Ryevale Tavern

Restaurant is good. Nothing spectacular but o.k.
Pub is not. Pints are poor. Clientele is worse.
Nightclub is the clientele in a drunker state.

Eh… let us leave the nightclub out of this one? Oh… I didn’t so. Ok… well, let’s not start with it.
Food: Ryevale Tavern (on the RHS as you come down from the carpark) Good Irish food here. I have always liked the food here and I’m sure it must have changed chef’s in my years going, but maybe not. Ample helpings of meat, spuds and veg. I love the chicken kiev here, the grill is good too and there is genuinely nothing like when I’ve tasted the honey bacon* with mash here (*for the Americans — bacon in the Irish sense of the big olé chunk of meat not what we call «rashers»)
Bar: They have recently done up the bar here, I liked it the way it was, I think the wall-​paper is a bit dark now, but it has classied the place up a bit, which is nice for a nice clean drink here. I hear the Guinness is at it’s best here (historical point — apparently the Ryevale is just up the road from where Arthur poured his first pint of what we now recognise internationally as the black stuff).
The Nightclub: Well… It has been «Rockafella’s» (I was too young for that one…) «The Ozone» (At a point I was too young for that one… but the bouncers never noticed!) and now it is «Zinc». I’ve only been to Zinc once. Layout is nice, smoking area is extensive (and the real talking point) there is an «over 25’s» area (too young for that one too (yay!) but again, the bouncers didn’t seem to notice!) All round, the new experience looks snazzy. I liked it as it was as the Ozone, but, as with all local nightclubs and young people, I outgrew it, and it will always, to me, be better looking back at it than it ever would be today.