Worst Expat Bars In Munich

Kilians - Your typical Irish bar , about as Irish as me (and I aint irish), guinness is dreadful , bands are relentlessy crap.
Outland - One of the old timers before others jumped on the munich bandwagon, for this it has respect, owned by and english bloke and a german. Enough said.?
Molly Malones - Another 'traditional' Irish bar...bit more exclusive and doesnt attract the desperados others do.
Murphys - Good for one thing : football, desperate place for people desperate to watch a match with no other option available.
Bondi - Relative new comer, was useful for the rugby , bar staff are very pleasant, without sport tho theres not an awful lot there aside from very poor french beer.
Ned Kellys - Authentic australian bar, augustiner in a bottle ...needs to be , from Faß is dreadful.
Shamrock - Sausage fest of Munich, full of drunken blokes looking for fights and the odd woman that dare tread inside the place. clean toilets.

the galway hooker will be fondly remembered. such a total sh1thole.

undeservedly burnt down.

not an insurance scam surely..most 'un'lucky.

Yes the Galway hooker was indeed a rathole, good curry tho, big portions

And what of Pogue's Home?

Shamrock wins hands down though.

Wee bit harsh don't you think?

I personally do not know all of the bars above, but I would prefer to go to Kilians or Murphys than the majority of German bars.

Many German bars do not actually have a proper bar where you can stand and have a beer. Its always groups sat at tables (then arguing the toss over who drank what when the bill comes, bleh.)

I like a bar with a bar, where you stand, drink, and talk shit with people you just met. Great.

Saying that Kilians is not an authentic Irish pub is funny. Surely the only authentic Irish pubs are in Ireland - and there is hardly a formula there that EVERY pub follows. What would make an authentic English pub for example? People from a village in Yorkshire would have a different idea about that to people living in Rickmansworth.

pogues home doesnt exist anymore does it ? there are a few others around Schwabing but they are so evil theyd win hands down . t1tty twister - quality.

I thought it had reopened? I hadn't been in years so I don't know, but it was worse than Shamrocks when it was open, just about.

Harsh...?

Not really harsh, a perfect discussion / poll for this otherwise dreary board. Kilians is an awful bar with dreadful bands . fact. however, it wasnt my choice as the worst, unbelievably there are worse bars.
The amusing thing is there is an Andechs bar residing about 50meters away from Kilians where you can "stand and talk sh1te" , has some of the best beer munich has to offer. So make a stance and stop going to this sh1tty expat bars, paying over the odds for crap beers in smoky dungeons.

depends what night of the week i suppose but in general

1) shit beer.
2) beer stained carpet.
3) resident pub nutter.
4) resident fruit machine pest who tells you always to hold when you see 2 lemons.
5) resident bitter old bloke who turns after a few pints.
6) mass brawl in the car park at closing time especially on friday and saturday.
7) illegal sky tv for watching football etc.
8) spotty tw@t in replica shirt who shouts his head off all game and claims to be number 1 fan and when england plays is patriot number 1 and abuses johnny foriegner instead of being there and doing the business himself .
9) resident divorced mum with 3 kids who dolls herself up on a friday night, leaves the kids to burn the council house down and gets what she can behind the skittle alley before getting a chinese take away which consists of shit in a silver tray.
10) resident bunch of lads who are a right bunch of lads.
11) resident bunch of slappers who get on the bitch piss i.e bacardi breezer and hooch and think they are god's gift - especially after the summer holiday in ayia napa when they've got a faded tan and the show their white thong off and their celtic design tattoo on their back with low cuts jeans etc.
12) squaddie on leave who drinks like a loon for the entire stay home.

you've been to plymouth then?

then i forgot to mention sailors battering asylum seekers down union street
and all comers running the central element around town

Fair points. Dont get many of those 12 here. ned kellys needs torching, feel the gallway hooker fire starter could be arriving...

believe there's a pogues at the new optimol werk type thingy.
although for sheer low-life claustrophic sudden bar brawls the original pogues will be sadly missed. rip.

and whatever happened to ayres rock..open for about 3 weeks in 2000/1??..nr goetheplatz..quality..empty.

ok add munich variances:

13) german bloke who thinks he's not german but australian or irish 'cause he went on holiday there and has picked up the accent

14) german birds who are looking for a piece of anything non-german. see 13) for reason

15) twisted ex-pat who's spent too much time away and has lost a grip on reality

Most of these places serve as a reminder why ya moved away in the first place. Drinking lager in an ex-pat place seems to me alittle perverse especially in Munich

Good of you to try livening up the dreary board with your whining and moaning.

Ring a bell flogger?

wie bitte? was meinen sie??

or g'day sport?

or top of the morning to you..

All you Irish blokes know the best irish bars are in Boston.

does anyone think it strange these german types who pretend they are from somewhere else?
is this a german trait or does this occur in ex-pat bars the world over?

how many floggers are in munich?

What was his name? He was loud and brash, in fact he did a really good impression of an Aussie I thought

Wrong, I was trying to refresh Flogger's memory, not inferring that he was one of these types.

Instead of debating the charatistics of various forum posters, shall we get this back on topic.

I miss O'Reillys from MaximillianStr, great sunday roast and breakfast.

P

ayres rock , legend place, cracking location, right amongst it , 10min walk round the back of some council estate. Left leos lounge on rosenheimer strasse, a buzzing pub with plenty of atmosphere, went alone, made a go of it with the "rock".
live and learn leo, live and learn. butchered , place was a non-starter. dreadful hole.
whinging and moaning, easy tiger, just pointing out that the expat bars here are sh1te compared to other cities like prague or budapest or dresden

What was Pogues Home is now Temple Bar at the now named Kultfabrik.

There is now a different Pogues Home which is at Kunstpark.

(Kultfabrik is what we all knew as kunstpark and kunstpark is the back area of the same place)

pootle, agreed. oreillys was a legend place, quite why they turned into shoe storage facility is beyond me. Another irish haunt with good , clean bathroom facilities. Did make me wonder the state of the kitchen given the close proximity of the two rooms. good view from the windows too. great view in fact.

ah now i understand uncle j. am a bit slow today...i now thankfully & suddenly get your drift..

yes o'reillys was fine...apart from the sad w@nkers who felt the need to cheat even in a poxy pub quiz..why did it close something wrong with the drainage in the khazis?? p1ss poor excuse in my book. good location.

Who's debating the characteristics of forum posters? I'm not.

Why don't you spend a little less time telling people what to do, Pootle? Ever since you have been revealed as an editor this or that you have seemed keener to "moderate" than you ever were previously.

pretensions of grandeur obviously.

thou shall not delete.

andechs bar - very good bar for a couple after work. get to see the braincells going into Kilians from afar. Glockenspiel , cracking bar, great view in many respects. wirtshaus brezen , Leopoldstrasse . All good bars avoiding the need to cling onto english style pubs.

I also liked O'Reillys, apart from it being the haunt of Twat in the Hat - the sad old bloke who used to run the pub quiz in A Hard Days Night, and got most of his own questions wrong (he used to get them from the Sun!). After A Hard Days Night shut down he moved to O'Reillys, where he complained to the quiz organiser that our team was cheating (we were looking at an amusing German phrase book while waiting for the next question during the sport round...go figure). After O'Reillys shut down he moved to Bondi and started doing the quiz there, which is why most of us stopped going (sorry Bex). I always kind of wondered what he was doing in Germany - he seemed to spend all his time in English-speaking pubs, and I don't think he ever learned any German.

I like going to Kilians and Ned Kellys sometimes, but I also like the German bars. A few of us even found a sort of "Bavarian locals bar" which was pretty cool, but it's a bit of a trek for just a couple of beers (Malcolm got some great pictures of us all in there). I'm also pretty fond of Cargo, but that's also a pain for me to get to, and I've not been there for a while.

A bit of a trek? It's nearer to the U-Bahn station than Murphy's...

then why don't you get the topic back on track?
we were discussing worst bars not best bars?

And how often do I go to Murphy's?

Ahh, Christmas, season of goodwill towards men and soforth.

To stay on track, I'd put Mulligans in as my least liked Irish pub.

So would I. Unless Hopfen Dolde's awesome array of day-glo shamrocks classifies it as an Irish Pub.

where is the love people??? its nearly christmas... stop bickering...

anyhow, there is no doubt in my mind, the shamrock is THE worst ex-pat bar in the world...

why hasn't the place been shut down??? i mean, in germany, of all places, they surely have health and safety standards... i categorically state that i have never been there and i am never going there again...

...a revealing exercise is to go into one of these bars (take your pick shamrock, Kilians, murphys) on a bright afternoon, 6 nations rugby for example, and you can see the fleas dancing in the shafts of light that occasionally break thru the fug and find their way down stairs...

i once left Kilians and saw a rat racing up the stairs in front of me... even he was in hurry to get out of the place...

all that said, the bondi is a fine bar for sport... clean and friendly... although there is the occasional loud mouth english rugby fan #1 in there... ch'mon johhhnnnnyyyy...

...and the 'old irish' (don't know the real name) in Schwabing is a little gem...

Refused to class mulligans as a bar, in fact I refuse to class mulligans as anything other than a void. awful place, went in once was offered every drug under the sun , came out 3 days later.

@ flogger
apparently O'reillys closed down cos the building it was in is owned by the people who own that posh cafe bar next door. They put the rent up so high O'reillys couldnt possibly stay open.

@Aquatic
No worries, that guy is a twat and I am glad to say we do not have him any more. Bee (manageress) does the quiz now and actually is really interesting and different.

where has he gone to?

@ acquascutum

i can see you clarice...

Revealed or reviled ??

hehe - expecting to get cut out !!!

you talkin jive boy?

How does a place like the shamrock survive, has anyone ever eaten there, tragic. has anyone been there sober, it stinks of p1ss and needs closing down. watch this space.

Same reason all the other expat bars manage: because it's packed out every Friday and Saturday night with people drinking over-priced beer.

why is this?
is it because munich lacks 'local' alternatives or is there no real stand out top quality ex-pat bar?

Oh no, there is. We just don't tell the plebs about it. Keeps it top quality.

we'll take that as a no then

Why dont we try going to German bars for a change, if you all think
the others are crap???