The Lansdowne is under construction in the former Jake Ivory?s piano bar spot on Lansdowne Street next to Fenway Park [map].
The 8,000-square-foot, multimillion-dollar Irish pub will have a warm, ?old-school? Irish atmosphere with beautiful millwork and an emphasis on food, according to Lyons.
Irish lunch and dinner fare will include shepherd?s pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, and fish and lamb pies, while traditional Irish breakfast will be served Saturdays and Sundays.
?We?re catering to people who live in the area first, people who visit Lansdowne Street second, and third will be the people who come to Fenway,? Lyons said. He and partners Steve Coyle and Ed Sparks are shooting for an April or May opening.
Live entertainment, reserved for a corner of the pub, will focus on acoustic, singer-songwriter, folk and Irish music. The Lansdowne also will broadcast European rugby and soccer matches.
The pub?s name not only pays homage to the street where Lyons made his fortune in the nightclub business. Lansdowne Road was the former Dublin sports stadium owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union that took its own name from an adjacent street.
Lyons previously planned to reopen his former Avalon and Axis nightclubs as the Lansdowne Street Music Hall, but instead sold the properties to Live Nation, which opened the House of Blues Boston there last month.
