The Dubliner bar. {Photograph} courtesy of The Dubliner
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An Irish breakfast is greater than a morning meal. The fry-up sometimes includes eggs, grilled tomato, and baked beans—and it differs from its English cousin with a wide range of breakfast meats like rashers (Irish bacon) or black and white puddings (sausages), plus Irish soda bread. So sure, it’s hearty sufficient to eat any time of day.
Listed below are 9 pubs the place you will get a correct brekkie round St. Patrick’s Day—or any day.
112 King St., Alexandria
This Alexandria pub boasts a complete menu part devoted to “auld favorites,” together with a full Irish breakfast ($21.95) with sausage, bacon, and puddings, in addition to eggs, sautéed mushrooms, breakfast potatoes, baked beans, and toast.
4 F St., NW
This family-owned Capitol Hill establishment has served politicians and Irish expats for over 40 years. The “full nation breakfast” ($21), served each day, isn’t for the faint of abdomen. It’s obtained two eggs, three varieties of breakfast meats (rashers and puddings), beans, potatoes, grilled tacky tomatoes, and fresh-baked soda bread. Go to on St. Patrick’s Day for a hearty morning feast.
2051 Wilson Blvd., Arlington
For those who order the normal Irish breakfast ($21) from this pub/sports activities bar—it’s obtainable at brunch Thursdays by Sundays—you’ll get two of every thing, together with eggs, bangers, rashers, and puddings. The plate additionally comes with potatoes, tomatoes with melted Swiss cheese, Irish beans, and white toast.
500 H St., NW
Coming in at least costly on this checklist is the normal Irish breakfast ($18) from this restaurant housed in Gallery Place’s Fairfield Inn & Suites. The plate comes with the works, together with two eggs your manner, sausage, rashers, baked beans, fries, and toasts. The pub can even be open for breakfast on St. Patrick’s Day.
6119 Tulane Ave., Glen Echo
The atmospheric inn is a good place to gas up (or wind down), particularly in the event you’re hitting close by mountaineering trails or the C&O Canal. A standard Irish breakfast with all of the accoutrements ($20) is served at weekend brunch, with seating within the wood-paneled bar, eating rooms, or patio.
760 Walker Rd., Nice Falls
At this Irish-American pub in Nice Falls, a conventional Irish breakfast ($19) is on the menu at brunchtime. You’ll be able to count on any-style eggs, pork sausage, bacon, puddings, potatoes, sautéed mushrooms, a broiled tomato, and beans. On St. Patrick’s day, a $10 cowl will get you entry, plus reside leisure and festive meals specials.
2800 S. Randolph St., Arlington; 749 Wharf St., SW; 659 Zachary Taylor Hwy., Flint Hill
Proprietor and Tipperary native Mark Kirwan is behind these authentically Irish gastropubs—Samuel Beckett’s is in Shirlington; Kirwan’s is on Southwest DC’s Wharf; and Darkish Horse is in Flint Hill—which serve a full Irish at weekend brunch (and at Beckett’s, weekday lunch). Along with the standard suspects—eggs, rashers, puddings, beans—Beckett’s plate ($20) comes with a potato cake and home made brown bread, Kirwan’s model ($19) provides sautéed mushrooms and toast, and Darkish Horse’s ($20) unfold comes with dwelling fries and Kerrygold butter.
