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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in River Falls, WI

March 13, 2024

Get ready to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day right here in River Falls! Join us as we embrace the spirit of the Irish with celebrations featuring delicious food, refreshing drinks, lively parties, live music, and more! 🌈💚🍻

Gather your crew, grab your green gear, and get ready to paint the town green! 🍀🎉 Let’s make this St. Patrick’s Day an unforgettable celebration filled with laughter, joy, and plenty of Irish spirit. See you soon!

This week:

West wind supper club

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Photo 1: Debuting Friday night, we have our always popular Corned Beef & Cabbage. It’s a tradition! Slow roasted corned beef, braised cabbage, roasted baby red potatoes, candied carrots, and garlic cream sauce.

Photo 2: selection of special St. Patty’s Day cocktails to enjoy! Pictured here we have a Shanky’s Irish Whiskey Espresso Martini, Pistachio Martini, and a Girl Scout Cookie (Thin Mint) Martini.

Photo 3: Based on the iconic Reuben sandwich, our kitchen team was inspired to create this Reuben Pizza for today’s Pizza & FREE Beer special feature! Corned beef, Thousand Island dressing, mozzarella, sauerkraut, and Swiss cheese cream sauce! (Available: On Wednesday, March 13th)

Swinging Bridge Brewing

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Photo 1: Grab your Kilt and head to The Bridge for our Corned Beef Sandwich or Corned Beef Kumpir! This thick sliced Corned Beef is slow braised with Turtleneck Stout and perfect for St Patrick’s Day!

Photo 2: Everyone always associates Ireland with stouts, kilts, leprechauns, shamrocks, and gingers but they forget about the best part, the Irish blondes! This Irish Blonde ale is infused with Vanilla-Irish Cream to create a rich, flavorful beer that is perfect for anytime of the day… even the morning!

Photo 3: POT OF GOLD! This cocktail is shaken up with Keeper’s Heart Irish-American 110 Proof Whiskey, fresh lemon juice, lavender honey, and garnished with a Wisconsin Lottery Scratch Off!

Photo 4: Cory Hart & Irish Tea Party

Junior's

Junior’s Corned Beef Sandwich is on the menu every day! This thickly sliced corned beef is served on caraway rye with apple braised cabbage, havarti, and a gorgonzola crema! Make sure to upgrade to parmesan-garlic fries!

Leprechaun Hunt

Get Lucky Leprechaun Hunt. 50+ numbered leprechauns have been hidden across River Falls. You have March 1 – 17 to find at least 30 of them. Bring your completed entry (available at all 50+ locations) to Veterans Park on Sunday, March 17 between 1 and 5pm for you chance to win $500, $300, or $200 in local gift cards.

Sunday, March 17

Johnnie's Bar

Irish Traditions run deep on St. Patrick’s Day! Johnnie’s Bar founders, the Linehan family, wove their Irish heritage into the business, but especially into St. Patrick’s Day! Their timeless traditions are still a favorite of many!

Merrymaking & revelry @ Johnnie’s Bar on St. Patrick’s Day begins with corned beef + cabbage and Irish Whiskey. Live music by the Tin Pan Irish Ranger Cats begins at 2!
New apparel will be for purchase, including t-shirts with our new design! (displayed above)

Potato Soup Crawl

Try a minimum of 10 soups and vote on your favorite three and you could win big. $500, $300, or $200 in local gift cards are the top three prizes.

The winning business will get to display a traveling trophy for the next year.

The crawl is 1PM-5PM

Our featured non-profit during the event is River Fall Community Food Pantry. Donate money or a non perishable food item and your name still entered into a drawing for local gift cards. Open to all ages. Donations can be dropped off at Veterans Park on March 17 between 1PM and 5PM. Drawing is at 6PM.

Winner is announced and prizes awarded at Veterans Park at 6PM. Prize winners must be present to win for all contests.

The Garage Bikes + Brews

Grab your green gear and get ready to party because St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner!

Join us at The Garage for a chill and fun celebration. We’ve got a fresh brew waiting for you, along with some soul-filling live music and delicious tacos. We also are a spot to try the potato soup on the soup crawl!

What better way to spend this Irish holiday than with good company and great vibes? See you there!

Kinni Cafe

Join us this Sunday to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a delicious feast featuring corned beef and cabbage! Don’t miss out on our breakfast specials – corned beef hash, Riveye & eggs and Benedict’s! It’s the perfect way to enjoy the holiday with some tasty treats. See you there!

As more events and specials are announced, they will be added to our lineup.