St. Patrick's Ri Ra Paddyfest Las Vegas 2025 Guide

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Located in Mandalay Bay, Ri Ra Irish Pub & Restaurant serves Irish food classics along with American favorites.  Ri Ra is made up of relics from old pubs in Ireland.  They were salvaged, restored and retrofitted to create an authentic pub that would be a testament to true Irish tradition.

Ri Ra is divided into five sections with each one having its own pub theme.  They also have an impressive line up of bands flown in from Ireland.

Ri Ra is presenting PaddyFest 2025 on St. Patrick’s week, from March 11 to 17.  This is the most extensive celebration of all things Irish in Las Vegas.  It will include bagpipers, Irish dancers, Guinness Glass engravings, Irish food and drinks, live music and so much more!

PaddyFest Performers

Performers at PaddyFest will include

  • The Crooked Jacks
    • The Crooked Jacks are a traditional Irish Ballad/Folk Group from the Midlands of Ireland.  You’ll hear Irish favorites and some of their original music.
  • Achill Crossing
    • Achill Crossing is a nationally touring band performing Irish Folk and Rebel Music.
  • Dan Rooney & Friends
    • Dan Rooney is a musician and singer from Dublin, Ireland.

PaddyFest Menu

Some of the Irish appetizers and dishes you can enjoy during PaddyFest include

  • All Day Irish Breakfast with 2 eggs, Irish bangers (sausages), Irish rashers (bacon), black and white pudding, tomato, mushrooms and toast
  • Kilcullen Omelette with 3 eggs, corned beef, red onion, mushrooms, cheddar cheese, grilled tomato and home fries
  • Corned Beef Hash with 10  day house brined corned beef, potato hash, grilled onions and peppers, served with sunny side up eggs
  • Deviled Scotch Egg with breaded and fried banger wrapped boiled egg and creamy deviled egg mousse
  • Sausage Roll Bites with oven baked puff pastry wrapped Irish pork sausages and Guinness mustard sauce
  • Irish Chicken Curry with diced chicken, bell peppers, onions, imported McDonald’s Irish curry sauce and your choice of hand cut chips or rice
  • The Kilcooly with sliced roasted turkey breast, smoked bacon, cran apple chutney, cheddar cheese on grilled Turano bread

From domestic and international draughts to hand crafted cocktails plus a wide array of wings and spirits, Ri Ra has it covered.  They also have an incredible selection of whiskey.

Cocktails include

  • Foyne’s Original Irish Coffee with John Powers Irish Whiskey, brown sugar, house blend coffee and lightly whipped cream
  • Shortcross Gin Bowl with Drumshanbo Shortcross Irish Gin, Fever-Tree Elder Flower Tonic, raspberries and blackberries

You can watch all the action from the 2025 6 Nation Rugby at Ri Ra.  See the world’s oldest rugby tournament.  Catch all the big games on the big screens at Keagans in Ri Ra.  Guinness brings the coverage so there will be lots of free merchandise and giveaways at game time in many of the games.

PaddyFest Live Sports Schedule

  • Saturday, March 15
    • 9:45 am – Wales vs. England
    • 1 pm – France vs. Scotland

Be sure to wear your St. Patrick’s Day green attire so you won’t get pinched.  You don’t have any?  You can find some great holiday green clothes here.

And accessories here.

So you can see Ri Ra’s PaddyFest really is the ultimate St. Patrick’s Day Las Vegas experience!  Don’t miss it!

More About Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino

Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino offers elegant, comfortable accommodations.  It has 11 acres of beach environment that includes 3 pools, a lazy river and a wave pool.  See if you have the “luck of the Irish” in their casino.  

If you’d like to visit Mandalay Bay, book your stay here and you can save 31% off the regular rates.”