Restaurant Roundup: Irish fare, Sunday brunch buffet, new catering options

While many restaurants and bars celebrated St. Patrick’s Day early with food and drink specials on Saturday, here are a few observing the actual day on Tuesday:

• Irish features at Ode to Food and Drinks are available today and Tuesday: traditional corned beef and cabbage, fish and chips with Irish curry, Guinness lamb stew with Irish soda bread, pub-style curry chicken, a Reuben sandwich, Guinness-brined pork chop, Baileys creme brulee and Irish bread pudding. They’re available all day.

• Sister restaurant Botski’s Bar & Grill is serving corned beef and cabbage, bangers and mash, a Reuben sandwich and fries, and fish and chips with curry sauce through March 21.

• McNally’s Irish Pub has a featured menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner on Tuesday.

• Blarney Stone Pub will open at 9 a.m. Tuesday, serving brunch until 11 a.m. All brunch items come with a free green beer. Drink specials will run all day.
• Parker’s Bistro has a featured menu that will be served today and Tuesday.

• Check out the featured menu for Saturday through Tuesday at Cascata Italian Cuisine.

• Look’s Marketplace has several featured items through Tuesday, including corned beef, a Reuben sandwich, and bangers and mash.

• Baking up at Storm at Lake Lorraine is serving a Reuben sandwich, apple crumb cake, Guinness chocolate cake and pistachio bread through Wednesday.
• A Taste of Country Catering will sell food at the traditional St. Patrick’s Celebration of Traditional Irish Music at the Old Courthouse Museum. The event is free and begins at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Bring cash for the food: beef stew with Breadsmith’s Irish soda bread, colcannon, hot dogs, brats, frosted shamrock sugar cookies and Guinness cupcakes with Baileys Irish Cream frosting.

• Lucky Ladz in Crooks is organizing a parade that starts at 1 p.m. March 21, followed by a potluck that will include the bar providing corned beef and cabbage.

Ziggi’s Coffee is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with an online game that will offer the chance to win a drink, discount or digital gift cards. Every participant will win a prize that can be redeemed Tuesday. The giveaway will start at 11:01 tonight and continue into Tuesday.

Dairy Queen’s annual Free Cone Day to celebrate the return of spring will be Thursday.

Falls Overlook Cafe offered a breakfast buffet on Sunday and has it scheduled for the next two Sundays — and might keep it going longer. The spread will include breakfast staples like scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, waffles and more. Serving time is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Live music will be provided. Reservations are not required but can be made here.

22Ten Kitchen Cocktails has new featured lunch and dinner menus for spring. That’s the Baked Brie in the photo at the top of the article.

The Treasury has a new menu featuring the Elevated Hotdish, Fennel Sausage Flatbread, Yuzu Tamari Brussels, Burger & Frites, Crab Cakes and Shawarma.

The Original Pancake House has a featured menu for Lent that’s available on weekdays until April 3.

The new Cafe Breadico has added a catering menu featuring bagels, quiche, pastry boxes, sandwiches, salads, cakes and more, along with coffee and tea. A 24-hour notice is required, and delivery is available for $15. The menu evolves frequently, so request a list of current offerings at cafebreadico.com/catering.

Baking up a Storm, which is on the first floor of The Blu apartments at Lake Lorraine has added a catering menu that’s available with a two-day notice. Offerings range from quiche, signature kolaches and a breakfast pastry box to sandwiches, charcuterie and a dessert tray. See the menu here.

The burger of the month at Alibi Bar & Grill is the Green Chile Cheeseburger.

Next door, The Scapegoat’s featured pizza of the month is Pesto Chicken. A 12-inch hand-tossed crust is topped with pesto sauce, garlic chicken, roasted red pepper, tomato and mozzarella.

Someday Cafe in Baltic has a featured sandwich for March. A prime rib French dip is served with a choice of side for $18.

The Pizza-for-Puppies-Palooza fundraiser in February at Sunny’s Pizzeria matched six pizzas with six animal rescue organizations. A donation of $1 for each pizza sold went to the top three bestsellers: $125 to the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society with Bittersweet Symphony, $92 to B-Squad Dog Rescue with Pickle Me Timbers and $83 to Sioux Empire Pit Rescue with The Sconnie.

For every Triple Chocolate Brownie purchased through March 31, Roam Kitchen + Bar is donating $1 to Feeding South Dakota.

DaDa Gastropub has new cocktails and mocktails for spring: Head Over Heels, Lychee Me Alone, NA Strawberry Lav, NA The Raven, Black Waters and THC Cinnamon Orange Blossom.

Changes in hours, service

• Pomegranate Market’s downtown location now opens earlier at 8 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Sunday’s opening time remains at 11 a.m.
• The Goat Bar & Grill in Hartford is no longer open on Sundays.

Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.

New brunch restaurant to open this spring as east-side retail center seeks additional tenants

Top Hat Bar & Lounge announces plans to relocate

Guatemalan bakery, cafe opens in east-central Sioux Falls