Eat at Joe’s (Everybody else does…) [restaurant review]
Eat at Joe’s owner Alex Jordan with muralist Alex Burback at the 2005 unveiling of Burback’s mural celebrating the restaurant’s regulars. Photo When my children were small we took them to an educational facility in Redondo, and as a treat afterward we would take them to their favorite cafe. My son was about eight years old but had the appetite of a teenager, and he was ordering full meals at Eat At Joe’s and polishing off everything on the plate. He is more than three times that age now but still likes the place, and on a recent afternoon the family went back for a nostalgic visit. No doubt, many of the people around us had the same long history with the place, because Eat At Joe’s has been serving since opening in 1969. While they have made a few concessions to modernity, such as some items labeled on the menu as “healthier” (based on the Blue Zone program, administered by the Beach Cities Health District) the basic formula hasn’t changed: classic American diner fare, and a lot of it. We stopped in on a Saturday and were seated immediately at one of the long shared tables. We had timed things just right, because a few minutes later there was a crowd outside. This is the usual…
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