¡Ask a Comida Critic! Where to Spend St. Patrick's Day Today?

​The obvious question for hoy. From Forker Ann in Laguna Hills:

I want to celebrate St. Paddy's today, but I don't want to fight for a seat among a bunch of drunks. I want something classier--not Five Crowns classy. Besides, they're Brits.

Ooh, wish that I could direct you to a genteel Irish-themed pub, but "genteel" and "Irish" go together like "Mexican" and "genteel"--ain't going to happen. And nothing against our many fine Irish pubs--the Auld Dubliner and Muldoon's, Durty Nelly's and O'Malley's, among others--but they're not going to be places of civility tonight. 
. . . the Crow Bar?

It has always been a great place to eat great, inventive pub food, with a nice selection of beers. And they just got a new chef, whose name escapes me right now because I deleted the press release some hack sent to me. They used to have an Irish Car Bomb-based dessert that was--pardon the pun--bomb, but I think PC pendejos got to them. Eh, go here, order a Jameson and toast to Michael Collins in the (metaphorical) belly of the beast.

Crow Bar and Kitchen, 2325 E. Coast Hwy., Corona del Mar, (949) 675-0070; www.crowbarcdm.com.

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