Reardens pub is located on Washington street in Cork city centre. It has a prime location and is certainly one of the most thriving bars in town. It has frontage onto the road outside and is usually well lit up at night. You can always expect to see bouncers on the door and some of them like to cause hassle. The pub is a popular haunt with a vast number of Corkonians. As you enter you’ll notice the bar directly ahead of you, it’s long and is shaped in a semi circle. The inside is very big and there’s plenty of seating and also lots of space to stand. It can get very packed in Reardens especially on Thursday night through to the weekend. There is a dance floor at the top end of the bar and this is where the dj usually hangs out. The pints of stout in Reardens are at best, bad. In my last visit there i bought a pint of murphys and it was crap. The price of drink is absolutely crazy. A pint of stout will set you back 4 euro and about 4 thirty for a pint of beer. How they get away with charging so much for such bad goods is beyond me. If going there also take into account that you may be waiting in line at the bar for your drink. Apparently drink in Reardens and upstairs in Havana Browns night club gets more expensive as the night goes on, watch your change.
The toilets in Reardens are ok but because it’s so busy there they tend to get very messy. There are two toilets for men and women downstairs. In my opinion for a pub of this size the toilets should be bigger and maintained a lot better. Even though Reardans is a late night bar a lot of patrons pay through the nose to go upstairs to Havana Browns literally just for the experience of walking up the stairs. The music is much better downstairs but people still seem attracted up. The nightclub is very popular but in my brutally honest opinion: a total and utter waste of money. Also if you go into Reardans after 12 i think you have to pay 3 euro to get in there. All a load of scams!
Toilet rating: 5/10
Pint rating: A very dissapointing 2/10
Overall rating: 4/10
Final comment: Reardens as i said is one of the most popular bars in town but it seems a fact that you are literally throwing your money away when you walk in the door. When the place isn’t too packed i like it there but my overall experiences there have been negative. I’m not going to recommend Reardans as it’s just not my sort of pub. I’ll only go in there to meet someone who’s in there already or if my friends want to go in. (Rant over!)
Hello
I’m a collector off dutch beercoasters.
And now i have seen that your pub have made a nice kind off beercoaster with on the frontside Heineken
Now would i like to ask you this
Will you please please send me a few off this beercoasters to me ??
Very very Thanks
Willo Theloosen
Weemveld 1
5411 TT
Zeeland
Holland
I visited that pub in 1993 for the first and last time. The served pint was “smelly” at that time.
Armin
Compared to other bars in towm Reardans is quite good cos thers not many places still have good live bands…. but thats only if the bouncer decides he wants to leave u in there an absolute disgrace for stopping people for no reason just because they have the authority to do so which is very unfair.They start by askin u for i.d and even though im nearly 28 years old i always carry mine so when u produce it to them and they realise they cant use that as an excuse they just use their old reliable”your after too much to drink” when in fact i had only two drinks before tryin to get in there.Could anyone please tell me how they get away with this and can it b reported somewhere!!!!