The Old Orchard Inn

A lovely classy aesthetic pub, we’ll know for its good grub! Clientele is a bit of a mix to be fair as there was more Coke in the jacks than on the shelves!
This should be one of the best pubs in south dublin except for one vital flaw! You cannot get served! It’s an unmitigated disaster if you want a pint in this place! If you need to go here bring a packed lunch while you wait at the bar!
Not a slur at the staff by any means who were busy and trying but there wasn’t enough of them!
*memo to owner* if you can’t get served you won’t go back, if you can’t take money off people you are not very good at your job!
Won’t be back anytime soon and if I do I’ll hit the off licence first

Always been a regular in the Orchard. Can’t speak highly enough of the place. It’s stood the test of time and Ali does a great job. Good food. Nice drinks. Very good coffee in particular! Good atmosphere. Recommend it. Good restaurants and taxi and off licence too lol

As a local pub and eatery it’s difficult to best The Orchard. Sharing a very busy car park with a couple of restaurants and a taxi company (handy for the lift home after a bevvy), it is usually easy to find a space. Inside is usually warm and cozy, a difficult achievement in such a large space. Food is on the better side of average. Have never had a bad food experience. Finger food at events is particularly good and obviously great for sharing. Loads of tellys strategically placed so it’s also the go to place for major rugby and GAA games. Possibly soccer too but I don’t care about that! Great place, great atmosphere, great food and just all round great craic.

What a great time, went there twice during our short stay in the area. Fabulous seafood chowder and brown bread. Mom had the vegetable soup and was very very pleased about it. later in for a pint of porter and shared a very flavorful chickin stirfy, light, fragrant and tasty. Thanks so much

Your usual local. Food is average at best. Trying hard to be something it’s not I’d say…

Great place, great atmosphere. Cocktails are so tasty and reasonable priced. Great beer garden, great heaters with loads of TV’s to watch the match. Toilets aren’t the cleanest and toilet paper isn’t always on the holder. Other than that, highly recommend, great place!

Went to orchard last night — we ordered steaks — absolutely awful meal at premium price for pub food. The steak was placed on a dried up awful something which looked like potato cake which I would think was lying around all day. Veg was given in a bowl — they were zapped in microwave many times before they arrived at our table. Clumps of frozen god only knows what ! which all tasted the same. We ate the steak which was not up to the usual standard and left the rest which was awful. Won’t be having that again !

The drink can be a bit off. Toilet need a lot of work. Water never works in the taps.

Great pub for a few drinks or a bite to eat. New food menu is fab! Great atmosphere. Different band on most weekends and ya cant beat their beer garden in the summer

Great for a few pints– always go here on Christmas Eve as its a big pub with a lively atmosphere and a fantastic smoking area. Not to mention they have a taxi base in the car park which makes it extra handy for getting home!
I used to go for food here all the time years ago and the paninis etc were always lovely. I went here a couple of months ago and I got a couple of starters. One was chicken wings which weren’t great; they weren’t crispy and were quite fatty making them a bit stomach turning! I also got the soup of the day which wasn’t a soup but more like a bowl of broth with a load of tikka chicken and some veg that they were obviously trying to use up!
Final verdict: great location for a few drinks but come fed!

I love the way people say,
«Go to this place! You won’t be disappointed». When it comes to a place like The Orchard, it’s an incomplete phrase. It should be,
«Go to The Orchard! You won’t be disappointed… You won’t be amazed either»
There’s nothing more to say. The place is so neutral that when you arrive and are asked what you think of the place, the first answer is,
«Well, it’s certainly a place where one can get alcoholic beverages in exchange for pieces of paper representing material wealth»
That is all…

Best pub ever, always has been

I’ve been here a few times for food during the day and I can’t decide whether I like it or not. It’s certainly a handy spot and there’s lots of seating. They’ve made an effort to trendy it up and make it all shiny and the food is pretty good.
On saying all that I think the seating disturbs my natural sense of equilibrium, Presumably for some structural reasons there’s many different levels and often tables are perched at the changes in level so even though it’s all fine and there is enough room you sort of feel out of balance here. It’s an odd feeling and probably why I don’t like it better.

The Old Orchard has been around for years and attracts a really cool regular crowd. This is such a popular pub that the regulars are not only from Rathfarnham but from all over Dublin! My mate drinks here and he lives in Arklow! Miles away!
The reason for its popularity? Well, do does exactly as a pub should do, serves decent pints, in a comfortable well laid out space, with a laid back vibe and huge outdoor, covered, heated smoking area, with its own bar. There is even a cool little snug here as well, which is great if you don’t want to be seen with your date! otherwise you will be seen here because as I said everybody drinks here!
This place goes off when there is a big sporting event on, especially any Irish or Dublin games of any sport and it is always jumping on the weekends.
There is a great food menu too, reasonably priced and eating here is really popular at lunchtimes and on weekends with families. The spring rolls with chili sauce make a great alcohol soak-​er upper when you have had one to many vodka sodas, not that that has ever happened to me!
Oh and the coolest thing about this place is the fact that it is built on a medieval burial ground! They took the tombstones, but left the bodies!!!