St Patrick's Day Gala Dinner
St Patrick's Day Gala Dinner on Saturday 20th March at 7.30 in Le Bourbon Restaurant
In cooperation with the Irish-Hungarian Business Circle
This is a wonderful opportunity for you to come along with colleagues and friends to sample Irish Hungarian welcome in Budapest. The event includes welcome drinks, Guinness draught beer, a four course dinner with Irish food, traditional Irish music and the famous „Ceilidh" dance. Once again, as last year's gala dinner proved to be very successful, hospitality will be the hallmarks of the celebration.
Cost of a corporate table of 10 is HUF 200 000, and HUF 25 000 per person for individuals (upon availability). The gala dinner has a charity aspect since HUF 5000 of each paid reservation will go to the Robert Burns Foundation with the aim to help underprivileged children in Hungary.
Please find here our menu for the night with Irish falvours:
Whiting and salmon terrine with mayonnaise, Dublin bay prawns
Baked sole with double cream on a potato galette, watercress sauce
Irish beef and Guinness stew in crispy a oatmeal crown,mixed vegetables
Irish dessert trilogy
Irish coffe
For table reservations please contact us at the concierge.budapest@lemeridien.com e-mail address, or at the +36 429 5670 phone number.
And what do we celebrate on St Patrick's day? Saint Patrick is one of the world's most popular saints, Apostole of Ireland.
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast-on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. To find out more about the St Patrick's day, click here.
And why the shamrock? The shamrock, which was also called the "seamroy" by the Celts, was a sacred plant in ancient Ireland becasue it symbolized the rebirth of spring. By the seventeenth century, the shamrock had become a symbol of emerging Irish nationalism. As the English began to seize Irish land and make laws against the use of the Irish language and the practice of Catholicism, many Irish began to wear shamrock as a symbol of their pride in their heritage and their displeasure with English rule.
St Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity, and has been associated with him and the Irish since that time.