**This site is still heavily under construction and development - we thank you for your patience as content is slowly added**


News

March 9, 2010

Today is what we'd call our "soft opening", which means we will simply open our doors for business and start serving customers.  There will of course be numerous growing pains, adjustments to be made and kinks to work out on all levels of operation, so please pardon our dust and bear with us through these early days.  This is going to be an awesome experience and will only get better each day we are open!  On behalf of the entire staff, we are very excited and pleased to be of service to you. 


Hours of Operation:

Sunday through Thursday, 11 AM - 1 AM

Friday and Saturday, 11 AM - 2 AM


March 5, 2010

I'm pleased to finally announce that we will officialy be opening our doors for business at 11:00 AM on TUESDAY, March 9th. Our "Grand Opening" (ribbon cutting ceremony, etc) will be on Friday, March 12th. More details to follow as time permits, I promise!  Also, our menu items, drink offerings and other site improvements & additions should be in place before the grand opening. 


We received some nice press from Eric Peterson of the Daily Herald.  Check out the article that was posted online late Thursday 3/4/10.  I also had a good talk with Pioneer Press as well, so perhaps we'll see something in the Courier-Review next week. 


March 1, 2010

One week away!  Sorry for the lack of additional updates over the past several days, but quite a bit more is planned & will be added later in the week.  We're in the final run on getting everything together and ready for opening, so quality web development time is a bit limited right now!  Anyway, stay tuned...


We also did a soundcheck on our 2nd level stage this past Saturday, February 27th. We had the chance to test out our system with the Ridgeway Daredevils (Steve Berry, brother-in-law & wine bar owner, is to the right). Yes, it sounded awesome!


February 20, 2010

We had an absolutely fantastic turnout for our new employee orientation and general training session this past Thursday (2/18).  On behalf of our entire staff (for both establishments) we are thrilled to have such an outstanding group of talented and enthusiastic individuals working for us!


As we hit the stretch run in anticipation of opening in a couple weeks you'll probably see quite a bit more added to this site, including confirmed dates on our actual grand opening and other plans.


February 14, 2010

Over 160 new pictures of the construction and general progress have been posted; this is in addition to the original posted pics and covers the time frame from December 29 2009 through February 13 2010.  You can find them in the Images section.  Enjoy!

About this site

We will be opening our doors for business on Tuesday, March 9th and the Grand Opening Celebration is set for March 12th!


We will also be THE PLACE to be for St. Patrick's Day!  More details to follow soon...


Thank you for visiting! Back in early July when we were still trying to acquire the buildings, we started some early advertising at the Barrington BrewFest...which meant I needed to quickly put something up on the web for reference and contact info.  This was a simple single paged site, but based on the amount of inquiries we started receiving it was not sufficient.  I then created an interactive fan page on Facebook which has proven to be surprisingly popular.  However, not everyone belongs to Facebook, and the true goal has been to produce a decent website accessible to anyone with internet access.  After a few different unacceptable designs that were aborted, here's the first official layout for www.mcgonigalspub.com. 


Keep in mind websites are only as good as the content they contain, so it's safe to say that this still isn't a very good site!  However, between now and opening day this will evolve into a fully functional source for everything you'll need to know about McGonigal's Pub.  Please continue to check this site for exciting updates on the progress.


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847-277-7400 or info@mcgonigalspub.com.


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