I've been to this place a couple of times when driving through Guelph. Has a super chill atmosphere right in the heart of downtown Guelph. Service has always been very friendly with good servers, that give just the right amount of attention. Must say one of the best fish and chips I've had at a pub. Perfectly crispy batter exactly the way I'd expect it to be with pretty large portions. I've only been in on a Sunday afternoon and has been moderately busy, but imagine Saturday nites would be jammed especially once school is on. The reason for a missing star is that there is no brunch menu on Sundays even though they open early. Would still recommend and will definately return, read more

McCabe's Irish Pub & Grill - the bar - Irish Near Me - Guelph, Ontario

Hunter was an amazing server and so sweet! Defiantly recommend this place and the drinks are amazing (especially from hunter!)! Love!!!!

First time here not impressed so far drink and food menus sticky and dirty along with the rest of the restaurant Waited almost 10 minutes to be acknowledged Not busy lots of staff but slow service 11nbig screen tvs on a Saturday afternoon and not 1 is on Finally got our food after 50 minutes Wasn't hot at all not impressed Telling customers at the door an hour for food and nobody is here Will not be back and didn't leave a tip not a happy experience at all One of the worst experiences I've had read more

Had 3 different beers. All we're flat. My friends and I all ordered food and one of us found a hair. The other had sour/ old salad. The servers were good. They care. But the restaurant owners and cooks clearly don't. read more

My friend and I went there during homecoming weekend. Not sure what was I expecting of an odd looking dungy bar. But don't let the looks mistake you bc their food is delicious. I ordered their chicken bbq pizza and had some sweet potato fries on the side, both were superb. Also tried a raspberry martini, it was missing on the spirits but it wasn't lacking on flavor. read more

McCabe's Irish Pub & Grill - Chicken bbq pizza - Irish Near Me - Guelph, Ontario

I wish i can give this place 0 stars.. treated a friend of mine rudely and assumed she did something wrong when it's was a misunderstanding on the server's part and her POS skills. She assumed that my friend INTENTIONALLY tried to leave without paying when she came back the next day to pay in the end. It was not professional to label her with bad intent when she did nothing wrong. DO NOT go here if you want to be ridiculed in front of other customers to justify the power trip of the employees. read more

host told us leafs game was on so we sat down just for them to tell us they are not putting it on after we order. food is good though

Wings were a decent size and had a good amount of meat on them. We ordered a pound of the Sriracha & honey and a pound of the Cajun butter. They were listed with 2 hot pepper rating but we didn't find them spicy enough so we added some Tabasco to them both. We were there to watch the Raptors game. Nice atmosphere. When we arrived they had the front garage door open. Would definitely go back! We also split the quesadillas app and added chicken. really good & filling! read more

McCabe's Irish Pub & Grill - 1/2 price wings on Wednesday's. $7/per pound. - Irish Near Me - Guelph, Ontario

I have a son in second year university and he loves to eat. It's one of his passions. He anticipates food the way some of us anticipate a good book or a new movie. He attends Wilfred Laurier so we tend to be in the Kitchener/Waterloo and Guelph triangle regularly. And McCabe'a has gradually come to be our favourite go to pub. I picked him up last Saturday and we stopped in for lunch. My son ordered his usual; the Irish nachos. It is such a fun take on nachos with the lattice cut fries smothered in pico de gallo and cheese. My daughter and I both ordered the McCabe'a chicken burger which was so good. Hearty and satisfying with bacon and lightly battered in a crispy coating. I took my side salad to go. I find the staff easygoing and friendly. Clearly they are local students and seem to be pretty steady as I recognize faces. And the music is good if you decide to stay for a few more drinks to while away the afternoon. read more

mean people and can't communicate over the phone and are just stupid and don't need to communicate better

did communicate after 9 you have to be over the limit age . And very stupid employees.

This place is overall awesome!!! Great drinks, food, music and atmosphere. Shoutout Chloe she was a great waitress!!!

I would say this is a very average bar. I have been here a couple times and it's a chill vibe, but nothing special. The food is very hit or miss. I am most likely to come here just for a couple chill drinks than anything else. read more

We had regan as a server and she was amazing! Super friendly and checked up on us often! She knew the menu well and was overall great and confident! Ask for regan if you come here! read more

I will definitely never recommend this place. The service is really bad, felt ignored all the time, half of the time we had to look for the servers . They were not even looking and ignoring completely. Food tasted alright but two of us had stomach ache after eating. And the live music was so loud it was so hard to talk to each other. I would give 0 star for the waitresses over there. read more

I came here on a Saturday afternoon. The pitcher had multiple stickers on the inside of it from beer bottles that came off in the dishwasher I assume and our glasses were dirty. The food was very unexciting. Not to mention the service was like pulling teeth. You had to practically tackle a server to ask for anything. Probably the most disappointing was the prices of the beer. Be aware you are going to pay $22 per pitcher. There are no specials here. The company I was with and I were shocked when we got the bill. read more

Quality of burger appears to have gone downhill.!Could be a kitchen off night as orders seemed to be have been botched more than once for the two women in front of me..Otherwise nice pub with some good brews. Previous visits have been good, but the service was really off tonite, I will try the New Burger joint next time, just down the street. Typical Irish pub menu. read more

I've been here a few times now and it has always been good. The food has always been top notch. The service has always been good. Recently I was in and had the chicken wings, They were fantastic. The suicide sauce was awesome. They said its made in house with fresh ingredients, by one of the women that works there. Impressive. The waitress was pretty funny when I ordered the suicide wings. She warned me several times that they are "HOT" and not a joke, almost trying to talk me outta of it because she has had countless people send them back because they are too hot. Well I'm glad I insisted to try them, They were great. I'll be back for sure read more

Road trip on the Civic holiday nothing much was open and we were hungry so we stopped there service was good and friendly. The food was ok I had the Classic burger, and my girlfriend had half of the Buffalo chicken wrap, nothing to complain about and nothing to brag about it was OK. Would I recommend it ? Probably not but I would go back , there so much better places to go around that area. read more

Love location. Appetizer were good. But ordered Fish & Chips and Poutine and French Fries were not cooked. Server said nobody complains and they only get complements. If cooked they'd be great and I'd go back but server made me feel bad. I'll go somewhere else. read more

This is a great place to visit if you're looking for that typical "pub" atmosphere. Their location on the corner makes it easy to find amongst the many other downtown bars, and I really like the garage door "walls" they open up when it's a nice day. I stopped in with a few friends one night for a drink, one of bus being the DD. When the server took our drink orders and our DD declined a beverage, rather than being annoyed that he wasn't ordering anything (which I see very often) she happily offered him a glass of water. Very attentive and friendly staff. read more

The DJ s must be deaf. They played the songs are much too loud and they ignored to lower the volume even customers complained.

Good place to go and sit and relax with a good meal and beer. Very nice atmosphere. Seems sophisticated with dark stained wood everywhere. Attractive and genuinely cheerful servers also help this pub. Good selection of beer. Normal bar food served here. Best is in summer when the large windows are open to the street. One of my favourite places to chill in Guelph. read more

Do not order wings for take out from here. Advertised as 1 lbs orders but are actually just over half a pound. Management claims they just count the number of wings instead of actually weighing them. read more

I dropped by for my favorite, wings! They have a great selection of flavors and the best deal on food in Ontario. In the afternoon, the wings are 36 cents each. With a multitude of flavors to choose from, they are among the best. I have tried other meals there, which are good but not exeptional. The restaurant is on a popular corner in Guelph and has garage door type windows which are wide open in the nice weather. An excellent dining atmosphere. read more

This is my favorite restaurant in Guelph. There are plenty of options on the menu and the portions are generous in size. The price is right and the wait staff is always pleasant. Plenty of beers on tap and games on the tv's. No trip to downtown Guelph is complete without a visit to McCabes. read more

The server Mackenzie was phenomenal. Kept the drinks coming and cleaned up all our spills immediately.

Nice place offering nothing but beer and TV. AS I come here quite often, I can tell that this place has much higher potential, but it is typical pub benefiting only from its location and UOG students' demand for beer. I can not recommend any of their food. What I can recommend is to order another pitcher right away when you get one, otherwise you going to "dry out". read more

Been here a few times over the last few years. They have a cool balcony upstairs. This is an Irish pub chain but the food is pretty good. Prices are also reasonable. Small patio on sidewalk but there are giant sliding garage door windows that they open when it's nice out. Staff is always friendly. read more

We come here regularly, especially if there are two games on we want to see because they usually have multiple games playing. Great atmosphere, lots of TV's, good pub food, good drink selection, and friendly service. There is also a really good wing and pitcher special that isn't really well known unless you ask about it. Hint Hint! read more

McCabe's Guelph is an excellent place to eat in the downtown core of our city. Best wings in town! A great friendly team of staff will make your visit the best it can be. It's a perfect place to get lunch or hangout with good people. A amazing place to catch a Leafs or Storm game with friends. read more

We went all the way to guelph to watch the boxing fight mayweather vs Mcgregor. McCabe is a Irish pub and they are not even showing the fight. Mcgregor is an Irish fighter. He's probably the best Athlet which comes from Irland and they not showing the fight. I was really disappointed. We went to bobby o Brian's which was packed and a great atmosphere. read more

Went here on a Saturday around 630pm with a group of 6. Food was absolutely delicious, got antijotos and a wrap. Good selection of beers available too. Music was a little loud for dinner time but that wasn't a deal breaker. read more

Awesome place for classic pub food! During the day its a friendly cool, patio styled lunch place. During the night its flooded with university students having a great time and on Wednesdays there is trivia! read more

I and my two friends were looking for a good and decent place to eat and ended up in McCabe,s. We were seated in a booth as required, great! The young woman who seated us happened to be our waitress as well. We were seating there for quite a while and nobody came to take our order. I had to call another waitress to give our order but she can't take it because we were already assigned to the first one who seated us. She called her though. She got our order for drinks as a starter. It took a long time for her to bring it over because she was all over the place. The beer came warm most probably because it had been seating in the bar waiting for pickup. Nothing worse than a warm beer. We asked her for some ice. I had to get the ice myself from the bar because it never came. We ordered another beer. Again, the waiting was ridiculous. My friend got up to retrieve the beer from the bar, otherwise, by the time we get it, it will be warm again. Because of the obvious inefficiency of our waitress, another waitress had to bring our food. When "our" waitress brought our coffee, since all our plates and utensils were taken away, she even didn't bring a coffee spoon for stirring. In short, food was mediocre, service was terrible. I'll never go back there again, nor will I recommend this place to anyone, OBVIOUSLY. read more

I was starving after 10PM and this place saved my life with quality food! Everyone must try their beef gravy poutine, not sure if they have it on their menu yet but it was the feature of the day. (owner said he is thinking of putting it on the menu soon) I also like their calamari (the one that is fried with cornmeal) and their liver dish. I enjoy watching games while I am waiting for my meal. It just seems to speed up the entire process. The waitresses are all very friendly there. I love their whiskey as well! i got the Chivas x ginger ale; great combo! I will definitely go back! :) read more

Decent downtown pub. Food is decent and the service is rather good. A good place for friends to go watch the game and get food. Personally, I find the wings a little small. Hard to write this review, without talking about the last time I was there and my one friend fell asleep in one of their booths. read more

This was my fourth visit to McCabe's. It will definitely be my last. Everything coming out of the kitchen looked awesome. Unfortunately looks are deceiving. The food just did not taste good. Cold fries automatically put a restaurant on my shit list. Don't serve me cold fries!!!!! We were only a party of three, but the consensus was a definite strike out. The only positive comment I have is for the staff. read more