Black Jax Sports Bar & Grille — Restaurant in Summit Township

Home for a few days for a family issue and grabbed a room at the Quality Inn and Black Jax is the restaurant that’s here. I’m always skeptical of hotel restaurants as they tend to serve expensive mediocre food. Not here.

I had the Shroom burger the first night and it was delicious. Cooked to perfection and juicy without being greasy. Last night I was craving some wings and went with the Garlic Parmesan ones with onion rings and of course I ordered bleu cheese because thats what adults do for all you peeps who dip a wing in ranch (heathen!).

The wings were listed as jumbo and they were. The flavors popped in your mouth and the wings were cooked to perfection. Erie has some great wing places and this is one of them. Holy s@&t! There’s a ton of flavors available and there’s even some dry rub flavors for you neat freaks

The menu was pretty decent. Lots of appetizers, burgers, sandwiches, house specialties, pizza, and wings - even those boneless “wings” for you people who like chicken nuggets but want to sit at the adult table. There’s some awards hanging up for best wings in Erie and I now know why.

The beer was ice cold, had the taste of clean lines, and the bartenders were friendly, cool, and tentative both...

Wanted boneless wings because my son has autism and can't eat the bone in. The waitress brought out bone in wings. Apologized and said it was her fault but wasn't willing to do anything about it. I was willing to compromise and take them anyway, just asked to be charged the boneless price. She said no. I said talk to your manager. Not sure if she did or not but came back and still said no. So I said let me talk to your manager. She said he's not here. So she called him, probably for the 1st time and problem resolved. I used to waitress, I know when mistakes are made they are taken care of. She did not want to take care of it and got very angry and rude. I asked her why she was so mad. It's not like it's coming out of her pocket. She never brought us a pizza box to take our pizza home so I picked up the pan and started to walk out. That reminded her. Snapped at me that I still needed to pay my bill. I said I left it on the table and I shouldn't have even left you a tip. 1st and last time I'll ever go there. The manager needs to train his staff better. You don't treat customers...

We wanted to try somewhere closer to home. We had some Black Jax wings at the cook-off this past summer. They won for 2018. Too bad the SERVICE won't win any prizes. It took too long to have a wait staff come to our table and it took 35 to 45 minutes for our wings. We sent our French fries back to get some that were hot, not cold and clammy. The next batch were perfect. Unfortunately we were almost done eating by the time they returned. I do have to add...a couple of mixed race entered the place while we were there. The wait staff IGNORED them until finally the gentleman went looking for attention. They ordered and then were ignored again. The wait staff went by their table four times without stopping and waiting on them. Finally the gentleman again went up to the manager asking very politely for the wait staff to go to their table. A young girl showed up and mumbled an apology. Then promptly ignored them again. Too bad that the manager and wait staff can not live up to the title of Best...