Sad to see any business close but I’ve always found Token a bit pricey when I’ve been into it. The last time I was there my partner forked out 14 Euro for a Big Mac Burger. It was 8 Euro for a few fries with a bit of cheese on top. Add in a beer or two and the bill starts getting questionable particularly because a tip is expected in a place like this. Students don’t have that kind of money to spend (which is ultimately the people a place like this should be courting). Any demographic who has 30 odd Euro to spend on a burger, a coke and a few chips are going to proper restaurants – they’re not going to places with pinball machines. This is Dublin, not London or New York. The market just isn’t there.
I was there only once with the team from work and I think that might be a reason why my opinion of this place is not great. If it was just an arcade it would be ok but for a restaurant(/pub because I hate pubs that do that too) the music was far too loud and I was not able to hear anyone talking and had to scream to say anything. It’s just not a great combination imo.
The fact that Irish people actually have to LIVE in Ireland is a point of awkward embarrassment for a government whose every decision is engineered to make everyday life for actual human beings or the small businesses they frequent functionally impossible.
I work on queen street and have been told and heard about five different times over the last few weeks that token is closing on this day, that day etc.
I hope this is a guerilla marketing tactic to entice people to come in and spend money and hopefully reignite the interest in the place.
Because of fucking course we can’t have nice things.
Sad to see a unique location go, but it was a real “one and done” visit: the food was overpriced (but tasty); the staff ranging from sullen to sloppy; the music _insanely_ loud (averaged 100db according to my friends smart watch); and some of the arcade machines seemed … miscalibrated or something? Felt as old as they looked.
TBH the loud music killed it as a social restaurant alone, and our group of friends stopped going precisely because it sucked for chilling out in.
Overly noisy, pricey place with arcade machines that haven’t had their buttons changed since they were put out, no game rotation whatsoever, which would be very easy to do if at least one person in the company was remotely into arcade games. Overall a mess, never happy to see something close but I’m not surprised.
Overpriced themselves out of business. A good concept badly executed (in the long run) TBH.
It’s been closing for a while now.
keep an eye out for cheap pinball machines bais
No 😭😭
Is the one in Cork still going?
It was good at the start, although pricey, but it became more about the bar and not the arcade games, which just got more cramped and broken/old. Wasn’t worth the second visit
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They overspent on security cameras
Sad to see any business close but I’ve always found Token a bit pricey when I’ve been into it. The last time I was there my partner forked out 14 Euro for a Big Mac Burger. It was 8 Euro for a few fries with a bit of cheese on top. Add in a beer or two and the bill starts getting questionable particularly because a tip is expected in a place like this. Students don’t have that kind of money to spend (which is ultimately the people a place like this should be courting). Any demographic who has 30 odd Euro to spend on a burger, a coke and a few chips are going to proper restaurants – they’re not going to places with pinball machines. This is Dublin, not London or New York. The market just isn’t there.
I was there only once with the team from work and I think that might be a reason why my opinion of this place is not great. If it was just an arcade it would be ok but for a restaurant(/pub because I hate pubs that do that too) the music was far too loud and I was not able to hear anyone talking and had to scream to say anything. It’s just not a great combination imo.
The fact that Irish people actually have to LIVE in Ireland is a point of awkward embarrassment for a government whose every decision is engineered to make everyday life for actual human beings or the small businesses they frequent functionally impossible.
I work on queen street and have been told and heard about five different times over the last few weeks that token is closing on this day, that day etc.
I hope this is a guerilla marketing tactic to entice people to come in and spend money and hopefully reignite the interest in the place.
Because of fucking course we can’t have nice things.
Sad to see a unique location go, but it was a real “one and done” visit: the food was overpriced (but tasty); the staff ranging from sullen to sloppy; the music _insanely_ loud (averaged 100db according to my friends smart watch); and some of the arcade machines seemed … miscalibrated or something? Felt as old as they looked.
TBH the loud music killed it as a social restaurant alone, and our group of friends stopped going precisely because it sucked for chilling out in.
Overly noisy, pricey place with arcade machines that haven’t had their buttons changed since they were put out, no game rotation whatsoever, which would be very easy to do if at least one person in the company was remotely into arcade games. Overall a mess, never happy to see something close but I’m not surprised.
Overpriced themselves out of business. A good concept badly executed (in the long run) TBH.
It’s been closing for a while now.
keep an eye out for cheap pinball machines bais
No 😭😭
Is the one in Cork still going?
It was good at the start, although pricey, but it became more about the bar and not the arcade games, which just got more cramped and broken/old. Wasn’t worth the second visit