Long Story Irish Pub

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About

Established in 2021 inside the former Royale and Sessions Public space at the northwest corner of Catalina and Voltaire, Long Story Irish Pub anchors the Voltaire corridor with a traditional pub format built around a centerpiece Guinness handle and a Victorian-style storefront renovation marked 'Est. 2020.' The taps rotate through San Diego craft alongside macros and Irish ales, a draught program with category overlap to the longer-tenured tap list at corridor peer The Harp two blocks east. The kitchen serves traditional Irish stews, corned beef, and shepherd's pasta alongside fusion plates such as Irish egg rolls — a contemporary take on pub grub the prior gastropub tenants had popularized in the same dining room. Tuesday open-mic and rotating live music draw acoustic acts and singer-songwriters, programming that complements the larger live-music venue format at Winstons Beach Club on Newport without overlapping its booked-band calendar. Padres-game watch parties and Little League team lunches anchor the bar's role as a sports-and-community room, the highest-utilization use of the dining-and-bar combined floor plan.