My updated collection of the best food for St. Patrick's Day 2026 from fun green desserts to tasty side dishes to traditional Irish dinners, and more! Includes festive themed cocktail ideas.
This is the ultimate collection of St. Patrick’s Day food to help you celebrate! Whether you are looking for classic Irish food to eat on St. Patrick’s Day, want fun and festive treats, or need an easy recipe for a potluck, you’ll find the perfect recipe here. Start with a hearty, meaty main dish of beef or lamb then round out your St. Patrick’s Day meal with rustic veggie sides. Finish off with bright, festive treats and don’t forget to toast with Irish cocktails throughout the meal. Sláinte!
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All the recipes you need to plan your St. Paddy’s Day Celebration!
Easy Irish Lamb Stew is hearty classic Irish comfort food with tender lamb and stew veggies braised in a rich Guinness-beef broth. Ready in about one hour.
Guinness Pot Roast has fork-tender beef with classic ingredients like potatoes and carrots, and a surprise layer of flavor from stout, rosemary, and garlic.
Potatoes and cabbage are the traditional choices for a St. Patty’s Day meal, but you can cook them up in new fun ways or stick to the classic recipes.
Colcannon Irish Potatoes
Colcannon Irish Potatoes are a traditional Irish recipe. Creamy, fluffy mashed potatoes mixed with flavorful onion and cabbage all topped with crisp bacon.
Crispy Salt and Vinegar Potatoes are boiled then roasted for a super crispy exterior with a pillowy soft middle that taste just like your favorite potato chips!
Perfectly easy and classic creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes made with red bliss potatoes, garlic, milk and butter in just 30 minutes. The perfect side dish for any occasion.
If you’re not a fan of cabbage or just want to enjoy some spring root veggies, try these recipes instead. Don’t forget the bread to soak up any sauces from your roasts and stews!
Individual Carrot Souffles Recipe
These Souffles are sturdier than most but are creamy and soft. They make a delicious side dish for holiday dinners or brunch.
No St. Patrick’s Day collection is complete without festive Irish themed treats, whether they are bright green or made with ingredients like toasty Guinness or sweet Irish Cream.
Shamrock Cookies Recipe
Shamrock Cookies are simple, buttery, crisp cutout cookies with a touch of peppermint flavoring and a green sugar topping. Check these out!
This Irish Potato Candy recipe is a no bake candy made with cream cheese, powdered sugar, and shredded coconut rolled in cinnamon. A Philadelphia favorite!
Guinness Brownies are moist and fudgy with a boozy kick mixed in. Made with melted chocolate and topped off with extra chocolate chunks for gooey goodness.
Irish Cream Guinness Cupcakes are the perfect boozy, chocolatey treat to serve this St. Patrick’s Day. They’re moist and creamy, with tasty toffee flavor!
Mint Chocolate Covered Oreos are the PERFECT combo of sweet and crunchy, made with mint Oreos dipped in melted chocolate and covered in green sprinkles!
Mint Oreo Fudge is creamy, rich white chocolate fudge loaded with Oreo Cookies. With white chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk, and mint extract.
From start to finish, above you’ll find the perfect recipes for your 2026 St. Patty’s Day Celebration, including drinks to keep the party going! Let me know which were your on your must try list in the comments below. For more festive menu planning through the year, be sure to check out my giant Fourth of July Recipe Collection and Easter Recipe Collection too.
About the Author: Sabrina Snyder
Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.
Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.
She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.
She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.
As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.
Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.
As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.
Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.
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