Molly Malone's, Brighton

David Walton left this review about Molly Malone's

Another one I had passed many times over the years and another one where I was the only punter in a bit before 1.30pm. It does remind me of many of the O’Neills I have visited in London over the years, but this time it was during waking hours and where it was not pitch dark in the venue with thumping music on! It is a long rectangle, plenty of dark wood with the bar down the right hand side. A stage at the far end to the door does have some interesting stained glass windows as the backdrop to it. Some leather banquettes down the opposite wall to the bar, with some small round tables in from and with little screens with stained glass to separate one off from the other etc. there are some wooden dividers with ledges down the front part of the middle line of the pub with lots of small round tables and wooden barrels at the back in front of the raised stage. Also a down stairs smaller bar not in use (no shit Sherlock) on my visit with an interesting semi-circular bar off the back wall.

No real ale obviously. Plenty of keg choices, most pretty as expected - Coors, Staropramen, Pravha, Madri, Aspall cider, Guinness, Blue Moon, Magners, Neck Oil, Rekorderlig, with less seen things on tap in pubs (or at least the ones I go to) such Cobra, Well Hazy from Franciscan Well, and Casual Pale from Unbarred, a Brighton Brewery but which was not on on my visit here. Still have the tap room of that brewery to visit in Brighton at some point.

The place felt pretty sterile on my visit and so will give it another try at some point when there is some music or live sport on. Prefer the old school O’Neills atmosphere to the somewhat no atmosphere here today.

On 9^th June 2024 - rating: 5
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