Restaurants & Bars
Berkeley Irish Pub: Make Plans For St. Patrick's Day
The Starry Plough is holding a block party with live music, dancing, and traditional Irish food like corned beef and cabbage.
BERKELEY, CA — If you are looking for Irish fun this St. Patrick's Day, the 3100 block of Shattuck Avenue is the place to be. Venerable Irish Pub The Starry Plough is holding a block party. Brush up on your Irish jig because the party will include live music, dancing, corned beef and cabbage, shepherd’s pie, beer-battered fish and chips, and plenty of Guinness to wash it all down. The party starts are noon.
The Starry Plough is included in a Mercury News Food Section feature, 13 (lucky!) great Irish bars in the Bay Area to visit for St. Patrick’s Day 2024. "Entering the Plough is a bit like boarding an ancient ship, all creaking wood and dark corners and perhaps a fiddler playing a jig yonder. The bartender pours a classic Guinness or a cider Snakebite, and the friendly patrons – who range from students to artists to granola-crunchy Berkeleyites – will dutifully hear out your tales of daily joy or woe. If you’re hungry, it’s only a few steps to the in-house kitchen, where the chefs prepare hearty grub from shepherd’s pie to beer-battered fish and chips and even a Guinness float with vanilla ice cream."
The pub offers traditional Irish dancing on Monday nights, and Sunday Irish jam sessions. "Walk into the bar with your old acoustic or violin under the arm, and you’ll likely be pulled into the circle, where you can play your tunes and nurse a beer and have a night to truly remember."
In addition to The Starry Plough in Berkeley, Irish pubs in Dublin, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Oakland, San Leandro, Burlingame, San Carlos, Redwood City, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Benicia and Santa Cruz are included in the Mercury News article.
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