Best American Restaurants in Long Branch

This was a return visit to Joey Sherway Gardens. I made reservations for 5:45, and seated right on time. I highly recommend reservations as this is a super popular spot. The restaurant was busy, but it didn’t feel rushed or pushed. The staff took the time to be friendly, answer questions, talk about the food, and gave us the time that we needed to do our ordering. Super great staff super attentive! I’ll be going back.

Great service, great food, tasty and large portions.

Yesterday, we were served by Naomi, a very attentive waitress. Everything was served very quickly. The food was slightly different from the last time - we ordered the steak with sushi again, and my husband had the blackened chicken, followed by desserts. The chocolate cake was salty, which is probably a Canadian twist, but it felt unusual for us. There was also a girl playing the violin alongside a DJ during our dinner, which made the evening very romantic.

Overall it was pretty good food however on Christmas Eve the kitchen was slammed. They forgot 2 appetizers, 1 a la cart item and we asked for things that we never received like drink refills, an extra bowl and spoon. They just need more staff that day.

My friend and I shared an order of crab cakes, with salad and roast beef sliders. There were two crabcakes on the plate so we each had one. And he added an extra slider to the slider plate so we each had two sliders. The food was delicious and there was lots of it. We finished everything. But I could’ve done with just one slider and one crabcake. My only complaint is, it’s really not a good place for people who have any kind of hearing problems. It was quite noisy. This is not a complaint as such because it is the festive season and everybody was so happy to see everybody else and it was all happy noise. But it would’ve been nice to have a corner for older ladies who have hearing problems so they can talk. That is the only reason that I would not return to Earls. The food was great. Our waiter was really good. The ambiance was great., the bathrooms were great. Everything was just fine except for the noise and I don’t think the restaurant can really do anything about that.