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Dublin: Irish Dinner & Dance Show at Johnnie Fox's
Johnnie Fox’s has been pouring pints in the Dublin Mountains since 1798, and it holds the distinction of being the highest pub in Ireland. Perched in the village of Glencullen, it is the kind of place where the walls are covered in old photographs, farm tools, and memorabilia collected over two centuries of family ownership. This is not a themed tourist pub - it is a real one that happens to put on one of the best traditional Irish nights in the country.
The evening begins with a three-course dinner drawn from a menu that leans heavily into proper Irish cooking. The Hooley Menu includes options like seafood chowder, duck pate, and mussels steamed in cider to start, followed by mains such as lamb shank, beef and Guinness pie, Irish lamb stew, or a seafood pie. Dessert brings homemade apple pie, banoffee cream pie, or the pub’s famous whiskey cake. Tea or coffee rounds out the meal. The food is hearty, well-made, and generous in portion.
Once the plates are cleared, the entertainment takes over. A live music session fills the room with fiddles, bodhrans, and tin whistles before a troupe of Irish dancers takes the floor for a high-energy show that gets the whole room going. It is lively, loud, and genuinely entertaining rather than stuffy or formal. The round-trip transport from Dublin city centre means you do not have to worry about navigating mountain roads in the dark, and the 30-minute drive up through the Dublin Mountains is a pleasant experience in itself.