The Irish bar replaces Steamer Wharf’s last retail store, OK Gift Shop, and is Wolf’s fourth venture in the hospo precinct, joining The Pier, Boardwalk and Pub on Wharf.
The new venue shares an expanded kitchen and toilet facilities with Pub on Wharf and has three entrances — off Beach St, off Steamer Wharf’s internal laneway and through Pub on Wharf.
Project manager and designer Steve Rosling, from Christchurch’s Element 17, says "we’ve gone for a very kind of city, Dublin, Belfasty kind of feel".
"Deliberately we wanted to go to a bit of a higher standard with the darker timbers, kind of more city feel rather than a country Irish pub."
Upmarket features include gold gilt pressed tin ceilings and different types of stained glass.
Open 11am till late, the pub, not surprisingly, will serve Irish beers, ciders and whiskeys.
Wolf ops manager Ellen Murphy says the menu will feature a mix of Kiwi favourites and Irish classics, like classic Irish spice bag, beer and Guinness pie, soda bread and corned beef sandwiches.
There’ll be a pool table and dart board, TV for sports-mad patrons, and, for the colder months, a fire.
Some 10 to 12 staff will be taken on.
