BJ's Restaurant

 

 

As a previous reviewer said, the layout of this place is identical to the Moreno Valley restaurant. I stopped in with a friend early on a Wednesday afternoon, and ordered a Nutty Brewnette along with the appetizer sampler. The beer was an excellent example of an American brown and seemed to be very fresh, and the sampler plate (which served as my main course) was massive.

Service was very average... mildly attentive, but a bit slow, despite the lack of customers at the moment. Of course, being a former server myself I may be a little biased. Aside from that, as I said in the review of a different BJ's, once you've seen one, you've basically seen them all.

This is the third of the chain that has arrived in the Inland Empire- a little further from my house (but still not bad), but it requires going through the ever increasing Corona traffic to get to. I was recently taken there for lunch by my co-workers, and it was a golden opportunity to check it out, and compare to the others in the chain.

I was amazed- on the inside, I could swear I was in the Moreno Valley BJs. The layout and size was the same, the menu was the same, the beer list was the same, the service (and who knows, maybe even the servers) were exactly the same! If taken blindfolded, I'm not sure if I could tell which one I was in, once the blindfold came off inside. So rather than repeat my other review verbatim, I'll summarize.

It's an OK place. Good beer, very good food, decent service, decent atmosphere. But too "chainy" for me. I like unique places a little more. There is another "brewery" in Corona that's a real brewery- it's more to my liking than this place (which does not brew on site, in case you missed it). To quote another advertising claim: go for the food.