Joy and Ed’s Bar and Grill — Restaurant in North Utica

This can't be made up, heard about a restaurant near Joy and Ed's some time ago was so while driving through town we decided to stop. It was 835 and they actually closed at 9, the place was filled with people, but guy at door said that they had closed the kitchen. Well we walked down the block and had a great meal at Joy and Ed's, theyvhad no problem serving us even though they also closed at 9. We'll here we are driving through Utica once again 6months later so let's stop and check out the original spot we had heard about. Sign said wait to be seated, numerous people were handled around the door waiting to be seated and there were plenty open seats inside and out. I finally asked when seeing no one move in over 10 minutes what's going on, she tells me there understaffed. Well good thing for that, we're chillin outside on a lovely night enjoying an awesome meal at...

Had nachos and a grilled cheese. The grilled cheese was great. The nachos looked like they tore up hamburger patties with their hand and were messy but tastes okay.

The waitress was a bit inattentive despite the fact that we were the only people there for most of the time.

We stopped into the restaurant and sat down hoping that the TV would have the Bears game on. They have a TV but we were told that they literally couldn't switch to another station because it was a Samsung TV. This makes no sense for about 4 different reasons - if you are going to have a TV make sure that it works and that you can show the most popular stations. The game wasn't on...

We were in town for a family reunion and we're looking for a restaurant that could hold 30 people on short notice. We were accommodated within a short period of time and the waitress did a tremendous job of taking care of our large family. Our family ordered bacon cheeseburgers, chicken tenders, seafood platters, prime rib, Chicken and Shrimp Oscar, pork chops, salads and much more. The kitchen was impressive with being time efficient and getting our meals out right away and every single order was prepared correctly as ordered. We would...