Aj’s Grill

i’d say 2.5 — 3.0 overall
went there ~930 pm during the week. i was only one there. saw a bunch of cabbies come and go in the parking lot, but they were going into the 24 hr subway.
the dog was all right. bun was steamed nicely, but was not poppy seeded.
fries were so so. not that tasty.
i would actually go back and try their italian beef someday.

First of all the order was extremely late an hour and a half later than they said they were going to be. I’m a very nice person with a lot of patience, but I was getting annoyed. Yes I still paid and tipped, but when the delivery driver came up I asked how his night was because he was so late. He said, horrible! Then I asked why, he said because three ni_​_​_​gers stole my car and the cops came and finally arrested them. HOW INAPPROPRIATE IS THIS!!! How unproffessional, RACIST, ignorant, stupid is this!!! I can’t believe I ordered from this place of hatred! My mouth dropped and took the cold food and had to heat it up, it was very inappropriate and disgusting, I had prepaid but wanted to throw it back in his face. I will NEVER order from here again. The employees need to have pride in what they do, have a goal and serve customers. Yes we all have bad days, but suck it up and be at least nice when my food was extremely late and with a racist attitude I don’t see this place going far. I’ve heard from a lot of my friends and they say the same thing. Maybe try to employee the type of people who are not racist and you will maybe succeed but for now you will be crushed by the more successful and intellectual employers that dominate you in this hard time in the recession we have now. Maybe try the grad students who are looking for work instead of the type of people you employee now. Think of your future. AND THE FOOD WAS COLD! I had to heat it up for 3 – 4 minutes. Not good for a business, I will tell people never to go here. Good luck

Shut up. 3am and they serve food when I’m pseudo famished.
Cheese stix are standard, but the veggie burgers would bring Trotter to his knees at that time of the night. Heaps of grilled tasty veggies… I don’t remember the pattie (so it was good) and I wanted seconds. The server was charming and offered me a kitchen knife to cut the burger. Kinda hot.
Enjoy!

Many drunk nights have led me to Aj’s, but sober I would probably stay away. I don’t think this place EVER closes. I’ve been there in the wee hours of the morning, early afternoon, dinner time, always open. This is a classic case of low quality ingredients yield low quality dishes. Mostly everything on the menu is sub par.
Burritos have chewy meat, and i frequently get fatty chunks that i could chew on for days. Burgers look good, but taste like frozen patties I could buy at the grocery store. Chicken tenders are good, but honestly, thats hard to mess up since they’re just thrown in a fryer. After eating there a couple of times, it became a quest to find ONE good thing on their HUGE menu (which has now been slimmed down). The food is inconsistent. Sometimes the fries are seasoned, some times they’re regular fries (usually under or over cooked). Lettuce is usually soggy and could be called many things, but fresh isn’t the first word that comes to mind.
On the bright side, I have found one thing that is surprisingly good. The BLT is delicious. I don’t know why, or how, and i don’t really want to. If you do wander into this place, get the BLT, not the BLT club. Cross your fingers cause bacon is only available 70% of the time.

So I’ve eaten at this place once, and that one visit I remember it being really stuffy inside. I’ve have had food delivered the rest of the time.
I tried the Gyros the first time I was there and thought it wasn’t that great (my euphemism for gross). All my subsequent orders were bacon cheeseburgers, chili cheese fries… and a hot dog recently. The food is okay, nothing to write home about. They’ve messed up our order a couple times, and one time we never even got our food (though they claimed to have called us… we have a front desk person 24 hours a day, and we had no missed calls from them). The delivery guys are questionable at times as well, but that’s all I have to say on that.
Overall, AJ’s is just another cheap fast food joint that is conveniently open late hours.

Let me set the scene.
7pm: Dinner at Hema’s Kitchen, with a very nice young man. Let’s just say he felt at home in the restaurant.
830 pm: Finished dinner, and he suggested that we should go to Sidetrack for Show Tunes night. Super. I’m all about being spontaneous.
1 am: A very libated Matthew thinks it would be a great idea to take the bus home. Only, no busses show up.
1:30 am: I decide to walk from Boystown to Andersonville.
1:45 am: I see the lights on in AJ’s Grill — and lots of cabbies parked out front. Potential double bonus.
I ordered the biggest sloppiest burger on the menu, with everything on it, and fries. At this point I would have eaten road kill to ensure I didn’t have a hangover — as I had to be out the door to work in 6 hours.
1:55 am: My order is ready. The cashier called me «friend» and told me to have a good night.
2:00 am: I am sitting on my davenport, being watched by a curious cat. I am inhaling this food like I had been starved for months — despite the fact that ate like a total pig at Hema’s Kitchen.
2:15 am: My cell phone rings. Hells yeah.
4 am: I went to bed.
7: 45 am: Tumble out of bed, stumble in the kitchen. Pour myself a cup of ambition. Shower. Dress. Pick up car pool.
Thank you AJ’s for saving my life.
ps the food was OK. I would go there again. Drunk or not.

Ok… so this place is right by my casa. Its kinda funny that the food taste’s like crap but its really the only place open that is walking distance for a late bite after some serious drunkness!
I haven’t been back in sometime and I don’t miss the place but thought I would review it.
Staff is something else. Not clean at all… afraid to even wash my hands in the bathroom… OMGoodness just dirty.

3:00 AM drunk Italian beef craving = I’m calling AJ’s.
One time I was drunk off my ass and I called and used a phone sex operator voice and whined about how bad I needed beef, and they got to my friend’s crib (farther from AJ’s than mine, to which delivery usually takes like, 40 minutes) in under 20 minutes.
I always get the Italian beef, or a bacon cheeseburger. I wouldn’t stray from those.

I call this place the Man-​rant because it really is a man restaurant. Anything you can imagine consisting of meat on bread, they have: gyros, philly cheese steaks, burgers, hot dogs, anything.
It’s greasy as hell, but if you’re up late and hungry, it’s a sure bet to get something filling and drunk-​munchy satisfying at anytime. When I was up late studying or writing papers, this place was a godsend.
Food’s not the greatest, but it’s decent, and the people inside are nice. Plus it’s one of the very few places open 24 hours within walking distance of Andersonville.

Well, it’s not like this place is award winning, but its open 24 hrs a day, meaning grease pit. I can usually be found here around 230 AM with my roommates getting chicken tacos and cheese fries. Great for my digestive tract. Its gross, I feel gross when I eat it, but when you are drunk, everything is delicious. The one good thing is that it has a variety of different kinds of food: Mexican, American and. Gyros?
Just try to eat it after midnight and after several shots so you don’t feel guilty.

O AJ’s…we have many fond memories
I would like to commend the staff of AJ’s for putting up with my drunken debauchery… as well as for often giving me free food and drink items! The menu is pretty vast, including amazing subs, burgers, burritos, catfish,…lots of good eats and not too expensive. Its open 24 hrs… its a good way to prevent a hangover, so go.

great for late late nights descent food

OK here’s the deal… i really loved this place, open late, delivery, and great grill food. until now, i called one night, and well now they refuse to deliver to me. because they are too busy and cannot come here. along with that i order 3 – 4 times a week and always tip good. if i ever got my order, and when i did i never ever got the correct order. they always have to pass the phone around to 10 different people and still can never get my order straight. oh well this place has awesome food but the service sucks and employees suck!

Yeah see my review of their other location on Broadway… cuz it’s basically the same review for this place. Food is not only dripping in grease but they also manage to make it taste dry at the same time. How is that possible? What do they cook the meat til it’s beyond edible and then dip it in the french fry oil just make it appear juicy? Gross… skip it!

4 stars for the razzles (blizzard) ONLY. they have the absolute best soft serve and have more unique toppings-​like kit kats. i have not eaten anything else from here and never will. also-​they deliver these amazing razzles, so you don’t even have to leave your apartment to get ice cream… or face their horrific décor. fantastic!

Worst place ever. I got so sick after eating here, I was on one of those «it’s to hot outside I don’t want to cook» trips so I went to Aj’s, WOW what a mistake. I am still feeling the affects of the Gyro I ate. I don’t know, other stuff here might taste fine but I will never be back to try. Next time it could 100 degrees out and I will just suffer and cook instead.

When you have a hankering for something greasy and unhealthy, as most of us will from time to time, this place is prime. Everything is priced reasonably, and the food does not fail when it arrives. Granted, one shouldn’t eat here every single day, or when they have the time and patience to seek out much better places further south. But when you’re in a bit of a hurry and don’t mind the large and oftentimes sloppy portions, this is place works just fine.
The décor leaves a lot to be desired, hence the low rating. The pictures on the wall don’t follow much of a theme, and the menu above the counter could stand to use some streamlining. Props for the honest pictures of food, though. Very rarely does fast food anywhere live up to the hype presented by the pictures on the menu.
Now, I’ve never been to the location further north on Broadway, nor do I really plan to. It looks rather suspicious. Now, this AJ’s on the other hand, is nice in that it’s between a Blockbuster, a Pier One Imports store, and a Subway.

two stars for the chicken breast sandwich, which was fairly tasty, and the decent fries. one star for the décor. i can take tacky pictures of the food up on the walls. what I cannot fathom is the random pictures of fugly girls on the menu! there is one girl’s high school photo, one ghetto chick, two friends laughing … it is beyond bizarre. who are these girls?
there is another location farther north on broadway, which is so nasty. i went to this one not knowing they were the same.

Fucking grotesque.
Gyros were garbage, 2 for $ 6.99. The meat could be rat and bologna. Fuck that, Bologna tastes better than the meat in their gyros. Whatever it is, its gross. The tzatziki sauce was some store bought crap, not edible.
Thought I could save the meal with a M&M cookie. First, they aren’t real M&M’s, second, it was stale, tasteless, the cookie just crumbled. It tasted like chalk and all the smells of Aj’s.
If this is the only place you can afford or find, bring alcohol, you’ll need it!
Strange they have pictures of women on the menu, one points at you, while others are giggling and shit. WTF is that about.