Jimmy D's District in Arlington Heights

Awesome service, good bloody Marys and food was delicious. We went in for brunch and their biscuits I think were homemade or something. I loved it and would go back to try their dinner menu.

Classic suburban place. If that’s your thing you will love it. No problems. Nice hard working staff. Good drink selection. Lots of tv’s with sports. Tons of cheese on every dish. Live country music when we were there. Gets packed on the weekends.

It would be a bit of a stretch to designate Jimmy D's as a gastropub; reality suggests it is a pub, that serves bar food, to be fair and plain about the matter. If you will forgive that first transgression, and just weigh the bar against every other bar you've ever been to, it's not a bad bar. That said, I give the place three stars - mainly because I've been to some really bad bars and they get a 1/5, and I've been to some really great bars, and they get a 5/5 - and this place is just smack dab in the middle of the middle, scoring 3/5. Jimmy's is everything you'd expect from a "bro friendly" Sports Bar. From the mostly female wait staff/bartenders, to the obviously "not from America" barbacks. Jimmy D's District is clearly average, from front-to-back-of-house, with glimmers of 4/5 stars, however adled in its mediocre atmosphere. It is positioned as the last rodeo, nearby the Metra commuter rail, which begs the question of: why do they have a $15 debit or credit card minimum? I happen to have worked in both the hospitality and card services industries, and a much more appropriate minimum for this place (given location) would have been $10, however should they wish to consistently serve a clientele in transit at the Metra Station, they should really set it to 5 bucks. It strikes me that the minimum is by design, and as counter intuitive as it might seem, again, given location and proximity to commuter rail, they simply might not want to encourage that business. It strikes me that while the place has "everything in place" to become, or strive to be better than average, Jimmy D's seems to make a conscious effort to stay in the mediocre "District". Absentee management seems to rule as a common symptomatic denominator in such places, only mentioning this as a side note, fr...