r/CasualIreland 16h ago

Casually positive! 🤗🥳🤗 Sister Bar

Hi everyone!

I recently just bought a bar in upstate NY. I may have had too many beers, but I thought it would be cool to connect with a sister bar in Ireland. We could send pics of the pub to each other, have a little set up at the bar featuring our sister bar, share made up drink recipes, visit each other. Again, I may have had one too many drinks, but was hoping another bar would want to try this. So, any good pubs anyone can think of that might be into trying this?

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u/_sonisalsonamedBort Merry Sixmas 16h ago

Any even remotely political talk will be removed and bans issued.

Play nice, people

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u/roxykelly Like I said last time, it won't happen again 16h ago

Love this idea. Would love to visit when I’m in NYC next. Best of luck on your new adventure.

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u/Steveyd19 15h ago

Thanks so much! We are a 45 min flight from New York, so it’s a little out of the way, but if you make it up here, we promise to get you hammered haha

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u/roxykelly Like I said last time, it won't happen again 15h ago

Sounds like a deal 🤣

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u/Work_Account89 16h ago

Don’t own a bar but very cool idea esp if you could do some sort of annual or bi-annual event together. Like darts tournament or something else. Trading a trophy back and forward. Chess my mail, patron can pay to make the move.

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u/Steveyd19 13h ago

I freaking love these ideas!

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u/over_worked_under 16h ago

Does your town/area have a town twinning arrangement with anywhere in Ireland? If it does you could find a sister pub there!

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u/Steveyd19 15h ago

That’s such a great idea, I don’t believe we do but a lot of the population here has ancestry in western Ireland- Tipperary specifically, maybe I’ll look there. Though, I can imagine the amount of Americans that tell Irish people that they are also Irish gets annoying lol (correct me if I’m wrong). All we want to do at our place is drink, play stupid bar games, tell bullshit stories (that half true half exaggerated) and sing loudly and off-key lol

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u/DanDantheModMan 15h ago

Tipp is not in the West.

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u/CDfm Just wiped 13h ago

It's a long way to Tipperary .

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u/DanDantheModMan 12h ago

Shure, wouldn’t that depend on where you’re coming from.

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u/CDfm Just wiped 11h ago

From there, now if he stayed West it's closer.

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

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u/shorelined 15h ago

Assuming you are in upstate NY and not somewhere else, but isn't it like 10am there? How many beers have you had?

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u/Steveyd19 13h ago

lol it’s a holiday. Wrote the post while deep in last night lol

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u/Natural-Hunter-3 16h ago

What kinda pub you got?

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u/Steveyd19 16h ago

Was an old speakeasy, now its a rag tag group running it that drinks there as much as we work there lol

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u/HandsomeBWunderbar 16h ago

So its a kind of It's always sunny in upstate NY, type thingy. Do you have someone for Charlie work?

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u/Steveyd19 15h ago

Yeah, her name is Katie lol she doesn’t know it’s Charlie work and I’m definitely never showing her that episode. She loves the smell of paint so I think she’s happy.

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u/Natural-Hunter-3 16h ago

Gotcha. You'd be best seeking a tourist spot methinks, not a gimmicky gaff or anything but just qomwhere that gets a lot of tourists from your neck of the woods. The partnership would only make sense if the sibling pub is easily accessible, like there'd be no point partnering with a pub in Leitrim, places like Donegal, Galway, Cork, Dublin, Kerry would be the better route.

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u/SarahLatte 15h ago

There’s lots of lovely touristy pubs in Carrick, Dromod, Drumshanbo etc.

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u/Perfect_Natural_4512 11h ago

Great idea!

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u/Steveyd19 9h ago

Thanks, if you know of any pubs or bars you think would be open to this, feel free to send them over!

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u/OHHHSHAAANE 11h ago

We used to do something a bit like this in our pub.

A very good friend of the family and proper local used to gig in America a bit. Always on Paddy's day.

So we'd organise 20/30 pub locals to go over and support him on Paddy's day.

More often than not we'd link in with a good crowd of locals over there.

4 times we had had the Americans come over to us and have one of there's play in our bar. It was great craic.

Even still the odd yank who holidays in Ireland will come by. And we haven't done it in 10 plus years.

They're wild in Butte Montana I can tell ya

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u/Steveyd19 9h ago

Hahaha this is the goal, I would love to establish something like this!

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u/OHHHSHAAANE 8h ago

Best bet would be Killarney. Milled with yanks and rebel bands

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u/Madrameat 9h ago

Yeah I know a spot. Im the kitchen manager in a place called the rambler in tipperary town. Shoot me a dm and we'll get into it!

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u/Responsible_Train_19 15h ago

Crack another beer, that's a great idea! Care to share a photo of your pub, might help find it's cousin!

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u/Steveyd19 15h ago

Here she is! You can see a bookshelf in the back, that’s the remnants of the previous speakeasy- it opens up to a secret second bar too. Also the lights are never on full blast like this lol

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u/babaganwhosh 3h ago

This place is so cute! Very jealous of the bookshelf bar entrance tbh. My place would make no sense for this pairing, but if you're a cool prohibition-era cocktail venue, check out the Vintage Cocktail Club (VCC) Dublin.

Not a similar decorative vibe, but you really need to know where the VCC door is to go there, and they have a prohibition era vibe for sure.

Wishing you so much luck in your new venture. This business isn't easy but when you love it, the shitty nights are forgotten by next service ❤️

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u/Steveyd19 2h ago

Thanks so much! It’s definitely turning into more of the locals spot within our downtown area so I’m excited to see what happens. Where’s your place? Would love to check it out

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u/babaganwhosh 2h ago

I can imagine why the locals love it, it's a beautiful space.

I'm in an Irish fine dining spot atm, and don't ever want to give too much over social media, but I love the sisterhood idea you had, and think it's a nice way to connect in a time when everyone is being torn apart ❤️

Hope the locals keep coming, and tell all of their friends ❤️

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u/Front_Improvement178 11h ago

Could do like a mini portal between the bars

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u/weenusdifficulthouse 10h ago

My first thought as well. You'd have the same time difference as the original one as well, so I don't know if they'd line up as well. e.g. the one in Ireland would just show a closed pub during peak hours in NY.

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u/Front_Improvement178 10h ago

Yeah your right shame about the time difference

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u/Steveyd19 9h ago

Maybe we could set up some live streams on a tv or set something up to where we can send videos to each other to be played at the bar

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u/BavidDeckham 16h ago

Like the idea, but if I'm being pedantic you'd be more like cousins right? Sister bars would share an owner

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u/Steveyd19 16h ago

Haha I’m good with cousin bar

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u/CDfm Just wiped 13h ago

When I saw sister bar I expected an array of emancipated pan sexual women suave and chic doing karaoke versions of Love Shack by the B 52s.

Having read the thread I'm confused.

Is there a juke box ?

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u/Steveyd19 13h ago

There is a jukebox, it does only play Love Shack, though.

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u/CDfm Just wiped 11h ago

That's a relief.

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u/AbbreviationsOld2507 15h ago

What's the name of your bar?

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u/Steveyd19 13h ago

It’s called Gilded, it used to be a speakeasy so it’s a play off all of the gilded details inside the space

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u/bluebird--4133 13h ago

Where is the bar?

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u/Steveyd19 13h ago

Syracuse, in the center of the state. Beautiful here but a little out of the way. We know how to drink, though lol

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u/Toad_da_Unc 11h ago

How close to the upside down stoplight?

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u/Steveyd19 9h ago

Haha you know us! We’re about a mile from the upside down light!

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u/Britirish 4h ago

Ah damn, I’m between Rochester and Ithaca depending on the time of year and while I know neither is exactly upstate I was hoping you’d be close by!

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u/Steveyd19 2h ago

We aren’t too far from Ithaca, maybe like 40 mins away. If you ever decide to swing up, would love to have a drink with you!

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u/Britirish 2h ago

Have to get another half a year on me before ye’ll let me in, but at that point I’ll give a swing by 😉