I went two days in a row for a date night with the...

I went two days in a row for a date night with the hubby and then a sister/ mommy's night out. I have been to Joeys a ton, but haven't been for a while.

First night: Our server was lovely, attentive and friendly. We ordered the Lettuce wraps to start (always a fave of mine. Just so crisp and fresh!) Husband had the ahi tuna burger with yam fries, and I had the yellowfin tuna salad. They'd run out of peanuts so they substituted with almonds for the salad. Honestly there's a TON of peanuts on the menu so I wouldn't recommend ever coming here if you have a peanut allergy. That salad has wonderful flavor and I hope they never take it away like retired the ahi tuna taco appetizer. My husband didn't mind the ahi tuna burger, but it is a thick chunk of seared tuna so depends on your preference or if you think that's gross lol. Overall we were satisfied and had a good experience. Forgot to take a photo as we were so hungry!

Second night: Our server took a long time to come to our table. So long that another (very lovely and friendly) server came by a few times to check on us. Once she finally came by she seemed very confused about everything in general. I'm sure I could try to recall her name but I think it best to keep it anonymous due to the dissatisfaction in this review. Perhaps she was new, I have no idea. We ordered the calamari to start - it was okay, however there was a lot of the little tentacle heads which is unappealing just in my opinion (but it's not like you can order just the rings). For the mains my sister had the Yellowfin tuna salad (yum). I had the butter chicken because it was recommended to me the previous night, so I was intrigued to give it a shot. It was pretty salty, the carrots were quite hard (when we asked they said they only cook it quickly and it's meant to be hard), the 1 piece of naan and the 2 poppadoms were also salty and had an odd flavor (I tried to scrape off the seasonings), and then I also found a few hard in-edible black bits (as if it had burned at the bottom of a pan, don't think the kitchen cared as they told the server that it's normal) I wasn't happy with the butter chicken but I ate it anyway as I was afterall hungry and didn't feel like waiting for a new one, and also fear angering the kitchen. We told the server and she apologized and gave us a apple pie on the house. The apple pie used to be our favorite but something was different, maybe the pastry was less puffy? I'm not sure what it was but it didn't live up to our fond memories. We go to pay and to try to make it simple, we added tip and then split it evenly. The server charged me the correct amount, and my sister less. It wouldn't have even made sense or covered the whole bill. She then said that we my sister could just use the tip option to make it correct but why, when you could easily just cancel the transaction and punch in the correct amount? She seemed to get frustrated by then and said something like, "Whatever you don't have to tip then." and very obviously wanted to just be done with us even though we were trying to pay correctly. That was a terrible and disappointing way to end our experience on top of the food not being what we expected. On a positive note, I do want to add that the male kitchen staff that came out to check about my sister's allergies was very friendly and professional so at least there's that!

Just goes to show that your experience can be so different from the last. I want to say that I also found the menu to be pretty underwhelming, like a lot of the fan favourites were retired (or are still on there but changed somehow). I'm sad to leave this review as Joeys used to be my go-to for a long time.