Came here for lunch on Saturday, celebrating a friend cousin birthday. Of course since Joey's is a chain restaurant, wasn't expecting much. Plus I've been here a couple of times. But my most recent experience felt very mediocre. The food fell a little short from my expectation from my past visit.
We ordered appetizers to begin Artichoke and spinach dip as well as calamari. The Calamari tasted good. Full of flavour and presentation was nice, the artichoke and spinach dip not a fan. It was and and soupy not really the dip consistency. I ordered the Protein style burger, I thought this was a great addition to the menu. Since I haven't seen it before but maybe I could be wrong and it has been on the menu for over a year, it was alright. The burger itself lacked seasoning it tasted very bland. Even the sauce added didn't help at all, very mediocre. My friend ordered the fish tacos and out of the 3 she ate 1. She said the shrimp and fish were soggy and not crunchy too much oil soaked them. I tried one and she was right. I remember ordering them last visit and they were much better before instead of how they are now. Possibly a change of chef?
Lastly my cousin the birthday girl ordered the chicken Shawarma and please don't get me started, she hardly touched it. It was a lot smaller in size my friend added since she ordered that before. My cousin even showed me how much grease was dripping off the Shawarma wrapper. I was disgusted. The only perk I would say is the skinny fries on the side still tasted the same as I remember pretty good.
Overall personally I'm little saddened how the food has gone down. As I recall Joeys used to be pretty good. Hmm that's unfortunate.