Pineapple Jack’s

Dislikes:
–Smoking room (The smoke still leeches out into the rest of the facility)
–Difficult to get a drink
–always a cover charge
–and let those creepy people in that sell flowers from buckets (I hate that!)
–terrible food
–meat heads! (Major lady turnoff)
–fights
–karaōke– the KJ is a jerk and is picky about who he choses … Actually more time is spent listening to him. He thinks he’s good
–did I mention a cover? Why am I paying extra money to be miserable???
Thee end.

Ugh. THIS place.
We always seem to end up here when organizing a night out because it’s a central meeting place for all of our friends and there is a smoking room.
The smoking lounge is great for Rochester winters, but good lord– you come out smelling like you just rolled in an ashtray. Even as a smoker, I feel absolutely disgusting after leaving.
You’ll also catch quite a few fights between drunken rejects from The Jersey Shore and probably find a few girls sobbing in the bathroom because their juice head boyfriend was flirting with some other girl.
I’ve also heard many a story about this being a coke bar. As a devout graduate of the D.A.R.E program, I know nothing of this and haven’t personally witnessed it, though it wouldn’t come as a shock.
This place is some weird, unavoidable Rochester vortex. You want to go anywhere but here but always seem to end up here and swear you’ll never come back.
If you’re looking for a classy place– this isn’t it. Not by a long shot. If you want a place where the douchebags and second hand smoke is aplenty, you’ve found your niche in the world.

What a local watering hole.
I am not a fan of this place. My own father, (who doesn’t have high standards for restaurants) was concerned when I told him I was stopping there for a beer once this summer. It is just one of those places that makes me feel like I need to take a shower after going in. The atmosphere is very dingy, and the larger back portion of the bar is a smoking area. They have a few dartboards and a pool table, juke box, etc. The food isn’t great. Normally there are your trashy-​townie types; you know, like the middle aged woman with a raspy voice and overly box-​dyed hair that is chain smoking, buzzed, and complaining about what an a-​hole her husband is to another character that happens to be her friend, or a pudgy man she is picking up. Just don’t.

You are greeted by Mike Paris when you walk in, and that’s worth a 5 star rating

This was not my first time at PJ’s, but the first in many years, so I thought maybe it had gotten better. WRONG!
It was a Thursday night, and there was one other table of 4 people in the dining room. There were 4 people at the bar. We were seated right away, and the server came over in just a few minutes. We placed our drink order, and waited 14 minutes before the Coke and glass of wine appeared. She blamed the bar staff that she had to wait to get the liquor, yet we witnessed the bartender lounging, and talking to the 4 bar customers…
Hubby ordered a steak bomber and mine was a baked haddock, baked potato and broccoli — cooked with no butter or oil.
After another 20 minutes, we were served, and except for the potato, everything was tasty and right. The potato was old and reheated, not very good, but I don’t eat much of it anyway, so not a deal-​breaker. We had to ask for salt, pepper and ketchup to be brought to the table. That’s not right and should be there on every table regardless.
The server never acknowledged that my wine glass was empty, even after I placed it at the edge of the table it took a few pass-​bys before she noticed.
She came by when we were done and asked if we wanted dessert or coffee. After declining either, she brought the check, yet never cleared our dirty plates. The hostess finally came over and took the dirty plates away and asked how thing were. Not wanting to burden the hostess about the poor service, we didn’t really reply.
Food = 3.5 of 5
Service = 1 of 5

Agreed with the prior review, felt like I was in Jersey. Loud, expensive beer (for the light beer they serve) and bad service. Not recommended.

Dragged here one night while visiting Rochester and I thought I was in Jersey. Kind of a trashy building in a strip mall parking lot. It was pretty busy, but had I been on a manhunt this is definitely NOT the place to go. However, I was there with friends and we were there to have a good time and that’s exactly what happened. The beer selection is nil, but I survived on Yuengling (can’t get that in Cali, so I suck it up when I’m on the east coast). We were there for karaōke night and I like to sing karaōke, but the KJ is a jerk and picky about who he gives the mic. Since some of the people in my party were regulars, I understand this is normal behavior. Usually KJ’s are not like this, so I was disappointed with that. Otherwise I had a good time and the customers are unpretentious and friendly which is nice, but not really the type of bar I like to frequent. I give it 4 stars since I had a rockin’ time when I was there and that’s what a bar is all about.