Doug G.
Yelp
This Jonathan's Grille location, which is 1-of-8 in Tennessee, with another located in Alabama, is situated on Highway 70 in Bellevue. It is a stand alone restaurant that sits in front of the large shopping complex that houses Petco, Planet Fitness, Dollar Tree and many other spots. Parking is never an issue here, as if the spaces that surround Jonathan's fill up, you have the massive lot supporting the shopping center to utilize!
Jonathan's is a sports bar at its core. This is evidenced by the large amounts of TV's spread throughout the dining room and bar, sports and local décor, great happy hours and bar style food. None of those are bad things! While sports bar is the vibe here, it is not your average run down, dark and cheap sports bar. Jonathan's has a good dine-on vibe for a date night, family dinner or big game. We usually start our night at a table in the dining room or bar area for dinner and then belly up to the bar after we are done to enjoy a few 2-for-1 beers to close our night out!
Food wise, Jonathan's serves a lot of your standard bar fare with a few house specialties. The food is not overwhelmingly fantastic and is not the sole purpose of our visits, but it is decent, well priced and portioned. Collectively we have tried the burger, flatbreads, pizza, wings, quesadillas, sandwiches and a few appetizers. The only disappointment we have experienced so far is the Buffalo Chicken Dip. While it was creamy, it was bland. The buffalo sauce was watered down and really only added color, I say this after we asked for additional buffalo sauce to mix in. It was basically a bowl of warmed cream cheese, chicken and blue cheese crumbles that was colored with the sauce. All the other food has been solid, no complaints!
Service has been hit and miss for us sadly, as we seem to get better service when our table is in the bar area than we do in the dining room. The service is the dining room, no matter how many tables, is always slower than the bar area. And I don't mean slow in the actual sense, but they pay you less attention in that area it seems. And at least 2 out of our latest 4 visits, we had something wrong with out order from wrong side or something left on the sandwich that was requested to be left off.
Overall, we really enjoy Jonathan's. While we have had a few issues, the staff are always friendly and helpful. Jonathan's has became a solid go-to neighborhood spot for us that we enjoy ourselves and also bring friends and family to when in town!