Where Santa Clarita
Watches the Game

If you search for a place to watch sports in Santa Clarita, you will find chain restaurants with oversized menus and flat screen televisions bolted to every surface. You will find bar and grills that turn the volume up and call it an atmosphere. And then you will find Maginn's Irish Pub in Old Town Newhall, which does not look or feel like any of them, and that is exactly why it works.

Maginn's was designed and built by the Irish Pub Company in Dublin, Ireland. The entire interior, from the hand carved Victorian bar to the wood paneling and the snug seating, was constructed in Dublin and shipped to Newhall. That is not a design choice that a chain restaurant makes. It is a commitment to building a room that feels a certain way when you walk into it, and the difference is obvious the moment you sit down to watch a game.

The atmosphere inside a pub is fundamentally different from a sports bar. A pub is built around proximity and conversation. The layout at Maginn's encourages people to sit together, to react together, and to share the experience of whatever is on the screens. When the Dodgers are in a playoff game and the pub is packed, the energy in the room is something you cannot manufacture with a sound system and a drink menu. It happens because the room was designed to hold that kind of moment.

The awards back it up. Yelp ranked Maginn's the number seven Irish pub in the United States and Canada. BetUS ranked it number three in the country. The Sacramento Bee named it one of the top three Irish pubs in all of California. Those rankings are based on food quality, atmosphere, drink program, and the overall experience, and they reflect what anyone who has been to Maginn's on game night already knows: this is not a sports bar pretending to be something it is not. It is a pub that was purpose built for exactly this kind of evening.

The Guinness alone is worth the drive. A properly poured Guinness takes time, and at Maginn's, it is done right. The two part pour, the proper settle, the temperature, the glass. Pair that with fish and chips voted the best in Santa Clarita, or a cottage pie that people drive across the valley for, and you have a game day experience that no chain in the SCV comes close to matching. The best place to watch sports in Santa Clarita is not the place with the most screens. It is the place where the room, the food, the drinks, and the crowd all come together, and that place is Maginn's.

One of the biggest reasons people keep coming back to Maginn's Irish Pub for sports is that the pub shows everything. Not just the big national broadcasts. Not just the prime time Sunday and Monday night games. Every Dodgers game, home and away, from Opening Day through October. Every Lakers game from the first tip off through the playoffs. Every Football Sunday, Monday Night Football, and Thursday Night Football. Every Premier League match, Champions League night, and international tournament. If the game matters, Maginn's has it on.

That kind of coverage matters when you are trying to find somewhere to watch a specific game. A lot of places in the Santa Clarita Valley will have the big games on because everyone has them on. But a midweek Dodgers road game against the Rockies in June, or a Champions League group stage match on a Tuesday, or a Lakers game that starts at five on a weekday? Those are the games where a dedicated sports pub separates itself from a restaurant that happens to have a few televisions.

Maginn's also shows what most American sports bars ignore entirely. The English Premier League runs from August through May and fills weekend mornings with some of the most passionate fan culture in the world. The Champions League and Europa League fill midweek evenings. La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, and MLS all get screen time. Maginn's showed every match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. As an authentic Irish pub designed and built in Dublin, soccer is not an afterthought at Maginn's. It is part of the pub's identity, and for the growing community of soccer fans in the SCV who have struggled to find a proper place to watch, Maginn's is the answer.

For boxing and UFC, the pub puts the fights on and the room fills with the kind of energy that makes a big card worth watching with other people. March Madness. College football. The Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals. The pub's events page at maginnspub.com keeps the full schedule updated, and following @maginnspub on Instagram is the fastest way to see what is on tonight and what specials are running.

There is no off season at Maginn's. Baseball hands off to football, football hands off to basketball, soccer runs underneath all of it year round, and the big events fill in the gaps. Whatever you want to watch, and whenever the game is on, Maginn's is the place in Santa Clarita that has it.

Watching a game is better when the food, the drinks, and the specials are worth talking about on their own. At Maginn's Irish Pub in Old Town Newhall, every piece of the game day experience has been thought through, from the specials that run during every Dodgers game to the kitchen that earned a top three national ranking from BetUS and statewide recognition from the Sacramento Bee.

Start with the specials. During every Dodgers game, the pub runs eight dollar Dodgeritas, six dollar Micheladas, fourteen dollar beer and wing combos, and four dollar Coors Light and Michelob Ultra 16oz drafts. The Football Sundays Watch Party brings the fourteen dollar beer and wing combo and the four dollar Coors Light and Michelob Ultra through the entire NFL slate from the early games through the late window. Wine Wednesdays offer fifty percent off wine by the glass or bottle. Sundays feature four dollar Coors Light all day. And every day of the week, you can grab six Bud Light bottles for twenty dollars.

Happy hour overlaps with game time more often than most people realize. Weekday afternoon Dodgers games, early evening football kickoffs, and midweek Premier League matches all fall within happy hour windows. That means discounted drafts on top of whatever game day specials are already running. The happy hour menu includes discounted Guinness, Smithwick's, and Kilkenny drafts, plus a dedicated happy hour food menu. The details change, so the daily specials page at maginnspub.com is the best place to check what is running right now.

Then there is the food. The fish and chips at Maginn's was voted the best in Santa Clarita. The batter is crispy, golden, and served with hand cut chips and mushy peas. The cottage pie is made with slow braised beef and topped with creamy mashed potato. The beef and Guinness stew is rich, hearty, and the kind of dish that makes you forget there is a game on for a few minutes while you eat it. The smash burger has become a fan favorite. The bangers and champ are as traditional as it gets. Every dish comes from a kitchen that takes the food as seriously as the drinks, and it shows in the reviews.

And the drinks. Maginn's pours a proper Guinness, which means a two part pour, a proper settle, and a pint that arrives the way it is supposed to. The draft lineup includes Smithwick's, Kilkenny, Harp, and a rotating selection alongside domestic options. The whiskey selection is one of the deepest in the valley. Pair a properly poured twenty ounce Guinness draft during happy hour for eight dollars with an order of fish and chips during a midweek Dodgers game, and you have a game day experience that costs less and tastes better than anything you are getting at a chain restaurant. That is the full package at Maginn's, and it is why people who come once keep coming back every game day.