Eat/Drink: Fidelity Studio, Dublin 7

Full aesthetics, partial access

Taken from instagram.com/fidelitydublin

Fidelity Studio
79 Queen Street, Smithfield, Dublin 7
fidelitybar.ie

Since my tour of the proposed Flour Mill Artists’ Campus last week, I’ve been holding onto the concept that there’s no such thing as fully accessible, we can only aspire to be fully accessible. Every day is a learning day, and that’s one lesson that I’m going to insert into my work going forward.

In this review of Sister 7, the restaurant element of the newly opened Fidelity Studio, under the accessible part of the review checklist, the reviewer writes “Fully accessible with accessible toilet”, but when I was there the other week, my true access experience was partial access.

The review is something to behold, mostly for this line: “Sister 7 at Fidelity Studio is more the CMAT than the Kid Creole generation”. What? Sometimes when you are paid to write a bunch of words, sometimes you just write a bunch of words. It’s a glowing review of the Studio, which is an extension of the Fidelity Bar (ground level bar, tight space, no accessible bathroom), and while I can agree that the food by the Big Fan Bao team is great, the atmosphere ambient, the staff very personable and the music very cool, the access is just about accessible.