If you prefer rooftop bars over traditional pubs, here’s something different than your typical Paddy’s Day drinking options: Perched 73 floors above Downtown in a luxury hotel, Spire 73 is the tallest open-air bar in the Western Hemisphere. After closing for the winter, it’s reopening in time for St. Patrick’s Day, when it’ll offer a special menu of Dublin Street Fries with corned beef brisket, a shamrock espresso cocktail with crème de menthe, plus Guinness and pours of 18-year Jameson.
Los Angeles isn’t really a St. Paddy’s Day kind of town. We do have our old standby Irish pubs and a thriving beer and brewery scene that are the perfect complement to St. Patrick’s Day events in Los Angeles. But outside of a couple of festivals, Celtic music performances and parades, March isn’t nearly as shamrock-filled as some other major U.S. cities. That said, here are a few events where you can have a bit of craic on St. Patrick’s Day in L.A.
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