The Dublin House
A public house on Monmouth Street: a railcar-length bar and the Guinness poured in two parts. In downtown Red Bank, off Broad Street.
30 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701
This week at the Dub
- Every day
- Doors open, Dub TV on
- 10 AM
- Mon–Fri
- Happy hour, $10 bites
- 4–7 PM
- Thursday
- Live music in the bar
- 8:30 PM
- Sunday
- Brunch, one price
- 11 AM–2 PM
- Summer Sundays
- Music at the Temple Bar
- 7 PM
- Kitchen
- Sun–Thu to 9, Fri–Sat to 10
- From 11 AM
Thursday's players are local ones — Steve Reilly, the Ribeye Brothers, Dead Bank, Dark City Strings, the Danjos. Dub TV carries the Premier League, Six Nations rugby, and GAA hurling and football. Showtimes move; the pub's own page says to check Facebook for the week.
A house that has been moved twice.
The pub's own history page tells it plainly: the building started as a smaller house in Middletown, crossed the Navesink about 1840, was hauled again after the Civil War, and has been remodelled more than once since. Two Irishmen bought it in 2004 and spent years putting it back together without ever closing the bar.
- About 1840
- A smaller house in Middletown is moved across the Navesink River into Red Bank — likely somewhere between Front Street and Mechanic Street. The original location is not known.
- About 1868
- Moved a second time, to 60 Broad Street, where Robert Allen Jr., one of Red Bank's earliest lawyers, remodels it in the Mansardic or Second Empire style popular between 1865 and 1880.
- 2004
- Eugene Devlin and Sean Dunne, both Irish-born, buy the Victorian house at 30 Monmouth Street. ‘The house was sinking,’ Dunne told redbankgreen. ‘So we've done a lot of work out of the public eye.’
- 2007
- The Temple Bar opens out the back — an open-air bar on brick, reached down the side alley, named for the cobbled Dublin street lined with public houses. Whiskey barrels stand in as high-tops.
- 2009
- A four-year, top-to-bottom overhaul finishes without the business ever shutting: a new second-floor bar and dining room, a remade first-floor dining room, and a makeover of the pub's foremost asset — a railcar-length first-floor bar.
- Mrs. Patterson
- A former tenant, dead for decades, is still greeted every morning. ‘Now when I come into the house in the morn, I say “Good morning Mrs. Patterson,”’ Dunne says. Her old bedroom is the office.
- The Breakfast Club
- ‘We have a regular bunch of older guys that come and hang out at the bar everyday,’ Devlin says. ‘We call them the Breakfast Club.’ Dozens more come on Sunday mornings for the Irish games.
At the bar
A railcar-length bar on the first floor, a wall of whiskey under a carved board, and the pint the house is known for.
Private parties
Parties of 25 to 100 in the pub's own rooms — the upstairs dining room, the O'Connell Street Lounge, and the Temple Bar out back. Food comes buffet, with an open bar of draught and bottled beer, mixed drinks, wine, tea and coffee. Shepherd's pie, chicken curry and the pot pie travel from the kitchen. Call for the current package sheet.
Call about a party
The practical part.
Hours, the phone, the music, and how to book a room — for a private party, call the pub.
- Bar & kitchen
- (732) 747-6699
- Doors
- Every day from 10 AM
- Kitchen
- Sun–Thu 11 AM–9 PM
Fri–Sat 11 AM–10 PM - Happy hour
- Mon–Fri 4–7 PM at the bar: the $10 bites menu and drink specials
- Music
- Thursdays about 8:30 PM; summer Sundays about 7 PM out at the Temple Bar. Showtimes move — check Facebook or call.
- Sunday brunch
- 11 AM–2 PM, one inclusive price with a Mimosa, Bloody Mary, Bellini or soda
- Screens
- Dub TV: Premier League, Six Nations rugby, GAA hurling and football
- Private parties
- Rooms for 25 to 100. Call for the package sheet.
- Cards
- No credit card surcharge. Major cards honoured; no separate checks.
- Address
- 30 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701