An Tobar—A Well From Which We Draw St. Patrick’s Day Spirit

Whether it is on St. Patrick’s Day or at any other time, Chef Joseph McFadden is ready with a lark, a smile, a good story, and fine Irish food.

The entire bar was disassembled in Ireland and shipped across the Atlantic where it was installed at Sheraton Orlando North’s An Tobar Restaurant. Draft beers and whiskeys are plentiful. John Christopher Fine, Copyright 2016

Whether it is on St. Patrick’s Day or at any other time, Chef Joseph McFadden is ready with a lark, a smile, a good story, and fine Irish food. He’s not in the usual Irish enclaves of New York or Chicago. He was imported to Maitland, Fla., into the bosom of An Tobar, an authentic Irish pub with its enormous kitchen located off the spacious lobby of the Sheraton Orlando North Hotel.

“Tobar means ’the well,'” Colleen Parnell explained. Parnell, also of Irish heritage, is Sheraton Orlando North’s director of sales and marketing, and she has her finger on the green pulse that throbs through the pub. An authentic Irish imported long bar takes up a whole side of the restaurant and bare wood tables add to the atmosphere, reminiscent of a country pub.

Tobar means 'the well.'

— Colleen Parnell, director of sales and marketing, Sheraton Orlando North