Exciting New Dublin 8 Pub For Tasty Cocktails, Perfect Pints and Even Sunday Yoga

Between 8am and 4pm, Café en Swan occupies the MVP space providing coffee, snacks and hilariously named sandwiches. While there is currently no food available after 4pm, MVP’s kitchen is in the process of being set up and there are rumours of baked potatoes with gourmet toppings being on the menu in a few weeks.

Above the pub, there’s a function room which works off the community hall model – it can be booked for quizzes, parties, movie screenings, spoken word, food tastings, or any other creative idea you may have. On Sundays there’s yoga for a fiver upstairs at 1pm, and if you’re not sufficiently chilled after that, you can avail of restorative Bloody Mary’s downstairs in the bar. They have a great selection of craft beers on tap, including the very popular Liberties Ale, their Guinness is very good, and the drinks menu currently boasts an intriguing homemade Buckfast cocktail and seasonal ‘Pumpkin Flip’.

MVP’s all about nice touches – a chilled bottle of tap water and glasses brought down to the table without even asking, not paying for your drinks as you order at the bar, but when you leave. This sense of community and ownership is omnipresent, and there’s even suggestions slips for any ideas you may have. The most practical of suggestions being met with swift results: most recently someone suggested bike racks, and a week later some appeared outside.

MVP is a nicely chilled place for everyone, where you can bring your dog or play a game of chess at your own leisure. The focus here is very much on the chats, not on tunes or sports, and it really feels like MVP has perfected the lost art of the Dublin pub.