{"id":198538,"date":"2026-04-15T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198538\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:58:18","slug":"new-irish-pub-dagda-soft-opens-in-jersey-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198538\/","title":{"rendered":"New Irish Pub Dagda Soft Opens in Jersey City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dagda-jersey-city-soft-open-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Dagda Jersey City Soft Open\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\"  \/>Dagda has soft-opened their new Irish pub on Newark Street in Jersey City. Photo by Chris Fry\/Jersey Digs.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main drags of Downtown Jersey City has a new elevated dive bar from the owners of a Hoboken mainstay, as Dagda has launched near the Grove Street PATH Station.<\/p>\n<p>Situated at 123 Newark Avenue, Dagda is named after the chief of the Irish ancestral gods. The bar is co-owned by Ben Prior, who is behind Hoboken\u2019s long-running Wilton House, which has been on Newark Street for decades.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dagda-jersey-city-1024x687.png\" alt=\"Dagda Jersey City\" width=\"696\" height=\"467\"  \/>Dagda is a dive bar at heart with an eclectic food menu. Image courtesy Dagda.<\/p>\n<p>The dive bar spirit of Wilton House is now in Jersey City, but elevated a bit, as Dagda features a jukebox, a pool table, and darts, along with a traditional Irish \u201csnug.\u201d The restaurant\u2019s soft launch menu includes a few entries inspired by the homeland, including an Irish breakfast and an Irish Spice Bag, which blends chicken strips, fries, peppers, onions, and spices with green onions and house-made curry sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Other food selections at Dagda are fairly eclectic and span everything from pierogis, deviled eggs, Asian dumplings, and \u201chammered burgers,\u201d including a Cheese Tower variety that blends American, Swiss, cheddar, and pepper jack cheeses with bacon crumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Beers on tap include the obligatory Guinness plus some harder-to-find Irish beers like Sullivan\u2019s Irish Gold and a diverse selection of everything from IPAs to Kolsch selections and more.<\/p>\n<p>Dagda\u2019s opening hours have fluctuated a bit during their soft open, but they are now open daily starting at 4 p.m. They can be followed on Instagram at the handle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dagdajc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@dagdajc<\/a> as they continue their full rollout.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dagda has soft-opened their new Irish pub on Newark Street in Jersey City. Photo by Chris Fry\/Jersey Digs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[79099,98,100,99,14507,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-198538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-123-newark-avenue","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-downtown","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}