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Stephen's Green Shopping Centre
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- Hours:
Mon-Wed. 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Thu. 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Fri-Sat. 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
5 reviews for Stephen's Green Shopping Centre
As shopping centers go this is one of the best in Dublin. It's big and airy with lots of natural light, I'd even go so far as to say it's quite a nice building in itself.
And the FM104 booth is a great way to remember why some of our favorite radio presenters haven't made the crossover to television(ah ha ha ha! BURN, swish, high fives all round).
The Kylemore on the first floor is good for a quick bite between friends of different tastes. And there's an asian buffet upstairs for the really hungry.
The top floor houses a nice gallery. Lots of famous caricatures mixed and mashed in with 'real' art-the way it should be, I don't believe in Gallery's.
Oh yeah, there's a load of shops tacked on too.
Stephen's Green Shopping Center is a traditional indoor mall, which is something not typically found in European cities like Dublin. It is huge structure with a big domed glass top, letting in a lot of natural light and making it seem really airy. It has lots of the stores and services one might need all jammed into one location. From Boots to Dunnes to Peter Mark salons (there are several!) to Argos, to drycleaners, to art dealers, this place has just about everything you could need. You could probably live inside here forever, actually. What with the bedding displays and food vendors, you'd never need to leave. You could consider yourself a high-class mole person. I mean mall person. Anyway.
Overall not a wholly unpleasant shopping experience, but definitely not unique.
Stephen's Green Shopping Centre looks an awful lot older than it is: the big steel and glass structure is like a shabby version of Crystal Palace, and yet is only about twenty years old.
The shopping centre probably has best location in town, situated as it on St Stephen's Green (funnily enough) and at the top of Grafton St.
Shops-wise, the big Dunnes Stores is probably, as they say in the retail industry, the 'anchor unit', but there are plenty of other big shops, too. There's a Tk Maxx, a big Boots and an Argos, the only one in that part of town, if my memory serves me correctly.
There's also lots of boutique clothes shops (though passing the shopping centre recently, a number of these seem to be in the process of closing down), and also some stange but endearing shops, such as The Hat Shop (it does exactly what it says on the tin).
Stephen's Green is a good shopping centre as such things go, but there is one thing about it that really annoys me. There is an escalator up to the first floor right inside the entrance, but if you want to get back down again, you have walk half way along the building to find one. A bit enervating.
There's a few handy shops in Stephen's Green, and I guess that the building is nice and bright and airy, but there isn't exactly anything unmissable there, so if you're visiting Dublin and you don't get to see it, don't worry too much about it, it's not the end of the world.
THE place to meet people in town...you always see at least 20 slightly harassed-looking patrons peering anxiously into your face as you walk by, before compulsively checking their phone for the umpteenth time, just to be sure that it was the shopping centre and not the green itself (and let's face it, who hasn't made that mistake?!) that was the rendez-vous point.
It's one of those 'landmark' buildings that everyone knows, tourist or local, and it does have some fairly cool shops...the fact that Dublin now has a Qicksilver shop is one of the best new additions, though there's still the old favourites as well. Home to a myriad of tacky, yet sublimely cheap, girl's clothing shops, it's got pretty much everything you could ask for...homeware, tattoos, groceries, clothes, books...more all embracing than many other shopping centres and better located too.
I like Stephen's Green Shopping Centre because, unlike a many airless, artificially lit shopping centres, it spoils shoppers with natural light, from the actual sun! Although as Cathal says, it now looks a little the worse for wear, to me the glass exterior seems strangely creative in a city full of generic grey square shopping centres.
Stephen's Green isn't the trendiest or most modern shopping centre in Dublin. It isn't home to many upmarket boutiques but it is pleasant to walk around in and it has a certain charm (perhaps this is related to the ever-enticing pick'n'mix counter or the eternal smell of warm croissants!). It houses many stores for 'practical shopping' such as Holland and Barrett, Boots, Sony Centre, The Laptop Shop and Dunne's, a number of fashion outlets, the largest being TK Maxx, and some specialist shops for perfume, greeting cards and hats.
