McGee's Scot-Irish Pub

06/29/2026

Great food. Great value. Great reasons to come back.

That's what Steak and Ale has always been about.

If you're in Burnsville, Tuesday is the perfect excuse to stop by for **$8 (6-piece) wings and $6 margaritas**. It's another reminder that you don't have to sacrifice quality to get a great meal at a great price.

And while Burnsville is where the comeback began, the journey is just getting started.

Read about our newest chapter as Steak and Ale expands to **Anderson, South Carolina**:
https://legendaryrestaurantbrands.com/revived-steak-and-ale-to-revive-classic-dining-experience-in-anderson-sc/2026/06/25/

Want to bring Steak and Ale to your city?

Learn more about franchising:
https://steakandale.com/franchising/

We're looking for entrepreneurs who believe in serving premium steaks, handcrafted cocktails, warm hospitality, and exceptional value—the same combination that's made Steak and Ale an American Original for nearly 60 years.

Burnsville proved the comeback was real.

Anderson is next.

Who's ready to bring Steak and Ale to the next great city?

📧 Franchise inquiries: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

06/29/2026

06/29/2026

🍀 Mondays are made for McGee's! 🍀

Take a break and join us for lunch at McGee's Scot-Irish Pub! Parry will take great care of you.

✨️$3 Pints of Guinness all day Monday

🥘 Starting at 4:00 PM, enjoy our hearty Peasant Suppers starting at just $15—comfort food, great value, and the perfect way to end your day.

Bring your friends, grab a pint, and make Monday something to look forward to. Sláinte! 🍻

06/28/2026

We think the term should come to mean either extreme depending on the contextual situation........sort of like "aloha" can mean hello or good-bye.

☘️ You've done it. You're at a party, your social battery is empty, and instead of doing the rounds of hugs and prolonged farewells you just quietly put your coat on and disappear into the night. That's the Irish Goodbye. And the most Irish thing about it is that actual Irish people don't do it.

The Irish Goodbye, also called the Irish Exit, is the act of leaving a social gathering without announcing your departure or saying farewell to the host or any of the guests. No drawn-out rounds of hugs. No standing in the doorway for twenty minutes saying you really should be going while making absolutely no move toward the door. You simply vanish. The term is now everywhere, in memes, in conversation, in social media captions written by people who have claimed it as a personality trait.

Here's the irony. Anyone who has actually been to a gathering in Ireland knows that the Irish goodbye is, in practice, the least Irish thing imaginable. Real Irish farewells are legendary for their length. You say you're leaving and then you stay for another forty minutes. You get to the door and remember three things you forgot to say. You make it to the car and your host follows you out to finish the story. The Gaelic phrase for goodbye is slán go fóill, which means goodbye for now, an expression built on the assumption that the parting is temporary and the conversation isn't really over.

Nobody knows for certain why the behavior got called Irish. The most compelling theory connects it to the Irish emigrant experience in America, where generations of Irish immigrants leaving gatherings may have found that saying a real goodbye was simply too loaded a word for people who had already said too many permanent ones. When your people have been leaving for good for two hundred years, a quiet exit at a party may have felt like the only kind of leave-taking that didn't carry too much weight. That's not confirmed history. But it feels true in a way that's hard to argue with. Follow The Irish Remembered for more. ☘️

06/28/2026

Every Sun at 4pm is special. We offer 1/2 Price Bottles of (select) Wine w/Entree purchase. Not only is this a perfect relaxing way to end (or begin) a week, it's a perfect opportunity to try a bottle you were unsure about committing to. And btw, we do have a multi-Wine Spectator Award winning wine selection, so don't side eye this promotion. It's a legit deal!
- Come Hungry, Bring Friends..It's.Pub.Time.Tonight!-
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06/28/2026

Yep!

The Irish pub is one of the most misunderstood institutions in the world, because what it looks like from the outside — a bar that sells alcohol — does not describe what it is. 🍺 The pub in an Irish community is the room where the community happens to be. It is where the news is exchanged, where the grief is processed after funerals, where the joy is amplified after matches, where strangers become familiar over a single evening, where the musicians gather on a Thursday night not because anyone has organized a performance but because that is where they go when they want to play.

The Irish pub at its best operates on a particular social physics. Conversation between strangers is not just tolerated but expected. The barman knows everyone and their business and exercises a discretion about which parts of that knowledge to deploy that would be the envy of most diplomatic services. The session in the corner begins without announcement and ends when it ends, and the music it produces is not performed for the room but offered to it, which is a completely different thing. You can sit in an Irish pub for four hours and never feel that anything was required of you except presence.

What the Irish pub preserves is not the alcohol, which is incidental to the main business, but the practice of genuine community. 💚 The physical space where people who share a geography sit together in the same room without appointment. In an era when the digital has replaced the physical for most human connection, the Irish pub remains stubbornly analog, stubbornly present, stubbornly committed to the idea that the conversation in the room is more valuable than whatever is happening elsewhere. It is not romantic. It is simply true. And it is irreplaceable.

06/26/2026

We are about to start the slowest holiday week of the year at McGee's. I'm not kidding. For whatever reason 4th of July week is the worst!

But it can be the BEST for YOU! our staff will fall all over you with undivided attention. Our kitchen is preparing the most delicious specials. And John, Dixie, & Sam will have plenty of extra time to stroll the dining room & have a chat.
* Dana Beigay performs at 7pm tonight.
- Come Hungry, Bring Friends..It's.Pub.Time-

All live music performances are subject to change because......well.....sh*t happens.  Please call pub at 1.864.261.6401 during regular business hours to confirm performances day of show.​