Dublin House Inc

I found this place in the great book, Best Bars of New York, by Jef Klein and Cary Hazlegrove. It's an unobtrusive spot that almost resents your knowing about it. \t\nThe food system is one of the weirdest I've seen. On each table is a bar menu with standard appetizers: Potato Skins, calamari, chicken fingers and a few burgers. Under the menu is a phone number. Once you decide on your order, you call the number and a quarter of an hour later, the food arrives. A lot of bars have a book of near-by deliver menus, but this bar has the system build in! Ah well, it works.\t\nMike, the bar-tender has a wry sense of humor and the customers... wow! They make the place. We were there during some complete stranger's birthday party. Suddenly, we were IN the party. No tourists here. Just a wild collection of local characters: barstool philosophers, alkies, neighborhood locals, young partiers. I almost hate writing about it, because a tourist influx would spoil the place... but after all... it's in the book.\t\n

I found myself what I think is an original bar sign. It says Dublin House on it. Then on the bottom. it has prop Tom Kelly with 1920 just above that. Just wondering if anyone knew who the founder was or some of the earlier owners were.