I visited Jimmy V's in German Village twice over the past week. Both times i left feeling sort of blah. I don't mean I felt sick or anything, but rather than I felt underwhelmed and underimpressed.
The first time I went with Angie, Mom and Sis. We sat on the back patio and I had...crap, I don't remember what I had.
Sis had the gyro, Angie had the Philly Panini thing and Mom had food of some sort. Who knows.
Oh yeah, I had the chef salad. It didn't stack up to the salad at Perkins which, taste and quality-wise, may be Jimmy V's closest competition.
The second time I went with Angie, Nikki, Miranda and Ted. I had the chicken Parmesan panini, Angie had something, Nikki had the cheeseburger - which I will discuss later - Miranda had the Penne ala Vodka and Ted had the gyro. We sat on the front patio.
The back patio is better that the front and they're both better than inside. If your going, you should sit outside for the generally enjoyable experience of eating outside. The food is not good enough to endure a poor dining atmosphere.
Oh, the food. Miranda's past tasted like a cheeseburger (I don't think on purpose), Angie's panini tasted like cardboard and my panini tasted like chicken on bread minus all the flavor, but the real kicker was Nikki's burger. Nikki took of the top bun to check things out and found a puddle of oil. Enough oil that everyone at the table gasped when they saw it. Nikki was a trooper and tried to soak up the slick with her napkin. She did, but the cheese, of course, came off with it. She ate it, but I wonder how long it stayed in her stomach with all that grease attached.
Sorry for the visual. Sorry Nikki that I involved you in it...
I think Ted summed it up best when he said, "I'd say this place is a solid 5 [out of 10]" I have searched the internets to see what other people have said and it seems that other people like the place. It has 4.5 stars at both CitySearch and Yahoo!Local. And that's out of five not, like, 14 or something.
Maybe everyone fills up on the signature martinis until they don't care what the food tastes like. That's my working theory.
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It's hard to find a good philly cheesesteak anything...I should have known.
The second time, I had the fish sandwich, (and not a panini-style-fish-sandwich mind you, just a regular one), with onion rings. The onion rings were good for being pre-prepared rings; the fish was not. I likened it to a square of store bought Van de Kamps. Blech.
The water was good. Doesn't that count for something these days?
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