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And did you know that it rains on average about 150 days a year in Ireland, so maybe it's the right weather for Saint Patrick's Day. New Jersey's Tony Cauto and celebrating at the Emerald Isle of Clifton this morning is Shannon rose and Tony, what do you have going for us at this half hour. Uh, we got great stuff all morning long. Irish dance this half hour at the Shannon Rose Pub here in Clifton. Let me bring in Kerri Smith from the Carri Smith Academy of Irish Dance in Jersey City. First of all, thanks for getting up so early and joining us. Of course, no problem, just adding a couple more hours to this long day, but we'll do anything for you guys, of course. Look at these girls behind us. They are fantastic. This is what you do. This is your life. You teach them how to do. Were there a couple times a week in class. We do regional championships, world championships, all kinds of things like that, and we also love doing the local shows and things. How busy are they this month? This is crazy. um we do. A week and a half, we had about 35 shows, a parade, and of course the news. Fantastic. And you get kids from all walks of life coming in wanting to do Irish dance. Yes, one of my favorite things is that you don't have to be Irish to do or like Irish dance. Anyone can do it. It's really fun to kind of get to see all different kids learning, enjoying, and getting to be a part of it. That is fun. Let's just watch them and listen for a little bit. Here we go. That is fantastic. Kerry Smith's Academy of Irish Dance in Jersey City. Well done, girls. Thanks for getting up in the middle of the night to come out and join us as well. We appreciate it. The Shannon Rose here in Clifton, Shannon Rose Pubie, come on over here. We're gonna tease what we're. You know the next half hour, yeah, we're gonna eat. That's perfect and I always eat at 6:30, so that's great and that is fantastic corned beef. Oh, look at the soda bread. I love this time of year celebrating Saint Patrick's Day at the Shannon Rose Pub here in Clifton. We'll send it back to you guys.

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Hi, did you know that it rains on average about 150 days a year in Ireland, so maybe it's the perfect weather to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day today. News New Jersey's Tony Caputo is celebrating at the Emerald Isle of Clifton this morning at the Shannon rose, and Tony, I know you're ready to eat. Oh, it's fantastic. We got an incredible spread here and we have a couple of Jersey Italians talking about some delicious Irish fare. Regan DiBenedetto is joining me. She's the director of operations for the Shannon Rose pubs, not just here in Clifton. You've got one in Ramsey as well. That's right, on Route 17. Yeah, you're on both joints, and it's a big day, to say the least, with St. Patrick's Day. Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody. I'm going to start off with, out of all these dishes here that you have, what is the most popular dish? Which one do you sell the most? So the corned beef. Cabbage is definitely the signature. Everybody comes in for their corned beef and cabbage all month long. That is fantastic looking too, and I think I see a healthy slice of Irish soda bread on there. That's right. Our guests love Irish soda bread. We try and incorporate it on the menu wherever we can. You know, I grab that and then I eat basically the whole loaf sitting at home. I just pick, pick, and then it's gone. That's how good Irish soda bread is. What do we got here, fish and chips? Yes, so this is our heart battered fish and chips. Every single order battered fresh on the line for the guests. I would imagine, see, I would think more people would go for that than they would for that, but you're saying that's number one right there. Corned beef and cabbage is definitely #1, but during the Fridays throughout the month, especially during Lent, we go through a ton of fish and chips. We got more. Is this more soda bread over here on the side? Soda bread, yes, more soda bread on the traditional Irish breakfast. You have your Irish rashers, Irish sausage, eggs over easy grilled tomatoes, of course. The beans that looks really good. That is fantastic, and that is as traditional as it gets. What do we got here? Absolutely. We have our bangers and mash with our beautiful mashed potatoes and sauteed spinach, a nice horseradish gravy on there. What is this? Some kind of breakfast dessert going on here? What's that? It's the best of both worlds, so this is our Irish soda bread pudding topped with Bailey's whipped cream. Man, that's perfect. That is a great way to go. Reagan. We appreciate it, fantastic job. Thank you very much. You open at 11 today, right? 11 a.m. Thank you so much for being here. St. Patrick's Day is going to be something. It never ends in Jersey. It starts like in March and then it ends whenever. It just goes back to the next March. It's fantastic. We're live at the Shannon Rose Pub in Clifton. Happy Saint Patrick's Day.

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All right, get you ready to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day today. Our Tony Caputo is in North Jersey. That's right, he's at the Shannon Rose. He's been enjoying the music, the food, not so much the beer, but what do you have for us now, Tony? Well, I've been enjoying looking at the beer with the perfect pour that we had, no doubt. Shannon Rose Pubs here in Clifton. There's one of Ramsey as well. Reagan DiBenedetto is back with us here. She is the director of operations, and we're talking about the fantastic food that comes along with Saint Patrick's Day. It's not just about the drinking. Calm down. You'll get your drink. We're gonna talk food right now, right? What do we got here? I looked at them and I said, you know, my wife orders rice balls all the time. It looks like a rice ball, but you're saying no. Yeah, these are actually a shepherd's pie. OK. So we have our shepherd's pie on the menu all year long, and for the month of March we have some extra specials. This shepherd's pie croquette is our traditional shepherd's pie. It's ground beef, an array of vegetables, cheddar cheese. It's nice and crispy panko breading on the outside, served with a horseradish gravy. Wow, well, that sounds pretty good, no doubt about that. Now we'll slide over here. I see the Irish soda bread again, right, which I love. And what's in the skillet here? That's right. And this is our Dublin pie. So for the month of March, our shepherd's pie gets a little makeover. Make it with lamb and it's topped with a traditional coal can and mashed potatoes, so we've got blended cabbage and cheese and rashers, Irish bacon in there. It's great. Give me a quick wrap up on this because you tell me this is your favorite. Yes, this is my personal favorite. This is the Sligo sandwich. So on top of that beautiful Irish soda bread, we've got oven roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, melted cheese, and 1000 Island. That is, uh, Thanksgiving, you said absolutely even better than Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is St. Patrick's Day. That's Sounds pretty good to me, Reagan. Well done. We appreciate it. Uh, Saint, the pubs that you're here in Clifton and in Ramsey got the 2. Yes, 2 locations we'll be partying all day and all night live entertainment, live music from open to close. One's open. We open at 11 and we're going all day long. All right, that's the last 2 hours for me and Rudy, so we may still be here at 11 o'clock this morning. Regan, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Fantastic. Can't beat it. Coming up next half hour, Irish dancers, you're gonna love it. Stick around.

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We're getting you ready for Saint Patrick's Day this morning in North Jersey. Yeah, New Jersey's Tony Caputos at Shannon rose this morning in Clifton, and Tony, are you celebrating with some beer? I would be celebrating with some beer, but somebody back there told me I'm not allowed to. I don't know where that came from, but we can show it off. We can do that, and I could try the perfect pour. Emily Doherty is here. She is the general manager. Shannon Rose Pubs. We're in Clifton. You got another in Ramsey, fantastic location. starts at 11 o'clock today, goes all day long for St. Patrick's Day. You can't beat it. I mean, that's just a great looking lineup right there if you're coming in to have a nice drink. You got a couple of flights there. Yeah, we have. Whiskey flight and our Guinness flight. Guinness is one of our top is our top selling beer here, so we actually made a flight out of it with our black and tan, our black and blue, our black velveteen, and just the Guinness on it as well. And then next we have our whiskey flight which comes with bullet rye, slain whiskey, James and Irish whiskey, and Maker's Mark. Emily, you were telling me is we're going to have Rudy come around the bar here. You were telling me you were rewarded for best poor on the Guinness, right? Tell me about that. Yeah, when we opened up, we had, we were voted by the people that Uh, Guinness voted us our best poured pint. Best poured pint in America. In America, the perfect pint in America, in America. That is fantastic. Now you know what? I know we're gonna run short on time, so I'm diving right in. I'm going for that perfect pour. You tell me exactly how I should do this. You're gonna hold the glass at a 45 degree angle and fill it about 3/4 of the way up, 3/4 of the way up, and then I'm turning up the glass, right? I'm gonna put the glass down and put the tap handle straight back up. I Yeah, perfect. But then we got to wait a while. You got to wait. It takes 119 seconds to, we don't have that to pour the perfect pint, but you can let it settle and then after this you would actually just push the tap handle straight back and that would fill it up to the brim and the perfect pint. Rudy's left, correct on the end there. Go ahead, Rudy, to the perfect pint. We're at the Shannon Rose Pubs. Emily, well done. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. And there you go. Now you know how to pour the perfect pint and you also know that you can't drink alcohol on television news. I don't know who made that rule. I don't like it, and I'm gonna do something to get it changed. We'll send it back to you guys. You seem really mad about that rule, Tony.

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Alright, on this Saint Patrick's Day, some may be feeling a little too sick to work today, perhaps escaping to their favorite pub. News, New Jersey Sona Cauto is working right now, even though he's at the Shannon Rose holding a beer, holding it, right, Tony? Oh, that's, that's not just a beer, Simon. That's a Guinness. Look at that. It's Saint Patrick's Day. Look at the clock up there. It's blinking. You know what, the countdown is over. That means it's Saint Patrick's Day. Let's go. Let's get started. I'm just kidding. We're not allowed to do that. We can't drink any. Hit that music. Let's go. Let's dance. Carrie Smith is here. Carrie Smith Academy of Irish Dance in Jersey City. She's got the girls here going. What is this dance they're doing here for us? This is a traditional Irish dance. It's called the brush dance or the broom dance. It's hundreds of years old. There's lots of different stories of where it came from. People really seem to enjoy watching it. It's just something different around this time of year, and these girls love what they're doing. You get all these girls involved and they just there's so passionate about it. They do. They really love it and we learn a lot about Irish culture, even if they're not Irish, um, you know, Emma here learned the Irish national anthem to sing for us this year at a bunch of events, which was really cool, and yeah, they just, they really love everything about. Well, we're going to have fun this St. Patrick's Day. Carrie, thank you so much. We appreciate it. You know what, let's just go out on the girls dancing, right? This is what Saint Patrick's Day is all about. Look at that. Enjoy your St. Patrick's Day. Do it responsibly. Be careful. Shannon Rose has two pubs, by the way, here in Clifton and in Ramsey. Have a great day. All right, Irish culture on display. Tony Capua, thank you for that.

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