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Best Irish Pubs in Orlando & Kissimmee: A Local's Guide to Pints, Live Music & Pub Grub
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items A properly poured Guinness, fish and chips, and live trad music on a Friday night - Central Florida has more great Irish pubs than you'd expect. Here are my favorite Irish pubs in Orlando and Kissimmee, from Disney Springs and I-Drive to downtown and...
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Raglan Road at Disney Springs is the showpiece - the bars were shipped over from Ireland, there's live music and Irish dancers most nights, and the Guinness pour is textbook. Touristy, yes, but locals go for the Sunday brunch and the sticky toffee pu...
Raglan Road Irish Pub
Harp & Celt on Magnolia is downtown Orlando's Irish anchor - the Harp side is the proper pub, the Celt side is the restaurant with shepherd's pie and boxty. It's my pick for watching a Premier League match with a full Irish breakfast.
Harp & Celt Irish Pub & Restaurant
Claddagh Cottage on Curry Ford is the most authentic of the bunch - Irish-owned, tiny, with weekly trad sessions where musicians just show up and play. The homemade soda bread and Guinness stew are the real thing. Bring cash for the tip jar.
Claddagh Cottage Irish Pub
Kitty O'Shea's on Palm Pkwy is the neighborhood pub for the Lake Buena Vista side of town - indoor and outdoor bars, pool tables, karaoke, and wings that give the Irish menu a run for its money. Easy to get to from any Disney-area hotel.
Kitty O'Shea's Irish Pub and Buffalo Bar
Murphy's on I-Drive is where the expats go to watch Premier League and Six Nations rugby at 7am with a pint. It's a small, dark, proper pub in the middle of the tourist strip - exactly what you want after a long theme park day.
Murphy's Irish Pub - International Drive
Mulligan's in Celebration is the closest Irish pub to Poinciana and my regular for trivia night. Rotating beer of the day, daily happy hour, weekly karaoke, and a patio that's perfect once the weather cools off in October.
Mulligan's Irish Pub - Celebration
Grafton Street in Lake Mary took over the old Liam Fitzpatrick's space on CR-46A and kept the big Irish-pub-meets-beer-garden energy - a huge outdoor patio, live bands on weekends, and a solid fish and chips. Worth the drive north for a Saturday afte...
Grafton Street Irish Pub - Lake Mary
Fiddler's Green on Fairbanks in Winter Park has been pouring pints since the 90s and still feels like a neighborhood local - dark wood, a great whiskey list, and Sunday trad sessions. The corned beef and cabbage is the best I've had in Central Florid...
Fiddlers Green Irish Pub & Eatery
Scruffy Murphy's on Edgewater Dr is College Park's dive-y Irish local - cheap pints, a jukebox, darts, and zero pretension. It's the kind of place where the bartender remembers your order by the second visit.
Scruffy Murphy's Pub
Guinness just tastes wrong out of a regular glass. These are the official 20oz gravity pints with the harp, and they make the two-part pour at home actually look right. A great gift for anyone on this list's regulars.
Official Guinness Gravity Pint Glasses (Set of 4)
Every Irish pub kitchen has a box of Barry's in the back, and it's the tea I drink every morning. Strong enough to stand up to milk and sugar, and way better than anything in the supermarket tea aisle. Buy the 3-pack, you'll run out.
Barry's Tea Gold Blend Irish Tea (3-Pack)
When I can't make it out for pub grub, this is the book I cook from - shepherd's pie, beef and Guinness stew, boxty, and a soda bread recipe that actually works in a Florida kitchen. Solid gift for the home cook who loves a pub night.
The Complete Irish Pub Cookbook
Tayto is Ireland's national crisp and the only correct filling for a crisp sandwich - two slices of buttered white bread, a bag of cheese and onion, done. Grab a box for your next match-day watch party.
Tayto Cheese & Onion Crisps (24-Pack)
Odlums is the flour brand every Irish grandmother uses, and this mix is basically foolproof - add milk, shape, bake, and you've got real brown soda bread for your stew in under an hour. Slather it with salted butter.
Odlums Irish Brown Soda Bread Mix
No pub corner is complete without a dartboard, and the Viper Shot King is the regulation sisal board most bars actually hang. Self-healing, comes with darts, and it turned my garage into the neighborhood's favorite hangout.
Viper Shot King Bristle Dartboard