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More St. Patrick’s Day Parties

Haven’t made plans for Thursday night yet? The options keep coming.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 16, 2011 at 12:39PM 0 Comments

The bomb

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Earlier this week we went over Irish pub parties, dinners, etc. occurring this Thursday in honor of that patron saint of bad bar behavior, Patrick.

But wait, there’s more! I’ve got four additional options for your drinking consideration. Behold:

The Bottleneck Lounge has Guinness and Harp lager on tap this Thursday, March 17, and will be serving its customary corned beef on rye with cabbage. A second special for the day: a soft pretzel doused in Irish cheddar cheese and flanked with two types of mustard. Doors open at 4pm.

Pike Brewing in the Pike Place Market will be serving $3.50 pints of its Kilt Lifter scotch ale (delicious) all day long; the corned beef and cabbage special is yours for $14.95.

There are plenty o’food and drink specials at the Five Point: black and tans and snake bites are $4.50, and green beer goes for $3. Irish Car Bombs—a St. P’s must, as far as I’m concerned—are $7. At Five Point the corned beef and cabbage is only $10.50.

St Paddy’s hub Kate’s Pub in Wallingford opens at 10am Thursday, there’s a $5 cover charge starting at 5pm.

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St. Patrick’s Day Pub Parties

Green beer, limericks, Pogues cover bands…it all happens on Thursday. Here’s where to get in on the action.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 14, 2011 at 09:30AM 2 Comments

The spirit of St. Paddy’s Day shall blow through the streets of Seattle this Thursday.

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Greetings from Canada: I’ll be posting later in the day and tomorrow about findings: interviews, seminars, bars, from Tales Vancouver, but before we get into all that, how about some St. Patrick’s Day ideas? St. Paddy’s happens this Thursday, March 17.

The Metropolitan Grill has three drink specials: a Tullamore Dew Irish Coffee ($6), a cocktail called Kiss Me Quick ($9)—that’s vodka and creme de menthe—and Guinness and Black and Tans are $5. The last of those three choices feels like the best one to me. And attention all ye poets: there is a limerick competition, first prize is a night’s stay at the Edgewater Hotel and dinner for two at the Met.

Magnolia’s Mulleady’s Irish Pub hosts a three-course Irish meal for $40, there are still spaces for the 4:30pm seating and the 9:30 one—7pm is sold out. Email stpatricks@mulleadyspub.com or call 206-283-8843 for reservations. Check out the menu here.

Kell’s in Post Alley is doing its annual week-long St. Paddy’s wingding leading up to the big day, when the bar opens at 10am—perfectly reasonable—and live music begins at noon.

A few blocks South on First Avenue, Fado competes for your liver with its own week-long SP bacchanalia. Thursday, it opens at 7am with a kegs and eggs breakfast. The bar is cover-free until 1pm, music starts an hour later.

In Queen Anne, T.S. McHugh’s has live music Thursday and a special menu that includes beef and Guinness pie and corned beef and cabbage.

Other green-beer destinations for your consideration: The Celtic Swell in West Seattle, McGilvra’s in Madison Park or U-District sister bar Finn MacCool’s, Paddy Coyne’s in Bellevue and South Lake Union (also Tacoma, if you like), and the Celtic Bayou in Redmond and Lynnwood, where I suggest you calorie-load on happy hour apps (Popcorn shrimp! Tator tots!) from 4 to 7pm.

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Tags: St Patrick's Day, Seattle Irish Pubs

Happy St Patty’s. The party begins in 19 minutes.

Green-beer wingdings will take place in Irish pubs all over town today, but the one to hit is Kell’s.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47AM 3 Comments

A very Irish band of the sort you can see all day at Kell’s.

It being St Patrick’s Day, you can pretty much stumble into any Irish bar around town and expect a party. But the one to hit is Kell’s, which opens at 10am (20 minutes from now).

There is a $20 cover—admission buys you a free t-shirt and the chance to hear no fewer than eight Irish bands. The party spills into an outdoor tent and nearby Post, which shares owners with Kell’s. Please don’t forget to eat—the food at Kell’s is relatively tasty, and will help absorb all the beer.

In other news, I just called Tom Douglas Restaurants and was informed that there are still about 10 tickets left for the beer blast tonight at Palace Ballroom. So if you want to get on that, call this number right now: 206-448-2001.

Finally, was anyone curious where the great Shane MacGowan himself might be playing tonight, as bands the world over cover his songs? I was, but there is no show date posted on his Myspace page. I’ll bet you two green beers he is doing a gig at Bill Gates’s private St Patty’s party on Mercer Island. Or perhaps in Mexico, playing for Carlos Slim, that Mexican telecom tycoon who is now richer than Bill Gates.

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Tags: Holiday Events, Pike Place Market, St Patrick's Day

Saint Patty’s Season Continues with Green Drinks at the Pan Pacific

Pucker up for vodka-based specials at the SLU hotel bar.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 09, 2010 at 02:16PM 0 Comments

We started this SP season off with Tom Douglas’ Beer Blast but if vodka cocktails are more your thing, check out the green drink specials at the bar the Pan Pacific Hotel.

There is the Go Green: Cucumber Dry Soda, pear vodka, and Sour Apple Pucker schnapps, and then there is the Irish Pride: pear vodka, triple sec, and Cucumber Dry.

Hmm. Which of these would I choose? I guess the second one, because it doesn’t have Sour Apple Pucker schnapps in it, which sounds like it tastes like a Jolly Rancher. I don’t really drink vodkas though, unless I’m in suburban Connecticut, where my parents live, and where the Grey Goose flows like it’s Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow. I do like an infusion now and again though, why not? And Cucumber Dry is good, though I prefer it with gin. I’m digressing: if these sort of drinks are up your alley, lucky you. The Pan Pacific will be serving them on Wednesday, March 17 for $10 a pop.

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Tags: South Lake Union, Cocktails, St Patrick's Day, Vodka

Saint Patty’s Season Begins with Beer Blast

Tom Douglas offers lots of local micros plus food pairings for $35.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 08, 2010 at 03:57PM 2 Comments

Patron saint of the boozies.

There are always a lot of bar offerings for St. Patty’s, but they can all seem to run together after awhile—Pogues cover band here, green beer there. Shamrocks everywhere.

So this year, let’s start things off with Tom Douglas’ Saint Patrick’s Day Beer Blast, to be held at Palace Ballroom on March 17 from 5 to 8pm. Entry is $35 per person, for this you can sample Irish ales from Snoqualmie, Big Al Brewing, Maritime Pacific, Elysian. Elliott Bay, Hales, Pike Brewing, and Georgetown Brewery. Douglas is fixing up some Irish snacks to pair with the brews, you know those will be good.

It’s funny. I’m not having the best day today, and the thought of going to this actually cheers me up. Tom Douglas is such a happymaker, have you noticed? He just knows how to make us happy. Order tickets by calling 206-448-2001.

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Tags: Beer, Holiday Events, Drinking Events, Tom Douglas, St Patrick's Day