Tom Webster and Richie Maggs from Down By the Glenside
One of the area’s best known and beloved Irish pubs underwent a facelift last year. We wanted to experience St. Patrick’s Day in the Lafayette Hill eatery’s light and airy new digs.
The day started with a great buffet. The hash was the best we’d ever tasted.
Things got off to a slow start, but business picked up pretty quickly–not long after local singer-raconteur Oliver McElhone started to sing rebel songs, and whatever else anybody wanted to hear, from a stage not far from one of Brittingham’s two bars.
And both bars were pretty busy when we left.
St. Patrick’s Day at Brittingham’s attracted a pretty diverse crowd, including two guys from a band called Down By the Glenside who had played there the night before, and two off-duty nurses who had just come off the night shift. “It’s our happy hour,” they said.
Early or late, it was a pretty happy hour for everybody.
We snagged a few photos. Check them out, up top.
And one video of McElhone himself, singing … of course … a rebel tune. Feel free to sing along. We did.
