Javier’s Downtown — Restaurant in Detroit

I heard about Javier’s on Instagram. I love trying new restaurants around the city and had HIGH expectations before arriving.

My girlfriend and I heard about R&B night on Wednesdays so we decided to check it out on Jan 1st around 8pm. I had a reservation for my girlfriend’s 35th birthday for the following Wednesday so we wanted to check the scene out before then.

When arriving, we were greeted nicely by the hostess but ignored by a gentleman at the hostess desk. We decided to pay that no attention as we made our way to the Agave Bar.

We were greeted immediately by Anthony AKA Antoniiii!! 🇮🇹 (Inside joke). He was really the star of the show that night as he takes his bartending skills very seriously and had great suggestions! He also let us know they had hookah ($50)

When we arrived the dj had not set up yet. I called earlier to ask what time the dj would be there and was told 8pm. We were a little disappointed but no big deal. He started playing music around 9-9:15pm.

I decided to go back to the hostess desk to ask if he was just late or is 9pm the real time he usually starts because I made a reservation next week at 8pm and I will change it if he starts later.

As I’m talking to the nice hostess, the gentleman that was leaning on the counter when we first walked in decided to insert himself into the conversation with a NASTY ATTITUDE. I have no idea who this man is because he did not greet us or say anything to us. I assumed he was the manager but come to find out he was the Security. He said to me in the nastiest tone “well if you worried about the time a dj starts, you should cancel your reservation.”

I let him know I didn’t like his attitude and asked him “is there a scheduled time the dj is suppose to start or does he just come whenever?” He looked me dead in the eye and said NOTHING while giving me the nastiest look so the hostess inserted herself in that moment to cut the tension.

I am a woman and want to feel safe, the security should make me feel like that.

Moving forward, I was pretty upset. I decided to tell a few staff members. Anthony was very apologetic , so were the 2 waitresses I talked to as well. Later in the night I met a man named Ty and he was very nice. I let him know about the situation earlier and he was very apologetic and wanted to make sure I kept my reservation for the following week, so I did.

The following Wednesday, Jan 8th was the day of my girlfriend’s 35th birthday!

We had a party of 12 and kept the 8pm reservation. When arriving, the security guard was a lot nicer and even asked if he could take the cake and put it in the refrigerator for me.

They had our section/table all set but the ladies decided to sit at the bar until the whole party arrived. Anthony was there again and provided excellent service.

When transitioning to our table, we were given menus that were different from the online menu. We were a bit disappointed that the menu was shortened/changed.

We had a party of 12 and probably ordered every dish from the menu collectively. The food was good but not great and OVER PRICED. $36 for chicken skewers and rice is insane! The food did come out fast as the restaurant wasn’t busy.

Luckily the dj was all set up and ready to go but didn’t get the green light to transition until 9pm. The dj was GREAT! His choice of R&B music is AMAZING!

They have $10 drink specials (mojito and long islands) and bottle service (certain bottles $250) I don’t drink alcohol and one thing I did love is that they offered spirits that mimic the taste and feeling from alcohol! Can’t find that most places so my MOCKTAILS were enjoyable!

The basic drinks range from $16-$30 each so they are a tad pricey but they have great bartenders so the drinks are worth it. It isn’t just alcohol and a mixer, they create an experience for your taste buds.

Overall, WE ENJOYED OURSELVES for R&B Wednesdays so give it a try!

Wish I could have given 5 stars but it’s not there yet.

Hopefully, this...

Where do I start it was me and 6 other people and we came here on a Thursday night and wanted to try this place out so when we got seated and the waitress finally came to our table to start taking orders she was going to each person and taking there order and going in the back and putting it in the system which was something I’ve never seen before you would expect to take everyone’s order at once and place it all at the same time but anyways as she was doing that the food started coming out and there was still people at the table that hasn’t even gotten there order taken yet and the main courses were coming with the appetizers at this point we were just hoping the food was going to make up for the service…. WRONG!! The food was terrible! $50 for a steak and it was super chewy and it was filled with fat you could tell it was a very cheap quality steak and but that’s just the half of it we also ordered drinks as well too and I got a very simple drink a double shot of casamigos with pineapple juice and she brings out 2 drinks with a shot of casamigos in each one with pineapple juice and I gave it back to her and said this isn’t what I ordered and she sends it back and brings me back 4 cups…. A shot of tequila in 2 different cups and a splash of pineapple juice in another 2 separate cups at this point I needed to talk to a manager because this was getting out of hand and he was nice enough to give us the drinks for free and the bill at half off so we told him that we would all get desert and we would pay full price for that and that’s we did and once we got out the desert everything was fine until one of my friends started eating his ice cream and pulls out a piece of metal the size of a toothpick and that’s where we said yea we gotta leave and never come back because that was the last straw for the amount of money you’re spending at this restaurant it’s a shame that we had that type of experience I’ve went to Applebees before and have had better service and honestly better food than this place I would not recommend this place to anyone there’s so many other restaurants in downtown you could go too and get wayyy better service and food for the same...

At first, I thought this was the same Javier’s as Las Vegas, but it couldn’t be more opposite. We showed up 10 minutes before our reservation time, and it still took us about 10 minutes to be seated. Not because the restaurant was full, but because the hostess was gone for a while.

We were sitting down for 26 minutes waiting for our server, absolutely no one came up to us to mention that they will be right with us. We grabbed the attention of a manager and a bus boy to get our server, both of them did not do that. We then flagged down a bartender, Anthony. After hearing our complaints he took care of us immediately & even took our food order. He was the one single GOOD thing about our dinner.

Ordered queso for appetizer, it was not piping hot, and it was a thick pudding-type cheese concoction, it was so gross. I ordered the brush Street salad, and per the menu I opted for grilled chicken. When they served it, it was just microwaved shredded chicken, which totally ruined the salad. It was so disgusting.

$18 margaritas were okay, def not worth that price.

I did share my comments with Anthony, and he said that he would forward that along to the chef and the manager. But we were very disappointed that the manager never came over to our table to apologize for the experience or acknowledge what was going on.

I could tell that the main manager was terribly busy, all the employees there were so incredibly busy so it was very obvious they were shortstaffed.

When you walk into the restaurant, to the left is the main dining area, and to the right is a dimly lit lounge/restaurant area. If I ever come back here, I will try the lounge area to see if there’s a different vibe there.

They have wayyy too many kinks to work out. Huge shout out to Anthony - he was the only employee to acknowledge our extremely...