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| - Ah yes...Big Jim's. I have been eating here since the early 80s when my Mom worked there. My first memory of video games comes from Big Jim's. I was sitting on someone's lap playing a table top version of Q-Bert. Those were the days.
This place is just a hole in the wall. But its a great one. No matter what you get off the menu, its tasty. This time, we got the open-faced roast beef sandwich, the open-faced turkey sandwich, a small cheese pizza and a chicken parm sandwich.
The two open-faced sandwiches are awesome. Big piles of meat and gravy on top of hearty chunks of Italian bread and thin-cut homemade fries. The turkey was real sliced turkey from a turkey breast. The roast beef is fresh sliced, too.
The pizza is always good. The really pile on the cheese. Unfortunately today, they piled the sauce on, too. There was literally enough sauce to scoop off the pizza and eat with a fork. Which I did, because their sauce is almost as good as my own. Still though...all that sauce is not needed.
The chicken parm was okay. It was a large chicken cutlet but it wasn't very crispy. The bread was good and just like the pizza, the cheese was piled high on this hoagie.
Other than the overly saucy pizza the only real complaint was the waitress wasn't very friendly. This is atypical of the place and this is the first time I can recall having a crabapple for a server here.
I don't like to base my reviews on previous visits, and I won't. But I well touch base on some of the other menu items that are top notch. Their pasta is always good. They really do have a good sauce. I'm not the kind of person who likes ordering pasta in restaurants because its never as good as my own (or my father's). But Big Jim's is the sort of place I can break my rules over.
They have these fried eggplant appetizers. They're awesome. Skip the parmesan version and just get them with marinara on the side.
The salads are always huge. Just make sure you tell them you don't need any french fries on them...Big Jim's, just like many other restaurants in this city, likes to muck up a perfectly good salad by dumping fries all over them. They have a homemade Italian dressing that is truly delicious. We've commented time and time again how we wish we could buy it by the bottle and take it home with us.
All the meat on their sandwiches is the real deal. Actual sliced roast beef and turkey. I don't know where they get their cold cuts from, but they're not cheap....they're quite good. The bread's great, as well. Crispy and flaky on the outside, soft and hearty on the inside.
Like I said...pretty much everything on the menu is good. We've tried a little bit of everything on the menu and you can't go wrong.
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