Jameson’s Charhouse

Came here for Father’s day with a group of 3. Ordered calamari, ribeye, cheeseburger, and fettucine alfredo.
The calamari was, I’m pretty sure, frozen and lacked any real seasoning.
My cheeseburger was a great size and had quality meat but again lacked any seasoning.
The alfredo was way too rich, and tasted like pasta with cheese sauce.
I had higher hopes for this place but I was disappointed.
The service was great but I go out to eat for the food, not the service.

Great place to eat, never had a bad steak here. Always excellent… now why the 4 stars. You get a lot of food here, bread to start, soup, salad, and with you entrée a vegetable and a potato. Sometimes that almost too much food, we walk out of there stuffed… almost uncomfortable stuffed.
The soups are always very good, one of the best clam chowder I ever had and yesterday the cream of mushroom soup which was very good. The Caesar salad was very bland, the baked potato was only half cooked and enough with the damn broccoli. Every freaking meal I ever had here came with broccoli. I like broccoli but at home, not dining out, especially with fillet mignon.
Now my critique; drop soup and salad, one or the other and put those savings into a better choice of vegetable. Also try a different Cesar dressing, last nights was rather bland. A nice side with steak would be garlic spinach or asparagus. I know it’s more expensive but if you cut out one of the other soup or salad, that could help make up the difference. I know, my opinion.
We still love this place, great steaks, and will always come back.

This place was barely mediocre. I had the Grecian-​Athenian half chicken which was cooked to the point of dry, dry, dry… My wife had the char broiled chicken breast in lemon sauce and they were truly bland… One would be much better served simply going to Standard Market or Cooper’s Hawk: same prices but much, much better quality. And that’s my two bits worth.

After reading the reviews I was a little unsure about coming here but we decided to check it out since there aren’t many steak places in the area. We recently went to Porter house steak house in burr Ridge/​Willowbrook and paid a pretty penny for overly sweetened cocktails and dry steak. This place Jameson’s charhouse is good! We got the spicy buffalo calamari as an appetizer which was impressive, and pretty spicy! With a side of blue cheese dressing that tasted like fresh blue cheese! They serve warm bread and whipped up butter to start. A nice wine ans beer selection. The steak was juicy and flavorful. Great service, comfortable ambiance. We will return to try other stuff on the menu. It was a tough decision because everything looked so good! Price is reasonable.

Been here for dinner 3 times and I really want to like this place. Décor is warm, service is snappy and pleasant, entrees come with soup, salad and warm bread and bar is well stocked and reasonably priced and menu has a nice selection of items. Soup was salty but flavorful. Also price point on entrees is pretty good. Crowd is 50% older but there were also families and some large groups of friends/​coworkers. But unfortunately for me 2 out of 3 entrees were forgettable: chicken with artichokes had a thick, overly acidic sauce and the chicken breasts were thick and underseasoned. Butt steak with stuffed shrimp was completely unseasoned (no salt, no nothing!), shrimp were overcooked and filled with «crab»
Stuffing that was bland and crabless. Entrees were served with a sad hunk of undercooked broccoli on an oversized plate that made portion look small even though they weren’t. On these visits my family liked their entrees: fried onion topped burger, chicken parm, blue cheese topped strip steak and prime rib sandwich. Will we try it again? Maybe…

service slow. food has too much fat and sodioum. The only soup they offered me was cream of chicken which has too many fat and calories… Need lighter items

I was pleasantly surprised by my experience at the Woodridge Jameson’s. Went on a Saturday night and good thing we had made a reservation. (By phone, no OpenTable) They were super busy! The atmosphere was upbeat. Liked the décor. Was neat bc I noticed there were lots of families, lots of couples, young and ahem *older*. A restaurant for all ages, really. So great! Our server was super courteous, you could see the staff was really working together. Service was excellent! And like other posters have said, you get soup & salad & entrée at a great price. Our steaks were very good.

About 20 of us had lunch there. I was so pleased. The service was fantastic and the food was very good and served nice and hot. They paid attention to every detail from appetizers to desserts. Not one person had an order wrong or was dissatisfied. I will do this again! I have often had lunch and dinner here but never an office gathering. Totally impressed. A big thanks to Jameson’s for making it so successful.

place is great !
amanda is a perfect bar tender /​hostess which really cares.
jim is also a good manager .cats and jeff are also assume. food is great.

This was our third lunch visit. The food is usually good. I love their parmigiano crusted tilapia, My husband had a perfectly cooked steak. However everything was cold. The manager was very accommodating, took our food back and it came out piping hot, also bought us desert. Great customer service! Their baked potatoes always taste old. like reused from left over night before. Excellent cream soups.

Loved the food very attentive service. Great value for the money. Shrimp de jonghe the best. I would go again there definitely.

Big fan.
How can you go wrong?
Soup, salad, starch, veggies, and protein.
I had the brown sugar Salmon.
Very good.

Service was great, price is good for the serving size, but nothing special. We ordered 2 types of steak, liguini and calamari. I had better though. Im not coming back.

Not very impressed with the service. Found a wrinkled up piece of paper in my wife’s salad. Prices were okay for the food quality. However they give free soup but charge you if you’d rather have salad as a replacement. Wait times were very lengthy as well. Overall not worth coming back for myself.

Seen all the good reviews so we decided to stop in for lunch.
We were Not disappointed!
This place is great, food is fantastic, service was outstanding and it was very reasonably price for the quality of food you receive.
I had the fish tacos that were excellent!
I would recommend coming here and can not wait to try dinner here the next time we are in the area.

I came with my family to Jameson’s for an early Christmas celebration. A couple of people in our party had been there before, but I had not. Correction — I had been there numerous times back when it was Bennigan’s, but not since it had become Jameson’s.
I will say that the broccoli soup was decent and that I was impressed that my entrée included both soup AND a salad. Our server was very prompt and attentive, as well.
I ordered a 6 oz. filet done medium rare with a side of mashed potatoes. The meat itself was actually a decent piece of meat and seasoned just fine, but it was much closer to «medium well» or «well done.» The mashed potatoes had zero flavor. It was almost as if they took potatoes and mashed them and added nothing else. Mashed potatoes are a pretty easy thing to do relatively well — cream, butter and salt — especially if one calls themselves a «Charhouse.»
I am not sure I would be in a particular rush to return.

Stopped here on a whim on a Saturday night after reading other Unilocal reviews, and we were not disappointed. We were pleasantly surprised that there was no wait to get a table, and the restaurant was tastefully decorated.
Our waiter, Kevin, was an exceptionally attentive waiter. Our food was yummy, and we stayed to enjoy an after dinner coffee because it was so pleasant. We would definitely stop again.

I ordered the special of the day. It was a lighly breaded porterhouse that was seared and then cooked to your liking. When I took the first bite I was treated to a mouthful of gristle and fat. Bite #2 was more of the same. I finally took to scrapping off the breading from the rest of the meat and could see that the entire piece of $ 24.95 «steak» was exactly 99% fat. It didn’t look remotely like the ones in the display case at the entrance. I paid for my salad, standard side salad, my date’s meal which was edible and left. It was by far the worst piece of meat I was ever served in a restaurant. .bar none.

Upscale diner food that caters to an older crowd. One step above Denny’s. Although the portions were generous, the food was bland/​unseasoned. We had the burger and a chicken entrée because I figured the steak would be even a greater disappointment after seeing it on other patron’s tables. Burger was «eh,» fries were the giant non-​crispy kind (steak fries). Chicken looked like three pieces you get from a frozen bag you buy at Costco. Mushrooms were soggy and broccoli had nothing on it — not even a drizzle of olive oil. Restaurant was pretty full for a weeknight, but like I said, it caters to a certain crowd.

I ordered the prime rib sandwich; said thinly sliced but got a piece about 3/​8″ thick. Too thick. Fries were cold. Salad/​soup ok. Service was limited. If I ever returned I’d try something different.
There are better places around.

After moving to this area recently, my daughter and I wanted a good steak so we thought we would try Jameson’s. She ordered the special 28 oz. Bone in ribeye and I ordered the 11 oz filet. Both were cooked exactly as ordered and were delicious.
I had to had to have the baked French onion soup which was crusty-​cheezy like I love it but the soup itself was bland. Salad was ok and the mashed potatoes also needed some flavor. Service was excellent from beginning to end.
Only giving 4 stars tho because of the blandness and also because the rest rooms smelled like a sewer was backing up. Might go back and try the calimari and pork chops.

Great restaurant! We went for Sunday lunch. Steak was delicious, tender and obviously of great quality. Table service was professional. They heard it was our first time and brought us dessert on the house! The only thing I would ask for in addition is a gluten free menu as they didn’t seem to have one. Great experience.

I’ve already rated Jameson’s, but apparently it’s not showing. I even posted a picture of our server who runs the bar & serves those sitting near it. The food is fantastic, the server sweet & engaging… can’t go wrong here… good food, nice environment & great service. Nice place and I highly recommend it.

Had a really good experience here on a random dine-​in while being in the area. Our party ordered a prime rib and porterhouse steak. It was both delicious and accompanied with ample veggies :)
Thanks to our waitress, our visit was adequate and we felt fairly pampered during our stay.
The ambience here is pretty romantic and warm; it reminds me of a pub where people can gather around with food for special occasions (I recall seeing something like a birthday gathering/​bridal shower/​afterparty?). I will want to come back to visit for some more good food :)

This was my first visit to Jameson’s. The restaurant is a large space with plenty of tables and a bar area. The menu had a good variety of food from appetizers, to salads, to fish, meat and pasta. There are nightly specials as well. Our server, Julian, was friendly and attentive. Our table started with the fried calamari appetizer. Although I passed on this because of it being fried, it did look crisp, not greasy and was plentiful in size. Two of my girlfriends ordered burgers and said Jameson’s makes a good burger. I opted for the liver with bacon and caramelized onions, broccoli, rice pilaf and a dinner salad with the house dressing. I liked that the dressing was automatically served on the side. The waiter recommended the liver be cooked medium and it was so good! The only negative was that the bacon was too crisp and just crumbled apart and was hard to get it on the fork with the liver. I love crisp bacon but in this dish it should have been less crisp to be able to cut instead of crumbling apart. That aside, I loved my entrée. I would come back to try other offerings on the menu.

This place has an old feel to it. It’s not of those new steakhouses that open up everywhere. It seems like it’s been around for a while. The steaks are big, but are under seasoned. They lack flavor, a little salt and pepper go a long way. The service is really on top of everything. Plus Ann of their steaks come with soup, salad, and 2 sides. It’s a lot of food for the price. All in all, it’s a good steakhouse with huge portions and good service.

Jameson’s is good eats even though I came here with my parents and ended up paying the bloody bill. It was the day before Thanksgiving and what can be better wetting mouth with juicy meat before eating more juicy meat?
We started out with stuffed oysters because some pretentious decorated menu separate from the main menu told me to. Oddly enough, I have come to notice that cooked oysters are more expensive than a raw oysters. I will never come to understand how the public views the monetary value of food… I enjoyed the first 3 pieces but and then Mother forced me to finish the remaining 4 pieces on the plate because they somehow see themselves as dainty.
For my main dish I ordered a medium rare 10oz Rib Eye Steak. I stuck a chunk of warm buttery bread in my mouth because I thought I was finished ordering but the waiter would not stop asking me questions. What side do you want with that? What other side do you want with that? What kind of soup do you want? What salad do you want with that? What dressing do you want with the salad? Apparently, most of the dishes come with 2 sides, soup, and salad.
It’s great to have short term memory because your waiter will always bring you a pleasant surprise. I was presented with a juicy hand sized cut of Rib Eye, a head of broccoli, red potatoes, salad with balsamic, and French Onion Soup. Mother, who is always trying to fatten me up, insisted that I get the 16oz. Thank the old gods and the new (GoT reference) that I didn’t because I hardly finished my lady sized 10oz piece with all the sides, soup, and salad (OH MY!).
No desert for me. All in all, it was a delicious deal making for a great pre-​game to expand my stomach for Thanksgiving.
Concluding Haiku:
It’s not just a steak
Sides, soups, salads, and more sides
Deal for a big meal