Great service~!!!! Â I had the scallops wrapped in bacon which were cooked perfectly and delicious then I had the seasonal salad which consisted of fresh arugula, fresh sliced strawberries, cruncy nuts, gorgonzola cheese and a vinegarette dressing. Â Everything was fresh and delicious and my server Doug was very attentive, professional and friendly. Â I will be stopping by again to check out the other menu items.
Review Source:I love to go to Jake's for good beer and good bar food. Â This place can get loud, but every time I've gone, the food was good and I love that they have micro brews. Â It's a nice bar to sit at, if you can get a seat, and sometimes they put out free food for happy hour. Â There's a lot to look at and the bar tenders are usually pretty friendly, but busy.
Review Source:Good for dinner or drinks. Kind of on the expensive side beer-wise but the beer selection is pretty good. They often have live bands near the back bar so that's fun. Food is good and the staff is quick and friendly. Be warned - the bartenders are really bad at keeping track of who orders what so check your bill and try not to be the last to leave or they will try to pin the leftover drinks on you.
Review Source:I love this place.  The best thing about Jakes is Joe the bartender.  He makes you feel like you are his long lost best friend.  The beer and wine lists are fun.  I am a huge fan of sitting at the bar and sharing one of their never ending salad bowls with grilled chicken (moist, flavorful and delicious) with a girlfriend....makes for  a very relaxing night.
Review Source:I've been to Jake's twice now. On the first visit, myself and 2 friends stopped in for a round of beers, early evening. After being ignored standing at the bar for a while, the bartender reluctantly took our drink orders, acting as if we were bothering him.
We ordered 3 pints of Guinness, and while the bartender was pouring them, my friend grabbed a few potato chips out of the big basket sitting in the middle of the bar. The bartender glared at him and yelled, "Dude, what the f**k are you doing? Those are mine". It was an honest mistake, as when someone sees a big basket of potato chips in the middle of the bar with noone sitting near it, they seem complimentary. Why a bartender would leave his food on the bar while serving is beyond me, let alone get mad and swear at customers over it.
He finished pouring the drinks, came back over with an obvious attitude over the chip incident and said, "that will be $30". Â $10 for a pint of Guinness? We questioned him, unsure if he was inflating the price because we upset him. That pissed him off even further. We were happy to just get our $10 beers, down them, and get out of there.
Against my better judgement, I went back a second time with a different group of friends. We were greeted by a different bartender, though with the same "don't bother me" attitude, slow service, and high drink prices. After 2 times walking into a bar in good spirits, I got sick of being treated like I wasn't welcome there and having it dampening my evening, I won't be going back.
Please allow me to get the good stuff out of the way first. They know how to cook a burger. Â Moving on...
I've read complaints about high priced beers. And yes, there are some $10 to 14 beers on draft. However, the two bartenders - it is always the same two - ignore you so badly that you will likely only get one beer during your entire meal. There were only 5 other people at the bar when I finished my solitary beer half the way through my meal. And I never got another chance for a refill. I mean, what a deal! Â I had a $7 beer. When is the last time you left a bar with a $7 alcohol tab?! Â Fantastic, right? Â I recommend this place for your next AA meeting. Afterall, you are more likely to get drunk from the purelle you carry in your hip pocket than at this place. Those two guys better be the owners, because they are losing money for this place left and right. It is almost criminal and it is a shame. Â The bar has potential.
I wanted to love Jakes... I really did... The only good time i ever had here was on Halloween. Besides that since...
EVERY TIME THEY OVER CHARGE FOR DRINKS!! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!
After the last time i was there and was charged 8$ for a tequila sunrise I'm never going back again. That is a 5 or 6 dollar drink period. Friends of mine bartend and confirmed this to me. They also overcharged my friend on a long island also. They're bartenders are also not consistent in the way they make drinks. I'd rather go to my favorite hole in the wall where the guy will be nice enough to give me an occasional free shot and not rape me when i buy a round of drinks for friends. The crowd at Jake's really is not all that great either. At least not for the early 20s crowd.
this place has never quite won me over, its definitely not on my list of where to go on a friday night. It has an  "older crowd", and it seems like everyone turns and looks at you when you walk through the door like you have 2 heads. Again, this could be because its not the "hippest" places for 20 odd year olds to hang out. The back room is good sized space dance floor, but not utilized well since, no one really dances (besides the brave couple dancing across the floor). The times Ive been there has been some good cover bands, but again, no one really gets into it, and it seems like a flash back to 8th grade formal, plus alcohol.
Most recent, and WORST experience here was St Patricks Day....hopping around wallingford bars, friends and I came to Jakes for a carbomb. We ordered 5,turned away waiting on drinks, only to turn around to find the bartender had mixed everything in the same cup,a nd was left sitting there. Now, Â If you know anything about carbombs, you know it is an absolute sin to pre-mix to 3 components of the drink, for fear of the baileys curling when left sitting too long in the guinness. Needless to say, It was utterly DIGUSTING. and when I asked the bartender if he knew how to make a "proper" carbomb, he just shrugged his shoulders, said the price due, and walked away. Very dissappointed...but with the high cost of the drinks, we downed them....and needless to say suffered later.
Would rather not go here unless every other single bar in wallingford is closed, over capacity, or out of service.
Nice atmosphere. Bar in front has beautiful large accent mirrors to accompany the vast array of liquor. Only real disappointment was how loud the music got on a Saturday evening. I love music but I could barely hear myself thing not to mention my date. I couldn't heard anything my friend was saying at arms length and my voice was horse from straining to speak to them. Just watch the beer prices for those on tap, I had one beer and it was 9.00.
Review Source:My husband and I went to Jake's this week for drinks and an appetizer after an evening event. Â I had a hard time trying to figure out which type of beer to order, there were none of my favorites on tap. Â Everything they had seemed to be more of a high end microbrew that I had never heard of. Â The bartender let me try a couple different ones until I found one that I liked ($9 for a draft beer!) and my husband chose a different one ($7 but his was much smaller). Â At that point we felt a little bit out of our element -- I didn't think of downtown Wallingford as a place that would have a high end bar. Â However, the bartender made us feel comfortable and chatted with us for a while...he wasn't that busy there were only 3 other groups of people there that night. Â We decided to order an appetizer and got a delicious order of nachos ($9), without meat or chicken on them. Â The portion was large and we had plenty of salsa (homemade, I think). Â
  The pastrami sandwich and friends that we saw someone else get looked very good.  We noticed that this customer was drinking a bottle of Budweiser, so they DO have beers that are not of the expensive variety.  We should have asked for the beer list like he did, then we would have known that.  The bartender never offered the beer list to us, he just verbally suggested the microbrews on draft. Â
  When I needed to use the restroom I was directed to the back of the building.  I was surprised to see that in the large back room, there is another bar (closed that night) and a dance floor.  Unfortunately the bathroom appeared to be a unisex one, which kind of loses points for me.  Seems that if this place is busy, there aren't enough bathrooms.
  We will be going back again at some point.  My husband commented that it would be a great place to bring visitors from out of town, and I think he's right.
So this is an update--- Our drinks were good, but when we got the bill, it didn't make sense. My friends and I were talking about the bill, trying to understand how we got charged, and put our money down, we knew something wasn't right. Â The bartender must have overheard us talking and came over and looked over the bill and lowered the price. Â I don't understand why they would charge us a higher, incorrect price and then change it once they realize that we notice that it's incorrect.
Review Source:Jakes is a great place to grab a drink & food. Â There are enough TVs to enjoy any game that may be on, the menu is top notch (tapas), & the bartenders will pour a heavy drink (ask for a double to really get your money's worth). Â The staff is super friendly & will make sure you have whatever you need.
Review Source:WOW! Jake's is gorgeous. But is gorgeous enough to prevail over fruit flies in your drink?
I typically order a coffee with amaretto when out for a quick drink. I was poured a double shot of amaretto and when I looked in the glass there were fruit flies in the liquor. I was polite about addressing this with the bartender who did not seem surprised...
"There are bugs in my drink."
"Are they fruit flies?"
"Yeah"
He poured me another amaretto, and then repoured it into another glass to assure no more bugs...
I forgot to mention there is also a juke box that even when there are 5 people in the bar the bartender will crank to levels that necessitate screaming to your friends. Did I mention it was 7:30pm.
It is a step up from Gargoyles that used to reside at this location. Â I am assuming they serve food because a person dressed as a cook was playing "Pirate's Dice" with the bartender in between cranking the juke box, and ridding my drink of bugs.
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