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A Katonah Avenue stalwart, Rambling House offers a soup-to-nuts dining experience and acts as a giant social hub. The menu covers Irish classics, like rich and flavorful shepherd’s pie and corned beef and cabbage, along with American-style steak, fish, and chicken dishes. This is not a kitchen that prioritizes healthy preps or nouveau presentations; entrées are traditional and heavy on the plate. Steak cooked in garlic butter comes piled with mushrooms and onions, and cream-based Gaelic chicken is rich enough to double as dessert. Action shots of rugby, hockey and baseball players decorate the 5,000-square-foot space; a sepia-toned mural depicts a cobblestone street scene of Irish immigrants’ Olde New York, complete with Lady Liberty. Dark wood polished tables and forest-green walls give the room a formal feel, but there’s rec-room balance on the other side of a partitioned windowed wall, in the massive, TV- and booth-lined bar. The steady after-work bar scene draws local employees, but guests—sometimes from as far afield as Long Island and Westchester—drop by on weekends. — Gabrielle Mitchell-Marell

Bands like the Rum Rats and the Amish Outlaws play Thu.—Sat., with an Irish music session most Sundays.

Prix-Fixe
Mon.—Thu., 3:30 p.m.—6 p.m., three courses, $25

Shepherd’s pie, $11; New York sizzler steak, $20

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