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All right, you alchie lads and lassies, your day is near, the one time of the year where the bars open up for breakfast and people won't look at you twice for having a little whiskey with your morning cuppa. Take the day off so you can start drinking early to beat the mad crowds and avoid the long lines. These Irish pubs can accommodate your pre-dawn cravings as they open up in the a.m. for St. Patrick's Day next Monday.
Brennan's Pub: Opens 6am. This Marina del rey pub, home of the turtle races, will open its doors before the sun even comes up so you can enjoy your green beer and corned beef and cabbage, breakfast of leprechauns. There will also be live music on two stages and bagpipers. Cover: $10 after 2pm.
Casey's Irish Bar and Grille: Opens 7am. This downtown bar not only offers Irish food, green beer and live music but a chance to be in the St. Paddy's Day parade. Buy your ticket for a seat on Casey's bus and give your best royal wave to the masses below. The bar also has a 6-7pm happy hour with $1 off Guinness if you want to bookend the workday. No cover.
Clancy's: Opens 7am. With both karaoke performed by drunken bar flies and bagpipers doing their thang at this downtown Long Beach dive, the decibel levels here will be off the charts. But who needs ears to enjoy green beer? No cover.
Finn McCool's: Opens 10am. This charming Santa Monica pub brings you the requisite green beer, drink specials and live music as well as Indie 103.1, who will be broadcasting its import radio show, Passport Approved, from the bar. And you have to try the food. Mmm, boxties. Cover: $10.
Irish Times: Opens 10am. You won't find green beer here at this divey, off-the-beaten-path Palms pub but there will be plenty of bagpipes and live music. Hey, maybe it won't be too much of a madhouse after work! Cover: $12.
Killian's Pub and Grill: Opens 11am. True, this Torrance pub's 11am opening doesn't necessarily stand out from the others, but their $2 green beer sure does! No cover.
O'Brien's Irish Pub: Opens 6am. Since this opens up before Finn McCool's, down the street, you can start off an early morning pub crawl here with an Irish breakfast and a pint. Live music starts at 1pm. No cover.
Patrick Molloys: Opens 8am. This Hermosa Beach bar not only opens early on Monday but on the Saturday and Sunday before St. Paddy's Day, too. Now that's hard-core. Kegs and Eggs, they're calling their breakfast of $4 pitchers of Bloody Mary and Screwdriver. Cover: $5 after 11am, and increases the busier they get.
Tom Bergin's Tavern: Opens 6am. I love this Fairfax District pub with its horseshoe bar, but it turns into such a zoo come St. Paddy's Day. Get there first thing in the morning to avoid the crowds of frat boys and workhorses and enjoy their "world famous" Irish coffee. No cover.
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Is it actually worth mentioning that this year St Patrick's Day is on the 15th due to St Patrick's Day (the 18th) lands in Holy Week? So get your booze on Saturday!
Thanks for the round-up! It's not St Pat's unless you are wasted by noon!
Okay, not only am I Irish, my father was the bartender at the Gaelic-American Social Club ... GREEN BEER IS NOT IRISH!
what is this green beer?
WHy???
Or is just a illusion after too many drinks?
Look I can go with the Green Bushmills!
Green beer isn't Irish? Neither are bagpipes, Donna, at least not the big Scottish ones that will be everywhere. I've never seen real Irish bagpipes at a St Pats party once.
It has nothing to do with what is Irish or not. It's about people getting really, really drunk and vomiting green!
My adopted Irish brother won't even go out on St Pat's because he gets so much shit from drunk girls accusing him of faking his accent.
So let's just make a big vat of potatoes, drink some whiskey, write tragic ballads, read The Dead and complain about the government.
wait...Elise...you have an adopted Irish brother?!?!?
I am Irish so I am already drunk all of the time anyway.
Damn you forgot Timmy Nolans in Toluca Lake! I think they're opening at 4am :)
Timmy Nolans is great. But I don't think they can legally open before 6am.
McMurphy's in Pasadena probably has something going on too.
Well, there are such a thing as Irish bagpipes (my great grandfather was in a Fife and Drum Corps), but we tend to reserve them for parades and funerals!
Actually McMurphy's opens at noon but they apparently have corned beef dishes, bagpipers, and Celtic Rock.
And regarding bars celebrating on Saturday, these bars are actually celebrating on Monday the 17th.
Yeah, I like the Irish pipes - smaller and with a higher pitch and more melodic sound.
Now, the Scottish will break out the bagpipes at the sight of a campfire, haggis, parade, or any time they notice, "Hey! there are my bagpipes!"
just drink absinthe.
Never have been able to drink green beer. Somthing just not right about green food coloring in beer. That said, McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant,
633 West Fifth Street, 4th Floor, downtown L.A. always has a killer St Patty's day menu, and cheap too!
When I was in CATHOLIC summer camp, the nuns once injected food coloring into the milk cartons, turning the milk pink, and they told us the fairies did it.
So that kind of cast doubts on all of the miracles of Lourdes, Padre Pio, crying and bleeding statues too.
...and why did the nuns at camp have hypodermic neeedles?
Green beer is scary Catholic voodoo if you ask me.
"Green beer is scary Catholic voodoo if you ask me."
Any beer light enough to look green after adding food coloring probably doesn't have much flavor.
"...and why did the nuns at camp have hypodermic neeedles?"
Diabetic, (one hopes).
Geeze!
I just went to the Casey's link. They're talking about starting what they call, "St. Patrick's Day Weekend" tomorrow, (Thursday)!
Start your livers indeed!
You went to Catholic summer camp?! That's even scarier than my childhood!
I was being sarcastic about Timmy's opening at 4am....
Sure Tristen, I bet you'll be taking the day off of work and lining up at that hour.