Jo’s Seafood and Steak Grill

So many things wrong here. Booth was so small I couldn’t get in I’m not sure a little kid could. Ordered calimari and it came with a hideous sauce on it that I didn’t like at all. Salads are not what you expect for a $ 25 meal very much subpar. Now my meal. I had rancid old mussels in my dish. They took it off the bill but this shouldn’t happen at a seafood restaurant. My wife’s food was severely over cooked but at least it wasn’t rancid. Sadly another restaurant in pekin will close. I would have liked some soft music so that I didn’t hear the redneck racist conversation behind us or all the kitchen noises.

There was only one other table when we tried this place. Our waitress was super helpful, answering any questions we had since we had never been there before. The décor is interesting. You can definitely see that it was foreign décor previously. They have tried to make it looked nicer but overall the décor doesn’t really match with their service/​food. The salad bar was a small salad section with some cold pastas dishes. my husband probably could have just eaten off the salad bar for his meal. He really enjoyed it. I ordered a steak that needed a little adjusting on the cooking but they were really nice about, while my husband on the other hand had a salmon plate. He said it was cooked better than any salmon he’s ever had.

Read in the paper that this was the new and upcoming place? Wow not impressed. I ordered a skirt steak with rice and salad bar. The rice was old and very dry. Skirt would have been ok had it not been cooked on an old gas stove? All I could taste was the gas fumes for hours after we left. The salad bar is a poor excuse, one dish of lettuce with a few tomato wedges, 3 dressing choices (not homemade?). All the other dishes were pasta and potato salad? And no bar? No drinks with steak? WTH? The wife ordered the chicken marsala. It came with three breast medallions. the kicker is they used canned mushrooms for the marsala. Really so $ 14 for canned garbage. Will not be going back! Service was ok at best. Pekin is in need of good food, but not this. Raining champion is still the Railhouse! Thank God we have at least one place to go!!!