Wednesday, March 17, 2010

San Diego St. Patrick's Day Favorites



Can you smell the shepherd’s pie and corned beef with cabbage yet? Well, St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner and San Diegan’s are seeing green for one of the most intoxicating holidays of the year. Prepare your gullet for some Guinness or get risky with that whiskey, 'cause all yelpers are Irish on March 17th, and this Funny, Useful and Cool Weekly Yelp will have you sham-rockin’ your way to some of the best pubs in town.

Rise and shine this year with eye openers from The Field.Nico P calls it “the best Irish pub in town,” and gets there early for soccer matches and a morning tradition: “AGuinness at 7am is the perfect breakfast!” Sounds like a lovely day already! Showing toucan play at this game, Mary Lou D enjoys a spiked start from Hooley’s Irish Pub, with their version of Scotch eggs. "Hard-boiled eggs with a layer of sausage, rolled in a crumb mixture and fried to a delectable crisp” paired with a pint? Top o' the morn' to ya!

For the real deal, James A hits Blarney Stone Pub. In a scene that would make James Joyce weep, he swears he's on the Emerald Isle itself, thus professing: “I'm Irish and it’s the closest I've been to Ireland.” Meanwhile, Mick G gets in touch with his Celtic core at The Ould Sod, describing it as “Irish in an Irish kinda way – a way that the Publican knows the people, greets them by name, and knows their drink.Irish in the way that it's happy, and celebrates the greatness of life through beer and whiskey.” Cheers to that, Mick!

Go green by the beach with Scott R at The Harp – “a cool Irish bar set in the laid back confines of OB.” Although it has an American twist, “the forest green walls are decorated with Guinness memorabilia and framed with dark-stained wood as you would expect in any authentic Irish pub.” Little good can come from all that drinking without a good base, right? So she shouldn't fall from grace with cod, Eveline Sgets her fish and chips fix at “hidden gem” O'Brien's, quipping, “There are few things in life that are better thanwashing down fried food with a pint of high-gravity beer, except for maybe following that first pint of beer with several more pints.” Sounds like an alcoholiday to remember!

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