moe & johnny's

i came here with friends on a saturday for brunch and loved it. lots of good food for a cheap price. however, i came here on a friday and was very disappointed. slow service to the point that weorderedtwo beers every time we finally got ahold of our waitress. it seemed like they should hire a couple more waitstaff. also, we were told the beers were $3 but when we got our check we were charged $4 a beer. when we asked, the waitress was rude and defensive. i was fairly annoyed when i left.

food decent, enjoyed the history. we ate here saturday in the afternoon and the service was pretty slow, and they were not all that busy. iorderedthe veggie wrap and to me it needed more seasonings. i really did enjoy the roasted red potatoes and my friend enjoyed his meal. we both are not from indianapolis, so we did enjoy looking at the interesting photos, etc. on the wall and the various rooms. i will say that the bathroom was bad - really bad. i understand this is also a bar, but i pretty much had to "clean" to even wash my hands...

this is a different sort of review. i went here with my eldest son, for lunch. i am never sure why i don’t write about some joints that i go to. this is a perfectly fine place. clean and respectable; with good food. i know i have eaten here a few times; pre- blog days. and pat and i have been there a couple of times for beers. so today i write. adam ( my first-born ) likes to eat and cook he just isn’t crazy about it. so our conversation covered my grand daughters and his work. he has a real job. he has nothing to do with food and beverage. heordereda pulled pork sandwich with bbq sauce . all he volunteered was that he liked it. he added the lettuce and tomato but removed the onion and pickle. so the pork sandwich has my kid’s approval.  iorderedan all american cheese burger. but first i determined it was indeed charbroiled and i could  get it mid-rare. i added cheddar and got the whole garden. usually i enjoy my burgers the same way i enjoy my irish whisky; neat. this was a fine a

not a good experience. all around bad experience. as soon as we were seated, we were asked for our drink orders. however, no one had brought us a menu that showed any drinks, just a little 3 x 7 card with some sandwich choices on it. after stalling with an order for water, i looked up the full menu on my iphone. when the waitress came back, she asked for our order. my wifeorderedthe veggie burger, and my sons had the chicken fingers. i accidentally said "chicken" sandwich, but caught myself and said "i mean fish." the waitress acknowledged that i changed my order to fish, but wasn't writing anything down. i knew that was a bad sign. my wife and i alsoordereddrinks using the menu on my iphone.

her beer arrived several minutes before mine. i assumed that was because her's was a wheat bear and mine was a guinness and they were doing a proper long pour. but when my guinness arrived several minutes later, it had a thin head and was still cascading. long wait for a badly poured guinness.

while waiting for the food, i stepped away from the table to use the restroom. it was a disgrace. someone had missed the toilet with a very messy bowel movement. and that had long since dried, meaning no one had bothered cleaning the mess for hours. that was a horror show.

i got back to the table and while telling my wife to beware the restroom (there was only the one unisex restroom that i could find) our food arrived. obviously i wound up with a chicken sandwich. when the woman who brought the food asked who had the grilled chicken, i explained that i hadorderedthe fish. her response was "we don't grill fish." since i never said anything about "grilled" i felt that was out of line. but whatever. i explained that i preferred it not be grilled, and i had definitelyorderedfish.

my wife and sons started working on their food, but in reaching for the ketchup for my boys, my wife accidentally spilled my still nearly full guinness, which drained everywhere. a passing busser offered us a towel, but that was the extent of the waitstaff's response to that.

when our waitress finally got back to us, she asked how everything was. i told her i'd gotten the wrong thing but apparently my correct order was coming out. she saw my empty glass and asked if i wanted to order another beer. right next to my empty glass was still a beer soaked towel and the remnants of a puddle on the concrete (we were outside). i said "not one i have to pay for." and she just gave me a weird look. it's not a requirement, but most places i've been, full spilled drinks are replaced with complimentary ones.

when my fish sandwich arrived after all that, it was a disappointment--a small cod fillet not much bigger than a fish finger on a full-size hamburger bun. there was so much more bun than fish, it was comical.

we ate and paid in a hurry after that and got out of there. it's not a place we plan to ever go back to.

great bar spot. i typically go to moe & johnnys, because of it convenient location. the drinks and food are both reasonably priced as well. i usually sit at the bar, and the bartenders are always very attentive and nice. i would highly recommend the mozzerella, basil, tomato pizza, it's amazing. they cook it in a tombstone oven, which makes the wonderfully thin crust nice and crisp. it tastes very light too! i would also recommend the buffalo chicken salad. the appetizer platter is a joke, however. i onceorderedone to share between myself and one other person.. it looked like a kids meal. two mozz stix, two potato skins, three onion rings, and two chix tenders. for the price, it's definitley not worth it. other than that, i have no complaints, and i will continue to frequent moe & johnnys!

veggie burger & chili. we stopped by moe and johnny's to for lunch and to watch a colt's game. iorderedthe garden burger, which was good and very reasonably priced. my friend had the vegetarian chili, which looked delicious, and he agreed that it was very good. another friend had the penne with a gorgonzola cream sauce, which he always orders when eating here. the service was good, i liked the sports bar atmosphere, and the food was good as well. can't wait to go back and sit on the patio and try the veggie chili.