St. Patrick’s Day food and drinks menus, events round Connecticut
St. Patrick’s Day is approaching, and these Connecticut eating places and bars are celebrating with events, tastings, dinners and food and drinks specials. Here is the place to seek out Guinness, corned beef and reside music this month.
The Half Door in Hartford could have closed, however its annual St. Patrick’s Day social gathering continues this 12 months at sister Hartford restaurant Tisane Euro-Asian Cafe. The March 17 festivities begin at 10 a.m. with kegs and eggs, with a ticketed buffet beginning at midday. The occasion options reside music, Irish step dancing, bagpipers, specials on Guinness and Jameson, corned beef and a DJ at evening. $5 cowl.
Stony Creek Brewery in Branford hosts its annual Shenanigans Irish Pageant March 11, kicking off at 11 a.m. with reside music, video games, dancing, meals and beer. Value is $20 and contains one beer; tickets are $25 on the door. Get tickets on Eventbrite.
The Hops Firm in Derby hosts a St. Patrick’s Day Parade social gathering March 12 beginning at midday, with reside music all day (that includes the Highland Rovers Band and others) and drink and shot specials.
Playwright Irish Pub in Hamden hosts a celebration for parade day on March 12, beginning at 9 a.m. with Irish breakfast and persevering with with Irish fare all day, reside music, Irish dancers and beers.
Tigin Irish Pub in Stamford, Conn., on Thursday Mar. 11, 2021.
Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaTigín Irish Pub and Restaurant in Stamford has a full schedule of occasions by March 18, together with a LeproCon Social gathering, a St. Patrick’s pub quiz, reside music and an all-day social gathering each contained in the pub and open air in a tent on March 17, beginning at 9 a.m. with brunch, reside music and a particular menu.
The Citadel Black Rock in Bridgeport hosts a full week of St. Patrick’s Day occasions, together with reside music, trivia, Guinness pint glass engravings, $5 Tullamore Dew photographs and reside music and different leisure all day March 17.
Twelve % Beer Challenge in North Haven hosts an Irish Fest March 11 beginning at 9 a.m., with reside music, dancing, meals and beer. Meals choices embrace breakfast by The Tasty Yolk, corned beef Reubens by Patty McNorman and shepherd’s pie poutine, fry baskets and sliders from Meals Vehicles & Co.
Wurst Haus in West Hartford celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with reside music and specials on Guinness and whiskey drinks.
At BRYAC Black Rock in Bridgeport, March specials embrace “Irish clams” baked with corned beef, carrots and potatoes; a corned beef Reuben, corned beef on rye, a beer battered cod sandwich, and entrees of corned beef and cabbage and fish and chips.
The Tasty Yolk, with storefront and meals truck places in Stratford, Bridgeport, Southport and Fairfield, is that includes “The Corny Yolk” as its particular of the month, with housemade corned beef, two eggs, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut topped with its “million island sauce” and served on marble rye.
Gruel Britannia in Fairfield presents St. Patrick’s Day specials like Irish soda bread, shepherd’s pie, bangers and mash pie, Irish whisky steak and pistachio-crusted salmon.
For St. Patrick’s Day, Colony Grill, a mecca for pizza since 1935, serves corn beef pizza on Myrtle Avenue in Stamford, Conn., on Friday March 18, 2022. Colony Grill has expanded through the years, with eating places now in Florida.
Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaColony Grill, with Connecticut places in Fairfield, Milford, Norwalk and Stamford, will convey again its seasonal corned beef pizza for the vacation.
Elm Metropolis Social in New Haven presents a particular “Brennan’s Irish Pub-Up” menu from March 6 to 12, with pub pretzels, corned beef sliders, Irish egg rolls and Irish “tater-totchos” with corned beef, a corned beef and cabbage dinner, a full Irish breakfast and bangers and mash. Elm Metropolis additionally hosts an Irish whiskey dinner on March 17.
The 9 Connecticut Wooden-n-Faucet eating places, and Southington’s Que Whiskey Kitchen, each a part of Hartford Restaurant Group, might be that includes St. Patrick’s Day-inspired meals and drinks all through the month. Wooden-n-Faucet eating places will serve the particular menu additions from March 9 to 19, and Que Whiskey Kitchen will serve Irish specials from March 15 to 19.
The menu additions in any respect Connecticut places embrace housemade baked potato soup, corned beef and cabbage, shepherd’s pie and Reuben eggrolls. Wooden-n-Faucet additionally serves a Reuben with corned beef, Swiss and sauerkraut. For dessert, there’s an Irish chocolate cake topped with house-made Irish cream and candied walnuts.
The Fortunate Leprechaun, a St. Patrick’s Day-themed Insane Milkshake from Sugar Manufacturing facility
Courtesy of Sugar Manufacturing facility
Sugar Manufacturing facility American Brasserie at Foxwoods Resort On line casino is providing a restricted version Irish espresso flavored Insane Milkshake by March 31. The Fortunate Leprechaun options vanilla and espresso ice lotions blended with Jameson whiskey, poured right into a inexperienced chocolate-covered mug with leprechaun sprinkles. The shake is topped off with whipped cream, chocolate gold cash, rainbow bitter belts and a rainbow whirly pop.
