DINING: Pie Day and St. Paddy’s
In honor of Pie Day — Sunday, which is 3/14 (like pi, 3.14; get it?) — local Marie Callender’s restaurants are offering a free piece of pie with the purchase of an entree.
Also participating in Pie Day is Morton’s the Steakhouse, 400 E. Flamingo Road, which is offering its Key lime pie for $3.14. ...
McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant, 335 Hughes Center Drive, will host its 11th annual St. Paddy’s Day party beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday (March 17). In addition to the $1.95 bar menu the celebration will include such Irish-themed dishes as corned beef sandwiches, corned beef and cabbage, lamb stew, Guinness shrimp and corned-beef sliders. Drink specials and live music will be part of the festivities.
The restaurant also will continue its tradition of offering a free buffet breakfast — complete with green eggs and ham and Lucky Charms cereal — and a gift certificate to local cabdrivers between 8 and 9:30 a.m. Drivers who stop by the restaurant by 5 p.m. can get the certificate. A valid Taxi Authority card is required.
Hash House A Go Go at 6800 W. Sahara Ave. will host its second annual corned-beef-eating contest at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Aspiring contestants must enter at www.kwnr.com or at the restaurant. Up to eight people will be chosen to attempt to finish one and a half pounds of corned beef and a quarter head of cabbage. First prize is $100 and breakfast at the restaurant once a week for a year; second and third prizes also will be awarded.
Hash House A Go Go also will serve Irish-themed food and beverages throughout the day, including a St. Patrick’s Day Lucky Charms pancake, stuffed corned beef sandwich, Irish coffee, Irish Snakebite and more. Happy hour at the Sahara location will run from 4 to 6 p.m. with $2 green beer and free mini-corned-beef sandwiches and housemade potato chips, and the first 50 people who arrive for happy hour will get their first beer free. ...
Among numerous other St. Patrick’s Day celebrations on the Strip, B.B. King Blues Club at The Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, will serve green eggs and ham with potato biscuits for breakfast, with corned beef and Swiss cheese sandwiches and corned beef and cabbage at lunch and dinner. There also will be $5 Jameson whiskey, $5 Irish Car Bombs and $4 domestic drafts. ...
And Sage at Aria, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. South, will have a five-course Sierra Nevada beer dinner at 7 p.m. Wednesday. It’s $95 per person; for reservations, call (877) 230-2742.
