Cocktails, downstairs
Sam's Parlour sits in the basement of Old Fashioned Sam's — Dublin 2's three-storey cocktail house at 19 Montague Street. A quiet room, low light, and a bar built around the craft of drink-making.
"Cocktails treated as a craft, not a transaction."
The list is short and rotated often. Signature serves built from scratch with fat-washing, clarification, and infusion. Classics poured properly. A whiskey selection deep enough to disappear into.
No menu theatre. No flair. Just a room that asks you to slow down.
BEHIND THE BAR
How the drinks get made.
Technique-led, never gimmicky. The Parlour's bar team draws on methods more often seen in restaurant kitchens than Dublin bar wells.
No 1
Fat-Washing
Texture, depth, mouthfeel.
Spirits infused with rendered fats — brown butter rum, sesame oil mezcal, bacon-fat bourbon — for a silk-thick body you can't get from sugar alone. Strained cold and filtered clear.
No 2
Clarification
Visually transparent, fully flavoured.
Milk-clarified, agar-clarified and centrifuge-clarified serves. A piña colada the colour of water that still tastes like the islands. Drinks rebuilt from the inside out.
No 3
House Infusions
Made in-house, never bought in.
From seasonal cordials to bespoke bitters. Every syrup, every shrub, every vermouth blend made on-site. The bar acts as a pantry — the list reflects what's in.
Where
basement, 19 Montague street
capacity
50 seated & 120 standing
when
every Saturday from 6pm till late
dress code
smart casual
private hire
take the room
sam's parlour works for the kinds of event that needs atmosphere without effort - milestone birthdays, brand launches, staff parties fro teams that don't want a ballroom.
full and partial hire available. the bar comes with our team, out cocktail program, and the room exactly as you'd want to find it