Sbraga: A St. Patrick’s Day Deal With No Green Beer

Not every St. Patty’s Day celebration has to be about the maximum consumption of crappy, green-tinted lager in minimum time. There are those out there who want to spend the day in quiet contemplation, thinking about the many contributions of the Irish to world culture (like whiskey, songs about drinking whiskey, and stories written while in whiskey’s company), and others who might be looking for a taste of Ireland’s many culinary accomplishments (including, but not limited to, potatoes, bacon, and potatoes with bacon).

For those of you out there interested in the latter–or just looking for an excuse to spend St. Patrick’s Day on Broad Street but not squeezed up against a sticky bar with 10,000 of your closest friends, Kevin Sbraga has put together a delightfully green chef’s counter menu that he’ll be serving for dinner at his eponymous restaurant.

$65 gets you colcanon, mussels in a stout broth, salmon with soda bread, corned beef and cabbage, and a sticky toffee pudding with Bailey’s ice cream. Kale features in at least two of the dishes, because the Irish loved kale (okay, tolerated kale, really) way before it was cool.

Yes, you’ll want to make a reservation for this (which you can do by calling Sbraga directly). And if you truly want to get into the spirit of the day, you can always drink too much Jameson at the bar and pick a fight with a street sign on your way home.

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