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|cuisine=Pub fare|location=600 E. East [[Gregory Street, ]] (Pensacola)<br/>33 [[Highway 98, ]] (Destin)|opened=[[1977]]

[[McGuire's Irish Pub]] is a popular Pensacola restaurant and local [[:Category:Landmarks|landmark]]. Founded by [[McGuire Martin|McGuire]] and [[Molly Martin]] in [[1977]], the restaurant was originally located in [[Town & Country Plaza]]. McGuire's moved to its current [[Gregory Street]] location (Pensacola's in [[1927 firehouse|original firehouse1982]]) in 1982. It is known for its on-site brewery and patron traditions, like kissing a stuffed moosehead and stapling autographed dollar-bill "tips" to the ceiling. A second location has also opened in [[Destin]]. ==Locations==McGuire's Pensacola location, at 600 East [[Gregory Street]], is located in a 1927 building which was originally a [[1927 firehouse|firehouse]] and later the [[Old Firehouse Drive-In]]. The 20,000 square foot building has 400 seats in various themed rooms such as the Pipers Den, Notre Dame Room, The Irish Links Room and the Ruprecht O'Tolf Wine Cellar.<ref name="site">[http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com/ McGuire's Irish Pub website]</ref> There is also a private dining room where the [[Irish Politicians Club]] meets. A second location opened in [[Destin]] in [[1996]].  The McGuire’s have three children ==Food and drink==McGuire's offers steak and seafood along with [[Wikipedia:Irish cuisine|Irish cuisine]] and pub fare. The restaurant was named Steak House of the Year by the National Beef Council in [[1998]]. McGuire's advertises its steaks as "Certified Angus corn-fed beef, never frozen and hand cut daily."<ref name="site" /> McGuire's menu also features more than 20 hamburgers, including the $100 "Grand Burger", made with [[Wikipedia:Filet mignon|filet mignon]] and served with caviar and champagne.<ref name="menu">[http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com/MenuPDFs/McGuires_Dinner-Green.pdf McGuire's Irish Pub menu]</ref> McGuire's also operates its own [[Wikipedia:Brewery|brewery]], brewing five regular beers and one seasonal variety, as well as [[Wikipedia:Root beer|root beer]].<ref>[http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com/brewery.html McGuire's Irish Pub Brewery]</ref> The restaurant has won numerous Florida Trend Magazine's Golden Spoon Awards and Wine Spectator Magazine Awards of Excellence.<ref name="site" /> ==Traditions==McGuire's has a number of prominent traditions:===Dollar bills===Stapled to the walls and ceilings of McGuire's Pensacola location are more than 750,000 one dollar bills. According the restaurant, when Molly McGuire received a dollar bill as her first tip, she tacked it up behind the bar for good luck. Other patrons "added to the collection" and it soon became a McGuire's tradition. ===Kissing the moose===First-time visitors and special guests are encouraged to kiss a large stuffed moose head mounted near the music stage. ==Sponsorships==Since [[1988]], McGuire's has sponsored the [[McGuire's Pipe Band]]. Each year, McGuire's sponsors the [[McGuire's St. Patrick's Day 5K Run]], which is billed as the largest prediction run in America.

[[Image:McGDestinsignage.jpg|thumb|left|The Destin restroom signage, now removed]]In early On [[April 24]], [[May 2007]], a patron of someone using the Destin restaurant named name "[[Chris Hall]] " filed a complaint with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) after , claiming a man walked in on his fifteen-year-old daughter while she was in the women's restroom. Shortly thereafter, the Destin McGuire's was ordered by the DBPR to remove the confusing signage.<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770517026 "McGuire's forced to change bathroom signs"] - ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 17, 2007.</ref> The ''News Journal'' later reported that more than 3,000 patrons of the Destin location signed a petition asking for the return of the old signage within a 10-day period.<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007705180338 "Girl's father finds little humor in landmark's infamous restroom signs"] - ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 18, 2007.</ref> General Manager Billy Martin defended the signs, saying "“We’re not trying to be malicious. It’s an Irish joke kind of thing.”<ref>[http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/5298 "State forces McGuire’s to remove 'joke' restroom signs"] - ''Northwest Florida Daily News'', May 16, 2007.</ref>

The order to remove the confusing signage at the Destin location did not apply to the McGuire's in Pensacola. However, on [[May 24]], [[2007]], the ''News Journal'' reported that the Pensacola location had also been ordered to remove its similar signage after a DBPR inspection cited the restaurant for "lack of signage properly designating bathrooms".<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070524/NEWS01/705240318/1006 "Losing its bathroom humor"] - ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 18, 2007.</ref> Notably, the Destin restaurant was inspected in January 2007 (as well as many times over the past several years) and was not at any time cited for the signage. Attorney [[Jim Reeves]] recommended to owner [[McGuire Martin]] that he fight the order to remove the signs.<ref>[http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070526/NEWS01/705260329/1006 "McGuire's complainant a mystery"] - ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 26, 2007.</ref> The Department of Business and Professional Regulation and McGuire's eventually came to an agreement that would allow McGuire's to keep their famous signs posted; McGuire's installed a second set of swinging doors after the signs but before the restroom areas.