145) Frank Ryan’s & Sons of Queen Street, D7

Previously green and purple, currently luminous pink and yellow, this little pub is fond of a good paint-job. The front area has the feel of a large snug, while the middle section seems more like the main bar where the famous mug shot of a young Frank Sinatra sits hung. There are photos of musicians and sports athletes and other interesting artefacts plastered all over the walls. An impressive collection of American automobile licence plates sprawls high over the ceiling, but most uniquely, there’s a collection of ladies’ lingerie that hangs from a decorative indoor clothesline. Love notes are written on the cups of many a hanging bra. O to have been a fly on the wall when these were donated.

To the rear is a pool table, a fireplace and an exit to a small beer garden which leads to Frank Ryan’s second façade visible from a certain ‘Coke Lane’ which no doubt has seen its fair share of the stuff over the tiger years. The star of the show stealing the limelight is the dark little doggie ‘Magoo.’ The ever-present mascot has been featured on a logo of one of Frank Ryan’s own craftily brewed craft beers.  

Boozy back door entrance from the appropriately named Coke Lane

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