The Founding Fathers held their initial meetings in a neighborhood tavern, which explains why the Declaration of Independence's first draft had a long, rambling subsection devoted to how powdered wigs are a natural icebreaker. Revolt against the tyranny of boredom with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Irish pub fare and drinks at O’Reilly’s Irish Pub & Restaurant.

Named the best bar in San Francisco to spend St. Patrick's Day by IrishCentral, O'Reilly's showers guests with authentic Irish entrees and 20 draft beers in welcoming etched-wood confines. Start meals amidst cheering soccer fans with barley, tri-tip, and Guinness soup ($6.50) laden with mixed veggies like a farmer's vault. Cool cups of bay oysters beg smiling eyes to lock gazes with their half shells, which are festooned in cocktail sauce and irish-cider mignonette ($11 for six), and thin slices of corn beef brisket poor in sheer wonderment from a sandwich nest ($8.95). Time-tested pots of irish lamb stew ($13.75) or earthy, anytime breakfasts of sausage, rashers, eggs, and puddings ($14.75) fuel international revelry more exciting than helping Bacchus through a customs checkpoint.

Televisions pipe soccer games to excited patrons hoisting glasses of Kilkenny cream ale around the long gleaming wooden bar as Gaelic grandeur leaps from jovial murals and reverberates against vibrant stained glass.