Patch Picks: Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick’s Day is here, so get out your green clothes and start celebrating! Whether you like to celebrate like a real Irishman and go to a pub or are a little more sophisticated, there is a restaurant for you.

This is a traditional Irish tavern and it says as much right on the sign to the restaurant. They serve a traditional Irish breakfast and for Lunch/Dinner they serve Sheppard’s pie and chicken pot pie. They also serve traditional corn beef and cabbage as well as Guinness Beef stew and fish and chips. You have a choice between potato leek soup or mixed green salad.

For St. Patrick’s Day they are serving a buffet of corn beef and cabbage. Traditionally the restaurant has a variety of food including sandwiches which are named after different towns near them (i.e. Cold Spring Harbor, The Jericho Mile, Muttontown-Less, Woodbury Commons) which can include ham, turkey, BLT, chicken salad, roast beef. They also offer pasta like rigatoni alla vodka and fettucine alfredo. The restaurant serves chicken francaise, stir fry chicken, veal parm, Salisbury steak and London broil.

 This restaurant is a sophisticated and elegant. They have cold appetizers like caprese (fresh mozzarella, vine ripe beefsteak tomatoes, & roasted red peppers, topped with a chiffonade of fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil dressing) and hot appetizers like fried calamari. There is a variety of salads and soups like a Caesar Salad and French onion soup. Entrées include Lamb Chops alla Basilica which is a double cut rack of American baby lamb roasted with goat cheese in a balsamic reduction, Chilean Sea Bass Aqua Pazza warm water South American fillet in fresh seafood stock with zucchini, squash, tomatoes & saffron served with cous cous, and Duck al ’Orange crisp roasted Long Island duckling topped with a classic Grand Marnier sauce.

•  Milleridge Inn (585 N. Broadway, Jericho)

 The difference with this restaurant from the others is that this one is centered around other shops creating a type of small ‘town’ with a toy shop, bread and jam shop, and florist around. They also serve Irish type foods like Mollie’s Shepherd’s Pie cooked with ground lamb, diced carrots, green peas, corn and topped with mashed potatoes. They also have traditional lamb stew simmered with Irish spuds, carrots, celery and onions. The restaurant offers fish and chips as well as bangers and mash (smoked Cumberland sausages over creamy mashed potatoes topped with sautéed onion and gravy.

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