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My wife, daughter and I had dinner at Joey's last night. We left with both disapointment and stomachs not feeling great. The restaurant is so far from it's heritage as the great little place in Chagrin Falls from several years ago. That was the standard we were planning to hold it to.
We started with an order of brushetta which was just OK. It was mostly a leafy green salad over toast with only a few tomatos. I've certainly had better brushetta and salads.
For dinner, my wife ordered the portabella grill sandwich. They were out of portabella mushrooms so she subsituted eggplant. She left not feeling so great and we were mistakenly over charged.
My 12 y/o daughter, who has a dairy issue, had grilled chicken over plain pasta. While she enjoyed it, it was $13.95 for a bowl of pasta and a few pieces of chicken.
My dinner was the chicken parmigiana. It's one of my favorite meals and I order it from lots of restaurants all over the country, so I've had plenty of experiences. When it arrived, the tomato sauce looked burned and lumpy. As I started eating, the chicken wasn't tender. I then remembered it's a $12 entree and I'm getting what I'm paying for - nothing more. I didn't touch the side of pasta, which they would not swap for a vegetable.
We each had a soda and skipped dessert.
When our dinner finished, it was about 7:45 on a Saturday night. The restaurant was maybe one-third full. It was a beautiful evening, low 80s, still sunny and people were eating all up and down Lee Road. Just not Joeys. And now we know why.
With tip, it was a $78 dinner. That's crazy - we did not have a $78 experience, and we're not going back. And neither should you.
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