Okay, we’ll admit it. We’re not the biggest fans of St. Patrick’s Day. It’s nothing against the Irish. We share that blood, too. Our beef is with the green-tinted throngs that see March 17 as a good excuse to drink themselves so stupid that we risk tripping over their unconscious bodies on the sidewalk, or worse, that we have to put up with the same three shouted bars of the Danny Boy for half an hour on BART. Learn the words, already!
But, since someone else did the footwork already, we might as well direct you to Zagat’s little Irish bar guide–if only as a primer on where not to go this weekend if you don’t want to get into a drunken brawl with some red-faced frat boy who thinks it’s pronounced “An-Bow-Dran [sic]”
Also, here’s a link to Menupages’ own list of 15 Irish restaurants in the city. It might be a bit more tolerable to celebrate the Emerald Isle with a plate of lamb stew, a Guinness and a loaf of soda bread on the 18th, than with a room full of sweaty, surly drunks sitting in your corned beef on the 17th.
Get in Touch With Your Inner Irish [Zagat’s]
Irish restaurants in San Francisco [Menupages]
Photo credit: Zurika [Flickr]
