The Dropping Well

One of the best pubs I have ever been, so far I think it’s the best pub in Miltown, I love the location just facing the river Dodder.
The food is lovely and prices are reasonable. It’s a good place for a pint of Guinnness.

Maybe the best pint of guinness that I have drunk lately was in the Dropping well, after a walk along the river Dodder, it seems that the barman is an experienced, battle-​hardened man. The pub is big, with different spaces, it is possible to sit with river views, even inside or outside. The food is ok, the typical pub menu is available, with massive portions.

Lovely food, massive portions too. I was there for a birthday with the intention that everyone would get three courses and not one of us had room for desert. I had the crab and prawn to start and the burger as a main. The meat in the burger was ovely and fresh and you could tell it had been freshly made.

I’ve been here before for BNI meetings (early morning networking events), so never really had a chance to try the fare.
We ordered off the lunch menu and I ordered the club sandwich, which was very nice. Especially the fact that they cooked my bacon extra crispy! It was served with yummy chips and a side salad. Very tasty.
The staff were very attentive though not overwhelmingly so.

I’m almost a regular here so I suppose I am a fan. I love their Steak Baguette and never try anything else as that is now kind of a tradition. And having been here several times it’s a kind of home feeling to it.
But especially this summer I noticed that the staff was pretty stressed due to people being inside and outside. I would’ve expected that they could get enough staff in to cater for the increased demand.
Now that people are rather inside again it’s better but some of the younger staff is still slightly stressed.

Meh…
Above average pub-​standard starters but my main was a wee bit too «fishy» from the moment I cracked the batter. I complained to the pleasant enough waitress but instead of taking away my food she sent over an obnoxious manager who TOLD me the fish was fresh (it wasn’t). I told him I wasn’t going to eat it. He walked away and came back a few minutes later with a bill which he slammed onto the table making it obvious we were no longer welcome. We left the exact change and left. I suppose the lack of competition in the area means they can do as they like because they’re guaranteed customers too shy of a walk to head elsewhere. Shame really, expensive shame at that.

I live 5 minutes from it but rarely go in because the beer choice is so poor, just the usual mainstream lagers and guinness. Would be great if they would get some Galway Hooker and O’Haras taps in. The food is ok but not great.

This pub has great food. There is a lovely dining area with big windows and a conservatory — simply lovely in the sunshine. They have a great menu which covers something for everyone’s tastes. Now if you are like me and you love your potatoes then this pub does the best potatoes, from baked potatoes to mashed potatoes to baby potatoes, yummy and as for the chips, well, they are the genuine potato cut chips. We all had different dishes ranging from fillet steak which melted in your mouth to thai vegetarian curry. Everyone gave their dishes the thumbs up. The wine a Chilean merlot was also super. The desserts — chocolate cake and banoffi pie went down a treat. There was plenty of room at the tables and a great buzzing atmosphere — a great sign of this pubs popularity.
Would we go back — most definitely

This is great pub, a bit out of the way, not really in any village or town around it, its just stuck there beside a river. Because of how close it is to the river this poor pub gets flooded from time to time, I put a picture up of the car park of this pub during floods about a year ago, i think the height of the water is as impressive as the pub itself!
The little front bar of this pub is really nice, very «old Irish pub» looking and I suppose would be the old man half of this pub if you had to pick a side to be the old man side! The rest of the pub is actually fairly big, nice bright modern and open.
They do food in here too, I have only ever really gotten the platters that they serve (one gets hungry after a few pints after work!) and they were tasty, filled that spot!
This is the pub to be in on Christmas eve too, the atmosphere is great and everyone is in a great mood.
Lastly i have to say that this is one of the Luas drinking challenge stops, a welcome pub after some of the less classy pubs of the earlier stops!

How do you suppose the Rhino got into the river eh?
The Management of the Dropping Well disavow any knowledge of the events surrounding this mysterious appearance.
No idea what I’m talking about?
Better go to the pub and find out… not a wasted journey if you are in the mood for a pint or some food, both are excellent here!

The Dropping Well is very much a Sunday lunch pub. It’s big and warm and the food they seerve is most certainly of the comfort variety.
The food isn’t particularly great but does the trick and as a pub it’s more of the same. Grand but not great.
It’s a good spot to take the family for a meal but lacks the intimacy of many other pubs and restaurants.

In the wasteland between Darty/​Rathgar and Donnybrook its pretty much a pub free zone. Thankfully the Dropping well is right in the middle of Milltown to profile for the thirsty hoards of Dublin 6. This is another pub in the Charlie Chalke empire.
Theres nothing special about the place really and I’ve only really been there on a Sunday with a sore head in search of soakage, which they do in the form of a pretty good carvery.
As Kate says the setting it pretty much the best feature of the place as it sits over looking the river dodder. The conservatory at the back is nice but can quickly turn into sweat box on a sunny day.
The restaurant at he back of the pub is known as the Bank but its pretty much all one super pub.

The Dropping Well is a great pub and restaurant.
I go here a lot for really nice, casual meals with my family. It’s not fancy — half the pub is very much a pub with sport on telly and old men propping up the bar and then the other half is a restaurant. But you can still order the same food in the pub, which is handy.
They do a great Fishermans platter and I always order a side of their wedges with no matter what I have for my main. They’re lovely and crispy and I can never resist them!
They also have a little outside area overlooking a stream that’s really pretty — the perfect place to sit on a fine summer’s evening.