By Samantha Fournier
It’s that time of year again and in case you missed standing in a mass of rowdy green outfitted parade goers at Hartford’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday or in New Haven on Sunday, there are many more St. Patrick’s Day Festivities still planned ahead.
This Wednesday, Hartford’s cozy Irish pub, The Half Door, will be serving an Irish brunch in the morning and will have a St. Patrick’s Day themed menu until ten p.m. Live music will start early in the day until late into the night. Local Irish musicians perform regularly at this gastro pub, which is also known for its draft list featuring beers from countries all around the world. You’ll be sure not to miss out on grabbing a glass of the infamous Irish Guinness here.
The Hungry Tiger in Manchester has always been a part of the local music scene packing in lots of listeners each night and providing Central Connecticut with local talent to listen to. That won’t change this St. Patty’s Day when the sounds of Irish music will fill the small dive bar from 5:30 – 10 p.m. Performers like Dave Connelly and the Blaney Brothers will take the stage. At 10 p.m. The Hungry Tiger’s Wednesday night regulars Eric Sac and Friends will be playing. Corned beef and cabbage will be served from noon until 10 p.m.
The Main Pub, which is also in Manchester, will also be celebrating with Celtic and Irish music with Don Sineti and friends at six p.m. If you take advantage of the legendary Irish dish of corned beef and cabbage being served all day you can wash it down with green beer-filled glasses.
Start the day off right at Vaughn’s Public House in Hartford, which will be open for beer and breakfast starting at 9 to 11:30 a.m serving raisin cranberry scones, lots of potatoes, bacon and corned beef. Visit later in the day for Irish music. Calley McGrane and the Exiles and Two for the Road are scheduled to perform.
Also serving a full day of food and drinks is Eli Cannon’s in Middletown. The bar, which goes for an American/Irish/English pub feel, has two options for both breakfast and lunch/dinner: the “5th Avenue” with grilled tomatoes, Irish sausage, scrambled eggs and potatoes meal and the “Lower East Side” meal of baked beans, corned beef hash and scrambled eggs for breakfast.
For lunch and dinner, Eli’s serves up affectionately titled “Ryan’s Mom’s Dinner” of corned beef and cabbage, carrots and potatoes, as well as the “SPD Reuben” with more corned beef, saurkraut and mustard. Irish soda bread offered all around, as well as the bar’s usual 33 beers on tap. Festivites include some bagpiping and Irish Step Dancers.
And end the night on a good note at the popular Murphy and Scarletti’s, which has always had its place in the young social scene offering up pizza, live entertainment, and plenty of pool tables. Murphy’s plans to have its “Legendary St. Patrick’s Day Party” at night where Shake That perform and green beer will flow from its taps.
If you plan on staying on campus CAN has a St. Patty’s Day event planned called Comedy Done Right. Comedian Lee Camp of The Citizen’s Brigade, and CCSU’s Mobiloxyschlock perform in Semesters from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.
