Riffing off its previously established Mc & Son’s Irish bar brand, the family owned firm has taken a former failing site and created an operation that has exceeded all expectations and continues to drive the business forward.
Molly Mc’s, billed as an Irish singing pub, offers a mix of live music, karaoke booths, and bottomless Guinness brunches which have sold out months in advance. Add in a fantastic street food Thai offer and the package is complete!
Family led
The brainchild of the McElhinney family, the bar draws on its own family history, based around Ryan and Johnny’s Granny Molly, and her ethos to ensure customers come first.
That focus and Ryan’s unrelenting drive for quality, recycled materials in the design of the building, has created an authentic and eccentric environment which has inter-generational appeal.
Replacing its former operation, Jack’s Bar, which the brothers admit was losing money, they revamped the railway arch site to create a bar which features a fusion of Irish and Thai influence.
Attention to detail
Small tin roofed shanty huts, which wouldn’t be out of place on a Thai beach, serve as private karaoke booths, each one individually decorated to replicate Granny Molly and her friends’ front rooms back in Ireland.
Historical pictures from the family’s rich past in hospitality in both Ireland and the UK feature throughout the site and the loving attention to detail is phenomenal, even down to the correct positioning of the screws holding pictures up!
From a standing start, this site has built a phenomenal following, partly aided by some slick social media marketing which has seen the charm and humour of Ryan and Johnny capture the public’s imagination, many of whom are now flocking to the site often simply for the exceptional spice bag offer.
