The sad part is any amount of effort made right now isn't going to make this business any more profitable in the long run.
One tip for any local restaurant that is struggling for Sunday business: SUNDAY BRUNCH. Set it up, serve until at least 2pm and promote the hell out of it. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find good local business options for Sunday brunch. If you build it AND advertise it, people will come.
The Dubliner had a Sunday brunch. I saw mention of it a few places. Hard to say why it didn't work. This is depressing. First the Ridge Market, now this. (And yes, I patronized both.)
Man, that stinks. I loved me some Dubliner.
WF
I love the Dubliner, but the prices are a bit inflated.
Don't despair something else just as good or better will replace The Dubliner. I tried to go there once when it first opened but it was too busy. The Ridge Market was a joke. Perhaps the next place that moves in will be the catalist that PRidge needs to take it to the next level. People seek out independant places with great food good service and fair prices. From anyone I have ever spoken to this place did none of the three.
I love the Dubliner, too. FYI, the Homestead Bar and Grill on Wooster Pike is owned by the same people who own the Dubliner. Homestead is where the Heritage Restaurant use to be. The food is good and they have the Dubliner fish on their menu. I love the Dubliner fish.
Sparky!
FYI, Homesteads dark, closed awhile back. The proable Dubliners death blow.
Please continue to support locally owned and operated restaurants such as the Dubliner. They're the best places to work for, they have the best food, and they provide the most Cincinnati flavor.
This story is heartbreaking.
What's amusing about the linked post is that the author had apparently led people into thinking that the landlord was at fault and had to rewrite the post in order to get people to stop calling. Talk about going off half-cocked.
Too bad about the Dubliner if any of this is true. It is a truly charming place that I would miss.
numb - There was only one sentence changed from the original post, one which blamed commercial developers in general. I didn't want anyone to take that the wrong way - and I can send you the original version if you like.
I understand you've got hostility issues, but you're really grasping at anything possible.
the dubliner was fine for a beer/whiskey despite it's contrived irish atmosphere & overpriced/average food.
but haps irish pub (erie ave in e. hyde park) is still the closest thing to dublin around here.
for those who haven't, check out hap's on st. patty's (friday march 17.).
p.s. a flawed business plan & inadequate management doomed the dubliner - not da 'hood.
Hostility issues? No, just an interest in exposing amateurs with journalistic pretensions and the propensity to go off half-cocked. Since you don't allow comments on your own blog, I know this may be the first time that you've ever been publicly held accountable for factual lapses. Since you like to attack other bloggers on their blogs, it's clear that you just can't handle the heat.
Hopefully, for your readers' sake, you'll be more careful the next time you take a shot at someone's reputation without having your facts in order.
Once again, the Dean gets his facts all wrong.
numb - You'll be pleased to know that people publish slam items about my weblog constantly. I don't even pay much attention anymore. (I'd respond to you directly and save Brian some bandwidth but for somebody who is so hyped up about accountability you don't even offer a name or email.) But if you really have an interest in "exposing amateurs with journalistic pretensions" go here:
www.blogger.com
... and get busy, because you have some work cut out for you.
Hey, thanks, Donny
I was wondering if Hap's was still around.
I haven't been there in years - but I remember it was like walking into another country.
Not like the Dubliner at all.
Still, the Dubliner was ok & it is a shame to see a loacl business fail.
Jesus, you're right Brendan. I would have my hands full. Correcting you would be pretty close to full-time job. I'll have to keep this as a hobby in the meantime and just work here. But thanks for being so solicitous. I mean, it's not often that I get advise from a real hack.
It's also nice to see that the Dubliner will stay open in some form, even if it means that your previous posts are patently uninformed.
Sorry for the previous owner, though, and I hope he lands on his feet.
My company was one of the Dubliners largest vendors, supplying most of their beers including Guinness and I called on this account for over 6 years. Let me tell you the REAL story of what happened;
The Dubliners owners bought the former Heritage restaurant and began an extensive renovation with plans to call the new restaurant The Homestead. Well, the building is over 100 years old and was in bad repair. The Dubliner’s owner, Mike Kull, quickly got in over his head and spent way too much money, more than they he on hand. This caused him to become delinquent on his payments The Dubliner, so much so that he went into default. Matters only got worse when the Homestead opened; business was poor and his costs of running a large space was high. The Kull tried to negotiate a payment plan with reduced payments, etc. His lenders lost faith that he could rebuild his business as he were near bankruptcy due to the Heritage/Homestead (he had already defaulted on his loans for it) and decided not to accept his offer. They foreclosed on the building and sold it to Neyer. Kull tried to negotiate renting the building from Neyer, but he clearly did not have the funds to continue operating.
That’s all there is to it, no ‘big company pushing the little guy around’ as the Dean's article would suggest. Just a guy that got in over his head and was not a very good businessman. BTW, the food had really gone downhill by the time they closed, and the prices were too high.
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