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| - We've been here several times since they opened a year or two ago. The service is okay, but I agree with others that their food needs a lot of work and their beer selection is limited. The issue I have with PJ's is that they have a real good game on the outside - their bands, their decor, their service, but their drinks and food just don't deliver.
For instance, "Sassy Chicks" isn't a menu item I would want to eat anywhere, although it's PJ's ridiculous name for one of my favorite (usually) menu items (chicken fingers) in other restaurants. Don't get me started on the similarly unappetizing and stupidly named "Barney Stone Sliders" or "Flapping Arms". I sincerely don't know how the wait staff refer to these menu items without sneering, scoffing or otherwise looking put out, and I sincerely don't know what the owners were thinking when they put together a menu with such outrageously hideous names. I don't want to sound like I'm at some stupid themed restaurant when I order food, and when I go to PJ's I end up trying to convey to the waiter what I want without using their unbelievably sophomoric names for the items. Seriously, PJ's owners, how hard would it be to refer to chicken wings as "chicken wings" and not as "flapping arms"... is that too simple and straightforward for you all to consider? Do you really think you're adding value with stupid names?
Second, for an Irish place, they simply don't highlight classic Irish food at all. For instance, there's another very successful Irish bar/restaurant in Charlotte (which shall remain anonymous) with a menu that offers Shepherd's pie, Irish potato cakes, potato and leek soup, and soda bread. PJ's offers none of these, although they have ridiculous names for imitation items like "PJ's Pie", "Loaded Spud Soup" or "Onion Soup" and God help us all, "O'Fries".
I hate gimmicks and PJ's is relying on cheap gimmicks for their menu, the food from which is served on cheap black plates and looks like fast food when it arrives at the table.
While PJ's is an okay place to stop in for a quick beer, I'm disappointed by it greatly, overall. Mostly because I feel the owners have a real opportunity to showcase Irish food and Irish bar food in south Charlotte and they've totally squandered that opportunity in favor of gimmicks. I sincerely hope that PJ's someday becomes the Irish bar my husband and I dreamed of walking to several times a week before it opened. Because we discovered after it opened that it's really just a cheap imitation "Irish Disneyland" wannabe that isn't really worth visiting.
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