Doing it Like the Irish, Our Guide to St. Paddy’s Weekend in SF

Get ready to show off your shamrocks! You might just get lucky this St. Patrick’s Day, although the actual holiday of St. Patrick’s Day falls on Monday, celebrations commence throughout the weekend. With San Francisco’s very active Irish population, you can be sure there will be plenty of dancing, raging block parties, corned beef, cabbage and so much more. Here’s our top event picks to getting your Irish on.
Friday, March 14
St. Patrick’s Day Alley Party at Taverna Aventine
SF Beer Olympics St. Patrick’s Shenanigans
Drink Jameson & Irish Car Bomb specials and play to win free green beers.
Saturday, March 15
163rd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade
United Irish Cultural Center’s Annual Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner
The Irish Bank Annual St. Patrick’s Day Block Party
Enjoy the music stylings of The Shams and the Bog Savages. Percentage of door proceeds go to SF Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation.
O’Reilly’s 20th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Block Party
The party will also continue to take place the next day with a $10 special of corned beef and cabbage.
CrawlSF Presents St. Patrick’s Day SF Pub Crawl
Celebration Mass in honor of Saint Patrick at St. Patrick’s Church
Live viewing of the 6 Nations Rugby Tournament @ The Kezar Pub
The SantaCon of St. Patrick’s Day.
Sunday, March 16
Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day and the coming of spring running across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Shamrock SteEat Bash & Irish Food Truck Party
Rock-It Bounce St Paddys Pre-Party feat. DJ Solarz (Rock-it! Scientists!)
Monday, March 17
MatrixFillmore presents St. Patrick’s Day Mixtape Monday
John Colins presents St. Patrick’s Day
St. Paddy’s Day Transportation
Leave your car at home because Luxor Cab will be providing one free home (up to $35 per ride) from 10pm – 4am, Courtesy ofBerg Injury Lawyers.
Photo credit: @brewhawg, @tonypiercekc, –Mark–