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Datz, a comfort food destination is Tampa, is featuring the Irish Breakfast made with Jameson, Baileys, Galliano Ristretto, cold brew coffee and Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters. It is topped with housemade Guinness and mint whipped cream, and Lucky Charms for a fun play on the holiday. The specialty cocktail is available throughout the month of March.
Texas-based Three Brothers Bakery is offering a variety of lucky treats, including a St. Patrick's Day-themed King Cake, which is made in the classic Louisiana style, filled with cream cheese or fruit flavors and topped with dark and light green sanding sugar on white icing.
The West Coast restaurant chain, with 10 full-service diners in California and Nevada, is offering a St. Patrick’s Day themed limited-time offer in its log-cabin-style setting. The restaurants will offer a corned beef and cabbage meal from March 16-19. It is priced at $8 at lunch, $14.99 at dinner, and $11.99 for seniors. The corned beef and cabbage will be made from scratch.
Dunkin’ Donuts has brought back the Shamrock Sprinkle Donut, a yeast ring donut frosted with chocolate icing and topped with special shamrock sprinkles.
Casual-dining chain Mimi’s Café is helping guests celebrate the luckiest holiday with a special dish only available on St. Patrick’s Day. For one day only, the chain is offering corned beef and cabbage served with steamed carrots and potatoes with whole grain mustard for $14.99. Mimi’s also offers corned beef and hash served with two eggs any style and toast or muffin and herb-roasted potatoes, for $12.29, on its breakfast menu every day. Mimi’s corned beef is housemade, eight-hour slow-cooked brisket.
“Mimi’s is always a celebration destination, and we are offering a beloved breakfast favorite and putting an Irish twist on a one-day-only special entrée for lunch and dinner that will make Mimi’s your new go-to on this holiday,” said Mimi’s chief administrative officer Matt Helm.
The fast-casual chain’s Irish Hooley menu will be available from Feb. 27 to April 2, and features an array of traditional Irish fare. The special menu will include: corned beef hash and eggs served with sourdough toast, for $11; corned beef and cabbage, for $13, a corned beef sandwich served on a toasted hoagie, for $12; and Irish chip dip, made with chilled corned beef and horseradish, and served with pub-made potato chips, for $7. Beverages will include: The Irish Slammer, made with RumChata Cream Liqueur and Guinness; the Belfast Boom, made with Baileys Irish Cream, Guinness and Jameson Irish Whiskey; Irish Coffee Shots, with Kahlúa, 2 Gingers Irish Whiskey, and half and half; a Green Tea Shot, with Jameson Irish Whiskey, peach schnapps, Monin Cane Syrup and fresh lemon juice; Green Beer; Irish Dry Stout; an Irish Palmer with Guinness and Minute Maid lemonade; and a Flying Guinness.
TART, located at The Farmer’s Daughter Hotel in Los Angeles, is offering a variety of St. Patrick’s Day specials this year. The Irish-themed dishes include: Irish blood sausage over pristine gratin served with braised, shredded Brussels sprouts and a bacon jus; roasted lamb loin served with roasted fingerling potatoes, baby red carrots, pearled onions, white roasted garlic and a Zinfandel reduction; crispy Brussels sprouts with corned beef and whole-grain mustard; Korean-style short rib in a stout glaze with mashed potatoes and braised broccolini; and braised fennel and poached lobster served with chives and lime cream. To partner with the menu specials, the restaurant is also offering a Honeydew Ginger Martini with vodka, Midori, Domaine De Canton ginger liqueur, lemon juice and a dash of Angostura bitters. Customers can also win a dinner for two with a prix-fixe menu created by chef Josh Pebbles by guessing how many green gummies are in a jar, housed inside the hotel lobby.
The restaurant, located inside the destination hotel Motif Seattle, will offer a menu special of a duo of corned beef sandwiches for $10. It’s also offering three special cocktails, including End of the Rainbow: a shot of Jameson and Bud Light draft for $10, Bucket-O-Buds: five green bottles of Budweiser or Bud Light for $17, and the Limey Bastard with Absolut lime, muddled citrus, firewater bitters and soda for $9. The location is also offering a chance for customers to find gold at the end of the rainbow with hidden coins throughout the restaurant that offer prizes and rewards.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Hickory Tavern, which has grown to include 26 businesses in 15 communities across the Southeast, is offering free Chips & Queso to everyone who comes into the Tavern on March 16 and 17. The chain is calling this the “prescription” for the “Shamrock Flu.” Also, on Friday only, Hickory Tavern will introduce an adult version of a popular and iconic seasonal shake, which the Tavern is calling the Green Gorilla. It’s a thick vanilla shake with three different kinds of rum, and a drop of green food coloring to give it some St. Patrick’s Day swagger. The Green Gorilla shake will be priced at $5.95. Hickory Tavern will also feature traditional corned beef and cabbage all day long on St. Patrick’s Day.
Bennigan’s offers its St. Patrick’s Day menu for the entire month of March to celebrate its Irish roots. One item on the chain’s menu this year is the Reuben Burger. The specialty item includes: chopped corned beef, 1000 Island dressing, sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese layered around a half-pound burger and served between toasted Rye bread.
Flour & Barley is offering a Luck of the Irish Pie from March 17-19. The pizza will be topped with pesto cream sauce, corned beef, Brussels sprouts, sausage and potato. The restaurant chain has locations in San Diego, Las Vegas and Waikiki, Hawaii.
The fast-casual Mexican chain is offering Green Tabasco Flavor as the March flavor, as part of its Queso of the Month program, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The piquant flavor is blended into Qdoba’s signature three-cheese Queso. Keeping up with Qdoba’s tradition, Queso is free to add to any entrée. Guests can also purchase a side of Chips & Queso, or a Queso sampler for $4 (prices may vary by restaurant).
Bruegger’s Bagels will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by baking shamrock green bagels from March 16–17, at participating U.S. locations. The bagels are first kettle-boiled and then baked in small batches throughout the day to ensure freshness. Guests can enjoy them with any of the chain’s made-in-Vermont cream cheese flavors, or as a base for breakfast or lunch sandwiches.
“For 20 years, our freshly baked green bagels have added a festive touch to St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at work, school or home,” said Judy Kadylak, vice president of marketing for Bruegger’s Bagels. “It’s a longstanding Bruegger’s Bagels tradition that we know our guests look forward to each year, and we hope they come in and get them while they last.”
TGI Fridays is offering 14 oz. green beers for #3 and Jameson “You Call It” cocktails for $5 on St. Patrick’s Day, at participating locations.
The fast-casual Bruxie waffle sandwich chain is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with the “Get Lucky” Fried Chicken Sandwich. The sandwich includes Guinness-Honey Glazed Fried Chicken with Corned Beef & Cabbage Slaw, Pickled Carrots and a Mustard Vinaigrette.
“We took our original Fried Chicken & Waffle Sandwich and gave it an Irish twist by incorporating our favorite St. Patrick’s Day foods,” Bruxie founder and chef Kelly G. Mullarney said. “In addition, guests will also be able to indulge in our acclaimed Irish Nachos and our fresh Mint Shake.” The riff on the original chicken sandwich will be priced at $9.95 and will be offered from March 15–21.
Executive chef Sandy Ingber is offering Old Fashioned Beer-Battered Fish and Chips at Grand Central Oyster Bar, which is located “below sea level” at Grand Central Station in New York City. The dish is a mainstay on the menu throughout the year, but it is especially apropos in celebrating the patron saint of Ireland. The entrée is priced at $22.95.
The Morrison Pub, located in Atwater Village in Los Angeles, is offering several food and beverage specials for the occasion. The restaurant is offering Lucky Quesadillas, McCabbaged Corned Beef, Me Alud Corned Beef Sandwich with beer mustard, Wrap O’ Gold with pesto aioli served in a spinach wrap, and Sweet Leprechaun, which is a choice of Jameson or vanilla ice cream topped with Lucky Charms. “Ye Goin for a Swally” drink specials include Morrison’s Shamrock Ltd Green Beer, Irish Car Bomb, Guinness, and Bang On.
Tam O’Shanter, a member of the Lawry’s family of restaurants, and one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles, will host a St. Patrick’s Day party on March 17. The restaurant will open at 11 a.m., with a special tent area in the parking lot opening at 12 p.m. The restaurant will offer a wide assortment of sweet and Irish-themed eats, including sugar shamrock cookies, Bailey’s cupcakes, and corned beef and cabbage. It will also offer an assortment of ales and green beers on tap, a selection of scotch, and light-up shamrock necklaces for guests who follow the restaurant on Facebook or Instagram, or join their email list. The Guinness girls will also be on hand, adding to the festive spirit.
The quick-service chain is offering two special promotions for St. Patrick’s Day. The first is “Wear Green, Get Green,” in which participating locations are offering free Green Tea to all guests wearing green on March 17. On its menu from March 13-17, McAlister’s is offering a Reuben Spud, which is an oven-baked potato topped with corned beef, sauerkraut, Thousand Island dressing and Swiss cheese.
The gourmet and specialty store based in Arizona is offering an Irish-themed spread on March 17, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The hot meals will include traditional shepherd’s pie with soda bread, corned beef brisket with cabbage, red potatoes and Irish soda bread, and hot corned beef sandwiches. All dishes include sides. For dessert, AJ’s is serving green-iced donuts, Irish-inspired cakes and shamrock-shaped cookies. Shoppers can also find a wide selection of Irish specialties, such as Kerrygold Reserve Irish Cheddar Cheese, and a selection of Irish beer, including Guinness Pub Draught Irish Stout, Harp Lager and Smithwick’s Irish Ale.
Along with the annual mint-flavored McCafé Shamrock Shakes, McDonald’s is also offering a limited-edition straw designed by a team of aerospace and robotic engineers from JACE and NK Labs.
The Shamrock Shake, one of the four new seasonal beverages, has a layer of chocolate shake below the Shamrock Shake. This presented a unique challenge to reinvent the shake experience in order “to deliver the ideal flavor ratio of 50 percent chocolate and 50 percent mint in each sip, versus enjoying each flavor separately with a traditional straw,” according to McDonald’s.
The four Shamrock Shake flavors include: Chocolate Shamrock Shake, Shamrock Chocolate Chip Frappé, Shamrock Mocha and Shamrock Hot Chocolate. Additionally, as part of Shamrock season, McDonald's will donate 25 cents from each McCafé Shamrock Chocolate beverage purchased to Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) from March 11-17.
