Junior's Bar & Grill — Restaurant in City of Albany

I was honestly disappointed this time. My family ordered a lot from juniors during the pandemic. The food was always fresh and very well prepared. Went in for an early dinner yesterday and I was honestly not happy with the experience. Our appetizers were the buffalo chicken dip and mozzarella sticks. The mozzarella sticks where well made 10/10. On the other hand the buffalo chicken dip was mostly cream cheese and hot sauce with an after taste of plastic. The chicken was non existent very different from my last time having this. My family members had burgers I didn't try them so I won't be basing my review on that. One of my favorite things about their old menu was the chicken sandwiches... They where always fresh well seasoned and tender. This was not my experience this time. I ordered the hot honey chicken sandwich. Firstly the chicken was almost salted to an inedible level to where I couldn't even taste any other flavors. The sauce lacked flavor and honestly added nothing. It would have been edible if the chicken was prepared properly. It wasn't! It felt like I was eating a rubber band sandwich. I'm a rather portly gentleman and I didn't finish. Even the French fries where soggy and over salted. I'm sorry but I don't think I will be going back. The kitchen staff here is most definitely either under staffed/payed or lack the talent to be working in this field. The wait staff was very personable and attentive so at least that was done well. If I could I would give it a 2.5 rating. But only for the mozzarella sticks. Bathroom was a mess and smelled of urine. Total...

Safe bets here are the moonshine wings - always good. I also like the moonshine pork quesadilla but other than that - it’s extremely hit or miss.

I’ll start with the positive - our waitress was very sweet. My moonshine wings were crispy like I had asked for. My sweet potato fries were good.

The not so positive - my friend was given a drink menu with summer drinks. Therefore We had to share a menu back and forth. We ordered the cranberry mule (variation of Moscow mule) and it was not good at all. The drink was poorly mixed and ginger beer in it was flat. This is not the place for mixed drinks. Every time I go they are just not great quality.

We started off with the half portion of nachos - I don’t like that they used the liquid cheese like nacho cheese that comes in a jar - that ruined them for me. I prefer real cheese . They were so “loaded” you could barely pick one up.

Then they had what seemed to be one waitress for the entire restaurant on a Saturday night . My friend and I had finished our food, drinks and then had not seen the waitress for another 20 minutes and we just wanted to pay. I had to get up and go find her and request to pay.

I don’t fault her - she was working hard . It seemed to be the lack of staff - which is prevalent everywhere I do realize . However, that’s the first I’ve had that happen to me at any establishment . So support your wait staff better, management.

Overall, a decent Albany spot to grab food and drinks. It’s not amazing or anything. There’s definitely better places to go in the area for...

I live around the corner from this restaurant now. My friends and I used to go regularly for wing night and for games but we started going to other places as they moved farther up and downtown. They are running a promotion for buy a $50 gift card get a $10 gift card free which is a pretty great deal and a good reason to start meeting with the guys again here (aside from the fact that I live closer to this place than the ones near them). So I actually decide to get another one for another gift. I cash out and I’m on my merry way. More presents checked off the list. As I am about the give them out I realize that my receipt says the same gift card number twice. I look at my bank statement and I was charged $200. So now I’m worried I have one $200 gift card and an empty one but hopefully it’s just a receipt error. Very annoying as I had to hold off on the chance of giving a gift to guys when we were together because I wasn’t sure what I had. Turns out I had one $100 gift card and one $0 gift card as the second one just voided out as a computer error. They were able to fix it and are aware of the issue now but overall very frustrating to deal with while trying to take care of everything else before the holidays and not a great experience to...