In honor of St. Patrick's Day, let's talk about Hagy's Irish Pie Pub -- a restaurant and bar focused on Irish-inspired food and drinks.
The interior of the pub features a traditional layout with a prominent bar, wood accents, and tin ceiling that all reflect the Irish theme.
The menu features shepherd’s pie, handheld pasties with unique options like steak & mushroom and spinach & leek, and elevated pub starters like beer cheese soup, pierogies, and fondant potatoes with smoked salmon.
Pasties are especially interesting to me because they're similar to pepperoni rolls.
Pasties are handheld meat pies that originated in Cornwall, traditionally filled with beef, potatoes, and onions and made for miners as an easy, portable meal. The thick, crimped crust acted as a handle so miners could hold and eat them without contaminating the filling, and it was often discarded afterward.
My friend Angelica and I started off with the Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms - oven roasted mushrooms stuffed with onion, garlic, blue cheese, & topped with buttery panko.
Next up: A Flight Of Deviled Eggs - Three Deviled Eggs with different flavor profiles: 1 Jalapeno, 1 Smoked Salmon, & 1 Mustard Dill. Both of these appetizers are right up my alley - creamy, tangy, umami.
I ordered the Spinach & Leek pasty - spinach, leek, Boursin cheese, parmesan cheese, potato with Celtic mushroom gravy. It's like an Irish calzone, and it's delish.
Sticky Maple Carrots - Oven roasted carrots covered with a maple glaze. These were like candy.
Broccoli au gratin - Baked broccoli with Fairy Glen White Gravy topped with sharp cheddar & a buttery panko. I would pass on this next time.
Grade: B
