St. Patrick's Day - Evening Menu - Saturday 17th March 2012
It's St. Patrick's Day on Saturday 17th March, and the Duke is hosting an Irish-themed menu for the evening. Chef's 2 or 3 courses will offer a tradtional taste of Ireland, with Steak & Guinness Pie and Irish Stew amongst the favourites, of course.
Download the St. Patrick's Day evening menu here.
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Did you know...? The tradition came about at the instigation of the Irish Protestant organisation The Knights of St. Patrick. The inaugural parade took place on 17 March 1783. In what has been described as an act of cultural re-orientation the British established a new focus of ritual and spectacle in the figure of St. Patrick, a pre-reformation saint who appealed to both the Roman Catholic and Irish Protestant traditions in Ireland. |
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Guarding the inaugural procession were the mainly Protestant Volunteers who were charged with keeping order on the streets and at the service in the Protestant St. Patrick's Cathedral. The subsequent celebrations took place in two venues: on 17 March in the ballroom (which the Lord Lieutenant Earl Temple II had renamed after St Patrick) of Dublin Castle, the ancient seat of British power in Ireland, in the old part of the city, and, on the 18 March, at the Rotunda, a site closely associated with the Volunteers leaders Lord Charlemont and the second Duke of Leinster (Dublin 1745-1922 Hospitals, Spectacle & Vice by G. A Boyd).
It supposedly commemorates Saint Patrick (c. AD 387–461), the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland, and the arrival of Roman Italian Christianity in Ireland. It is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion (especially the Church of Ireland), the Eastern Orthodox Church and Lutheran Church. Saint Patrick's Day was made an official feast day in the early seventeenth century, and has gradually become a secular celebration of Irish culture in general.
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St. Patrick's Day Menu
Saturday, 17th March 2012
Starters
- Potato and Scallion soup with soda bread
- Smoked Irish Salmon with potato cakes
- Banter bay Mussels in a white wine, garlic and cream sauce
- Flat Mushroom filled with Irish Cashel blue cheese and topped with a port and cream sauce
- Wild Boar terrine with red onion chutney
Mains
- Steak and Guinness pie with short crust pastry
- Irish Stew with herb dumplings and game chips
- Boiled Bacon (gammon) and Cabbage with parsley sauce and creamed potato
- Smoked Haddock with champ mash
- Scallops, Bacon and Black Pudding with caramelised apples and pea puree
Dessert
- Baileys cheesecake
- Irish cream pannacotta
- Creme Brulee with Jameson's whiskey
- Irish cheeseboard
Coffee
- All finished off with Filter Coffee and Mints
2 courses with coffee £17.95
3 courses with coffee £21.95
(inclusive of 20% VAT, but not service)
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Download the St. Patrick's Day evening menu here.
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