LJ’s Filipino Restaurant & Pub

Been here a few times now and have been satisfied each time. For appetizer we started with their 12 pcs. of lumping Shanghai ($ 8.50) it was good, especially dipped in their vinaigrette and sweet sauce. My hubby decided to try the rare beef Phở. According to him it was good but nothing extraordinary about it. He did have to ask for extra basil since they give very little. My son who loves Filipino spaghetti ($ 9.99) was so thrilled to see it on the menu!!! I have to admit, the spaghetti was cooked to order and made from scratch. Most places out here cook the sauce from the bag but at first sight and taste one can tell that it was made from scratch. The sauce was perfectly sweetened and the ground beef to hot dog ratio on point. I ordered the binagoogan (sp?) fried rice. This was amazingly delicious! It’s topped with fresh cubes of mango which is a match made in foodie heaven! There are bits of Lechon mixed in the fried rice so I didn’t even have to order anything else to eat with it. We will definitely continue supporting this local Filipino restaurant!

If I could I would give this place a BIG FAT ZERO!!! My husband (who is of white skin color/​descent) walked in to order some take out to food for dinner for our family and after about 10 minutes of standing there looking at the menu (2) servers walked passed him several time and NEVER acknowledged him. Not even a simple «hi welcome, I’ll be right with you». Shortly after a Filipino family walked in and immediately the servers acknowledged them and made themselves available to them.
I’m sure if I (of Filipino descent/​brown skin color) was standing with him this would have NOT happened. Mind you if it did, I would have ripped them a new *sshole. I have eaten there before and so has my family, we have even held big family parties there! never have I ever been ashamed of my people or my culture until now. How embarrassing!
We also know the owner also runs the Filipino Market next door that we frequent a lot! We WILL NEVER visit their businesses again. I feel sorry you, and the shame you bring amongst the rest of our Filipino heritage. All races and all colors love our cuisine and what «we» bring to the table. This is what keep small businesses like yours thriving. But once you start discriminating people like you did tonight you can bet you will lose all your flow through.
Like they say, «word of mouth» is the best or in this case the worst type of advertisement you could ask for. Good luck.

Fully patronized and did the orders online. In the beginning it was fine until orders were not filled even several hours of ordering ahead. Once was fine but it became every time. All you ever hear are empty apologies. Not a good way to run a business. Couldn’t even compensate you with a glass of water after waiting for an order for a long time that you thought you pre-​ordered!!! Does not look very sanitary also.

I’m just here so I won’t get fined. Lol jk I love coming to LJ’s food is always good and the service is always superb! I’ve been coming here since they opened after finding out DT’s was opening a location in Henderson, they just changed the name. Every now and then the wait might be long but for a new business it gets really busy and but the servers always give us a heads up and apologize for the long wait, even the manager TK comes by and talks to us to help kill time.
And for the people reading Majel’s review, this lady was simply being rude and blowing things out of proportion and even threatening the business. I was dining in the restaurant at the time.
But you guys should definitely try it and judge for yourselves. The black pansit is their specialty and it’s so ONO!

Aside from DT’s, their sister restaurant, this is also one of the best Filipino restaurants in Las Vegas! I’ve been back and forth to both restaurants and I’ve always been treated kindly and with great customer service. To top it off, LJ’s is very well managed by TK. He’s a great manager from what his servers tell my husband and I. They always provide great service and great food! Sometimes the food takes a while when they’re busy but I don’t mind coz the food is always fresh. Will always be coming back here with my husband. Same to DT’s!

First of all, I had to eat here because family was coming over from California. READ OTHER REVIEWS FOR FOOD
This place was ehhh (I can care less for eating filipino food outside my home). Food was kinda greasy. Sooo do you want to take shots of oil and grease? Dont need to, just eat the damn calamari! AGAIN, READ OTHER REVIEWS FOR FOOD.
Let me talk about service.
DO NOT go to this place if you have a party of around 10−15+ people. Service is SLOWER than a newborn progressing towards adolescence! You would think it would be appropriate to serve the same dish to multiple tables at the same time right??? At this place, that is a HELL NO. They served 3 dishes to our adjacent table before we got our first dish. Idk if that specific day they were understaffed but its common sense to serve the same dishes at the same time. What a damn shame. Definitely no where near proficient at any Chinese restaurant that had better service with groups of 40+ people, and we only had 20.
I am being modest with that 3 stars!!!
Would I comeback? No
Do I like this place? Not really
Food good? I guess its satisfactory if your hungry.

After living in NYC for so many yearsI am so particular about my Asian food. I hardly ever dine Asian here in Las Vegas because it usually sucks. LJ’s is my new favorite place. Tender, fresh, delicious meat and vegetables. Service was friendly and fast. Kids loved it too.

Service is super slow, but for a Monday after Christmas weekend you would expect better. We had a party of about 20 people and it took them almost 2 hours to get all our orders out. They would bring a plate one by one, 10 minutes would pass and comes the next plate. Thumbs down!
If you like drinking oil then you should order their fried calamari, haha not.

This place has great food. Every time I come I am super satisfied with my meal. I have to give this place 3 stars because the service is SUPER SLOW! There is no urgency among the staff. 10 min wait to get order taken, 5 min for drinks and 20 min for food. Never come here when you are in a rush. Such a shame. Bad service, great food? I am sure the restaurant is losing business because of this.

It was on a Tuesday and the restaurant we wanted to try, Full House BBQ, a Filipino restaurant was closed for lunch. Darn. So we drove a few blocks and found LJ’s Filipino /​Vietnamese Restaurant. It was a blessing for us. We found a great new restaurant instead.
We love their Lechon Kawali, with crispy skin, tender moist meat, and very tasty. We ordered chicken tinola soup, very delicious, and right hot temperature. Although I miss the chayote or green papaya ingredient. Miki Bihon noodles were great tasting, although not enough miki noodles, with more Bihon.
The halo halo dessert was good but could use more creaminess.
Servings were generous in size. We had to go boxes going home.
Service was great and very efficient. Kudos to our nice and jolly server, Allison.
The restaurant was clean and nicely decorated.
We will be coming back in the near future. We would like to try the black pancit noodle w calamari, crispy dinuguan, etc.

Best Filipino restaurant in Vegas. Cute place. Friendly staff. Food is so fresh and large variety! I highly recommend. I dare say best in USA even!

Well this place is a hidden gem food is bomb! Since my co workers brought me here couple of months ago my bf and I almost order to go pretty much every 2weeks. Even my family when they visited town we ordered to go and they loved it.
So far Here are the dishes that we ordered:
Very delicious entrée
–house fried rice
–binagoongan fried rice
–crispy binagoongan
–bistek Tagalog
–lechon kawali
–ginataang sitaw at kalabasa
–crispy pata
Not so good or just ok:
–pork sinigang (not that tasty)
–Bicol express (first time I’ve seen Bicol express that looks like adobong pusit)
–grilled liempo (for some reason it has that after taste that is not pleasing)
The one star that I didn’t give is the food that not quite good.
Overall there food is really good, customer service is good as well. They pay attention in all the details you tell them. 98% of our order are to go we only tried to dine in twice. So far to go orders we don’t have any problem. Everybody should try this place and I can’t wait to try the «kamayan style».

Gosh, I don’t know. Maybe it was because we did order nothing but food that are meant to be a little greasy. We ordered Chicken Adobo, BBQ pork liempo, and Crispy Binagoongan. The chicken adobo flavor was good. The Liempo was all thick cut FAT with tiny amount of meat. The crispy Binagoongan kind of made me want to throw up. It was salty, so greasy, and extra fatty.
Last minute, we ordered Adobong Pusit because I wanted to give them a chance thinking we really just ordered the fatty stuff. The Pusit was pretty good. Nothing to get me to come back though.
2 stars for the waiter and waitresses because they were all very nice and on top of things.
This place reminds of me DT’s Filipino restaurant in the southwest, which is even worse. I hope it’s not the same owner.

We haven’t been able to find Filipino food back home so when we found out there were so many places to try in Las Vegas, we had to ask the locals and were sent to LJ’s!
Food: We had a chicken, shrimp, and chinese sausage noodle dish with both fat and skinny noodles — sorry I can’t remember the name — but it was SUPER delicious and plenty to share! We didn’t know any better and also ordered the Chicken Chop Suey which was pretty tasty too.
The service was great — I loved how everyone in the restaurant helped bring out food, give more water, and ask how everyone was doing — it was definitely a team effort!
We want to come back to try some of the other dishes!

The Filipino food served here is actually really good! A late night craving to satisfy my Filipino roots sent me searching through Unilocal and subsequently driving to LJ’s. Ordering over the phone was fairly easy and I was delighted when I was told it would only take about fifteen minutes to prepare all my food for pickup. The prices of the food were very reasonable for the amount of food I received.
I ordered Inihaw (grilled) Pork Belly, Pork Belly Sinigang (soup), and Bagoong (shrimp paste) fried rice. The grilled pork belly came with fresh sliced onions and tomatoes. The sinigang soup tasted so good and they didn’t skimp on the meat and vegetables.
The shrimp paste fried rice was plentiful and tasted well if you have a taste for bagoong/​shrimp paste (a filipino staple on some dishes). The rice had small shredded pieces of lechon (fried pork) with a bed of fresh tomatoes and mangoes on top.
I’m looking forward to trying more from their menu in the future. I especially want to try their oxtail fried rice and their «kamayan» dinner where a variety of food is just laid out on the table that you can eat with your hands. When I’m craving for a home-​cooked Filipino dinner but just don’t have time to cook, you can be sure to find me here!

Prices are competitive! Unlike previous reviewers, my wife and I had a delightful experience as we travelled from North Idaho to Las Vegas and decided to try some food outside the box and LJ’s hit the spot.
We were greeted by a young lady server and her counterpart was a sweet Vietnamese older gentleman but he no hablo! Good luck ordering drinks with him as his English is piss poor-​you point and smile and he figures it out.
For starters we tried the viet fresh spring rolls with BBQ Filipino pork and this was amazing. The poor was tasty and crispy from being grilled :) we also had the lumpia which was equally impressive.
Our entrée was garlic fried rice and pork adobo. Outstanding flavor on the garlic fried rice and they aren’t cutting any corners with every plate being made fresh to order. The adobo sauce was mildly salty which is how it’s supposed to be cooked not horribly greasy and full of balanced flavor of Filipino adobo sauce.
We finished off with traditional halo halo desert which is strange but tasty and well worth the visit! The menu is HUGE just ask the server what you should order and stick with that if you haven’t tried different filipino plates before.

I’m usually a big fan of Asian Fusion and Filipino food. However, this place didn’t do it for me. I came here today with my wife and friend. We were the only people in the restaurant. The menu is so confusing and hard to understand. They have the word «Pub» in there name, where was the pub?! We had to ask for another menu with pictures just to comprehend what the items looked like and even then they didn’t describe what it was. There was also way too many choices to chose from. Less is better!
On to the reason for the review… I ordered crispy chicken from the lunch menu for $ 6.99 and it came with steamed rice. The squash had no flavor at all and neither did the chicken. It was actually smothered in grease. The server brought out the rice that I inquired about but ultimately decided on the crispy chicken; brought out the fried rice dish anyway. I felt there was a communication barrier and just a lack of competence altogether. My wife’s dish didn’t even look half way descent with raw onions just thrown on top of her pork dish. The pork had so much fat it was ridiculous! She had to literally sit there throughout the meal picking the fat off the pork (yes it was that bad).
Bottom line I don’t think I’ll be coming back here and there’s a reason it was dead for lunch. Menu is overloaded with choices; no pictures on the menu to see what you’re getting, food is bland bland bland, and service sucks. I feel ripped off that I spent $ 51.51 to feel sick afterwards. I won’t be back.

This place is legit and I’ll tell you why. When you can get delicious Filipino food and phở here what more can you ask for especially since the husband wanted Filipino food and I was craving phở. Best of both worlds. The brisket they put in the phở was seriously delicious and good quality while the broth was equally divine. I’ve already wrote a review on here so I’ll keep it short but if you’re wondering about the phở, I’m giving you the green light!

Yall done fucked up LJ’s.
Never setting foot here again. Not quite as bad as Salo Salo and the other Filipino food spots giving our food a bad name for their uh, lack of cleanliness but close. The only saving grace was your food. and well even then that’s not saying much. Basically I had a gang of my co-​workers come over to join me for LJ’s kamayan dinner like 15 heads deep and when it was all said and done service was hard as hell to come by – like pulling teeth just to get a glass of water, not authentic as we had wanted, the kamayan plates were completely uneven (some missing items thinking perhaps we wouldn’t catch it) and to top it off we were over charged.
Mind you up until this dinner I’m trying to get a menu listing out of the server hostess (again pulling teeth), calling them several times in advance, telling them we are coming. Its like the didn’t take my reservation for 15 heads seriously.
It was weird, everyone getting a separate tab for drinks… then like 15 minutes later getting another tab for our food. Say whaaat? Yeah. Then towards the end of the meal the manager tries to sweat us talking about we failed to pay for one person. Manager realizes he fucked up and falls back after further inspecting the bill.
Ya’ll were lucky you had some Filipino food amateurs take really didn’t know what was going on and that some of the food y’all put out was unique compared to some Filipino restaurants around town. Rarely do I feel like doling out the dreaded 1 star, and I was gonna give this place 2 but man everytime I think about the incident it gets me heated. We dropped a good amount of coin on the place and it was a nightmare. How are you gonna take us for granted with nearly all of us being CULINARY PROFESSIONALS.
Being in the industry I understand there can be tough nights, however when you know in advance we were coming and are unprepared, there really is no excuse for all the miss-​cues that night.
Sidenote — Still having had a hankering for real Filipino food, fast forward a few weeks later me and some frustrated but determined Filipino co-​workers gathered to throw down our version of what a real kamyan dinner was like and we rocked it.

Before I start this review, I would like to make it clear that this business is not owned by LV Unilocaler, LJ R. Believe me, I have asked around and I have confirmed that he doesn’t own this business. And if he did, I would be the first one to know. And I don’t know, which means he does not have anything to do with this restaurant. Thank you.
This spot around my house has been many different types of restaurants. Before, it was a pizza place. And before that, it was a barbecue restaurant (just kidding, I don’t remember what type of restaurant it was before the pizza restaurant). The latest incarnation seems to be a combination of a Filipino restaurant and a Vietnamese one. I went with the former rather than the latter because I felt like it. I was also reading on the internet about crispy pata, a dish I had never had before, but was intrigued to try anyway. LJ’s had it, so you knows Mike had to go get some!
Crispy pata is basically a part of the pig that has been cut up, most of the time the knuckles, braised, then deep fried until crispy. Let me go on record saying that, I am all about that. And then some. The one at LJ’s was OK. The skin was crispy, but really thick in some areas making it sometimes too tough to chew through. And, I thought the meat was OK too, but some areas almost had a «gamey» taste to it, which really didn’t compute in my noggin.
On another visit, I ordered my favorite Philippine food, Lechon Kawali. The guy on the phone said that on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, after 4pm, they have roasted lechon kawali available, rather than the deep fried version. I was like «Whaaaaa?» And he was like «That’s what i’m talking about, Michael». And then I was like «Oh, how did you know my name?» and he was like «Magic». (That conversation didn’t happen as well. But he did recommend me the roasted one, and I said «Ok, I’ll try it»)
I thought that the skin was a little bit too thick and hard for my taste. I also thought that the meat and fat tasted a bit too strange to me. Some were really tough, others were right on the money, and for some, it was meltingly ‘too soft’.
It was a pretty cool place and I wish them the best. They have a wide variety on their menu and the service staff seems friendly and helpful. Not my cup of tea, but it was an OK experience. I know that LJ R. is smiling down on me from his little yellow Dragonball cloud in heaven, approving of this review.