J J Grimsby & Co Restaurant and Pub — Restaurant in Stoneham

Fantastic food, and will be an amazing experience if the service gets tightened up a little. Or maybe just a rough day today?

This is a classic take on a New England restaurant and pub. Our party of three went for lunch in the early afternoon of a Monday - a fairly slow time of day. We were seated promptly and asked if we had a drink order before ordering apps or entrees. Our beers and soda arrived promptly and were all quite good. Two of us ordered seafood dishes, one ordered the turkey spinach wrap. Food came quickly! Our first downer is that we had also ordered an appetizer, a spinach dip that unfortunately was never delivered. The wait staff apologized profusely, no problem taking it off the bill. Given the size of the entrees and how quickly our meals arrived I think it was for the best - we were so full at the end of our lunch if we had started with an appetizer we wouldn't have been able to get through the entrees as well as we did!

The fried seafood (scallops, shrimp and cod) were done beautifully. The breading was crisp with the seafood moist and wonderful on the inside. The fried cod was piping hot! The sides (french fries and onion rings) were also cooked nicely on all three plates. The turkey in the wrap was clearly sliced from a breast (like a turkey dinner) and generous in portion, with ample spinach to balance the wrap out.

The other downer was that after leaving the check with us, our waitress left and never came back to pick up the payment. We went up front and were told we needed to pay the waitstaff... which we would have, if they had come back within 10 minutes of leaving the check. The restaurant was not busy.

This could have been just a hiccup day. It was by no means anything that would make us hesitate to come back! Looking forward to more beers and...

Come here almost all the time came one night just 2 of us ordered the baked stuffed haddock and a salad. Salad comes out fine haddock comes out later waiter walks away. Fish was almost entirely uncooked completely inedible. Try to flag waitress down for at least 15-20 minutes because she never came to ask how the food was. She comes back and I apologize! For having raw food served to me, after I showed her it was uncooked she looks at me and goes “that sure isn’t, I’ll be back” leaves the plate comes back in 5 minutes quickly takes the plate to “show the cooks” Comes back and says the kitchen is closing keep in mind they don’t close for over an hour and a half! Then we have to ask if there’s anything they could do and she annoyed offers a chicken finger plate. 20 minutes later we’ve been here an hour now brings out a plate with 6 chicken tenders not even French fries and walks away. Never came back again didn’t ask if we wanted sauce or anything never asked if we needed another drink because she was too busy talking with staff at the front. As she walks by to talk to her friends at the bar I ask for the check with takes her another 10 minutes just to bring and charges us like $16.00 for the chicken finger plate. I mean I recommend this place but I didn’t get an apology or I’m sorry one time this lady should just not be in the service industry whoever you are older blond lady...

I've been here many times. I must say I was really disappointed. My food was cold. The waitress said oh your food must have been ready before the other two that's why it might be cold.I told her my baked potato wasn't cooked all the way through she was nice about it and said she would take it back to the kitchen. We waited a really really long time for the food and we were told they were backed up because they had some kind of event going on I guess outside under some big tent. My dad explained the food was cold???? We had waited like 45 minutes. Second time around food was out in near minutes. If I wanted a microwave meal or a reheated meal out of the oven I could of ate at home . So yes I'm very disappointed and disgusted I know we're living in hard times right now but I think you could have done a little better than the excuse big party outside if that is the reason you should tell people before they come in.oh one last thing we had to flag down the waitress I'm all the way occasion. Who brings the bill then says would would you like any dessert at that point we were like now I would just like to get out of there she knows trouble talking to her friends. You might want to pay more attention to...