TJ’s Sports Bar & Grill

One of if not the best Nachos I’ve ever had. They do not hold back. Fully loaded with chips, cheese, veggies, sour cream, salsa, and meat for only around $ 10! I was very impressed because I never expect much from a sports bar.
Me and a friend came here around 5pm on a Sunday and there were only a few patrons so we basically got to choose our seats. This place is bigger than I expected with a projection screen showing sports along with TVs literally everywhere. And they were showing a variety including hockey, basketball, and soccer to name a few. I’m always surprised but thrilled when a sports bar in the south shows hockey since I’m a huge fan.
The million dollar question is in regards to the smoke. I’m not a smoker and neither is my friend and that was our biggest concern with this place. Maybe it was because we came during a down time, but smoke was not an issue! Maybe just a slight smoky musk in the air from earlier guests, but nothing that noticeable or should deter anyone from trying this place.
The server was a little slow and forgetful considering she was only serving two-​three tables so I will dock a star. Plus the menu listed the nachos at $ 9.95 and we were charged $ 10.45. Either way, its just principle if the price on the menu is not correct to let the guest know. Def will be returning especially with the amazing groupon deal and wing specials Monday night.

Their food is amazing bar food ! I am a regular here, I literally stay 2 minutes from the place it is for sure your normal bar. cigarette smoke, loud noise, and music. I’m not a big fan of the smoke lol at first I thought the food would taste the way the place smells and looks but overall their food is pretty damn good and I make sure I order something every time I decide to pay a visit. My boyfriend is friends with almost every person that works thereso of course we always get properly taken care of

This place is SMOKEY. I can’t walk inside the establishment, but I always ask the man friend to pick up some CHILI and some lemon pepper wings. The food is delicious. Actually, I tried their pesto pizza recently — think mushrooms, tomatoes, veggies, with a pesto base… yummy!
I think if you like the bar scene in the 40 – 60 age range that like to smoke, this may be your scene. It’s not mine, but I like the food to go. :) Plenty of parking and right next to the movie theater.

Sad to see a place that you enjoyed go severely down hill. After consecutive bad experiences I can’t say I will ever come back.
Service? Nonexistent — let alone getting orders wrong asking for a refill of water was never fulfilled. Asked another waitress or two for just a water to go and was ignored.
Food? Hit or miss. The burgers and tots were my goto meal but the last two times the burger was overcooked to death (I order medium rare) and the tots were an oily mess.
Staff? Bartenders care and you can get a drink quickly. Waitresses I think have stopped caring a long time ago — they are extremely vocal with their displeasure with working here. It again is sad to hear since it used to bo so different.
Atmosphere? The place needs a face lift badly, it hasn’t been updated likely since it opened in the 90s. With that said though it has a homely dive bar feel to it. And for the smokers it gives them a place to play pool and drink. Don’t expect to be at a

Um this place was alright from walking in I thought it was like taco Mac buuuuuut it’s not they smoke cigs by the pool tables but not on the other side whatever sense that makes… The waitress we’ll that’s another whole story lol and the crowd… umm the basketball game on was nice tho Lls and there wasn’t much music I didn’t hear much Food well I know derby has freshly made shrimp there’s was suppose to be beer battered

This place has great wings. It’s a good spot if you happen to be in Roswell. It’s next to studio movie grill. They have rooftop dining. The service can be slow but the wings are great and they have a wing special on Monday nights.

I love this place! The drinks and food is always on point. I get to smoke and the restaurant is huge with friendly fast service. The only thing is that I would suggest calling Bar rescue because the décor is outdated. With so many flat screens and so much space this bar should look like it’s superb service & exceptional menu. Love love love!!!

Smokey Joint!!!
On date night dinner and a Movie (Creed), we decided to check this place out. It’s right across the parking lot from Studio Movie Grill off Holcomb Bridge Rd, which fell right into place on this chilly night (didn’t want to travel far).
We happen to be there on a Tuesday night which is also BOGO on entrée — refreshing surprise. The place was pretty crowded on this particular night but we were greeted and seated right away. My date ended up ordering the club sandwich, which sounded so good that I decided to order the same (my date rolled his eyes, but who cares… He don’t like to share) the club sandwich has so many layers, wayyyy to much food… with chicken breast, turkey and ham cheese lettuce bacon and tomatoes. We ended up taking most of it to go. The waitress brought out our tickets and said it was bogo, less than $ 20 Dinner, that along warrants a return visit. LOL.
— This is not a smoke free restaurant.

TJ’s is a great place to go watch a Packers game. It is not fancy, it is a divey sports bar and in my book that means it ROCKS! If you visit expecting something different you will be disappointed. Yes, you can smoke inside. They have a whole section where you can’t smoke so if it bothers you sit on that side of the restaurant. The waitresses and bartenders are awesome. I’ve been in here several times now and I don’t know how they keep up! During Packers games this place is crazzzzy busy (in a great way) and they always manage to make sure everyone is taken care of. Major kudos guys! The food is descent, sometimes awesome and the prices cannot be beat. $ 10 Miller lite pitchers during games. I think that says it all. Mhm

Wanted to try TJ’S again for the first time in years. Went in Saturday right after noon and sat in the bar area, never even ordered a drink. It was so quiet in there except for the kids in the back room screaming and hollering about a soccer game. You would think they would have had the radio/​tv sound on, not only because it is a bar but to also drown out the kids screaming. NOPE! Nothing but quiet in that bar area, boring. Sorry TJ’s, you just don’t care anymore and that was my last time!

TJ’s is the poster child for «You can’t go home again». 20 years ago when I lived in the area I was a regular, at least once a week. So I went in today. First, they haven’t updated the décor, maybe not even paint. But it was busy and the waitress said she’d been there 3 months and the food was still great. So I ordered a blackened chicken sandwich with only onions and lettuce. I specified nothing else, no tomato, mayonnaise or anything. After over 20 minutes it came out with a pickle toothpicked on the lettuce and bun. I told the waitress that pickle juice makes everything taste like pickles but before I could ask her to just replace the top of the bun she was gone with the plate. After about 10 more minutes not having seen any staff I went looking for someone to ask. In a small office was a very elderly man who I think I recognized from years ago. He seemed annoyed that I was telling him this story but a minute later the sandwich came out. Spiced perfectly but so badly overcooked and dried out it was inedible.
The waitress came by to see if it was ok and I told her I hated to keep complaining but showed her even when you compress the chicken NO liquid shows. She went to get the manager, the same old man. Again I said, truthfully, that I hated to complain and he said «But you are!» I showed him how dry the chicken was and he said «I’ve never had a complaint before», picked up the plate and told me to leave.
So much for fond memories of my favorite Atlanta area sports bar.

Absolutely terrible service. The Owner is a jerk. Food is greasy garbage. Avoid!- unless you are literally dying of starvation.

TJ’s is located on the far left corner of a plaza off Holcomb Bridge.
It’s the plaza with Studio Movie Grill so you won’t miss it.
Definitely a sports bar. TJ’s has plenty of flat screens all around the restaurant.
It has billiard tables and other games as well. This place looks a little run down inside if anything. I guess we can say vintage? Very dim lighting as well. Certain parts of the restaurant was dark compared to others.
SERVICE
As my friend and I entered, we were told to grab a seat. Within a few minutes our waitress showed up, greeted us, and took our drink orders. Very friendly and attentive.
FOOD:
They have an extensive menu ranging from Salads & Soups, Jumbo Wings, Wraps & Tacos, Burgers, Sandwiches, and TJ’s classics (pizza, NY strips, fish ‘n’ chips, etc)
–Jumbo Wings: I ordered the 10 wings for $ 8.95. It comes with carrots and celery and a dipping sauce (ranch or bleu cheese). half lemon pepper and half mild please! The wings were okay. A little over fried because some were dry and hard to chew/​eat.
–Basket of Fries ($ 4.45): I wanted fries with m y wings but it was a separate order under «Warm Ups.»
Overall, my dinner was okay. Service was friendly.

TJ is located in a strip mall, plenty of parking and seats. On Friday about 8pm it’s still an after work spot. Drinks are strong and serve is quick. DJ was good, hookah was reasonable at $ 15 for 1 flavor. We stayed for about 3 hours. On Saturday about 10 it was a nightclub. Mixed crowd looking for a good time. No seats, drinks watered down and the DJ only played 1 – 2 mins of every song. You have to start a tab in order to get drinks and lurk to find a seat. We left after 1 hour.

Went back after a few years during the holidays and it was sad to see TJ’s had gone down hill big time.
Barkeep sat at the other end of the bar talking to the chain smoking regulars dolling out Sam Adams in dirty glasses. One things for sure the décor inside TJ’s hasn’t been changed since the mid 90’s. In fact the whole place didn’t seem very clean… these people need Jon Taffer to kick that door in and get to yelling and hopefully ironing this place out… bringing it back to what it once was… a great neighborhood staple esp on trivia night which im glad to see they still do. I don’t mind smoke at all, in fact I welcome it at bars, it adds to the ambiance, however after my few beers here I had to wash my shamrock shirt TWICE to get the smell out of it. oh well comes with the territory.
Still a bright spot for me about TJ’s is that its a tried and true hockey bar which was the whole reason I stopped in, and sure enough the Rangers and Capitals was glaring out of the flat screen at the end of the bar :) But it seems the surrounding area has givin way to the brass and fern taco-​crap style of bar… blech I would rather have my coat stained with cigar smoke and bask under the warm glow of NHL hockey at TJ’s.

A friend of mine is in the process of writing something like, her 12^th book and asked that I read over a passage and give my thoughts. For some reason, I couldn’t focus at home, so I decided to go out and give it a shot.
I’ve passed TJ’s a handful of times but never went in. I was in the mood for homemade potato chips for some reason (maybe I’m pregnant). I blindly went with the hope that a sports bar carried them, and was happy to see the potatoes on the menu that patiently awaited my arrival to the sticky table in one of the smokiest scented bars I’ve ever been in.
In this day and age, how does any restaurant think that allowing smoking patrons will actually attract business? Bypassing the disgusting, thick air, I grabbed a table.
My seat was positioned on the opposite side of the bar forcing the bartender to walk about a quarter mile to get to me. I looked at the sports memorabilia in the glass encasement next to me. I’m quite familiar with sports memorabilia, being a collector my entire life and I’m pretty sure that everything within the case was garbage that I sold off at a yard sale years ago for no more than about $ 20.
Seriously. First, there was no continuity in the material with the exception that the stuff «kind of» all had a connection with sports. Glassware, a replica Nebraska helmet, and other trash has no need to be encased in a Smithsonian-​like fashion. It was the Hard Rock Café equivalent of having on full display a handful of 8-​track cassette tapes and a 42-​key Casio keyboard that you got for Christmas in 1984.
So I got to reading. I was probably 4 or 5 pages deep when the bartender finally made her ¼ mile trek to take my drink order. By page 18, she hadn’t made one attempt at returning. I was finished reading my friends’ amazing passage and looked up at the bartender pouring a beer for a patron at the bar. A good 15 minutes from entry and I ended up walking out with not so much as a glass of water.
If the bar had been slammed and she was the only employee, I would have understood, but it wasn’t the case so I went off to Adele’s for a little Cajun cuisine, and I would encourage the blonde ditz working the bar at TJ’s to read my Adele’s review with the knowledge that working for tips requires a little more in the elbow grease department.
PS — One other thing to note is that Unilocal points out that there were a multitude of positive reviews for this dump coming from the same IP address which they spotted and removed. I encourage you to read them. The majority came within a few weeks’ span in April of this year, regularly referencing Cheers and someone named Carol Ann. Good try.
I’m sure a few slipped through the cracks though so beware.

Part of me wants to give two stars here, but the other part of me now remembers (after my visit to TJ’s) that there are still people in the world who smoke. Since those people still want a place to eat and drink while smoking, I’ll give TJ’s three stars in deference to them. It’s the reason I will not be returning, but that’s me.
So if you smoke, this place may be for you, because the food was actually pretty good. Given the dingy, well-​worn furniture and dated décor (Braves Championship! Atlanta Olympics! Zack Morris starts a band! [I made that last one up]) I was totally surprised that my fish tacos and house-​made chips were actually very delicious. The tacos didn’t look like much on the plate (you’re already guessing that presentation is not TJ’s focus) but I relished every bite.
The kitchen was really slow, which is inexplicable given that it wasn’t very busy. Or maybe that’s why it was slow. But their product was good.
Smokers, have at it, and enjoy the food. Make sure you get the chips. You just won’t see me there again.

Don’t get the onion rings with the «special sauce». Don’t get soda here. It will be watery and flat.
I only came here because of Groupon.
Never and I repeat never go to a restaurant from Groupon. This means they need a quick customer and their food is bad.

I’m kind of torn with this review as the food here is pretty awesome. Everything we tasted was fresh, better than expected, and filling.
The inside could use a nice uplift. While there’s plenty of space and lots of tables in the dining area, the furniture and décor was outdated. Also, the amount of smoke clouds and stale smoke made me feel a bit lightheaded.
the weather was perfect so we ate on their outdoor raised patio instead. If you are smoker you will enjoy eating here, if not get an order to go or eat on the patio.

This place used to be a Nebraska Cornhuskers bar on Saturdays and wherever you find Nebraska fans watching Cornhusker football games then you will also find red beer being served (and that still may be in effect at TJ’s).
What is red beer (you ask)?: Beer plus tomato juice. OK, everywhere /​ever time I mention this I get all kinds of disgusted reactions. I don’t care. It’s one of the great beer-​based pleasures in life and if I’m the only one doing it, then that’s fine. Actually, a little googling shows that others are doing it, but mostly as a hangover cure.
It is a fact of life: Cornhusker fans drink red beer. I don’t know how this came to be and don’t really care. Mexicans drink «micheladas» (which is basically a spicier and more lime infused version of the tomato juice /​beer concoction poured over ice) (Almost a beer infused Mexican version of Bloody Mary). I don’t know of any other socio /​ethnic group that does this. I mentioned this phenomena once before in a review of Buford Highway Farmers market.
BHFM carries a commercially packaged version of red beer /​michelada in the form of a Budweiser /​Clamato canned beverage that Anheiser-​Busch produces for the latin /​hispanic market. In that review I mentioned how I used to date a girl from Nebraska. She did not know the origins of the red beer beverage either. All I know is that Cornhusker fans drink the hell out of it and especially so during morning /​early afternoon games. I like to drink red beer any time of the day or night.
When I was a kid I remember my dad drinking red beer; I don’t know what ratio of tomato juice to beer he was mixing, but I like it very tomato-​y and served out of an ice cold /​frosty mugs. I think I also remember him drinking it in bars sometimes; In North Carolina, at least in those days, kids could be in bars.
When I reached legal drinking age I would sometimes order red beer — mostly in South Florida or in the Tampa Bay area — and no bartender ever blinked an eye at my request. I think Nebraska used to recruit top prospects heavily out of those areas. Perhaps part of the reason for that was because the roughest part of Tampa was the area in /​around Nebraska Avenue. I learned at an early age that if I drank only red beer — even if I attained near-​blind levels of drunkenness — I’d have little to no hangover the next morning.
Whenever I tried ordering red beer anywhere in Georgia; however, all I ever got was a blank stare, or perhaps a beer with the word «red» in the name. Now, red beer may indeed be good for curing hangovers (and it is especially good for avoiding them) but perhaps its greatest value lies in the ability to put dynamic flavor into really lousy (cheap) beer.
I’ve even been able to enjoy Miller High Life, Genesee or PBR this way, as an example. Oh, by the way, I would never put tomato juice in really good beer. I don’t think that would work and — at any rate — it would certainly be considered a sacrilege of sorts.
Not many places in Atlanta serve up red beer; TJ’s does. Or at least it used to.