Patrick's Gaslamp Pub reopens under new ownership

Patrick's Gaslamp Pub has reopened under the new ownership of Good Time Design.

May 31, 2022 9:50 AM PT

Patrick’s Gaslamp Pub, an Irish-themed bar that has operated in the Gaslamp Quarter since 1933, has a new owner.

Good Time Design, a San Diego-based hospitality group with 14 bars and restaurants nationwide, purchased the bar at 428 F St., installed new booths, refinished its classic bar and reopened the venue on April 21. Good Time Design is carrying on Patrick’s tradition of offering live music seven nights a week. For details, visit instagram.com/patricksgaslamppub.

Kragen writes about restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.