Thursday, March 5, 2009

Pal Joey's

This restaurant is in West Chicago, just east of the Tri-Cities on route 38. However, it's been around since I was in high school (early 1980s), but has moved to a new location a block away from the old one.
Unfortunately for our family's visit they were short staffed. The waitress said they normally had 4 people working the room, but only two tonight (saw a busboy besides her). The understaffing really showed as our food was slow to get to us and our waitress also messed up a couple of courses during the meal. Need to really come back on an evening when they are properly staffed to see if the service does improve.
The food was good. We all really liked our salad with the crisp and cold lettuce and generous amount of salad dressing. If you are watching calories or don't like a lot of dressing, be sure to ask for it on the side. The food was classic Italian and very generous portions.
We were on our way to a basketball game, so we had to rush through the food with the slow service and missed out on dessert as well.
Overall, I want to give them another try since the menu did look like there would be several dishes that would hit the spot if the service was there.

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