J M O'Malley's

J M O'Malley's is down in what a lot of people refer to the Irish district.  Its not the nicest part of town, and J M O'Malley's fits right in!  It is the smallest building I have ever seen in my life.  The definition of a dive bar in the truest sense.  This place looks like its falling apart, if not from the floor that appears to be three or four different colors, or the duct tape holding the TV stand to the wall, then definately from the fact that they have a pay phone behind the bar (which rang while we were there by the way)  Despite its small size and terrible outward (an inward) appearance, locals love this place.  It was packed.  There is literally no room, so even packed could be about 20 people, but all of them were staring at us, and it was difficult to get near the bar to get a beer.  Once we got it, we were in the way standing around drinking it.  This place would be fine with me if it were bigger, or if we went when there was no one there, but busy plus small equals no fun to me.  We really didn't get a chance to do any of the things we do on this bar tour, which is socialize with the bartender and the regulars.  Jen used to come here a few years back and it used to be one of her favorites.  Either she went on nights when it wasn't so crazy in there, or else that was the phase in our lives where she liked crazy bars (read: I would not hate on Dublin City)  That time is not now, and I didn't care for this place so much.  I would say literally the only problem is the crazyness to size ratio, however there is little chance I see in that ratio changing unless they magically quadruple the size of the building.  Other than that, I can take rough around the edges any day.  This place happens to be extra rough, but some of our favorite gems on the bar tour so far have been hole in the wall places.  To sum this up, the people who will like this type of bar already go here, and for that, it gets an A for effort.  P.S. They have live music too, although I have no idea where they stand while playing...maybe in the bathroom.

J M O'Malley's...the smallest bar
that money can buy.