Gili Trawangan main strip (north end)
★ 4.4(2,380 reviews)
Tir na Nog is Gili Trawangan's only Irish-themed pub and the anchor of Wednesday's rotating party night. It's a 24-hour kitchen with sport on TV, Guinness on tap (sometimes), pool tables, and the island's largest Western-style pub interior. Pints run 70,000 IDR, cocktails 90,000–130,000 IDR, and the Wednesday party crowd is the most divemaster-instructor-heavy night on the island.
# Tir na Nog: Gili Trawangan's Irish Pub Anchor
Tir na Nog is the bar most likely to feel familiar if you've ever spent a night in any tourist town in Asia. It's an Irish pub — pool tables, sport on TV, pub menu, dark wood interior, and a 24-hour kitchen-and-bar policy that makes it the de facto answer to "where can I go right now" on Gili Trawangan. The island has more atmospheric venues, but none of them are open at 5am or serve a full English breakfast at 11.
The rotating Gili T party-night calendar gives Wednesday to Tir na Nog. On Wednesdays the pub puts on its biggest production with extended DJ programming, the open-air front section transformed into a dance area, and a crowd composition that skews toward the working dive community more than any other night.
The Wednesday Tir na Nog crowd has a specific reputation — it's the night when dive instructors who can't afford to be hungover Friday morning go out to actually drink, knowing they have Thursday off-day rotations. If you're trying to network into the Gili T dive scene or find a job, Wednesday at Tir na Nog is denser with hiring managers than any other single venue-night on the island.
Tir na Nog's 24-hour policy is the bar's quietly important superpower. After Sama-Sama, Jiggy, Surf Bar, and the rest close down somewhere between 3am and sunrise, Tir na Nog stays open. The bar serves until you stop ordering, and the kitchen reopens at 7am with full breakfast service.
The post-big-night Irish breakfast at 11am is a Gili T tradition. Full plate — eggs, sausage, beans, hash browns, mushroom, tomato, toast — for around 120,000 IDR. It's not cheap by warung standards but it's the most reliable hangover food on the island and the air-conditioned interior is a relief after a sweaty night.
Pints of standard beer (Bintang or local craft) run 70,000 IDR. Pints of Guinness — when in stock — are 110,000 IDR. The Guinness situation is unreliable. Tir na Nog imports kegs from Bali and shipping is intermittent; expect Guinness to be available roughly 60% of the time. Ask before you commit. If Guinness matters to your evening, message ahead via WhatsApp to confirm stock.
Cocktails are 90,000–130,000 IDR but they're not the strength of the bar. Stick to beer, basic spirits, or pub classics like a hot whiskey (which is genuinely good).
The pub serves a full menu — Irish breakfast (140k), fish and chips (180k), bangers and mash (170k), shepherd's pie (180k), pub burger (150k), nachos (100k). Quality is decent pub-grub standard. Better than the average warung Western menu, not as good as the dedicated restaurants on the island.
This is the only venue in Lombok that reliably broadcasts English Premier League, Six Nations rugby, major football tournaments, NBA finals, and other big sport events. Multiple TVs cover different matches simultaneously when there are clashing schedules. For specific big games (cup finals, national matches) the pub does table reservations and fills early.
For non-sport visitors the TVs are background — they're not so loud that they dominate, but they are visible from most seats.
Mixed Western expat, dive-instructor regulars, Australian and UK backpackers, occasional luxury hotel guests escaping the resort. Median age is older than Surf Bar or Jiggy — late 20s to 40s — and the conversation tends toward the long-form. Solo travelers do well here, especially over the pool tables which are consistently busy and a natural social entry point.
Solo female travelers report Tir na Nog as one of the most comfortable bars on the strip. The pub-style seating, sport-bar vibe, and slightly older crowd combine to make it less intense than the dance bars. The 24-hour staffing also means there's always a manager present.
Cash and card both work (one of the few bars on Gili T with a reliable card terminal). The interior is air-conditioned which is a real relief on humid nights. The pool tables run on a quarters-style system — put your name on the chalkboard and play the winner.
If you want sport — only option. If you want food at 4am or breakfast at 8am — only option. If you want familiar pub vibes after a few too many island days — best option. If you want Wednesday party night — primary venue. Skip Tir na Nog if you want to feel like you're on a tropical island (the pub interior is determinedly indoors), if you want craft cocktails (basic only), or if you can't tolerate sport on background TVs.