Joey’s Italian Grille

Absolutely love this place! All the staff is so friendly and knowledgable about their menu and specials. They also use local wineries for their wines and farms for produce! Very clean and enjoyable atmosphere.

Got wings to go for game night. Great honey gold and garlic parm flavors. First time ever ordering for Joey’s — will do so again.

I was looking for a place to take my I laws for my husband’s birthday. So a coworker recomended Joeys. What a disaster. Waited forever for the hostess to come seat us (we had made reservations as there were 9 of us) finally got sat, took a while to get drinks. The rest of our party arrived and waited another 15 or more minutes for her to come get their drinks. We promptly ordered. Took our food about a half hour to come out (they were not busy) but hold on I’m getting ahead of myself, my father in-​law ordered soup waiting 15 minutes to receive like warm soup. Finally our food arrived. Mine was was made wrong, my husband’s was cold and my nephews food had hair in it. Waited 10minutes fory waitress before I took my food to the host stand where my server was chatting rather then checking her tables. Asked for aanager four times before getting to see one. Finally saw one she had nothing to add or say. My husband and I both work in the restaurant industry, had I been this girls manager I would have fired her and trained my cools what hot food is! Sad! I will NEVER go there again

I heard great things about this place. well, I brought some friends from out of town.
I ordered a simple Burger and fries.
Not done to order, fries were cold. Sent it back.
Friends meatball sandwich was crappy.
His fries were also cold.
All around crappy food.
Will never go back.

Safe to say I’ve been to Joey’s at least 100 + times. In this area it is one of the best places to go for a meal or a drink. Have select deals during happy hours when sitting in the bar/​patio area. Food is average but always good. Recommend the cheesy bread. Excellent grilled chicken salad and chicken parmigiana. Depending on when you go wait times can be very long. Service varies with time gone. While this is one of my favorite places around the area it isn’t always consistent.

Just went here today because people were raving about it. Not sure if it was a fluke, but don’t deserve rave review. Had to wait for over 5 minutes for hostess to show up to seat us, another 10 minutes for our waitress to come to our table. At least 20 more for our food to arrive. Waitress dropped off the food, then we discovered that she had brought 2 eggplant parm dinners instead of 1 eggplant and 1 chicken parm. It was over 10 minutes before she came back to our section of the restaurant. Not liking eggplant I got the chicken parm to eat later. My husband said the eggplant was delicious. Our French onion soup was awesome. So we will give them another try, but will sit at the bar for better service. We really liked the set up, but we were there on Sunday afternoon and it wasn’t packed, so would wonder what they do on a busy night.

My absolute favorite place around town. They use local farm fresh vegetables and their ultimate chicken salad is so good I always get it! Not to mention there garlic knots are endless and so amazing!

We had a small XMas party at Joey’s and was overall pretty impressed. It was a Monday night, and we had one of the bar areas for our group. The space was very nice and clean. We just had appetizers, pizza and wings, and the food was good. Our hostess, Erika, was outstanding and made sure we were well taken care of. They need to work on their Bloody Mary recipe, but besides that we had a nice time!

Favorate Restaurant/​Bar in Madison. Hands down best in town. Awesome food and great staff! Lost a star becouse sometimes when we call to order carry-​out pizza we get put on hold for sooooo long we have to hang up and order elsewhere, And that always sucks becouse Joeys/​Longos pizza is the bomb!

Really good food the restaurant is nice good décor multiple bars to choose from and out side seating with cornhole and horse shoes but when ordering on The phone the guy was a little rude I asked the specials he responded same as they always are in a rude tone and didnt seem happy to have to take my order

Packed house tonight! I ordered my favorite Salmon and cheese risotto. Absolutely delicious everytime! Big piece of salmon with an awesome pesto and balsamic reduction sauce. So yummy! Girls ordered 12 pc boneless buffalo wings. Big portion, not too spicy, very tastey. Other daughter ordered the Shrimp Penne special. Has artichokes, mushrooms in a cream sauce served over pasta. Can’t ever go wrong with the specials. Delicious! Don’t forget the garlic knots! And my favorite drink of all… the Perfect Margherita. Wowza! Comes in a drink shaker that you pour into your own martini glass. Usually get 2.5 drinks out of it and it is Perfect! So good! We also get the Tiramisu for dessert, not listed on the menu but definitely ask for it. You won’t regret it! Another great satisfying dinner!

The atmosphere is comfy and the wait staff attentive. Best things were the chicken bites on sale for 35 cents each. The french onion soup was fair. Out of six total adult meals one child type meal chicken bites and fries the child type meal the best. The chicken parm was dry (not much red sauce) and over cooked. The trio combo left warmth and taste to be desired. The alfredo was bland and the chicken madison had very little wine and mushrooms. The plates of food and soup were served up luke warm at best. Local folks love the big italian and the chicken salad. I should have stuck with their suggestions. Probably choose pub food type if I go back.

Great restaurant. This is a place where the family can get together, eat a great meal and enjoy good music. Prices are reasonable and the open area is something we look forward to in the summer.

I have tried this place several times and never been impressed, in my opinion you might as well go to the Olive Garden.

I’ll cut this place some slack since they hosted two groups of 40 kids and families all at once, but holy hot mess.
First, regardless of whether or not you have the physical space – you might not want to shoot for capacity without the proper staff on duty. Now, don’t get me wrong – service wasn’t horrible. The girls who helped our massive group were sweethearts, but when it came to separating a bill – well that’s about a 45 minute undertaking. Yowza… not cool especially when you have a group of 40 who needs to get back to their basketball tournament ASAP. We were all late because of their inability to prepare themselves with servers and a system of taking orders that’s functional. On the other hand, it appeared that every other normal-​sized party in the restaurant got their meals in a timely fashion and were happy. So I give them props for that part.
Now onto the noms. I’d have to give this place about a 2.5 stars in regards to their food. The garlic knots were delicious, but the salad (although homey) was a nothing to write home about – boasting tons of iceburg lettuce, a few tomato slices and cucumber slices with shredded provolone. Good, but not great. We also ordered the calzone and I still wasn’t super, super impressed. The dipping sauce was a bit bland and although the crust was good, the fillings didn’t have any punch or taste – until you bit into the enormous slices of sausage. I love it when all the toppings combine in harmony, not when everything else is flavorless and you’re depending on gnawing on hunks of sausage for flavor. Again, OK – but nothing to write home about.
If I came again, I’d try a pasta dish – since the wraps and sandwiches looked pretty plain and small for the price tag.
Thanks for putting up with us ladies.

went there in the late summer and sat outside under an umbrella. Service was quick and the food was great pizza and salads. Went back over the holidays, same fast friendly service and the food was even better. I had the pretzl knots with our dinners, these things are great too.

Perfectly prepared Italian food! Great service and good wine… The rolls are worth a trip back!

I dine here weekly, and have been a patron in some form or another since I was three years old, back when the restaurant was just Longos. The food is consistent and well prepared, but over the last few months we have experienced a decline in service. The wait staff seem to be poorly trained and every meal at least one issue crops up. It’s sad because the food is so good, and I’m hopeful as the season changes their service will pick back up.

Went recently and had great food and staff was friendly. Have gone a few times and all of which were good.

Ok. So I went back to try the pizza. Didn’t realize that the restaurant doubles as the local Longo’s pizza chain. The pizza was just ok. But I still love this place.