Hotels like pubs are not allowed to sell alcohol except with a meal, even residents cannot have a drink unless it is with a meal.
I was in a well known Nass Road hotel last Wednesday night to pick up a relation. Liverpool were playing Chelsea, the place was packed with red jerseys, all drinking, hardly a plate to be seen anywhere. Mostly non resident males in large groups, according to my relation. Clearly the hotel had no regard for either the rules around selling drink with food only or social distancing.
Currently I am away for a few nights in a hotel in Leitrim. In the restaurant last night we asked for a couple of drinks as we looked at the menu, the very polite waitress said she could not take a drinks order until we actually ordered food.
Fair play to the Leitrim hotel, I would have expected more compliance in Dublin and less in the country, clearly not the case.
Food was promptly ordered.
I was in a well known Nass Road hotel last Wednesday night to pick up a relation. Liverpool were playing Chelsea, the place was packed with red jerseys, all drinking, hardly a plate to be seen anywhere. Mostly non resident males in large groups, according to my relation. Clearly the hotel had no regard for either the rules around selling drink with food only or social distancing.
Currently I am away for a few nights in a hotel in Leitrim. In the restaurant last night we asked for a couple of drinks as we looked at the menu, the very polite waitress said she could not take a drinks order until we actually ordered food.
Fair play to the Leitrim hotel, I would have expected more compliance in Dublin and less in the country, clearly not the case.
Food was promptly ordered.