Garage Bar

Great spot, relaxed great bar staff, but best of all are the groovy tunes. The best most eclectic music going you would never think this place was in temple bar, price wise and atmosphere. Northern soul all the way. Check out the lucky wheel, nice touch.
Wholly recommend this place.
Down to earth and chilled.
Enjoy.

Unique! A very rare place in Dublin’s pub scene. The atmosphere is the best and the classic rocks music makes everything easier. Very recommendable and affordable. A nice place a must stop while in temple bar.

Pretty unique little place in Dublin, with the feel of a pop-​up shop. There’s sawdust all over the gaff, for some quirky reason. The music is great in here, grand mix of just about anything! The staff seem cool, and the cocktails are cheap and cheerful! It’s definitely a nice place for a couple mid-​pub crawl, although I don’t know if oil barrels make a very comfortable seat long-​term.
Cool little bar!

Its unique, its cool, its laid back, kinda grungy in an alternative way, its cosy… great alternative music ! sound staff ! popcorn ! pitchers! love it here… they really do make it look like a garage ! they have sawdust on the floor and everything !.. unisex toilets though which I dont like ! but hey thats the idea of the place ! totally laid back and casual ! … its so cosy in here ! but its very small ! at night and at the weekends its grand cause everyone is up and dancing and all ! otherwise if you went for a quiet drink mid week or something… you would need a seat !

From outside I thought this looks like the sort of place I would have spent a lot of time in when I was younger… then I remembered I am not 75 years old and there’s a good chance I would be allowed in even now.
Right enough no one stopped me entering.
Inside the bar is the very embodiment of cool; from the second I walked in, all I could say was «Cool»… I very much doubt if I was very cool about it but I’m ok with that (which I think possibly makes me cool again, but only briefly). The seats are made of oil barrels, there’s half a car swinging from the ceiling, there’s sawdust on the floor… really.
Behind the bar they even have a couple of half decent beers which was pretty much all the icing that this cake needed.
I am a fan, I shall be back!

I’m a fan of this place, it’s really REALLY caual, sawdust floors, oil barrel seats, industrial cable spindles for tables, cheap pitchers, good music & popcorn at the bar. It is honestly one of my favourite bars in Dublin City Centre.
Why, then you might ask, is it only getting 3 stars? I’ll tell you! It’s because of the bathrooms. Given the casual vibe of the place the unisex bathroom is very appropriate & somewhat forward thinking. However it loses marks for me because there’s no door separating the unisex bathrooms for the rest of the bar.
The last time I visited here there were some flys going around which I thought nothing of, until I went to the bathroom & there were HUNDREDS of flies going around, which is obviously where they were coming from… Gross… Wouldn’t put me off going back because I do love the place. But it would only be a pitstop because I couldn’t face using that bathroom again!!!

Pretty chill place with sawdust floors and oil barrel type tables. It wasn’t very busy when I went in and is actually smaller than I thought it would be so I am not sure how it is when it’s busy. I was there before 8pm (maybe why it wasn’t busy?) but this meant 2 for € 10 euro cocktails which made me very happy. Try the Pear Passion Vanilla one, YUM! You can also get freshly popped popcorn for 3 quid. Definitely worth checking out!

Pub en el centro de Dublín con buena música rock, garaje, mod, soul… de lo mejor del Temple Bar y no es turístico. Es un sitio de salir más similar a los pubs españoles (beber de pie y si hay espacio incluso bailar) que un pub irlandés.

I’ve heard good things, to be honest they probably set an unrealistic expectation in my mind as I wasn’t really a fan of this place at all. It’s completely tiny and even at that leaves most of the internal space empty with only three tables. The selection of beer is just as sparse, although I did enjoy a draft pint of Tiger!
I get that it’s a ‘dive bar’ but the sawdust and everything is all a bit too contrived for my likings; there’s plenty of places around that are genuinely dives!
There was also a really odd moment where a member of the bar staff took all of our things off of the table we were using, by table I mean sawn-​off barrel, so that he could replace it with a different, utterly identical barrel and bring ours back to the other side of the bar to replace the one he had given us… I spent the rest of my pint before we had to go desperately trying to figure out what the point of that was…

LOVE this place, awesome music and great crowd.

Sawdust on the floor, oil barrels as seats, unisex toilets and cheap cocktails and free popcorn. All the makings of a killer NYC dive bar you might think.
Well think again my friends! The Garage Bar is smack bang in the middle of Temple Bar and to be honest, it’s probably a more pleasurable visit than some contrived New York bars. The crowd is good, the staff are friendly, and the music is usually fairly cool as well — generally a mixture of Motown, soul, ska, with some punk thrown in for good measure. Not your usual pop in any case.
They have a market here on a Saturday which sells some pretty cool stuff like vintage and handmade items, and sure you can even help yourself to some 2-​for-​a-​tenner cocktails if the fancy took ya!
On a Friday, they have a barbeque from six til eight, where you can get a burger and cocktail for a tenner.
General advice is not to expect anything TOO fancy with the cocktails — they’re grand but nothing spectacular, although for the price of them, who could complain! Also — maybe don’t go too overboard with the Long Island Iced Teas… just a suggestion.

Adore this place !
Its got great music fun staff and its compact so you never feel isolated from the crowd,
unisex toilets were a bit different but came around to the idea after a few long islands which I gotta say blow your socks off !
But the icing on the cake … saw dust? Yes ! saw dust scattered all over the floor
This is a drive bar straight from the silver screen !
junk on the walls Motown music playing in the back, If you haven’t been here, go just for the experience.

Don’t come here just because it is owned by the lead singer of some band with the letter U and number 2, the bar has a hipster/​grungy feel to it with the sawdust on the ground, the absence of real furniture. But the beers are not expensive, they have TVs that on Sunday night shows American football, good music in the form of rock bumping, it has a patio for the smokers.

The garage!
Usually we start out here and have a few 12 euro pitchers however we have often ended up staying the night. I’ve meet so many people here who have become my friends, good friends even. You never know what kind of people you will meet here which makes it so great.
It’s quite small but it gives it a touch of intimacy that you can’t really find anywhere else. Did I mention the music? The music is amazing a good mix of 50s, 60s, 70s and the occasional 80s music.

Located a couple of doors down from the Clarence hotel, The Garage is Dublin’s latest half arsed, imitation Brooklyn hipster bar. The layout is stupid (3 large tables), décor is lazy (HMV posters with black and red colours to match the eyesore bright red walls) and then there’s the pointless saw dust. Get the fucking sawdust off the floor. Sawdust is for bars where there’s a genuine fear of people spitting, fighting, bleeding, pissing and puking everywhere, and as long as you continue to sell knock off Sex & The City style sugary cocktails, nothing that edgy is ever going to happen. Well maybe an 18 year old DCU student might puke up a bright red cosmopolitan spray, but given that the whole bar is that colour, it would probably go unnoticed.

This place was awesome…
It is such a cool bar with a great crowd.
I did an event here on friday August 5^th Dublin Buccaneers Treasure Crawl. This was our start location.
The night was a huge success.
I would like to thank all of the bar staff, especially the manager Christina for letting us use the venue.
They also gave us great drink deals for everyone invloved in the event!
Regardless of all that the palce is very rustic, cool, and it works.
It has loads of character and a good sound system

The first stop in the pirate themed bar crawl last friday. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to spend much time here as I was rushed off to man the next stop in the bar crawl. But, from what I experienced, I like it and will definately be heading back at some stage.
True to its name, the place looked like a garage. Sawdust scattered on the worn cement ground, wooden spools as tables and then completing the look it had an old petrol pump in the corner and other memorabilia placed around this small bar. Grungey, but it in a good way.
Drinks were decently priced, with cheap cocktails and beers on the list of options. And pitchers. Pitchers are always a plus in my book!
Staff were friendly and helpful and easy to talk to.
I would definitely suggest it!

Finding the Garage bar was a little tough in our inebriated state (hint: it’s the bar that looks like a garage). Good thing that the Garage was worth searching for.
It’s a pub of the «drink until you can’t» variety. Sawdust on the floor and a few pieces of wire spools for furniture, and definitely a place for pitchers instead of bottles.
If you can stomach the hipsters that made up the majority of the patrons, you’re in for a good night. The music was excellent (R&B and soul) and the beer cheap and plentiful. That’s a recipe for a plate of awesome in my book.

I don’t see the appeal of this place. They have the exact same beer that you would find in every other Irish pub: Guinness, Budweiser, bottles of Corona — € 4.50 a bottle! Seriously? In fairness I came here on a Wednesday night at about eight o’clock so the vibe was very subdued. If you want to be different you have to act the part not just a façade. There is no way this is deserving of five or even four stars the others have given it. Move along, not much to see here. Get some decent beer (Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, etc.) and I’ll bump up my rating.

5 stars for drink specials, music, service, and overall vibe. They have a list of cocktail specials for 5euro and pitchers for those who want a cheaper beer option. The music on the night I was there was a good mix of rock songs, the kind of songs where you hear someone say, «what a great song» more than once. The bartenders were attentive and helped out my friend who wasn’t familiar with some of the cocktail options. I had a great time and will definitely be back… so why not 5 stars…
I have to knock it down a star because of the people… ah hem…‘doing it’ in the unisex toilets… we counted 3 couple ‘asked to leave’ for this… a friend of mine swears he’s never seen that happen there before. Maybe there was a bet involved, who knows!

The newest addition to Temple Bar is this neat bar in a disused garage, hence the name. The interior is pretty spartan, with one bar, one (unisex) toilet and two tables, but spiced up with some nice car-​themed accessories and posters one the wall, and this must be the first Dublin bar in ages that uses sawdust on the floor again. The sound is more rock– and surfsound-​orientated than you’ll normally find in Temple Bar, and there are regular DJ sets. I hope it stays for long.