TJ’s Restaurant and Sports Lounge

great service, great bar food and great sports… hardest working and nicest wait staff at a sports bar…

Great food its always nice to find a good local place when traveling keep it up guys

Their TANGY wing sauce is very good but don’t order the wings ‘crispy’ — I’ve tried it about a dozen times and they just do not get it. The wings always come out pretty soft. Service is always great though!!!

Service was not very good. Steak dinners was not cooked correctly. out of 12 people we was with 3 orders where wrong…

Buffalo chicken sandwich, burnt, no sauce, hard, couldn’t even cut it with a knife. Co worker had a steak sandwich, burnt and chewy.
Wait staff was friendly and offered to bring back a menu, I declined.

Nice place with good cold beer.
Wings was awesome and the coronary platter was fried goodness.
Just to let anybody who is looking for this place it’s not located on the map correctly, it’s on other side of I70

Checked this place out on a Saturday night after checking into a local motel while traveling from St. Louis, MO. to NYC. It has a typical sports bar vibe, lots of TV’s and Steelers décor. We ordered food, and it was super good! The menu was pretty decent — not just a few defrosted items. It had a lot to choose from, we got a few apps — being that it was almost midnight anyway, and we loved them all! Beer was good, shots were better. The tender was super friendly even though we were OBVIOUS NY’ers and there was a Ranger/​Penguin play-​off game on. No complaints, not sure I’ll ever get to New Stanton again, but if I do… I’ll be here for some steak fingers… and beer.

I was totally impressed by the server Jennifer P she was totally overwelmed but kept her cool and gave everyone extraordinary service She was unbelievable

This place was ok at best. I had the wings which weren’t bad but definitely not worth going out of my way for. There were a lot of families there eating and had a friendly atmosphere. Usual beer selection. I was a but worried when I was asked how the wings were by another patron. I said they weren’t bad and he said that they are hit and miss. What it all comes down to is if some friends wanted to stop after work, ok. Other than that I probably won’t be back there again.

Making a trip back from Columbus to Philly, looked at places to get drinks and something to eat later on a Sunday night. Already had plans to stay in New Stanton, so decided to give TJ’s a shot, since it was close to the hotel and it was a Sunday night just before 9 pm. My hopes weren’t high. Coming into the parking lot, my hopes were lowered. That being said, glad I made the choice. First off, the bartender, only person working in the front, was friendly, efficient and entertaining (Yea Lauren!)
Now to the food, had the sausage stuffed hot peppers. Really good flavor, nicely prepared and hot. I actually thought there could have been a little less sausage, perhaps serve three stuffed peppers opposed to two over stuffed, just to get more hot pepper flavor. After a while, although I wasn’t terribly hungry, I ordered a burger with cheddar and jalepenos cooked very rare. Came out with nicely melted cheese, peppers on the side and cooked rare. Would have liked it just slightly rarer, but it was no where near medium rare. I was a little disappointed with the fries, although hot and tasty, I would have like to have seen fresh cut or even frozen solid fries opposed to extruded potato fries. All in, enjoyed my time there, the food and Lauren’s entertainment.

Stopped in during a trip from Pittsburgh to Philly. Great food. Onion soup is excellent. Great service despite the fact that there was only one person working. Could have cooked the burger a little rarer but it was tasty. Seek this place out.

Nice quiet place. Kind of a local feel, but definitely friendly to the travelers. I can account for the burgers here. Very pleased with portion and taste. Would come back for sure…

Here is my short review…
I have been here several times and have never been thrilled.
The menu is large for a non-​franchised sports bar, but the quality is average to below average. For those at staying at near by hotels, the restaurant is only worth visiting if you have a short walk and would rather not drive.
If you look at the menu via their website, it must be pretty old, many items are $ 2 or more higher than the menu you order from when in person.
The menu states there is a wide array of premium beers… this is grossly overstated. The beers are the standard beers with a few extras like Nevada or Sam Adams… hardly a wide array of premium beers.
They do have several pool tables if you’re interested.

We stopped in here for dinner because of the reviews… what a mistake! Either tonight’s (Thursday) cooks serve completely different food from every other night anyone’s been here, or the local reviewers just have no basis for comparison.
We’ll start with the astonishingly awful house salad — see photo below for lettuce with brown and black edges. Cucumbers had been frozen at some point and had large grey spots all around the edges. Croutons, not made here, were acceptable and blue cheese dressing (ditto not made here) was pretty good.
I made a huge mistake and ordered the chicken wings & ribs combo. The wings had been cooked in oil so old, you could smell it when the plate reached the table. Obviously frozen and then dumped straight into hot oil, when I tried to remove some of the grease by dabbing at one with a napkin, the paper was almost saturated — and the wing still full of grease! (See photos.) I bit into one, and it was so overcooked that even the inside chicken (not the outer skin) came away in shard-​like pieces. They smelled rancid and tasted worse.
On to the ribs. Have you ever had decent baby back ribs? Melt in your mouth, falling off the bone ribs? Don’t eat here. The ribs were so dry and over-​cooked that they could barely be cut apart with a knife.
The «garnish» — a piece of lettuce and the top slice of a tomato — was pathetic. See photos.
The sauces (I tried three) were garden-​variety out of a bottle.
As for the twice or thrice-​cooked potato, the first one that came was actually cold in the center — not even room temperature. I never did get the replacement.
My associate ordered the fried shrimp basket. I had no idea shrimp were so flat! All we could figure was that the cooks pounded them before dredging them in old bread crumbs. Again, rancid oil, and so overcooked that the coating crunched when you pressed it with a fork.
The DJ and his music were so loud that conversation was literally impossible. (I downloaded three different decibel measuring apps — it was somewhere between 120 – 140 db. Way beyond safe.) We noticed one person on a laptop, IM’ing the other people at the table — that’s how loud it was.
I’m not sure this happens on a regular basis, but there were a lot of children there, too — not just from a local team of under-​twelve girls (there were about 20 in that group), but other children as well — at least ten of them, with adults. Well and good, except for the noise factor — there were a couple of kids who looked as young as six or seven, and any child’s hearing could easily be permanently damaged by this level of noise.
We wound up going back to our hotel and eating microwaved frozen food from the hotel «pantry». It was miles better than what passed for food at T J Restaurant.
One important note — our waitress was fabulous. Amazingly polite and friendly, even through the din, even though she had to shout to be heard, even though there was suddenly an entire girls’ softball team and accompanying adults to deal with.
I would say this easily ranked as one of the worst meals of my life.

Good place for me and my buddies to grab some beers and good bar food. It served its purpose. Not smokey so that was a plus. Friendly staff and reasonable prices. Its location is right off of rt 70 and the turnpike.

My husband and I were staying at a local hotel last night so we stopped in for dinner. I ordered a med rare bacon cheeseburger. It came out cooked perfectly and it was juicy and flavorful. The bacon on it had great flavor as well. My husband got the crab dip and said it was really good as well. Our server was friendly as well.

These are the steak fingers from T.J.‘s restaurant & sports lounge. An entire steak, for only 8.50. They would have been 7.59, but I added the mushroom and onions for 1 $ extra. Ordered medium, they were very slightly undercooked, none the less DELICIOUS! We also got the BBQ grilled shrimp, there were 10 nicely sized shrimp, 5 per skewer. They came PERFECTLY cooked! Not overdone at all. Note: the BBQ is house made! Next came the stuffed mushroom caps, which although the crab flavor came through, could have used a little more crab. However, we found them to be very yummy and would order them again. The very last dish was the chocolate strawberry cheesecake. Made in-​house, NOT frozen, was probably some of best cheesecake I’ve ever had!!! We will be coming back here again., and again, and again!

Standard bar food; plenty of beer — what more do you want in a local place. Had a steak special — pretty good. Also had a sandwich — it was good, the accompanying fries were just so-​so. Service was good.

Woohoo! Take me on a road trip from Washington DC to Cincinnati for a family wedding, and then find the perfect place to unwind afterward on the way home. This was the place!
Football on a Sunday night. Golf video game. Excellent bar menu. Friendly bar staff (that happened to be TP’ing a regulars car). Great tunes on the jukebox. TJ’s was so much fun!
Order the wings! So many options.

I was definitely was not impressed on the looks of this place. There are no windows, which makes for a darker atmosphere, so needless to say, I was skeptical. Typical bar type menu, good prices & lots to choose from. We also took advantage of jukebox, which made for fun dinner. I ordered the reuben & onion rings & it was hands down, the best I’ve ever ordered. The handful of times that I have been to TJ’s I’ve always gotten the same thing. So, I pretty much love this place for their Reuben!