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Eat, drink, be merry on St. Patty’s

Get your green on.

There are plenty of local places to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on March 17. If your restaurant will have special hours or menus, let me know. I’ll have another list next week.

• J.K. O’Donnell’s will block off Wayne Street and put up an all-ages tent from 5 to 11 p.m. March 17 with live music. Musicians include bagpipers, Rodney Cordner, Wander Indiana String Collective and Woodstove Flapjacks. Tent cover charge is $5; kids 12 and younger get in free. The pub will be open from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. (21 and older only).

• The Lucky Moose, 622 E. Dupont Road, will have its annual “No Green Beer” party with pints of Harp and Guinness for $2.50 and drinks like the “Irish Car Bomb” for $3.50. Lunch and dinner specials will be corned beef ($7.95), Irish stew ($6.95) and fish and chips ($6.95). Hours will be 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

But you can get green beer at Moosewood BBQ in the Marketplace at Canterbury, which will have the same food specials.

• Grab a pint of Guinness at the Venice restaurant, 2242 Goshen Road, which also will serve Irish stew ($6.95), corned beef and cabbage ($8.95) and green beer. The annual “Son of the Sod” award will be presented at 4 p.m., and bagpipers will play at 5:30 p.m. Jack Alexander and Joyce MacNamara will lead the sing-along. There is a $3 cover charge.

• Waynedale Bakery is making mint chocolate-chip cakes ($12 and $20, depending on size), Irish soda bread ($3), shamrock cookies ($7 per dozen) and mint chocolate-chip muffins ($1). To order, call 747-2992.

• Peony Tea House, 503 W. Wayne St., will celebrate all next week with green pastries and special teas (Irish Breakfast, Highland Mist, Basket o’ Berries and Peppermint Pat-Tea). Reservations are recommended; call 426-4832.

Pub crawl includes downtown haunts

Get an early start to the festivities Saturday during the St. Patrick’s Pub Crawl to benefit Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

Registration ($20) begins at 1 p.m. at Hall’s Gas House, 305 E. Superior St.

The crawl starts at 2 p.m., with participants then walking or biking to other stops, which are the Green Frog, Deer Park Pub, O’Sullivan’s, J.K. O’Donnell’s and 816 Pint & Slice, before returning to the Gas House. Get your card punched at each stop, then enter a raffle for restaurant gift certificates and Vera Bradley merchandise.

Local organizers Karen Gillie and Mary McArdle are walking in a three-day Komen fundraiser in August in Chicago. They will walk 20 miles a day and have pledged to raise $4,600 together. The registration fee for Saturday’s event goes toward their pledge amount.

Community Harvest gala March 20

The Community Harvest Gala, a fundraiser for the Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana, will be March 20 at the Fort Wayne Marriott, 305 E. Washington Center Road.

The cocktail reception starts at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.) with a martini bar, followed by dinner, with desserts from the Fort Wayne Chocolate Fountain.

There will also be a beer-tasting and live and silent auctions with signed sports memorabilia, spa packages and jewelry.

A jazz trio from the University of Saint Francis will perform.

Advance tickets are $175. For reservations, call 447-3696 or visit www.chfb.org.

‘Give Red, Eat Red’

That’s the unofficial name of a local American Culinary Federation fundraiser Monday.

It’s a combined chili cook-off and blood drive at Ivy Tech’s north campus, in the Student Life Center gym.

The family-friendly event runs 4 to 8 p.m. and is sponsored by the ACF’s Fort Wayne chapter.

Admission is $5, or free with a blood donation during the event, and includes chili tasting.

The chili contest is open to culinary students and professional chefs. To sign up for the cook-off, e-mail chapter president Aaron Rothgeb at arothgeb@hotmail.com by Friday.

The chapter also plans to have a gluten-free seminar in May.

Where’s the beef?

The Emporium at Joseph Decuis in Roanoke has put its Wagyu beef on sale.

Ground beef patties (in quarter- or half-pound varieties) are $3.36 a pound, while ground beef in bulk is $3.19 a pound.

Other cuts range from $3.99 to $4.99 a pound.

Owners Pete and Alice Eshelman raise their Wagyu cattle in Columbia City without the use of hormones or antibiotics.

The Emporium, 151 N. Main St., is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.

For information, call 672-1715.