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Patch Picks: Best Places to Enjoy St. Patrick's Day in the Sammamish Area

Each week, Sammamish Patch will give you picks of favorite places around town, on the Eastside or the Seattle area.

Patch Picks: Best Places to go enjoy St. Patrick’s Day 

, 7990 Leary Way NE, Redmond. Looking for an authentic corned beef dinner without all the growth hormones and unnatural preservatives on St. Patrick's Day? Then head over to Bill the Butcher off Main Street for an enormous selection of grain- or grass-fed meat, meat rubs, sauces, and spices.

, 8932 161st Ave. NE, Redmond. Opening at 9 am Thursday for the start of 2011 NCAA March Madness. Take a trip to this pub and root for your favorite college basketball team! On Saturday, JJ Mahoney's also sponsored a .

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Update: Eastside Firefighters Pipes and Drums will be performing on St. Patrick's Day at pubs in Renton, Kirkland, Bellevue, Snoqualmie and Redmond. Click on the group's website, above, for full schedule.

, 4091 Factoria Mall SE, Bellevue. Spend St. Patrick’s Day with the kids by joining in on all the fun with pot of gold and shamrock hunts all day long.

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, 7281 W Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, Redmond. Featuring a full line up of live music on St. Patrick’s Day, including Celtic Fire from 3 to 6 pm, Otto Pilot at 8 pm, and Eastside Firefighters Pipes & Drums from 9:40 to 10:40 pm.

Plymouth Congregational Church, 1217 6th Ave, Seattle. Attend Catholic Mass in a non-Catholic church while many will pray for peace in Ireland and around the world. Seattle's Auxiliary Bishop Joe Tyson is the main celebrant and the special guest homilist is Belfast-born Rev. Barry Keating, Pastor of Maplewood Presbyterian Church in Edmonds. For details, click on www.irishclub.org

ABOUT THIS FEATURE

Patch's weekly feature, Patch Picks, highlights editor and reader picks of great local businesses, destinations, services, organizations, ways to spend a day off,  and more. 

You’ll find useful lists to help you, your family, friends and significant others find the best places for everything from Sunday brunch to New Year’s Eve celebrations, pumpkin patches, date night destinations, florists, girlfriend nights out, kids party places, parks and more. 

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Editor's note: Sammamish Patch typically runs Patch Picks on Thursday. But, well, with St. Patrick's Day on Thursday, it was better to move the publication date up a bit.

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