{"id":149,"date":"2008-12-18T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-12-18T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:14:00","slug":"restaurant-joe-vs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/2008\/restaurant-joe-vs\/","title":{"rendered":"RestauRant: Joe V&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe V&#8217;s Sports Louge is a decent place to have a beer and watch a game. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit dark, with lots of TV&#8217;s, and a friendly wait staff and bartenders.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It can get a bit loud &#8211; the place has been packed since the closing of the Stockbridge Pub just down the street. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been there when it&#8217;s both packed full, and when it&#8217;s completely dead. \u00a0Big plus: when it was dead, they unlocked the pool table, and my wife and I played for a few hours. \u00a0We definitely made up the loss in pool money with the gain in beer sales that day.<\/p>\n<p>When it is very busy, expect slightly poorer service than at a typical &#8220;busy&#8221; restaurant: Joe V&#8217;s has a\u00a0tendency\u00a0to under-staff. \u00a0You&#8217;ll get served, and your food is always right, but when busy, it definitely takes time to get everything going.<\/p>\n<p>This is more bar than restaurant. \u00a0That said, they have a decent sized menu, including the typical pub\/bar foods: pizza, subs, burgers. \u00a0They have several beers on tap, which are always well chilled. \u00a0Even in dead times, I&#8217;ve never had a stale or warm beer, which really says something in Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n<p>If you expect quick service, this is probably a two or three star restaurant for you. \u00a0If you like bars, games, noise, and pizza, five stars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/154\/938638\/restaurant\/Joe-Vs-Sport-Lounge-Grand-Rapids\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 104px; height: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/logo\/938638\/minilogo.gif\" alt=\"Joe V's Sport Lounge on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe V&#8217;s Sports Louge is a decent place to have a beer and watch a game. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit dark, with lots of TV&#8217;s, and a friendly wait staff and bartenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}