Danger Doyle’s: Free pizza, RMB20 martinis, rooftop chilling tonight
Irish bar Danger Doyle’s (map) – located in the former Stadium sports bar site on Workers Stadium East – will serve free pizza from its wood-fired oven from 5 PM tonight. Monday is also martini night, with drinks at RMB20 per glass.
Last week, I wrote about my mixed experiences at Danger Doyle’s. Yesterday, I arrived with five people at 1:30 PM for a menu tasting. I won’t write about the food, since our mission was to provide feedback – and ours was mixed – to help finalize the menu for the rooftop deck. But I will note that after the tasting, DJ Chunky and I retired to the deck to finish off the bucket of Coronas – six bottles for RMB120 – our table had ordered. We stayed for three hours - chilling, chatting, and enjoying the afternoon breeze, with the jackhammers at the new Soho providing a slight annoyance.
This is a strength of Danger Doyle’s: You can park downstairs at the bar or at a table, upstairs near the pool table, on the back deck (shaded against the afternoon sun), or spread out on a lounge chair on the rooftop deck. I suppose that could also be seen as a weakness, namely, that it will take a momentous effort to fill this space. But the potential is there, and if Danger Doyle’s can continue to improve its service and deliver on reasonably priced drinks, and soon turn into reality plans for a BBQ and spit on the roof, this would provide another excellent outdoor space in our city.
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thanks for the pizza tip — enjoyed meeting you. that rooftop space does indeed look promising and I really hope he can deliver on even half of the many things he promises to do up there.