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| - This is a very cheerful restaurant--bright blue and yellow walls, a saltwater fish tank with all sorts of neat coral, and delicious tropical cocktails. Try the lemongrass margarita. A good place to go when it's rainy or you're feeling down.
There's only one vegetarian entree on the menu (the vegetable curry), but it is quite tasty and the portion is substantial. The entrees come with their house salad, which is fresh, delicious, and topped with your choice of mango curry, jerk strawberry, passion fruit, or banana poppyseed dressing. Yum!
For appetizers, the fried plaintains, guacamole, and grilled pineapple salsa are all good. I was less impressed with the watercress and heart of palm salad. The salad itself was good, but the dressing was nearly intolerably tart.
I docked Jolly Bob's a star because it is cramped, crowded, and can get terribly busy and noisy. The services is not the greatest. It can be extremely hard to get the bartender's attention; you practically have to stick a twenty in his face. Frankly, I don't think their staffing is up to the demand. There should have been two or three bartenders, but there was only one, and he was helping with tables as well. The waitstaff should have been doubled and the host should have been sitting at the front of the restaurant, NOT in some corner behind the fish tank.
I recently went during the last week of their Groupon. We got to the restaurant at 5:45p, weren't seated until 6:30, and had to wait another half hour for our salads. The drinks came AFTER the salads, and the entrees after that. We didn't get out of the restaurant until 8:00. This was on a Monday night! It's never been quite that bad before, but definitely a place to go early.
Note: They don't take credit cards. There is an ATM in the restaurant, but it has a $2 fee. Bring cash. The drink prices are fairly standard, but the entrees are a bit expensive.
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