growlers reading the comments on here!
the are using the only good mustard on sale in Ireland none of that Coleman’s stuff that blows the head off you
Sounds like a con job to attract passing tourists.
If they even served them Auzzie style, with topless waitresses, or had a few pole dancing girls around the place, the burgers would be the hottest hot dogs in town.
€15 for a litre of craft beer. Lol. Good luck.
looks like a dozen other places in Dublin. Bored senseless with this kind of pretentious rip off.
hipster f*cking nonsense
You couldn’t be more hipster. Of course outside this little country hipster died in 2009
Slowly becoming an advertising platform on here
I hope they payed you for this advertisement.
Got free hot dogs by the looks of it. Pricey free hot dogs too!
‘by the looks of it’?!? Are you suggesting Amy might be putting on a few pounds?? You absolute monster!!!
They spend what looks like $50 on decor then charge €16/17 euro for a hot dog and all the hipsters go…”Coooool!”
It’s a hot dog people….bun and sausage, just a hot dog.
Flynns in Cork will give you a pint and a homemade sausage in an arbutus roll with toppings for 9 bucks.Will sort out any Saturday morning hangover.
Sick of craft beers. They’re encouraging restaurants to stop bothering with draft beers. I don’t like it.
The mainstream are hooked. A poorer quality beer for 2 Euro more and a free bittch of a hangover? yes please I’m Irish.
Craft beer in general is of a superior quality to macro beer. Whatever about it being hipster.
Ok, outside of this site and Dublin the word hipster hasnt been used since 2009. As for superior quality – really? how????????????????
I used the word hipster in Kildare recently.
Yes but they think they’re from Dublin in most of Kildare so you’re forgiven. Seriously though guys its exclusively an Irish thing – like we got trapped in October 2009
I think the word ‘guys’ was last used around October 2009 and even then it sounded pretentious.
Only in Ireland could someone find the universal term guys pretencious.
I think your right about the quality of craft beers taking a downturn.Every second bar seems to be brewing their own, calling it craft beer and flogging it for a fortune.Another of its absolutely shite and ruining it for genuinely good craft beers.Just because it’s made in someones garden shed does not mean it’s any good.
I’ve no problem with craft beer, but I can drink craft beer and home. When I go out I like my beer out of a tap.
“Hipster” was hardly used in 2009. It rose steadily before more or less plateauing in late 2012. Google trends suggest it hasn’t yet peaked.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=hipster&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT-1
Funny enough, entering “pulled pork” as a search term returns a very similar trend.
We seem to have a relatively benign form of the virus in this country. Just dudes with unwieldy beards and pointless arts degrees as opposed to dudes with unwieldy beards and pointless arts degrees riding penny farthings.
I seem to remember it back then but I could sit corrected
London did hipster well 2009-2011. We have a boy band hybrid of it here.
@Jane.The post hipster term is ‘yuccie’… Explained here.It’s basically what the Justin Beiber generation evolved into… http://mashable.com/2015/06/09/post-hipster-yuccie/#McJjrAS5COkg
But too trendy for me
A poorly named hipster haven, I’d rather pay a fiver to a street vendor than €17 for a more pretentious version of the humble hot dog.
This bar won’t last long. It’s gimmicky
Can we get the journal to do a poll on how long we think it will last?
We haven’t had a poll to do in a few hours and this is a perfect time for us to get our poll fix.
queue the selfies of women deep throating the hotdog
Think we are reaching peak hipster, really cant wait till the hipster craze is gone.
Hopefully the hipster thing will get the message on its fax machine and f*ck off on its fixed gear bicycle.
This could be Peak Beardage now on the Dublin pseudo-hipster scene hopefully. These “Smoke House” meat places etc will all go under in the next year or two I think, and it’ll be the biggest social revolution since when beards took over from moustaches during the Great Pulled Pork War of 2013.
Seriously though I wouldn’t go near a place that is a carbon copy of places they had in Shoreditch 7 years ago and whoever dreamt this monstrosity up had the nerve to call it what it’s called. I can’t even type it, never mind say it out loud. Shudder.
It looks cold and uncomfortable.. What’s wrong with comfy booths.. You’re pay top dollar to sit on and old rickety stool pulled out of a skip..
For some reason I read your comment in the voice of the mother of a Korean girl I used to go out with.Very critical woman but the accent made her hilarious.
” I think people like to be in a comfortable environment without it being all fluffy cushions”
Speak for yourself. All that money to sit in a 90s student union bar (food looks good – although it looks like I’ll need to bring my own plate).
lol
“I’d like a single plum floating in perfume served in a man’s hat.”
It’s only a matter of days before moronic places like this selling even more ludicris things like this.
A cocktail in a hip flask for €20….get f*&cked.
Yet again another over priced kip put together with pallets. Mad money for a hot dog and chips. Paddy the pig is back
No expense spared in its interior design, I see?
all the beers are served TO growlers
Won’t last a year. Rubbish. Soooo pretentious
There you go Dublin, never failing to be squarely 10 years behind urban trends in the rest of Europe.
Bizarre choice of name. Good luck googling that, hehehe
Also, shame Il Primo has closed though, they served a lovely beef cannelloni.
It’ll be gone in a year. even fools with to much money eventually realise they are bring ripped off
How can a hotdog cost more than a fancy Mexican burrito ?
The amount of patronising bullshit here is ridiculous. Once again, someone starts a new business and the typical Irish “knock em down” attitude starts again. 15 quid for a growler of alcohol is perfectly reasonable, and on a par with what you would pay in Toronto. Why? BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT A GROWLER IS.
Best of luck in your new business venture ‘porndog’ David.
If I was in Dublin right now, I would eagerly support this venture, but luckily I’m living in a city where such places aren’t mocked for not being a grotty grimy pub with kids puking up outside it.
You keep shitting on new businesses, dude, and then wonder why people like me leave.
well david you go out for an evening and drink as many growlers as you like i bet come next day you wont be very happy when you check your wallet . this aint Toraonto currancy is different or have you forgot that in you drunking haze
I don’t drink. It’s one of the reasons I left Ireland: You’re not welcome unless you skull 20 pints a night.
Dave is giving out about us not supporting businesses here after he left the country? Double standards or what!! At least we are still here supporting our economy.
An oul Sausage roll out of Centra and a can of Budweiser!
That’s all ya need eh?
Never mind the stupid prices and eating in what looks like a cross between a prison canteen, a Quasar reception area and that nightclub in The Terminator.
Just serve me my food on a plate. Not a gruel tray.
30 euro for a dodgy hot dog and beer brewed in a bathtub? Ah cop on now,lads,we”re going crazy again,roll on the next economic crash!
How do you know its dodgy? Have you eaten there?
Wonder if these guys are just back from brunswick, melbourne
It all began with Jo’Burger in Rathmines over half a decade ago, you’d walk past the place and have smuggies hanging outside laughing in your direction. Wouldn’t like to think they were laughing at me, I mean I wasn’t the one paying over 10 euro for a burger on its own. Where was I walking to, ah yes a nearby pub that would do a delicious burger with chips and salad for 10 euro or less with comfy normal seating as well.
We used to drink a cocktail called a ‘donkeys bollocks’ which consisted of a little bit of every spirit from your parents or friends parents drinks cabinet in an empty flagon bottle!
Oh cool, they sell craft beer
LOL have the ownere not realised the irish are broke and what money we have we spend abroad where we get value for money , what a joke 17euro for a hotdog i dont care if it comes with a few Prawns on the side it does not justify 17euro price tag not when you can get a good dinner in a bar for half that {or less] , close now before you. MAKE A FOOL OF YOUR SELF
Amongst all the negativity, on the plus side, the house rules are pretty good. Creative thinking.
house rules at them prices they be lucky to get a tip lol i have many family and friends who visit from the states and dubai ans saudi who would even refuse to dine in an place like this , get some proper decor it looks like a hostel for the homless , i would expect more for my money at least more than a Porndog jesus give us reason to spend our money please
Wonder If these guys have just returned from brunswick, melbourne..
Watch it a weep.
this is what happens when you cross Celtic tiger prices with stupidity. Gimme a break, love the hotdog idea but the rest is nonsense and it will probably be closed in six months.
Damn hipsters are taking over!!
I live in Canada and this lark refilling growlers to go or stay has already hit here…. But it’s $8 for a 1.9 litre refill. €15 for a 1 litre growler is nonsense. Waterford whispers should pick up on this. Good restaurant idea though.
God dam hipsters!!
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