08/09/08

Overcomplicated food = bad experience

by mrscos

I have been to Jimmy's twice now - once with girlfriends and returned with my husband this past weekend. The cocktails are nice, but I found the food to be overly complicated and consequently, less than impressive. My poor husband took 20 minutes to find anything on the menu that he even was remotely interested in ordering. Admittedly, he is no gourmet but I have never seen him not be able to find anything on a menu and we have been to several upscale places.

I ordered the Salmon Udon, my husband ordered the oatmeal encrusted chicken with mushroom sauce. The salmon dish was so complicated it was unenjoyable. Too many flavors - salmon, pasta, cilantro, peanuts, roasted red peppers, green beans - it had far too much going on. The pasta sauce on my dish was watery and not nearly thick enough to coat the pasta. I would not order it again. On the other hand, my husband's chicken dish was totally devoid of flavor. I've had better chicken at TGI Fridays. He ate about 3 bites of it. I also noticed that a table next to us sent their food back in exchange for another dish. Our waitress was kind and attentive, offering my husband another dish but considering this was the only thing on the menu he was interested in he declined.

This place might be fine for a salad and glass of wine with your girlfriends, but expect that if you drag any male party along, they will likely leave hungry. Every dish on the menu has at least 5 or 6 strong ingredients competing with the main flavor. The menu is pretentious for the sake of being pretentious.

• Pros: Atmosphere, fire places, reasonable prices
• Cons: Food is awful, minimal parking

02/08/08

Extremely Poor!!

by Bbacardi

Not once, not twice but THREE times I have been here with a poor experience. Very bad and unexperienced service. My most recent experience was the worst. I walk in to Jimmys at about 1045pm to have a appetizer and a cocktail with a date. The sign on the door says that they serve food til midnight so I thought no big deal. When we walked in we were looked at, not greeted by a young man in a suit. I then initiated conversation by asking him if we were to seat ourselves or if he was going to seat us. He looked at me like I said something wrong and responded "I guess". I am still not sure what that was suppossed to mean. I then took it upon myself to walk to the bar and order a drink and take a look at a menu. By this time it is close to 11pm. I ask the bartender if the kitchen was still open and she then called the young man over that was standing at the door. When she asked him if the kitchen was still open he replied with a deep sarcastic sigh and said "I suppose" as he gave a dirty look toward the bartender. Now if the place wasnt busy I would understand but there was at least 35 - 40 people there. I walked out without ordering anything after that was said. I will never return to this place!

• Cons: The service

08/03/06

really good food!

by ms_l

This place was out of the way from our downtown hotel, but well worth the $20 cab ride. Its located in a residential neighborhood, so make sure you have directions for your driver if you take a cab like we did. Everything we ordered here was wonderful. We had the Tuna tartare, the poached pear salad and the asparagus salad for starters. For entres we had the Tenderloin Anthony and were thrilled the dish. It was an excellent blend of flavors. For dessert we had the Chocolate Lava Cake...scrumptious. So far, this is the best food we've had in our week here. My husband declared that he'd fly back to St. Louis just to have that pear salad again! Service here was also excellent.

• Pros: great food
• Cons: location (if you're just visiting St Louis)