UES, Sutton Place Pubs Named 'Best' For St. Patty's Day Fun

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The east side has top-ranked St. Patrick's Day fun at both ends of the neighborhood, according to a new list of the 10 best Irish bars for the holiday.

East End Bar & Grill, on Third Avenue and East 94th Street, and Neary's, at First Avenue and East 57th Street, have both been named one of the "10 Irish Bars to Hoist a Pint in Manhattan on St. Paddy's Day," according to a new list by Eater NY.

The list calls East End Bar & Grill a "semi-elegant gastropub that doubles as a sports bar." Eater NY notes that revelers may be able to actually enjoy a Guinness pint, "due to this not being a historic Irish neighborhood," despite the fact that just over 10 blocks away is the beloved — but recently rife with scandal — American Irish Historical Society.

And, of course, that the St. Patrick's Day parade travels up Fifth Avenue and ends on East 79th Street.

Further south and east, Eater NY also named Neary's, noting that, in an odd coincidence, the pub opened on St. Patrick's Day in 1967. "Stop here for corned beef and cabbage at the bar or grab a seat in one of the restaurant’s cushy banquettes," they wrote about the East 57th Street spot.

In 2021, Jimmy Neary, the restaurant's founder and owner, died at 91.

The New York Times wrote that the spot started to get noticed when former Gov. Hugh Carey became a regular after becoming infatuated with the restaurant's smoked salmon.

Neary's then became know as a power broker's Irish pub. In 2006, when Mayor Michael Bloomberg went to County Sligo to dedicate a monument to am Irish New York Army regiment, he invited Neary to join him, wrote the Irish Times.

Here's where you can find each east side St. Patrick's Day spot:

East End Bar & Grill: 1672 Third Ave., near 94th Street

Neary's: 358 East 57th St., near First Avenue.