{"id":118738,"date":"2025-10-13T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118738\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:33:09","slug":"we-have-spice-bags-daniel-odonnell-in-the-ladies-toilets-and-kneecap-love-us-boston-pub-becomes-first-irish-bar-to-make-prestigious-us-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118738\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have spice bags, Daniel O\u2019Donnell in the ladies\u2019 toilets and Kneecap love us\u2019 \u2013 Boston pub becomes first Irish bar to make prestigious US list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Donegal duo behind the gastropub are bringing a taste of Ireland to city and have just made \u2018New York Times\u2019 best American restaurant list\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"McGonagle's owner Oran McGonagle (right) with business partner and head chef Aidan McGee. Photo: Amy Donohoe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f6e86c77-0c2a-4d83-be88-6c6d0b32c76a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">McGonagle&#8217;s owner Oran McGonagle (right) with business partner and head chef Aidan McGee. Photo: Amy Donohoe<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For the first time ever, an Irish bar has made history by being named on the New York Times\u2019 best American restaurant list, less than 12 months after opening its doors, securing its place in the culinary history books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">McGonagle\u2019s in Dorchester, a neighbourhood in Boston, is a classic Irish-American bar, known for its no-frills atmosphere and strong community ties; a place where regulars gather for pints of Guinness, casual conversation and, now, award-winning Irish food, from spice bags to battered sausages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Donegal duo behind the gastropub are bringing a taste of Ireland to city and have just made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[72597,6371,27461,18,117,19,17,4066,5493,1543],"class_list":{"0":"post-118738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-amy-donohoe","9":"tag-daniel-odonnell","10":"tag-dermot-kennedy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-kneecap","16":"tag-tommy-tiernan","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}