Where to Drink

Where to drink in Dallas: 7 bars with St. Patrick's Day specials

Green margarita with a green velvet cake

Velvet Taco

It's that time of year again to gather up all your green for St. Patrick's Day. The holiday, which started in Ireland and was introduced to the U.S. in 1737, has evolved to be very boozy. It's definitely a big deal in Dallas, which comes out for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade on Greenville Avenue in force.

For the March edition of our monthly Where to Drink column, we go green with restaurants and bars offering St. Patrick's day specials:

Fuzzy's
Taco shop chain will bring the luck of the Irish with the Ginger Irish ’Rita, a limited-time cocktail that gives Fuzzy’s signature frozen margarita an orange kick thanks to a float of Jameson Orange, an orange-flavored version of Jameson Irish Whiskey, topped with spicy Q Ginger Ale for $10. Available March 10-May 5.

Kona Grill
Hawaiian restaurant is offering a swath of lucky specials during happy hour. There will be $3 green beer, sake, and seltzer. Featured bites include $6 corned beef sliders available for dine-in and takeout. Available March 14-March 21.

Logan’s Roadhouse
Laid-back steakhouse chain is featuring green beer for $4-$5. They also have a green butter which can be paired with Logan’s rolls. Available at Hurst and Burleson locations March 14–17.

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Mexican Bar Company
Plano restaurant is celebrating St. Patrick's Day all month long with its drink of the month: Called the Lucky Charm, it's a lively sip featuring basil infused agave, cucumber puree, lime juice, serrano-infused Lalo Blanco Tequila, and a fresh serrano pepper for garnish, if you dare. $17.50.

STK
Uptown steakhouse will offer the Leprechaun Stiletto — made with Grey Goose Le Citron Vodka, St. Germain, cucumber, and mint — during happy hour for $9. Food specials include corned beef sliders, $26 for two. Available March 14-March 21 from 3-6 pm.

Thirsty Lion
Pub chain has cocktail and beer specials including an Irish espresso martini and an Irish old-fashioned, both made with Jameson Whiskey. They'll also be pouring Guinness Stout, Smithwick's Red Ale, and the Blacksmith:: Smithwick's layered with Guinness Stout. Bites include Scotch eggs, Reuben sandwich, and Irish Shepherd's pie. Available at Addison, The Colony, Plano, Las Colinas, and Euless through March 17.

Velvet Taco
Taco chain has two Irish specials: A green margarita with Lunazul blanco tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice, and agave nectar.; and a green twist on their red velvet cake, tinted green and topped with Lucky Charms. The margarita is available in small for $5 and large for $8, and the cake is $4.25. Both available from March 17-21.

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Shroom News

Store dedicated to mushrooms of all kinds opens in Dallas' Deep Ellum

Mushroom Street Farms

A new shop is coming to Dallas' Deep Ellum that's all about the fungi: Called Mushroom Street Farms, it's opening at 2929 Elm St., where it offers mushrooms in varieties ranging from fresh to tinctures to powders.

While currently in soft opening, it'll officially open March 29.

Mushroom Street Farms comes from entrepreneur Warren Gwartney and his wife, Andrea, who started growing mushrooms from their home in 2020. Warren, who does web and software development for small businesses, started growing mushrooms as a hobby. Now he maintains both as businesses.

“During the pandemic, I jumped down this YouTube rabbit hole and was interested in the process of growing mushrooms, so I set up a grow area in our house,” he says. “I don’t think this would have happened if it weren’t for the weirdness of the pandemic.”

At first, he was selling products to family, friends, and neighbors and posting on Facebook marketplace to gain customers. Soon after, he decided to open a mushroom farm in Arlington in an 800-square-foot space. By 2023, he was expanding to a 5,000-square-foot space with a lab and hand-built grow rooms. (It typically takes five-six weeks to grow and cultivate the mushrooms.)

Though the Deep Ellum storefront doesn't have an indoor farm like the Arlington location, it does have an apothecary with more than 80 herbs and spices and tea blends. And on the plus side, it's much closer to the Dallas Farmers Market, where they’ve been a vendor selling mushrooms and tinctures since September 2023— that's where business really picked up.

"Initially, we worked with another company that manufactured and bottled our tincture line, then fast forward, we started making all of our tinctures by hand and got our food license and permits to do food." Gwartney says.

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They sell a wide variety of fresh mushrooms in gourmet varieties that go beyond the standard white button, including shiitake, oyster, lion's mane, beech, king trumpet, and more, for $9 to $15 depending on variety, for a half-pound; order a full pound and they'll give you a little discount. (Not all varieties are in season all the time; for current availability, email info@mushroom.st.)

They also offer other mushroom items such as $10 mushroom jerky made from dehydrated mushrooms seasoned with Gwartney's BBQ rub (also offered in store), and $28 lion's mane mushroom ground coffee.

They do a big business on tinctures, which help with clarity, calm, and wellness, and their blue oyster mushroom, known as a source for antioxidants and improving heart health, is also a big seller.

Step inside and find an earthy atmosphere of plants on the walls and between shelves, a green grass wall, tables stocked with gifts and mushroom novelties, and a trippy wooden mushroom bench.

On the other side of the building, a reflection of the main space, they’ll have room for “youth exploration” classes for kids to learn all things mushrooms, and also for adult cooking classes.

To celebrate the grand opening week, they'll have various shop specials and mushroom tastings from March 29-April 5.

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