144287 Tue Mar 11 11:29:44 -0800 2003 12 12 Boston Area 0 773140 Hi all! Will be visiting Boston for the first time on St Pats day weekend. I hear the city goes crazy :) Any recommendations on bars and hot spots? I'm assuming that most have long lines, but if its worth the wait... Also, is there anything going on Sunday? I read that bars close at 2 and that its hard to order liquor on Sundays? Please advise, thanks! Tue Mar 11 11:29:44 -0800 2003 0 irishone 1 773142 This site will give you some of the info you need (at least the time of the Southie parade and the locations/phone #s of the Irish pubs). Link: http://www.saintpatricksdayparade.com/boston/boston.htm Tue Mar 11 11:37:55 -0800 2003 773140 0 Linda W. 1 773143 Some bars close at 1, some at 2. Most Boston proper bars close at 2. Somerville, Watertown and some areas of Cambridge, 1. You can order liquor in bars & restaurants on Sundays but cannot buy in the stores. Short trip to NH solves that. Tue Mar 11 11:53:31 -0800 2003 773140 0 Dax 1 773145 Hi, welcome to Boston on the best day of the year. Guaranteed Good time. I hit the pubs on Sundays and never met with a dry draught....liquor always served. Many pubs serve early breakfast on SAturday and Sunday, particularly in the Brighton and Allson area where there's a big Irish Community. I always got a pint with my breakfast....even at (shhhhh !) 10 a.m. here's some www's with pub info. YOu can also do a Google search and plug in Irish Pubs (or bars...or Restaurants). Particular towns with high clusters of Irish are: South Boston; Charlestown; DOrchester; Brighton, Allson; Somerville. But in the immediate Boston area, the pubs on these www's are all good: check out: 1) www.irishmassachusetts.com 2) www.celticweb.com 3) www.somerspubs.com .And may bad luck and misfourtunate follow you everywhere, but never catch up !!! Tue Mar 11 11:54:34 -0800 2003 773140 0 Duffel O'bag 2 773146 The best day of the year? Am I the only one who stays as far away as possible from St. Patrick's Day things? Tue Mar 11 12:00:16 -0800 2003 773145 0 Joanie 3 773147 I don't say that I personally always head to the Boston Crowds, sometimes, I head in another direction or sometimes just have family over and stay at home. But everyone I've every come across in my mature years has always been happy, silly, funny, cheerful, chatty, etc. on St. Paddy's Day. Its just a day with the excuse of being carefree and, if in this world we can have a day to forget out troubles??? I'll take it! Of course there are crazys out there, but like with Christmas, New Years, and 4th of July, you need to pick your mode and level of enjoyment of the day. For me St. Paddy's is fun as I am Irish and don't have to worry about buying presents, cooking turkey, Lighting the barbie; setting off fireworks, and watching the ball drop with toothpicks in my eyes. Its just a simple fun day........ TA DAHHHH ! Tue Mar 11 12:12:41 -0800 2003 773146 0 Duffel O'Bag 4 773150 great perspective :) I myself go out every year for St Pats, here in Cleveland. Its an excuse to take a vacation day from work and go out drinking while the rest are at the office. Everyone is always friendly and its good to share the cheer. Thanks for the useful tips Duffel O'Bag! Appreciate it! Slainte' Tue Mar 11 14:06:15 -0800 2003 773147 0 irishone 3 773149 I usually try to make sure I am out of the country for this one...that's pretty far but alas not this year, perhaps a trip to Prov for the day then! Tue Mar 11 12:23:47 -0800 2003 773146 0 DodinBouffant 1 773181 Celebrate St Pat's day at local bars and avoid the tourists. Try: -Doyle's, James Gate,or brendan behan in Jamaica Plain -Boston Beer Garden, Shenanigan's, etc. in South Boston (actually, all of south boston becomes a bar during the parade - personally, a little too close to the irish-american stereotype for me, but worth going at least once) -the banshee, the blarney stone in dorchester -the kells in allston Wed Mar 12 07:14:20 -0800 2003 773140 0 cctc 2 773200 Even these bars (and indeed, any favorite neighborhood place) turns into a madhouse on St Pats, and not indicative of the place at all. The Kinvara will be overrun by BC kids by 2pm, I'm guessing. Wed Mar 12 13:02:03 -0800 2003 773181 0 Melissa 3 773225 That's very true, but I'd much prefer a "mad" neighborhood place to the insanity of the "irish" bars in faneuil hall. Thu Mar 13 10:53:46 -0800 2003 773200 0 cctc 1 773183 Aaah, St. Paddy's Day in Boston: 'tis a foyne opportunity to get jostled in overcrowded, fake-Irish bars by people who should know better but jump on the day as an excuse to get stinko. If yer lucky, maybe somone'll puke green beer on yer shoes! Most Irish ex-pats (and there are many in Boston, lots in the food-service industry) are baffled and appalled by what Americans do on St. Pat's. As an American with some Irish ancestry, I view the day the same way I do New Year's Eve for drinkers and Valentine's Day for lovers: friggin' amateur night, to be avoided like the plague. Most of the Irish bars that enjoy my custom hate St. Paddy's and the nitwits it attracts. I'll return after the yobbo hordes have had their day, when the pints are properly poured again. Wed Mar 12 07:43:56 -0800 2003 773140 0 MC Slim JB 2 773214 As a dual US/Irish citizen, IMHO it's the Irish that don't know how to celebrate St. Pat's day! Boston or Chicago are the places to be (they dye to river green in Chicago, fer Christ's sake!). "Here's to you and yours And to mine and ours. And if mine and ours Ever come across to you and yours, I hope you and yours will do As much for mine and ours As mine and ours have done For you and yours!" Slainte, Kevin Wed Mar 12 19:13:10 -0800 2003 773183 0 kpfoley