Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a virtual tour of our favorite pubs and neighborhood bars!
Grab a Guinness or pour yourself a pint of green beer and come stagger with us through the taverns with the best neon lights! From country avenue to theater districts and coast to coast, these cities are perfect for a neon bar crawl. Get inspired to create your own at home with our neon design app.
New York City: under the lights of Broadway
Chances are, if your city has a Broadway street, it's inspired by New York. And it's probably a great place to have a drink before or after a show. New York was one of the first cities to adopt neon, and as always with true New York styleit was on a grand scale.
Nashville: the main avenue for country music
If you're more comfortable in boots and the sound of banjos gets your heart racing, Nashville's Main Avenue is for you. Filled with swing bars and singer-songwriters, Nashville is the place to be for Western-themed neon. Of course, you'll find more than a few guitars and fiddles, like a boot-shaped neon or even the essential musical notes. For a St. Patrick's Day cowboy look, turn your pub crawl into a tour of Nashville's best honky tonks.
San Francisco: North Beach and Beyond
Known as Little Italy, San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood shines with a sparkle. Little Italy is home to supper clubs, cabarets and saloons that predate the Civil War. It was a favorite haunt of Beat Generation poets like Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg. Conveniently, there are plenty of great neighborhood bars within walking distance of City Lights, their favorite bookstore. Once you've had your fill of books and beers, head down the hill to the Mission District for a nightcap under the neon lights that create a Latin vibe.
Las Vegas: diving into the heart of downtown and the suburbs
Sure, Vegas and neon are synonymous. But beyond the big resorts, beyond the wedding chapels where couples can be married by The King, there's downtown. It's half an art walk and half a trip back in time. And it feels much more like the Vegas of the early days than the shiny new behemoths of the Strip. There are plenty of neighborhood bars, biker bars, and all kinds of places where industry people flock before the sun comes up.
Cool murals adjoin Fremont Street relics in a mix of color, kitsch and neon that's as much a part of old Vegas as it is new. If you made it through the all-nighter, visit the neon museum afterwards!