Bennigan’s at The Promenade at Bonita Bay will offer specials for St. Patrick’s Day at its outside bar. Irish dancers will also make an appearance.
The green beer will flow today as local Irish businesses in Bonita Springs and Estero help locals and visitors celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and feed their inner leprechaun.
Several bashes are planned throughout the area with every business unknowingly competing for the top spot as the biggest party in Bonita and Estero.
“This spot will definitely be the biggest party in Bonita Springs with Irish trinkets and green beer,” said Darren Novosel, the general manager at the Bennigan’s Grill and Tavern at The Promenade at Bonita Bay. “We got everything that you can think of to celebrate St. Patty’s Day.”
The Irish-style restaurant will be serving corned beef and cabbage today, which is the only day it will be on the menu all year.
Thousands are expected to come out for the festivities that will include bagpipers, Irish step dancers and green giveaways.
“We have that great outside bar and all the activities will be going on out there,” Novosel said. “It’s will be the biggest St. Patrick’s day in the whole area.”
Fitzgerald’s Irish Pub owner Mic Fitzgerald begs to differ as he has spent the last week cooking corned beef and ordered more than 600 heads of cabbage for the big day.
“We have a great family event planned and we even got people flying in from Ireland just for this party,” said Fitzgerald of the barbecue and tents he will have set up all day in the parking lot. “We open at 11:30 a.m. and go until everyone goes home.”
The green beer is a must on St. Patrick’s Day, he says, and so are the Irish-inspired giveaways.
“We are giving away a six-night trip to Ireland with a flight and bed-and-breakfast-style place to stay,” said Fitzgerald, who will also give away other prizes today. “We do this every year ... this is the fourth year ... we are bigger every year.”
A pipe band and Irish step dancers will appear twice today at the restaurant and more than 5,000 are expected to attend.
“We are ready to go. The green beer is flowing,” said Fitzgerald. “We will be the biggest party in Bonita Springs.”
The British Open Pub won’t be fighting to be the biggest but they will represent the other British isle by offering corned beef and Irish stew on the menu tonight.
And while patrons guzzle beer and eat stew in Bonita, Estero locals can party it up at Stoney’s Sports Cafe.
The bar will keep mugs filled with green beer tonight and will sell $1 Budweiser and 16-ounce green aluminum bottles for $4.
An Irish band will end the night with Irish songs.
And, apart from drinking beer and eating, all businesses want from their patrons is that they remember they were at the “biggest party in the area.”
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