Jollie’s Restaurant & Lounge

This place needs to be scrapped. Staff is Wonderful. Décor is 1970s. But the food… ACK. I never want to feel like I did after eating there. I am sorry. I used to live this place. The tackiness, great portions. Not good if it makes you sick.

I have been here quite a few times with a good friend. The food has never disappointed me, but the place has a lot of other issues.
We mostly go at night, when things have quieted down. On this most recent visit, we went on a Friday night. It was quiet, and the same waitress was there as our last few visits. We took our tables, and she came over and took our drink orders. We both ordered a fountain soda. The waitress came back out with one for my friend, but not mine. I had to ask a second time before I got my drink.
She came back and took our food orders. I had ordered some scrambled eggs with cheese and a couple of english muffins, looking for lighter fare. When my food came out, the eggs were definitely not scrambled. The muffins were good, but the eggs were almost inedible. To make matters worse, the waitress never came by to refill my long-​since emptied soda. She had no problem, however, serving alcohol to the clearly intoxicated gentlemen two booths away from us.
The atmosphere is definitely that of a dive-​bar, with faux Native American decór and light-​hearted jabs at «redneck» culture.
The food is good, and cheap, but that is about all you can expect from this restaurant.

Saturday breakfast reservations with a party of 12. We sat in the dark back room, minimal service for 12… and one ketchup bottle ! Most of the others won’t go back. Food was ok, nothing spectacular as far as taste or presentation.

This is a great family business. Went there on a Saturday night. Had a delicious fish n chips dinner, and my friend’s burger looked great. Fun, friendly service. The live band music was excellent, and the dance floor was large enough to do some serious moves!

Hit the spot when we needed it to. Very friendly staff. Average and dated food.

I’ve been here on several occasions, always have good food and great service. I hadn’t been here in a while and have been to a lot of restaurants lately and at other restaurants the food is always overly greasy and never hot. Jollie’s the food is perfect. Never had more perfectly golden hashbrowns. Definitely will come back more often.

A little hole in the wall tavern just off the highway. Came here for a fundraiser for a family friend. The drinks were great and the food was excellent. Im terrible with names but the brunette bartender was very sweet and attentive. If I’m in the area again, I’ll come back.

We stopped in before visiting friends. My husband said he remembered it was good. We walked in and it smelled old, not to mentioned all the flies. There were so many flies, I was impressed that they had this many inside. The table was sticky and dirty. The waitress was very nice, but that didn’t make up for the dirty environment. I was very nervous about the food. We finally got our food and it was probably the worst. We were better off at a fast food joint. I was really hoping to be wrong. After we left, my husband said it has gone downhill since hes been there a few years ago. The restaurant needs to be hosed down or something, very dirty. Giving a 1 for our nice waitress.

Very rude service and you would think they would be prepared for concert goers. We stopped early and they didn’t even know there was a concert or what time it started!

My husband and I love coming here after our date night for some good music & drinks. It’s amazing how they make you feel like family! Shelly is an awesome crazy lady! She always knew how to make sure you smile :)

Eaten here (breakfast & lunch) about a half a dozen times so far. As some other reviewers have noted: the food is truck stop fare, the service sometimes could be better and the place is a little time worn. .. HOWEVER, that being said, I really do like the place and plan to continue eating there. Taken as a whole, the combination of the food, service and atmosphere makes it an attractive «off the beaten path» family owned diner. It is not your shiny cookie-​cutter neat franchised restaurant but a one of a kind back road affair. If you’re looking for a five-​star meal, you’ll have to go to a five-​star restaurant. If you’re looking for a place with character, this is it!

Went in the lounge for lunch today. The bartender/​waitress was just a sweetheart and she was working hard. I must say Ella was one of the best servers I have ever encountered. The food was great. I had the tavern burger and it was delicious. The fries are also really tasty. The drinks were amazing too. Thank you Ella for making it a great trip to Jollies!

I ordered the French dip and the meat was tender and I enjoyed the home made style fries. Also the custard pie was perfect for dessert. I also got some chili but it tasted like it was from a can.
The service was excellent and the truck parking is nice and quiet, about 30 spots to park.

The food is decent but by no means «good.» There are TWO good waitresses and the rest are rude and look at you as if you’re diseased. But neither of those issues are the problem. The problem is that they play the most HORRIBLE AND DISGUSTING MUSIC YOU WILL EVER HEAR ANYWHERE! Do yourself a favor and NEVER eat at Jollies on the weekends. The play live country music AT MAX VOLUME.
If you don’t understand where the horrible music comment is coming from then you must be one of the people who like that country garbage.

Had a friend call this morning and ask I if wanted to meet her for lunch as she was on her way up from Auburn, CA to Tacoma, WA. She’s not familiar with Vancouver so figured Jollies just off I-​5 at exit 9 would be a very easy stop for her. I’ve eaten there numerous times over the past decade when I was driving truck and always had a decent meal, mostly breakfast. We met there just before 3 P.M. and found the dinning room deserted. I started to order the Reuben but the waitress pointed out the prime rib sandwich was a special. Sounded good, so I went with that. My friend ordered the patty melt. Didn’t take long for the food to arrive. My prime rib sandwich was small, looked like it was made on a hot dog bun, the meat was dry and the au jus had separated in the bowel. About 1/​8″ of oil or grease shimmering above the dark brown liquid. Dipped in a bit of the sandwich and took a bite. Tasted like burnt grease. Sat the au jus aside and grabbed the ketchup bottle. The potato salad was very nice. My friend only finished half her patty melt. She said she was famished when we sat down earlier. Ask if everything was OK. She turned over the leftover half and bottom slice of bread was burnt black. Now I can understand the cook making a mistake and burning something but what I can’t fathom is going ahead and sending it out to the customer. That shows some real contempt for the patron.

My sister’s friend told us about this restaurant. The food was not all that great – I ordered the Denver Omelet to get a plate of rather delicious hash brows paired with a couple pieces of chopped deli-​style ham, nearly raw onions and peppers, wrapped in a very thin crêpe-​like egg. The potato babies are really good, though, which leads me to believe that there is a fantastic potato-​only chef in the back. Not just that, but the waitress, Nancy, left our checks in the table with our food, didn’t check on us, and when we asked her for more water for our table of 4, she brought us one large glass of water. Huh?
I’d come back for the potatoes. But that’s it. :-/

Bad service is the norm here. Sometimes the food is okay, sometimes it’s gonna cause you serious stomach issues. I’d stay away from here. The regulars are a joy too and occasionally are allowed to break the no smoking laws in the bar.

E side of NE Union Rd. S of NE 179^th St.
This «Blue Hair Magnet» sits comfortably at 3 stars.
I can’t really consider myself a fan because I wasn’t terribly impressed by the food and was pretty annoyed by our server…
Our server employed just a little too much sarcasm for not knowing us… and honestly that probably would have been fine IF SHE HAD NOT FORGOTTEN TO TAKE OUR ORDER THEN FORGOT HOW I WANTED MINE!
I didn’t have a difficult request… all I did was ask for bacon on my Hawaiian Cheeseburger and this is how it eventually came out:
Beautiful sans bacon though. Our server was very difficult to flag down and she wasn’t very attentive (refills were tough too,) so when she finally did stop by I was able to ask for my burger with bacon:
and while the recipe/​ingredients for this burg looked and sounded great unfortunately fell flat. The Tater Tots were not much better seeming and tasting much like the Orida Lites one can bring home from his, or her grocer’s freezer. I truly wish they were more crunchy and had some sort of seasoning on them to sort of set themselves apart from what is generally prepared at home.
You can tell that the owners of this place are comfortable with the amount of business they are receiving because they definitely are free to exercise their 1^st Amendment rights and tell people to be patient and watch their kids on their menu.
Seating comes in the form of regular tables and booths inside the restaurant.
Outside of the restaurant leaves very little to be desired, is very plain looking, and the inside décor is not a whole lot better. Don’t expect much in the way of ambiance when coming here. Definitely a good mark for «Kitchen Impossible» with Robert Irvine.
There is plenty of parking at this establishment in their dedicated lot.
My experience here left me wondering how into this venture everyone truly is.

I would rather eat a barf noodle caserole then eat here. Dive crap hol. If you want herpes or a disease have a seat in one of the booths. the high rating stars on here must be owners or employees. I have lived near here for 25 yrs. The people that frequent here are pure trash. No joke. Its a great place to stop if your on a road trip and pee in their big parking lot. Thats it. sorry for the bad review but it is what it is.
Is there a way to give negative stars on here

Dude… This is dive bar HEAVEN! Drinks are cheap and they are STRONG. Seriously. One watermelon martini and next thing you know you’re sitting on an old cowboy or truck driver’s lap like he’s Santa. The bar shuts down at 1am, but the restaurant is open 24 hours. This is the best drunk/​hangover food in the world. Trucker portions for fast food prices. Score!