Part of the fun of going to The Stag's Head is finding it ! If you're on Dame Street you might by chance come across a tiled mosaic of a Stag's head inlaid in the pavement with an arrow pointing you up a little alley into Dame Court. While not the most pleasant experience going up the not too clean and neglected alley you will be well rewarded.
This again is another little gem, a beautifully preserved Victorian Pub. A tavern has existed on this site since 1780 but in the 1870's George Tyson, who had established a classy menswear business on Grafton Street, was the brainchild behind the classy Stag's Head. His name rightly features on the old clock on the exterior of this beautiful red bricked building. The interior is a treat, a mahogany bar capped with red Connemara marble, stag themed stain glass windows, mosaic marble tiled floors and carved wooden fittings and snugs. Back in the day a private room, discreetly hidden behind the main bar, was a fashionable Victorian smoking parlour .. smoking now long since banned .. it still is a magical little place to be. It might be a while before we can visit it but it features in the films " A Man of No Importance " and "Educating Rita " if you would like to have a sneaky visit ... Keeping an eye on the world and probably wondering where everyone is, is the old stag himself, his beautiful head mounted over the bar.
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