re: BJ&#39;s Restaurant &amp; Brewhouse

Posted by andouille

A table near a waiter.

Member since Dec 2004

11085 posts

Posted on 12/29/08 at 7:28 am to SnowMan77

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Wow. Not the kind of thing you need to be doing in a "high end" restaurant. I mean for BR this place would be considered upscale and service is really important.

When Baton Rouge, or Tupelo for that matter, considers cookie cutter joints like this "upscale", we might as well go back to cooking possum carcasses over a fire. Only the most unsophisticated YDFOC considers this a grade over Shoney's.

I went there gratis prior to the opening. YAWN.

Posted by MrKennedy

Yes

Member since May 2008

19122 posts

Posted on 12/29/08 at 7:38 am to 3rdRowTailgater

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They don't brew anything "in-house" in Baton Rouge. They have breweries in West Covina, Oxnard, and Roseville, California, Reno, NV, Boulder, CO, and Chandler, AZ. They ship that beer to the restaurants around the nation.

The brews at the BR location come from Houston. They pay the St. Arnold's people to brew them, but it's still the same BJ's brewhouse recipe.

And BJ's is nowhere close to 'upscale' or 'high-end'... just another chain that in this case happens to have unique beer.

Posted by jeffsdad

Member since Mar 2007

23269 posts

Posted on 12/29/08 at 7:51 am to MrKennedy

Is this the same as the BJ's in Lafayette? 12 years ago BJ's in Lafayette was an exact knock-off of Johnnie's Pizza. Same motiff and same receipes.

Posted by TigahRag

Sorting Out OT BS Since 2005

Member since May 2005

132775 posts

Posted on 12/29/08 at 8:49 am to Hero0831

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If Applebees and Chili's met and conceived a child on the bar at Chimes, nine months later you would have BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse.

that is well played there.

Posted by LSUZombie

A Cemetery Near You

Member since Apr 2008

29359 posts

Posted on 12/29/08 at 1:54 pm to TigahRag

have been all three times. all three times the food was just ok and the service was absolutely horrible. the menu is so huge it's almost comical. they could get rid of half the choices on the menu and it would still be way too big. but the wait-staff is just too bad to justify returning. and i have been once when there was hardly anyone in the place and it still sucked

Posted by Kim Jong Ir

Baton Rouge

Member since Jan 2008

54035 posts

Posted on 12/29/08 at 8:57 pm to jeffsdad

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Is this the same as the BJ's in Lafayette?

No.

Posted by gringeaux

DFW

Member since Oct 2008

1965 posts

Posted on 12/30/08 at 10:45 am to Daygo85

I think it is really good. I have been to a few in and around Dallas. The pizzas are really good but it can get a little expensive. I really like their beer. The Tatonka (sp) and the Red one (I forget the name) I think are the best.

Posted by pogo

Denton

Member since Apr 2006

333 posts

Posted on 12/30/08 at 4:28 pm to gringeaux

food is ok, better than chili's but it is overpriced and not high end. The beer is good, pirhana pale ale especially.

Posted by Dookie

baton rouge

Member since Sep 2007

618 posts

Posted on 1/1/09 at 10:22 am to JJ27

WAY overpriced on beer and food. They try to get you to drink their own microbrew drafts (by making them cost less than a damn bottle of miller lite) but they are not very good, IMHO.