Adam's Jamestown Pizza And Grill

One of the best traits a restaurant can have, is self-awareness. Knowing what you are, who your customers are and what they want, and not deviating by trying to be something different. Adam's Jamestown Pizza and Grill is a really good example of this. Let me tell you why.

My 5 stars isn't me telling you, you should rush yourself and all your family here, as well as out of town guests, to eat some of the most incredible food in the Triad. That isn't what this place is for. In fact, most of their business is take out. They do have a dining room, but according to the manager, I am one of the few who has used it lately.

No, this place is for when you, and maybe a couple others, need an inexpensive, no-nonsense meal that is filling, tasty enough, and perfect for a night where you aren't looking to go big. You want a sandwich? They've got sandwiches. Pizza, pasta, a little bit of Greek? That's on the menu too. Fried seafood, actually, they have that in spades!

For my part, I came in at darn near 9pm on a Thursday. Just needed some food, didn't want to make it for myself. Driven by this place countless times. Decided I finally wanted to give it a shot. I like to eat my food fresh, so I asked the friendly manager, Jack, if I could enjoy it there. He was happy to oblige, and turned the A/C on in there as it was a little stuffy (unprompted by me).

They had a special for whiting (1 or 2 pieces, adjust to your appetite), popcorn shrimp, fries, slaw, hushpuppies. I love an easy fried seafood platter. I went for that. Jack asked me if I cared for whiting, and offered a couple other choices instead, no upcharge. I went with Pollock. I had a seat and in about 10-15 minutes, a beautiful filet of lightly breaded, nicely seasoned fish was presented. Underneath it, a generous helping of popcorn shrimp, fries, hushpuppies. On the side, a cup of coleslaw, cocktail sauce, ketchup, and tartar sauce. Ready to eat!

The fish, nice long filet, took up the whole container. Fish perfectly flaky, not at all greasy, with a super light hand-breading. I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, there was barely any grease at all on the paper lining. I appreciate this. Popcorn shrimp were small, numerous, great with cocktail sauce. Fries, really good, but I didn't eat many because i wanted to eat all my seafood fresh before filling up. Hushpuppies, also pretty good. The cole slaw, not my favorite, personal preference. Too much mayonnaise, but in general, I don't like mayo much, and like a sparse application of it in any cold salad. I wasn't here for slaw, i was here for fried fish and it was great.

I also got to enjoy some conversation with Jack. Learned about his customers, the difficulty of running a restaurant post-pandemic, staff retention issues. Those struggles are pretty common now, but nice to have a frank discussion among two people that know the restaurant industry well.

All in all. I ate all my fish and shrimp, some of my fries, and a couple hushpuppies. I was very satisfied, and I know I'll come back to fill a fish craving, as well as try other things on the menu. So to my readers I say, keep your expectations in line with the price, and know that there are gems here to be had!

Fish is good hotdogs also nice food I be back only place in Jamestown to sell Hot Dogs

The food was awful!! The pictures on website look nothing like the actual place. Wanted my money back and was told they don't do that!! Waited 30 minutes to be told my lunch was burnt!! Save yourself the aggravation and do go here!! Have to give a one star just to post

When my family are in need of a pizza and wings feast, this is our local favorite. Their pizza sauce is on the sweet side, but I personally love it. My boys also like that they offer burgers and subs.

The food was cold, the potato was hot. It was a little pricey but still good but after I nuked it. I would eat here again.

*sigh* gambled on this place. Ordered two larges for delivery. They were...tiny. Just much less than expected.
Flavor: the pizzas just didn't taste great. They weren't bad, but they weren't good either. Unfortunately bland and middle of the road. Garlic loaf likewise was meh.
Unfortunately, this place just didn't live up to even the low bar expectations we had.
Next time, we'll order from D-mo's or the Hutts or HunHow. At least those are a consistent, known quality. Maybe things will change here in another year.

So we decided to do luck of the draw pizza on the way to Castle mccolluch. This is not the Ritz but the staff was nice and the pizza was good even for my wife from Buffalo.

I tried the steak and cheese today and when i tell you when i bit into the sub it felt like the meat and cheese melted into my mouth and with the homemade Italian dressing they cook it with the flavor was just multiplied tenfold.

The Meat Lasagna was very good! It's very much a "hole in the wall" sort of place, but nice staff and pretty clean. I'll certainly come back again!

This is the worst pizza we've had since moving into the area. We ordered a philly pizza (which was red sauce, thinly sliced beef that had a strange after taste, and cheese...... no peppers, onion, or mushrooms like I thought a philly included.) Not at all what I expected. The crust was plain and tough, really lacked any flavor. We really wanted to love it, but it wasn't good. Ended up throwing it out.

Update: I kept this pizza down for almost 30 minutes...... something didn't agree with me if you are looking for a good pizza, look elsewhere!