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A 10-year-old, internationally acclaimed watering hole’s founder is set to open a new pub at Moynihan Train Hall in the coming months.
Jack McGarry, who co-founded the popular two-story Financial District saloon the Dead Rabbit in 2013, has announced he’ll be opening another Emerald Isle-themed taproom in the massive train hall in September.
“Super excited about the upcoming launch of The Irish Exit, the newest contemporary-focused Irish concept in our growing staple of brands at The Dead Rabbit,” wrote McGarry in an Instagram post.
Along with the Dead Rabbit — which was named the world’s best bar in 2016 — the cheekily named Irish Exit will seek to “challenge paddywhackery and subpar Irish and Irish Pub experiences in America.”
The location at Moynihan, the centerpiece of a $1.6 billion concourse unveiled at the tail end of 2020 by then-Governor Cuomo, will be the first of many planned for the Irish Exit, which McGarry writes will be “strategically located in airports, train stations, and service areas, offering quick-service experience.”
(Last year, McGarry also announced expansion plans for the Dead Rabbit in New Orleans and Austin, as well as the opening of a sister bar named Hazel and Apple in Charleston, South Carolina. Dead Rabbit co-founder Sean Muldoon has since left the company to open the latter, Eater reported.)
Future Irish Exit customers can anticipate a 216-seat bar serving quality pub grub, Guinness on draft and cocktails including the Dead Rabbit’s famous Irish coffee, available from 10 a.m. to midnight daily, Eater reported.
By nature of being in a manically busy transport hub in Midtown, it seems certain many patrons will indeed Irish exit — a phrase referring to the act of leaving a party without saying goodbye — but McGarry suggests the name is actually meant to refer to his goal of providing clients with a “playful exit to Ireland.”
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