Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:

> >>2. A high ceiling, peace and quiet and some smoke free space is not
> >>usually what comes to mind when you say "The Shamrock" ...
> > 
> > Indeed not! If that is really so, maybe I could be charmed into
> > there.... Real Guinness? Not bottled? 
> 
> It was a bit too early for good craic and dancing on the tables. 
> Probably less than 10 people in there or thereabouts. The Guinness was
> real. Most of the places I've had a Guinness or ten in up in Tokyo had
> it on tap. Which is a nice change from here.

Most places in Tokyo don't know/don't care how to do a correct pour,
even if it is on tap.

Best pour was from an Irishman now working in an English pub, and one
Japanese at Belgo the Belgian pub in Shibuya, if you can believe that.

-- 
Matt
matt@gol.com