Irish Menu Ideas From Upstate NY Bars For Your St. Paddy's Party!

What do you look for on a St. Patrick's Day tavern menu? Corned Beef and Cabbage? Of course? Irish soda Bread? Why not? Irish potato soup, Sure, goes great with the soda bread. But, what else?

This gallery looks at ten different Upstate New York pubs that are serving up some great Irish menus for St. Patrick's Day festivities. In fact, many of these places "keep it Irish" all year long. So, along with your corned beef and cabbage and soda bread, lets add Irish nachos, Irish egg rolls, "herb beurre blanc mussels," some Guinness stew, and maybe even some bangers and mash.

St. Patrick's Day is a weekend to enjoy a sip with your friends, but don't forget to "build a base" with some of the great food items served at these (and many other) taverns and bars across Upstate New York.

If you know of an interesting Irish menu item served at your favorite Upstate New York pub, restaurant, or tavern, please visit our Facebook page and share it with our readers. we really do want to hear from you!

Happy St. Patrick's Day weekend to all of our readers. Enjoy the food, fun, and camaraderie of this special day. And... have a sip of green beer for me!

Upstate NY Irish Bars Have Some Suggestions For Your St. Pat's Day Meal!

So many of the wonderful Irish pubs, bars, and taverns spread all across Upstate New York have wonderful menus to serve up along with their pints of beer. While they certainly will bolster their Irish menu offerings for St. Patrick's Day, several of them "keep it Irish" all year long with Guinness stew, Irish tacos, bangers and mash, and other delectable treats. Get some Ideas for your St. Patrick' Day party with the help of this selection of goodies from Irish pubs in Upstate New York.

Gallery Credit: Chuck D'Imperio

A Selection of 100-125 Year Old Upstate New York Movie Theatres. Gorgeous!

Everyone loves an old movie theatre. And Upstate New York has a bunch of them

This gallery looks at 11 historic movie houses still showing films some 100 or 125 years after they first opened their doors. They cover the area from the Hudson Valley to the Catskills and Adirondacks, out through Central New York to the Finger Lakes and Western New York. When possible, we also included the movie that was shown on opening night. Yes, almost all of them were silent pictures.

The price to get in was about a dime (or less) and popcorn was still down the road a few years when these show palaces first opened. But they are still with us, showing first run films and it is a fun, nostalgic way to spend on a first date or to take the family to a movie and show them what the old days looked like!

There are many more old historic movie houses than just those on this list. If you know of one, that is around 125 years old or so, please let us know about it over on our Facebook page!

(Note: Much of the information here, and in general, comes from a wonderful website that keeps track of America's cinema history: https://cinematreasures.org/)

Gallery Credit: Chuck DImperio

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