St. Patrick’s Day Parties Will Be Aplenty

Sure and it’s almost time for the wearin’ of the green. And the more Irish the restaurant’s name, the more certain you can be of daylong celebrations on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day.

Muldoon’s in Newport Center will swing its doors open at 8 a.m. to serve “small breakfast items” till noon. From noon on, a 10-item menu will include Irish stew, corned beef and cabbage and Mrs. Murphy’s pot roast, with Harp, Bass and Guinness on tap. A live band will play from 2 p.m. till 1 a.m.

Start the day at 7 a.m. with corned beef hash and eggs at Malarkey’s Irish Pub in Newport Beach. After 2 p.m., sandwiches (corned beef, of course) and green beer will be served. Judging from past years, owner Bill Hamilton may even have green hair.

At the Dublin Inn in Dana Point, Terry Casey and Murph Carey will play Irish folk music; the corned beef, as always, will cook overnight for moist tenderness, and the taps will be offering Harp, Guinness and Newcastle. The doors will open at 10 a.m. and will close “when the last one leaves.”

McCormick and Schmick’s in Irvine, normally closed for lunch on Saturdays, will open at noon to serve corned beef and cabbage, Mulligan stew and Irish potatoes.

The Top of Laguna’s will offer a $6.95 brunch of corned beef hash, spinach quiche, Irish soda bread and complementary Irish coffee. From 5 to 7 p.m., it’s all- you-can-eat time: corned beef and cabbage or Mulligan stew for $8.95. And starting at 7, an Irish feast will be $17.17. Irish entertainment comes on at 6 p.m., with luck-of-the-Irish drawings on the hour from 8 p.m.

And though it’s not an Irish place, the Bouzy Rouge in Newport Beach will kick things off early this Monday, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., with readings of poetry by James Joyce and other Irish poets, along with Irish food specials.