Best Place to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day: Basil Restaurant

Put on your best green and make your way over to 43 Frairy St. this weekend to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

We asked you this week to tell us where the best place to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Medfield is and after a week of polling, the results are in.  

As part of Medfield's Readers' Choice Best Of Patch series, we are pleased to announce the winner of the Best Place to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Medfield goes to ... !

Our readers will be gathering at 43 Friary St. Saturday to celebrate the Irish holiday. Basil Restaurant came back late in the week of polling to beat out , capturing 38 of the poll's 69 votes (55 percent). The Main Street restaurant came in second with 31 of 69 votes (44 percent).

Basil Restaurant is the product of a dream shared by owners and Medfield residents Tom and Karen McGue about opening a restaurant. Tom even wrote the following in their yearbook, according to Basil's website:

"Ambition—to be the chef of my own restaurant."

In 1999, Tom and Karen purchased the restaurant space and transformed it into Basil, according to the restaurant's website. The restaurant serves "American cuisine with an Italian soul," the website says.

The pub, which will likely be busy Saturday, offers a "relaxed setting and casual menu."

To read more about Basil Restaurant, check out Medfield Patch contributor Theresa Knapp's column, ""

Thanks to everyone who voted and commented! Starting next Monday morning our Readers' Choice Best Of Patch series will be looking for the best fitness center in town, so be sure to check it out!

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