 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel as the token person from Ireland in my social network here in Israel. I get asked all the time what's the best Irish pub do I recommend any Irish bars in Jerusalem. Let me answer the second question there straight out the bat. Don't recommend any Irish bars in Jerusalem. There are however a few good, bad Irish bars that recommend saving your money going there instead. However, if you happen to be in Tel Aviv then there is an Irish bar that I re-recommend. It's a place called Molly Blooms. Now they have a few different branches but the kind of flagship branch if you will is where I'm sitting outside today on this very very hot day in Tel Aviv. It's really hot, really sticky so there's nothing quite as good as a Magner's that's cooled you down aka Boomer's in Ireland. This is a popular haunt among the very very small Irish community here which is really mostly Irish Jews like myself. We also have Irish people working on construction projects and Molly's kind of the haunt if you will. Now this particular branch is located on the intersection of Hayan Kone and Mendele and this place on Patrick's Day is absolutely even with people. The reason I like this and don't rate the other Irish bars they've been to in Israel is firstly this is actually a real Irish owned establishment. One of the co-owners is a guy from Dublin and this is also when they'll put the Six Nations up on the screen when the rugby's in season. So this is a real Irish place. The other Irish bars they visited in different cities in Israel have just kind of been you know those kind of almost insulting attempts to be fake Irish with the and all that stuff. So this is the real thing it's really cozy inside. They have as I mentioned Boomer's on top, they have Guinness of course and a few other Israeli drinks as well. They have Irish trad sessions from local visiting Irish musicians and also just Israelis who are into Irish music. So let's go take a look inside. The bar man's kind of given me permission to film so let me take you around Molly Bloom's Irish pub on Hydercon in Tel Aviv. One of the signature features of Molly Bloom's is these mock Irish passports which they have on the way into the bar. These actually are menus. They've got their full drinks and food menu listed there. In terms of food this place does some Irish pub classics such as fish and chips. They've had deep fried mushrooms here not sure they're still on the menu as well of course as brown bread so if you're looking for a taste of home while you're over here in Israel in the hot hot weather then this is a place for some food as well. Subscribers to my YouTube channel may not be aware of this fact but they actually spent a very enjoyable summer in New York City many years ago on what's called the J1 visa interning at Irish Central which is a Neelodide Irish American news empire and while there I got to visit a lot of Irish communities living in the Tri-State area up in the Yonkers as well as in New York City and that combined with my extensive field research here in Israel by which I sitting in any Irish pub I could find on Google Maps. I come to the conclusion there are a few things that distinguish a truly good Irish pub outside of Ireland which is kind of not a great alternative. The first thing there's here's a few things I feel tips I'd give to people trying to set the quality of them so the first thing about Irish pubs is it's always bar service you never see in if you go to in Ireland at least I've almost never seen it it's been seven years since I live there full time but you don't really have waiters and waitresses coming around to the tables you go up to the bar you order your drink so I love that about Molly Blooms and any other bar that nature you just go straight up order your pint. The second thing is that people are drinking pints largely instead of slishes or even a quarter liters which you'll see a lot of in Israel. You always have your few kind of dowdy characters camped out by the bar for the whole day part of the furniture so you have those in Molly Blooms as well you have of course the actual wall fixtures and you have the kind of characters as well just kind of sitting there by the bar making banter with the bar man. What else can I point to in Ireland bars are first and foremost venues for mixing and mingling over a pint and that's another important factor but the normative value of alcohol in Israel they do what's called a half leader in Hebrew it's called a head seat and in Ireland the standard measure is called a pint so when you've got yourself a good pint glass that's another indication that you're in a place that actually understands Irish bar culture so the focus in Irish bars is very very much on the consumption of pints with your friends and the food is kind of secondary so when you see Irish pubs in Israel where they have that big kind of neon chamarrox signery and you can just see there's never been an Irish person involved and table service and they're mostly selling you know stuff they think is Irish food like pizza you know you're in a fraud of an establishment so Molly Blooms is a real deal it's had the real input of actual Irish people and that's very evident when you walk inside and you see the way the place is decorated and just the way it's laid out it's very much an Irish bar kind of feel those are just just kind of some of the things I point to when you're when you're sizing up the Irish bar experience Molly Blooms is a close to the real deal as I found here in Israel it's a place where you'll actually find people who come from come from Ireland and things that are important in Irish culture like for instance the Six Nations Rugby Tournament or the GAA matches they'll put upon the screen here whereas if you go to an Irish bar in Israel that's had no involvement from Irish people just run by Israelis they'll never have heard of the Six Nations never mind putting it on that locals interested in Irish culture is checking out Molly Blooms here in Tel Aviv