We have a number of space of different shapes and sizes that you can book for your event. We take bookings from 4 - 70 in the different areas. We can also arrange food, have nifty drinks specials and provide lots of audio and video gear you can use.
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Area 1: The Beer Garden
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You can reserve tables in the ever popular BS beer garden and smoking area for groups, large and small.
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Area 2: In The Bar
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You can reserve tables inside the bar any night of the week.
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Area 3: The Big Blue Bus
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A 1974 double decker bus retired from the streets of London and transformed into a gourmet pizza restaurant.
You can book your group in to the top deck* or we can bring pizza to any other reserved areas of the bar also.
(*Bookings for min 4 people, min 50% of group must order food)
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Area 4: Lower Bar
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Our lower bar room can be reserved privately all night, midweek or until 9:30 Thursday - Sunday. Spot on for video screenings, private parties, big sports games on telly, showcases etc. We have a full Audio/Video setup and can arrange a bar man just for you.
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STILL HAVEN'T FOUND A PLACE?
Click here to contact us and tell us about your party or event idea and we'll see if we can help with a solution. If it doesn't work in The Bernard Shaw, it might work in our sister venue across town The Twisted Pepper
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
The Bernard Shaw is Bodytonic’s first bar. In existence since 1895, Bodytonic started a new chapter in 2006 and have tried to expand on what it means to be an Irish bar in the building ever since.
Incorporating a Top 100 Italian cafe, a pizza kitchen on a double decker bus, a huge beer garden, an exhibition space aswell as the multitude of music and creative shows, this deceptively small venue from the outside packs alot in.
The venue is open from 8am Monday to Friday for breakfast and lunch with the bar open from 4pm for drinks and pizza. Music is their first love with the venue hostings weekly nights covering all stops between reggae, dub, jazz, disco, house and general electronic noodlings. Some of the guests that have played free shows in The BS include: Dam Funk, Dixon, DJ Yoda, Diplo, Theo Parrish, Optimo, DJ Spinna, James Pants, Taylor McFerrin, Motor City Drum Ensemble and lots more.
You can find out what's going on by clicking Whats On or if you're the gambling type, just turn up.
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The newest addition to The Bernard Shaw, Coffee Together opened late-May 2010. Open Monday to Friday from 9am - 4pm and Saturday's from 10am - 4pm, you can get great coffee and Italian grub either through our window hatch or sitting down inside and you'll be well looked after by proprietors Daria & Leo who's efforts in 6 short months saw Cafe ToGetHer at The Bernard Shaw placed in The Dubliner Magazine's Top 100 Restaurants 2011 and also in the 2012 edition.
SHAW SPACE EXHIBITION AND GALLERY
The Bernard Shaw is also a small art gallery, hosting regular rotating exhibitions from some of the countries best artists, illustrators, photographers, painters & writers. We try to strike a balance between established talent and new artists that we believe in.
A video of the Keith Haring show in June 2010
If you would like to host an exhibition please get in touch with us via the contact form
WALL MURALS
We have a number of walls in and around The Bernard Shaw that we use for large scale murals and art.
Street Hoardings
Huge frontage onto a very busy street, these are used for a mixture of commercial and bespoke work.
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Smoking Area
The entire back wall of our smoking area, which is the busiest area of the bar, hosts a rotating mural.
Back Yard
Where the Carboot Sale takes place, one wall hosts a piece from New York grafitti/sign writer ESPO, the other wall changes almost daily and is a proving ground for young grafitti writers.
Want to paint our walls?
If you would like to use or paint any of the walls for your project then please get in touch via the contact form here