tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post114487913539579666..comments2023-10-10T07:12:55.445-05:00Comments on City of Tiny Lights: Shannon's (Crash) LandingWill Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695153396800974213noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post-17577434978347300522009-11-02T15:35:32.710-06:002009-11-02T15:35:32.710-06:00You'll be happy to know that it is now closed,...You'll be happy to know that it is now closed, and changing hands again. Turns out that destroying everything about the place that made people go there was not a great business decision. Sad for those of us that loved it the way it was.Broomyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11997361280249420360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post-1160159329087290902006-10-06T13:28:00.000-05:002006-10-06T13:28:00.000-05:00First thing I'd like to say is...All the GUINNESS®...First thing I'd like to say is...<BR/><BR/>All the GUINNESS® sold in the UK, Ireland and North America is brewed in Ireland at the historic St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin.<BR/><BR/>Having said that, I too mourn the loss of Shannon's Landing. The new place looks like an ice cream parlor. I used to plan virtually every group drinking night around that place because it felt like a neighborhood bar. It had a definite Irish pub feel, and was a place where young and old felt comfortable tipping back a few. The new place sucks. Simple and to the point.<BR/><BR/>Just as an aside... the change is due to the sale of the place. They apparently had some management trouble, and then sold it. The new owner is the culprit here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post-1145076806576735572006-04-14T23:53:00.000-05:002006-04-14T23:53:00.000-05:00Yes, seems everybody's going "TGI Fridays" these d...Yes, seems everybody's going "TGI Fridays" these days. So much for different, eh?Lost A Sockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10193285510550787651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post-1145021742706112812006-04-14T08:35:00.000-05:002006-04-14T08:35:00.000-05:00Come on. You honestly expect real insight and att...Come on. You honestly expect real insight and attention to clientele by bar owners who? These are the people who think that the best way to get a crowd is to offer uninspired food and a "varied" tap list featuring "over twenty styles of ale"...except that they overlook the fact that all of these so-called "styles of ale" are various incarnations of standard, insipid American lagers. And, I imagine since this is an Irish bar, they have the standard Harp and Guinness (both of which are brewed in America, I might add) along with stellar standouts Killians "Irish" Red (again, an American creation) and/or Michael Shea's red ale (again, American...and really closer to a Vienna or Eastern European lager). <BR/><BR/>These are people who, much like the politicians featured in your blogs, make a living by misleading the American public (both the bar owners AND the brewers at the macro houses). Shifts in "attitude" like this are very common all over. I've seen this here in NC where you take a bar, give it some Irish-sounding-name, offer burgers and fries (because potatoes are Irish) and slop some watered down Harp in a glass (or better yet, watered down Harp mixed with Sprite). Kill the live music, force through some techno music with an electric fiddle in it (again, because the fiddle in inherently Irish), charge and exorbitant amount of money for cover, and then stuff you into a room where you're asshole-to-armpit with the most wretched congregation of scum and villainry in the city (this of course being the yuppie establishment who are there to seek out their Irish roots...you know the ones...with last names like Hochstetler and Leibowicz). <BR/><BR/>Ugh. Give me dark and gloomy over plasma screens and horny computer programers who have set out to pound down shitty beer, yell real loud, awkwardly attempt to Salsa dance and maybe brush up against a girl in a mid-riff before going home, throwing up, and masturbating to images of said girl. I'll even take being smashed together with the "kind of crowd" that follows the Wanderers. At least they're not lying to themselves about their own self worth.<BR/><BR/>The Wanderers and their "ilk" don't need shit like that place. The beauty of bars is, there's always another one, and there will always be one that plays the role of the great equalizer. Unfortunately, it's more work to find one these days.<BR/><BR/>If you feel so inclined (and because I know you don't have enough to read already), pick up a copy of "Travels with Barley" by Ken Wells. It's a good read, both for the historic features of brewing and for the search for the "perfect beer joint."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com