10 Top St Patrick’s Day Celebrations
This year St Patrick’s Day is on a Friday, which means there is no reason to not have a Guinness or two; but it’s not just about the Guinness, it’s also about Irish music, Riverdance flash mobs, stews and whisky…
The Bloomsbury Club Bar
River Dance Flash Mob
The Bloomsbury Club Bar is going one step further than just serving whiskey – they are boasting their very own exclusive bottle, Dingle Distillery Single Malt Whiskey which will be poured in abundance over a two-day period. Live music, bespoke cocktails and an Irish food menu (think oysters and Irish whiskey rarebit) make it into a party, and if you visit on Friday you’ll witness an Irish Riverdance flash mob.
Friday 17th – Saturday 18th March
Where: 16-22 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, WC1B 3NN
Website: www.thebloomsburyclub.com
Old Bengal Bar
Whiskey Cocktails
Celebrate St Paddy’s Day in the city with Old Bengal Warehouse. Jameson Caskmates will be shaking up three whiskey-based cocktails including ‘The Leprechaun’, made with port wine, sugar syrup and lemon juice. Live music courtesy of the O’Connell Duo will get the party started.
Monday 13th March until Sunday 19th March
Where: New Street, London, EC2M 2AF, United Kingdom
Website: www.oldbengalbar.co.uk
Paternoster Chop House
Guinness-inspired Food Menu
Get creative with your Guinness consumption and eat it this Paddy’s Day… Paternoster Chop House have infused their menu with the black stuff – it’s made its way into everything from Irish stew to a Guinness pudding with whiskey cream. Other highlights include smoked wild Irish salmon with soda bread and a Baileys and chocolate cheesecake.
Friday 17th March
Where: Warwick Court, Warwick Lane, London EC4M 7DX, United Kingdom
Website: www.paternosterchophouse.co.uk
Smith & Wollensky
Irish Cocktails
US steak restaurant, Smith & Wollensky are joining forces with Jameson Irish Whiskey in this American meets Irish celebration of St Patrick’s day. They’ll be serving pints of Guinness and cocktails including the classic Espresso Martini, a Jameson Cloudy Apple and The Tipperary – a cocktail which became popular in pre-prohibition New York.
Friday 17th March
Where: The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, Covent Garden Riverside, London WC2N 6HT, United Kingdom
Website: www.smithandwollensky.co.uk
108 Brasserie
Irish Dishes
108 Brasserie will be celebrating St Patrick’s Day with a whole host of Irish dishes, there’ll be Guinness bread available from 8am to 3pm, Irish coffee served over lunch time, a suitably Irish dish of bacon loin, cabbage and parsley sauce for lunch and dinner and of course an Irish cocktail, The Dingle Sour, made from Dingle Gin, sugar syrup, plum bitters and egg white.
Friday 17th March
Where: 108 Brasserie, Marylebone Lane, London, United Kingdom
Website: www.108brasserie.com
Wright Brothers Soho Oyster House
Guinness Pairing Menu
Wright Brothers have teamed up with Guinness to create a distinctly Irish three- course pairing menu. Dishes include three Carlingford oysters served with a traditional Black Velvet (a mix of Champagne and stout); wild Atlantic prawns with Guinness-infused mayonnaise and half a pint of Guinness and a smoked haddock rarebit Scotch egg served with a bottle of Hop House.
Available Friday 17th – S unday 19th March at all the London-based Wright Brothers restaurants.
Where: Kingly Court, 13 Kingly Street, London W1B 5PW, United Kingdom
Website: www.thewrightbrothers.co.uk
Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill
St Patrick's Day Feast
If you can escape the office, then head over to Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill for Richard Corrigan’s St Patrick’s Day feast. Using the best Irish ingredients from his estate in County Cavan, Virginia Park Lodge, the four- course menu will include Bentley’s rooftop smoked salmon, Irish stew with bacon and cabbage and Irish apple tart with Jameson Cream and coffee and chocolates. There’ll also be live music, we can’t think of a much better way to spend a Friday afternoon.
Friday 17th March
Where: 11-15 Swallow Street, London, W1B 4DG, United Kingdom
Website: www.bentleys.org
Camden Market
St Patrick's Day Festival
The Mayor of London’s annual St Patrick’s festivities will be heading to Camden Market, for a day of live performances from Irish bands, a Guinness bar, Irish dancing, the Six Nations screened live and Irish dishes from the street food stalls. The Cheese Bar will be serving up a blue cheese raclette made with Young Bucks Irish cheese, salt beef and potatoes, Crosstown Doughnuts will have a chocolate Guinness doughnut with Baileys and chocolate ganache and Guinness icing and Chin Chin Labs will have a stout ice cream with a seaweed caramel and potato sponge cake.
Saturday 18th March
Where: Camden Market, Camden Lock Place, Camden NW1 8A
Website: www.camdenmarket.com
