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McCabe's Irish Pub & Grill
- Price Range:
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$$
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Good For Dancing:
- No
4 reviews for McCabe's Irish Pub & Grill
4 reviews in English
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Review from Neel A.
Waterloo, ON
11/2/2011 2 Check-ins Here
Easily the best pub food in the area. I've tried lots of different menu items and each one has been great. In particular I recommend their poutine with the curry gravy... Sounds odd but believe me it is excellent
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Review from Sean T.
Ottawa, ON
12/5/2011
Exec. Summary: Decently interesting food tarnished by crappy beer selection.
McCabe's is an "Irish" pub in much the same way I'm a "Scottish" Canadian... which is to say, not at all.
That aside, I was pleasantly surprised to when I arrived to see some interesting food choices on the menu. The burgers, especially, were pretty creative - I had a Japanese inspired tofu burger with wasabi mayo - it was quite good. Throw in delicious sweet-potato fries and large portions, and you got yourself some great pub-fare.
Where McCabe's falls down, though, is on the beer selection. They have something along the lines of 18 taps and of those 18 maybe 1 or 2 are even mildly interesting beers. I mean, really... do you need to have Canadian, Bud, Bud Light, *AND* Coors all on tap... surely drinkers of any one of those swills will accept another of them and hardly notice the difference, no? The rest of the beer selection was equally underwhelming 'mid level' beers (Keith's, Creemore, Moosehead...etc...).
I'm pretty sure there are some interesting microbrews in the KW area, but you wouldn't know that from a night at McCabe's... -
Review from Josh E.
6/25/2011
Service was friendly and food portions plentiful while the live duet doing a folksy cover of Bob Marley on the patio kept me distracted for the few minutes that my drink was empty. The wings must have come from Arnold Schwarzenegger's chickens since they were so meaty and Sauce-trian. And it was the spicy BBQ kick from the Meat Lover's Pizza that elevated McCabe's from a blah-bar-experience to one worth repeating.
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Review from Tereza M.
4/20/2011
We come here a lot for work functions. The service is usually pretty decent even though they're always busy and the food is good. This is a classic pub - so burgers, wraps, sandwiches and CHICKEN WINGS (my god, they have good ones. I recommend the Irish beer BBQ, with a 'light' amount of sauce). They try to branch out, and I hear they have a good butter chicken but I don't really trust a traditional pub to make Indian food. I guess I'm just not a believer. The portions are big, and you'll leave satisfied. If you're a vegetarian though, beware. They are very light on veggie choices. We went once and they were out of veggie burgers which, if I remember correctly is their only vegetarian entree...
