Average Joe’s Pub and Grill

So yea! The service not the best. The bartender so inattentive. Being in the service industry before not cool. Was here last week all me expectation were meet and then some. This week ummm… Thumbs down.

Decent priced drinks, lots of crappy rap music, weird layout, long wait for refills and a bartender who was sloshed. Won’t go back

My first experience was so good I went back the same week. My second experience got me waiting for my gift card in the mail till my third experience. Ever had sweet and sour chicken? Its kinda sweet, and then sour. Its all good though, this is me editing my first review (I was pretty upset). Anyway, the owner called me up and fixed things. I’m not without grace, I’ll prob go back one day.

I like this place. Food and drinks at a reasonable price. Good TV’s. I wish they had more sports packages and a bigger bar.

Awful! Waited on chicken fingers and potato skins for over 30 minutes before asking to check on our food. Bartender came back and said another 10 minutes. We walked out. Place was dead! I live by Average Joes and have noticed it being dead with little to no cars in the parking lot and now it all makes sense. There are too many other great bar and grills close by. Never coming back!

Be aware of this location. I had two of my credit card numbers stolen from this location on the same afternoon. Each card was only swiped once that day and both at this location. The card numbers were used out of the country for multiple charges.
Great service and staff but bad accountability for their guests information.

As average as the name suggests. Happy hour prices were okay but limited. The service was mixed. They have a pool table, keno, a couple of video games, nice TouchTunes jukebox, lottery machine, plenty of seating, and televisions. On set up alone I give this place 4 stars.
The bartender was busting her ass taking care of folks. The other servers were pretty much MIA. I would see them stroll through the dining area from time to time. As part of a pretty large group, and considering there were only a few other patrons during the early part of happy hour, we shouldn’t have had to go to the bar each time we wanted a drink.

I want to like this place, I really do. Great food, great atmosphere, close to home, but… The service freaking sucks! Every damn time I come here I think to myself this time might be different, but the waitresses/​bartenders prove me wrong every single time! If you don’t mind your waitress completely disappearing for long stretches of time or your bartender ignoring you in favor of chatting it up with her local patron friends, then this is a great place for you. Otherwise save yourself the stress and go elsewhere.

Good burgers and pizza.
Lots of TVs. Service can be hard to get when busy.

Wow… super ghetto… Just saw multiple fights break out. The excuse why food tasted bad and the excuse why our server was awful. Stay away if you can.

I stopped here for lunch on New Year’s Eve hoping for some wings and pub grub. What I got is zero service. I got my drinks brought to my table and the only server for about 15 tables said she would be right back to get my food order. Needless to say, 20 minutes later she still had not returned. I was under a time constraint so I got up and left and got fast food. As a result I don’t know if the food is any good. I didn’t like the way the entryways weren’t enclosed so every time another customer would come in I would get a blast of cold air. If you have all day to waste waiting on service then try them, but apparently the management is grossly incompetent. If they keep this up we’ll see them on Bar Rescue in no time.

Traditional bar food. Burger a touch overcooked. Fried perfect. Friendly staff

Get the wings!
Nice little bar and grill. There are plenty of TVs to catch any game that might be happening while your drinking.
I had the wings — garlic sauce. Nice set of waitresses too!

I love how this place starts out by lowering your expectations with the name. Genius!
This review is entirely based on expectations. Is AJ’s a four-​star restaurant with gourmet cuisine that you crave? No, not even close. A great place for a date? Absolutely (if you don’t want a second date). So, why four stars? What does AJ’s do well? They do a very good job of beating expectations. You need to walk in here appreciating the fact that AJ’s is, at times, primarily a sports bar (every NFL game on Sundays with lots of TVs) and at other times a suburban meat market (see all the reviews which mention the loud music?). At even other times, it’s an after-​work watering hole for many regulars.
Do not go to AJ’s expecting haute cuisine and table cloths — it’s a bar. And as a bar that serves food, they do a great job. The pizza at AJ’s is quite tasty (even tastier on Tuesdays when it’s $ 7). The wings are quite good as well. The fries are fantastic. The mini-​burgers are decent (I do not recommend the regular burgers — that is one area where AJ’s fails by offering up what tastes like an angus brick patty that’s been frozen for awhile instead of something recently formed from fresh ground beef). Vegetarian/​healthy options are also lacking (but again, you wouldn’t expect those to be plentiful in a sports bar). The salads, if you’re in that type of mood in a bar, are quite good as well.
So, I encourage you to go to AJ’s with the right expectations. AJ’s has great food for a bar. The beer selection fits anyone’s bill (and budget) — from $ 2 Coors on tap ($ 5 pitchers on Sundays) to decent micro-​brews. The staff are all excellent. You can walk into AJ’s, plop yourself down on a stool and immediately feel welcomed like a regular. No, it doesn’t have the charm or nostalgia of a Short North pub, but you wouldn’t expect that at a strip mall in New Albany/​Gahanna.
Four stars — all about expectations and how AJ’s beats them by being better than Average.

Just a beer review. Went out for a couple drinks on a Friday night around 10 or so. The place was packed and difficult to find a couple seats at the bar, but we were successful. I think they had about 18 or so taps, some were craft which I appreciated. There are plenty of TVs and attentive wait staff.

The only reason I give 2 stars is because their food is actually really good. Lack of other stars is due to the INSANELY loud music. Are you a sports bar or a club? Seems to me its a sports bar with an identity crisis. I was looking for a place with good food and beer to watch a game with my friends. It has everything, but it isn’t enjoyable. You come out with a sore throat because you spend the whole time yelling over the jukebox to have a conversation. I’ve been here several times, I thought maybe it was a weekend thing that its so loud, but its an every day thing.
Management if you read this… Take out your jukebox or turn the volume down. You are supposed to be a sports bar!!! Or just take the tables and tv’s out and call yourself a club.

This place is in the Suburban Trifecta of New Albany, Westerville, and Gahanna.
Normally I would call this «hell», but Average Joe’s isn’t terrible at all.
I only come here when I’m dragged by girls who were dragged by the straight men in their lives. So, naturally I’m a bit terrified by places like this. But the service is fine, and they have cider on tap. And that’s A-​OK.

My favorite bar hands down. The staff knows me and have my limes ready for my Coors Light Drafts (which I’m know for there). The food is amazing! I crave their Black & Blue burgers, to their Pizzas to the amazing Jalapenos Poppers. Plus — their prices are reasonable and I don’t feel raped when I leave!
The ambiance rocks. There are tons of TV’s to catch any game. The party room is perfect for meetings and parties. I love that it’s not too loud where I can talk to people at the bar. In addition, the patio rocks!
I will also have to give Kudos to Paul for being so very community minded. He’s great at opening up his bar to help out non-​profits!

Staffing seems to be settling in. Sitting at the bar will serve you quicker — some of the floor staff is awesome, some seem newer to the hospitality biz.
There are quite a few things going on now here — sam adams tastings, some live music, events. There seems to be a real effort to build community.

They serve lunch! And have Wi-​Fi!
A bit out of the way for us inner-​270 residents, this is the second Average Joe’s location. The first being the one at Polaris, which I frequented a good bit during my college days as a student at the nearby Otterbein now-​University.
Like an old friend that hasn’t changed in the four years since you’ve seen one another, this location brought back many memories of its sister location. More than a dozen TVs, arcade games, cheap beer and yummy bar food.
Average Joe’s — reminds me of my binge drinking days.