Who doesn’t love St. Patrick’s Day? Maybe someone who hates the color green? It’s one of those holidays that’s just fun to celebrate. As far as I’m concerned, St. Patrick’s Day means good food and lots of beer… both good things. My last name is Foley after all. Lexington has its fair share of merriment for every Irishman’s favorite holiday, so I’ve rounded up all the places you should celebrate!
Alltech St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival
The festivities kick off with the Shamrock Shuffle at 8am. The “blessing of the keg” is at 11am followed by the parade at 1pm.
Atomic Ramen
Serving their all green She Hulk Ramen.
Azur
Serving a three course Irish brunch for $25 with live Celtic music on the 18th. You had me at scones.
A&W Lexington
Serving Grasshopper Shakes.
Drake’s
Serving an Irish specialty menu March 12-18 and $3 green beer in souvenir steins, $4 Jameson and $5 Lucky Drinks on St. Patrick’s Day. I look forward to the Rachel Sandwich on this menu all year long!
Centro
Opening at 11 with $2 green beer and $5 leprechaun juice.
DV8 Kitchen
Serving a Lucky Charms Cinnamon Roll through St. Patrick’s Day.
Harry’s
Serving an Irish specialty lunch menu March 16-18. The aforementioned Rachel is available here too 😉
Lexington Beer Works
Serving $2 green beer, $3 Guinness, $3 whiskey shots, $4 Irish car bombs with live music from 7-11pm.
Local Taco
Serving reuben tacos and margaritas are green, right?!
Lynagh’s
Serving a full Irish menu including corned beef nachos and egg rolls, bangers and mash, shepherd’s pie and more. Plus $3 green beer, lots of drink specials and live music starting at 6pm.
Magee’s
Serving Irish stew with soda bread and potato candy.
Metropolitan Donuts
One of my favs from my Lexington Donut Guide. They’re serving a special St. Patrick’s Day donut.
Minton’s at 760
Serving brunch on Saturday including Irish potato cakes, corned beef and bangers and mash.
Mirror Twin Brewing/National Ave Block Party
Serving green beer and featuring Ethereal Brewing, Rock House, Pivot and West Sixth. Food trucks including Mr. Gyros, Salsarita’s, Roll n Smoke and Jasmine Rice (plus Rolling Oven Pizza inside the brewery.) Live music starting at 2pm.
Northlime Donutsp
Also from my donut guide and serving a Dublin Double Chocolate Stout Donut. You can also special order a St. Patrick’s Day Big Ol Donut, a giant donut with chocolate, glazed, green sprinkle and Irish cream flavors.
O’Neills
Live music by Radio 80 and green beer on Friday and Saturday.
Pivot Brewing
Releasing a new Irish-style cider and an Irish double stout plus food from Babz Bistro and rugby on TV.
Shamrocks
Does the name give it away? The Hartland location will have trivia at 9pm.
Soundbar
Serving $3.50 Guinness, $4.50 Irish whiskey and $5.50 Irish car bombs with a DJ at 9pm.
Suggins
Serving a reuben, corned beef and cabbage and fish ‘n chips for lunch. Serving an open-faced reuben, corned beef and cabbage, fish ‘n chips and Irish lamb stew for dinner.
West Sixth Brewing
Releasing a special bottle the morning of St. Patrick’s Day.
Whiskey Bear
Hosting an Irish whiskey tasting with Distilled Living for $25.
Windy Corner Market
Serving a traditional Irish colcannon, corned beef and cabbage and a corned beef and cabbage po boy.
I will keep updating this post as more specials are announced! Please feel free to share any that I missed. Happy celebrating!
Biscuits (green beer) & blessings,
Leels
All the green food just cracks me up. The cinnamon roll with green icing actually looks delicious!
DV8 has the best cinnamon rolls, hands down!
I don’t know what I like more Drake’s, the sound of those reuben tacos or all the donuts you mentioned! Just kidding, gimme all the donuts! 😍 🍩 I didn’t realize so many places offered specials or fun treats!
Donuts are always the answer!
That lucky charms cinnamon roll sounds and looks DELISH!! I’m not usually a big St. Patrick’s Day but that would make celebrating fun.
The next time you’re in Lex, you must try their cinnamon rolls! Insane!
This is so helpful, I haven’t been to many of these and definitely will be heading to them when I can!!
So glad you found it useful! Enjoy!
BLESS YOU FOR THIS! So excited!!!
Get you that lucky drink gal!
So many good options!! Love Drake’s too
The St. Patrick’s Day menu is so good!
You need to preface this post by saying “DO NOT READ WHILE HUNGRY”
I should probably preface all of my posts with that 😉
I’m so excited about St. Patrick’s Day!! I’ll be spending it downtown! Hopefully the weather will be nice!
I know, it looks like rain so far but that can be fun too!
I’ll be at the parade! And a friend had one of those DV8 lucky charms rolls the other day – looked fab.
Their cinnamon rolls are insane! Have fun!
So many great choices! I’m a sucker for the cheesy St. Patty’s Day celebrations and ALL. THE. GREEN. THINGS.
Yay, glad you’re a fan! Enjoy!