Readers' Choice: Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

Saturday marks St. Patrick’s Day 2012, and many of us will celebrate by heading to parades, catching up with friends, enjoying Irish music and dancing and celebrating with our neighbors through church-organized and other community events.

Those of us planning to head out likely have our “go-to” spots, so for this week’s Wilton Patch's Readers’ Choice contest we’re asking for your recommendations:

What’s your favorite place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?

What makes it special? Why do you enjoy it?

As with each Readers’ Choice contest, Patch will factor in a combination of poll votes, comments and most importantly, ratings and reviews in the Patch Places directory, in determining winners.

Below you’ll find a starter list that we’re asking you to help us to flesh out—as well as a poll whose choices we’ll update as we get feedback from you. 

Before we get to our list and poll, just a note that here in Fairfield County we have five large parades—in Bridgeport, Danbury, Greenwich, and Stamford—and here are some details about those parades:

• Bridgeport: 12 p.m. Friday, parade starts on Broad Street
• Greenwich: 2 p.m. Sunday, starts at
• Danbury: 2 p.m. Sunday, starts at
• Stamford: 12 p.m. Saturday, starts on North Street at Summer

Starter list for Wilton Readers’ Choice: Places to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day (tell us what we’re missing):

• Marley's
• Cactus Rose
• The Little Pub