Five Days of Green: Your Complete Los Angeles St. Patrick's Day Guide for 2026
Here is something that does not happen every year: St. Patrick's Day falls on a Tuesday in 2026, which means the celebrations in Los Angeles do not get compressed into a single weekend night. They sprawl. From tonight's Night Market in Culver City all the way through Tuesday's pub crawls in Hollywood and East Hollywood, you have a genuine five-day window to celebrate across one of the most geographically diverse cities in the country.
Los Angeles is not Dublin or Boston. It is not a city that naturally shuts down for one holiday and points everything green. But what it lacks in cultural homogeneity, it makes up for in variety, and the St. Patrick's Day calendar that has assembled itself across LA this year reflects exactly that. You can spend tonight at an artisan market with locally brewed green beer, Saturday morning watching bagpipers and Irish dancers roll through Hermosa Beach, Saturday night hopping between a dozen bars in Hollywood or Downtown, and Tuesday evening at a historic neighborhood pub that has been celebrating since before some of its regulars were born. This guide covers all of it, neighborhood by neighborhood, night by night.
Tonight's Festivities: Ivy Station's Lucky and Local Night Market
The best starting point for the long weekend is in Culver City, at the Ivy Station complex next to the Expo Line at National and Venice.
Tonight, Ivy Station is hosting its Lucky and Local Night Market from 5 to 10 p.m., featuring over 30 local makers, a Shamrock Shot prize game, a live DJ, limited-edition green beer from LA Ale Works, and bites from resident restaurants. This is the kind of event that works whether you are deeply invested in St. Patrick's Day or just looking for a reason to get out on a Friday evening. The combination of local artisan vendors, a craft brewery pouring specialty products, and a DJ set in an open-air environment next to a Metro station makes it genuinely accessible from across the Westside and Mid-City.
LA Ale Works, the resident brewery at Ivy Station, has been one of the more underrated additions to the Culver City food and drink scene since Ivy Station opened. Getting a limited-edition green beer from a local craft brewer rather than a chain bar is a more Los Angeles version of this holiday than most people expect, and it sets an easy, relaxed tone for a long weekend ahead.
The Expo Line stops directly at Culver City station, which deposits you about a two-minute walk from the Ivy Station complex. For a five-day celebration that is going to involve a lot of drinking across a lot of neighborhoods, starting tonight by using the train is a smart move.
Saturday Highlights: The Hermosa Beach Parade and Pre-Party
Saturday is the heaviest single day on the calendar, and if you are willing to make the drive down the 405 to the South Bay, it is also the most distinctly festive.
Pre-Parade Party at Patrick Molloy's
The pre-parade party kicks off at Patrick Molloy's Irish pub in Hermosa Beach on Friday evening, March 13, giving early arrivals a chance to get into the spirit before the main event the following morning. Patrick Molloy's is one of the genuine Irish pubs in Southern California, the kind of place that earns its reputation by being a neighborhood anchor rather than a theme night destination. Showing up there the night before the parade puts you in a room with people who have been coming to this event for years, which is a different experience than showing up cold on parade day.
The 30th Annual Hermosa Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade
The 30th Annual Hermosa Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade, presented by the Hermosa Chamber Foundation and the City of Hermosa Beach, takes place on Saturday, March 14. The parade runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with live music continuing on Pier Plaza from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The full parade features bagpipers, marching bands, Irish dancers, and classic cars decked out in green, with the procession running free all day. The free festivities also include live music and dancing at Pier Plaza. Free, family-friendly, and held along one of the most beautiful stretches of the Southern California coast, this is the closest thing the Los Angeles area has to a traditional St. Patrick's Day street celebration. The beach backdrop is distinctly un-Irish and completely Los Angeles, which is exactly what makes it worth experiencing.
The route kicks off near City Hall on Valley Drive, heads west on Pier Avenue, and ends at the corner of Hermosa Avenue and 8th Street. If you have children or family members who want to participate in the holiday without the bar crawl energy, this is the right event for Saturday.
Saturday Night: Hollywood and Downtown Bar Crawls
Once the parade is done and the afternoon music winds down, Saturday night belongs to the bar crawl crowd, and Los Angeles has several organized routes worth knowing about.
The Hollywood Bar Crawl and Block Party at St. Felix
The Hollywood St. Patrick's Day Bar Crawl and Block Party starts Saturday, March 14, from 1 p.m. onward at St. Felix Hollywood on Cahuenga. This massive event, hosted by Nasstive Entertainment, takes you to 10-plus of Hollywood's best bars, lounges, and nightclubs, offering exclusive drink discounts, free welcome shots, and a pub crawl kit with a map of all participating venues, drink coupons, and St. Paddy's Day necklaces.
The Hollywood crawl includes stops at Jameson's Irish Pub, Zero Lounge, Boardner's, and Cabo Cantina, among others. Check-in is at St. Felix on Cahuenga, and the event runs all day and through the night. This is Hollywood's largest St. Patrick's Day pub crawl, and the combination of a walkable venue lineup and a transparent published drinks-per-venue schedule makes it a reliable choice for a group that wants to move together without logistics anxiety.
The Downtown LA Bar Crawl at Karl Strauss Brewing
For Downtown, the crawl checks in at Karl Strauss Brewing at 600 Wilshire Blvd, with check-in from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and the event running all day and night. Participating bars include Pattern Bar, Broken Shaker, Beelman's Pub, Dublin's Irish Whiskey Pub, Golden Gopher, Native Son LA, and Spire 73, among others. Each venue on the crawl has its own specials, ranging from free welcome shots with purchase to $6 red trolley pints, $10 Irish car bombs, and $27 shamrock espresso martinis at Spire 73.
Spire 73 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown is worth a particular mention. It is the highest open-air bar in the Western Hemisphere, sitting at the top of the 73-story tower above Wilshire and Figueroa. Having an Irish car bomb 1,000 feet above Downtown Los Angeles on St. Patrick's Day is an objectively Los Angeles experience that does not exist anywhere else.
The Santa Monica Bar Crawl
The Official Lucky's St. Patrick's Day Bar Crawl in Santa Monica runs Saturday, March 14, from 4 p.m. to midnight, hosted by Crawl With Us. The crawl covers the best bars along the Third Street Promenade and surrounding blocks, with green drinks, shamrocks, and non-stop bar hopping through one of the Westside's most walkable entertainment corridors. Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade has been actively working to strengthen its nightlife identity over the past two years, and a St. Patrick's Day crawl that covers that stretch is a natural fit for Westside residents who want to stay in their neighborhood.
Sunday: Iconic LA Spots Celebrate
Sunday falls in the middle of the stretch and offers a slightly lower-key set of options for people who need a recovery day or prefer a more traditional celebration.
Tam O'Shanter in Los Feliz
The iconic Tam O'Shanter has been serving Angelenos since 1922, and for St. Patrick's Day, they go all out with a special VIP experience for 75 guests, including $2 Guinness, complimentary snacks, drink tickets, giveaways, and more.
The Tam O'Shanter on Los Feliz Boulevard is one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles, a place that has fed the city through nearly a century of change. Walt Disney used to eat here regularly. The building looks like a Tudor cottage that wandered off a movie set and decided to stay. Celebrating St. Patrick's Day in a room that has been standing since 1922 feels different from celebrating it in a recently opened bar, and the Tam delivers that feeling more reliably than almost anywhere else in the city.
While Tam O'Shanter is technically a Scottish-themed restaurant, the celebration runs all day starting at 11 a.m., with a patio and tented parking-lot area hosting live music from 3 p.m. Revelers can enjoy green beer, pub food, and corned beef and cabbage specials in the dining room. The kitchen takes its last food orders at 10 p.m., so plan accordingly.
The Three-Day Crawl Wristband Option
For those who want to keep the momentum going across multiple days, the Kiss Me I'm Irish St. Patrick's Bar Crawl offers a special wristband that provides cover-free entrance to all participating locations across Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, along with drink specials and many perks throughout all three nights. This is the option for someone who wants the full extended weekend experience without making separate decisions each night.
Tom Bergin's: A Piece of LA Irish History
No St. Patrick's Day guide for Los Angeles is complete without Tom Bergin's, and this year the celebration at 840 S. Fairfax Avenue includes something extra.
Tom Bergin's at 840 S. Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, hosts its St. Patrick's Day celebration on Saturday, March 14, from 4 p.m. to midnight. It is one of the oldest Irish bars in Los Angeles and is famous for its Irish coffee, which has been a neighborhood favorite for decades. The pub's walls are adorned with shamrocks featuring the names of loyal patrons, adding a deeply personal touch to its warm atmosphere.
Hollywood's beloved British-adjacent pub hosts its annual St. Patrick's Day celebration for over four decades. The all-day parking lot party, part of Re:Her's Women's History Month Festival, kicks off at noon and runs until 11 p.m., with the kitchen closing at 10 p.m. The menu includes traditional corned beef and cabbage, split pea soup, corned beef sliders, a roasted cauliflower vegetarian option, and Guinness chocolate cake for dessert. Irish beer specials on Guinness and Harp run from 4 to 6 p.m., followed by a burlesque show at 8 p.m.
Arriving early is strongly advised. Tom Bergin's does not take reservations for St. Patrick's Day, and the outdoor setup fills up quickly once the afternoon crowd settles in. Grabbing a spot on the patio before the music starts and holding it through the evening is the play here.
Tuesday: The Actual Holiday Celebrations
Tuesday is the real St. Patrick's Day, and Los Angeles has two distinct options for closing out the celebration properly.
Harvard and Stone in East Hollywood
Harvard and Stone hosts its St. Paddy's Day celebration on Tuesday, March 17, starting at 8 p.m., with a live music night celebrating The Cranberries. Harvard and Stone is one of the most consistently excellent live music bars in Los Angeles, a place on Hollywood Boulevard east of the 101 that has been hosting serious musicians in an intimate, low-key space for years. Spending the actual holiday with live music honoring one of the most beloved Irish bands of the 1990s, in a room that holds a couple hundred people, is a genuinely fitting way to close out a five-day celebration.
The Official St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl
The Los Angeles Official St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl runs on Tuesday, March 17, starting at 5 p.m. with check-in at The Brickyard Pub Hollywood. The event runs from 5 to 11 p.m., and check-in closes at 9 p.m. Tickets include free entry to participating bars, exclusive St. Paddy's drink specials, and a free after-party at a participating venue. Guests must be 21 or older and are required to bring their ticket to registration to receive a wristband and map.
Starting the Tuesday crawl at The Brickyard Pub Hollywood puts you in the right part of the city for a walkable, neighborhood-level celebration on the actual holiday. This is a smaller, more intimate feel than the Saturday crawls, which suits a Tuesday night perfectly.
Practical Notes for Getting Around LA
Los Angeles is a driving city, and St. Patrick's Day is the weekend when that becomes genuinely dangerous. The LAPD and California Highway Patrol both run increased DUI enforcement operations through the long holiday weekend, and rideshare surge pricing will be high on Saturday and Tuesday nights.
Plan your transportation before you start drinking, not after. If you are doing the Downtown crawl, the Metro B Line and D Line put you within walking distance of the Karl Strauss check-in on Wilshire. The Expo Line runs to Culver City for tonight's Night Market. For Hermosa Beach on Saturday, park at the pier before the crowds arrive or use rideshare for the return trip after the afternoon music ends.
Most of the organized crawl events are walking-distance concentrated by design, which is the right approach for this kind of event. Stay within the crawl footprint, use the designated map, and arrange your ride home before you leave the last bar.
Five Days, One City, Zero Excuses
Los Angeles does not always get credit for its St. Patrick's Day game, and the city is not going to pretend it is Galway or Boston. What it is, is a city that knows how to throw a party across its impossibly varied neighborhoods, from a craft beer night market in Culver City to an Irish pub wall covered in shamrocks on Fairfax to a 30-year-old parade on the beach in the South Bay to live music honoring The Cranberries in East Hollywood on a Tuesday night.
Tonight is the Night Market at Ivy Station. Saturday is the Hermosa Beach parade in the morning and your choice of Hollywood, Downtown, or Santa Monica crawls at night. Sunday is Tam O'Shanter and Tom Bergin's. Tuesday is Harvard and Stone or the Brickyard Pub crawl to close it all out.
Pick what fits your neighborhood, your pace, and your crew. Wear green on Tuesday or accept the consequences. Drink water between drinks. Take the train when you can. And if you end up at ZPizza on Santa Monica Boulevard after last call, remember they are now open until 4 a.m., and LA earned that.
All events are subject to capacity and conditions on the night. Use rideshare or Metro whenever possible. For ticket links and updated venue information, visit the event pages on Eventbrite or the individual venue websites listed above.
