Nice little basement dive bar. The drinks are cheap, with a pretty good selection of whisky on the shelf.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Omer Mana
robin u da goat
Diego Esparza
The bartender robin was great, I got refills on water without even asking, she's keeping people hydrated and safe.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Karter Donahue
Dublin sets such a high bar for dive bars all over the world
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Doug Stafford
Great atmosphere. Very welcoming!
Josh E.
You'll get drunk enough to think you're in Ireland!
Food: 1
Adam Ramker
Didn’t see the first shark for about half an hour – a tiger – thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’. So we formed ourselves into tight groups…the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’. Sometimes the shark go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya, right into your eyes. Y’know, the thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and rip ya to pieces…in that first dawn, we lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many men. They averaged six an hour…Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us…and he come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY [seaplane] comes down and start to pick us up. You know, that was the time I was most frightened – waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Joshua Daily
One of these best dive bars in Iowa City. Great game day atmosphere where all kinds are welcome and made comfortable. Good change of pace from the other “main/big” bars.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Ethan Decker
Like Manna from heaven with PBR on tap, I discovered the Dublin on my first day of what would become a 3 week work trip in Iowa City and it became my favorite bar in the Midwest. It’s the perfect combination of dive bar and the kind of Irish pub you’d see in Patriot Games. Nodo’s up top has great sandwiches which they’ll run bring down to you with the urgency of an organ transplant. This is important to remember as you might require their Life Flight services as I did several times.
The staff is great. Mostly. Mr. Seth, Jackie, Danny, Trent, Rory, and Robyn, you guys are awesome. The regulars deserve their own shoutout as they are a bunch of rad, friendly people. Hope to see y’all again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Christopher Patton
Quintessential Iowa City dive bar. Great for drinks and/or conversation, with friends and/or strangers.
Nice little basement dive bar. The drinks are cheap, with a pretty good selection of whisky on the shelf.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
robin u da goat
The bartender robin was great, I got refills on water without even asking, she's keeping people hydrated and safe.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Dublin sets such a high bar for dive bars all over the world
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Great atmosphere. Very welcoming!
You'll get drunk enough to think you're in Ireland!
Food: 1
Didn’t see the first shark for about half an hour – a tiger – thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’. So we formed ourselves into tight groups…the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’. Sometimes the shark go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya, right into your eyes. Y’know, the thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and rip ya to pieces…in that first dawn, we lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many men. They averaged six an hour…Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us…and he come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY [seaplane] comes down and start to pick us up. You know, that was the time I was most frightened – waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
One of these best dive bars in Iowa City. Great game day atmosphere where all kinds are welcome and made comfortable. Good change of pace from the other “main/big” bars.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Like Manna from heaven with PBR on tap, I discovered the Dublin on my first day of what would become a 3 week work trip in Iowa City and it became my favorite bar in the Midwest.
It’s the perfect combination of dive bar and the kind of Irish pub you’d see in Patriot Games.
Nodo’s up top has great sandwiches which they’ll run bring down to you with the urgency of an organ transplant. This is important to remember as you might require their Life Flight services as I did several times.
The staff is great. Mostly.
Mr. Seth, Jackie, Danny, Trent, Rory, and Robyn, you guys are awesome.
The regulars deserve their own shoutout as they are a bunch of rad, friendly people.
Hope to see y’all again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Quintessential Iowa City dive bar. Great for drinks and/or conversation, with friends and/or strangers.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
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It is a great place to chat with friends
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
No food this is a bar
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
I can't speak for the food since we just came here for drinks.
This was my favorite bar that I visited in Iowa City.
Great vibe, awesome bartender, seriously, what's not to love about this place?
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
staff sucks.
Dishonest inconsistent customer policy.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 2
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