Celestial Secrets

A cozy pub with great food—if you know when to go

he Plough and Stars is a good place to hang out any night for comfort food and live music in a cozy, candlelit pub. But some of the best stuff is a secret, except to the regulars, and served up only twice a week. On Wednesdays enjoy Watch Hill oysters and on Sunday co-owner Brendan Fritus pulls out some old southern recipes with his own peppery kick for a chicken and fish fry, with a side of live bluegrass. Sit beneath the plough and let some of the Plough fries with Tabasco aioli light up the stars in your eyes. Rice

Shhhh! Bluegrass, rock, or blues every night

Shhhh! The literary journal Ploughshares
was founded here over a few pints. “The Plough and the Stars” is also the title of a play by Sean O’Casey about the Irish struggles for independence.

Shhhh! Check out the plough chandelier over the bar,
with blown-glass stars. Omish stars, traditional symbols of peace, also hang from the ceiling in the shape of the Plough constellation (on this side of the Atlantic, the tail of Ursa Major, the “Great Bear”).

Shhh who knew

The Plough constellation was the symbol of the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising, representing the rebellion's goal that a free Ireland control its own destiny, from the plough to the stars.