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St. Patrick’s is a beloved global holiday where people gather to celebrate in pubs dressed in green and listen to live Irish music. For local businesses, it’s a day when they may find their lucky pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
For the King Edward Restaurant and Pub, located just on the outskirts of London in Ilderton, this year St. Patrick’s day, is the first real celebration since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
“it significantly different to show a say five years ago because four years ago St. Patrick’s Day got cancelled mid-afternoon pretty much, we were ready to go rock and roll and we had all the corn beef in the oven, and literally on the 17th we got a call from the health department to shut down,” says Rich Hunter a native of England and owner of the pub
Although an English pub, Hunter says the Irish holiday holds a strong link home for not just his business but everyone’s; “It was a very important thing for everybody that has some kind of Link or affiliation with Ireland and the impact has been significant previously as well as now”.
The pub is celebrating the holiday with a unique twist of giving a taster of Irish culture.
“We don’t have live music but we do have Irish dancers in so they come and do a show everybody looks forward to the Irish dancers every year, customers look forward to the corn beef and cabbage and we also have what we call it an Irish Italian dessert, a Paddy masseuse, which is like an Irish twist our tiramisu that everybody loves,” says Hunter.
The first St. Patrick’s Day parade was celebrated 200 years ago, in Montreal on March 17th, 1824
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