Botak Jones/Brewski Jones (Bedok)

My colleague drove both of us there for lunch. It was partically empty. There was another stall that sold pizza and pasta (maybe that's why not much sales?)

Anyway, I ordered the cajun chicken (with brocolli and potato salad) and my colleage fish and chips.

The cajun chicken was really good. Considered it's chicken breast but it was tender although it was thick. Food though was serve lukewarm and took ages to come. My colleague was almost finished with his fish and chips when mine finally arrived (when it's obvious that they weren't busy).

I checked out the steak prices. Seem to have increase. I would think I go to Jack's place for the lunch set will probably be cheaper than eating steak there. *JMHO

Overall, pretty okay. Cos no gst or service charge.

I'm being based in Bedok this week, and my friend recommended Botak Jones for lunch. I've heard about this place but have not try it, so why not.

I decided to go for the Botak Burger - $7.50 with 2 sides(Fries & Cheese Potato) + $1.00 for Cheese & $2.00 for Bacons to share.

The burger came 10mins later, pretty fast maybe caused it's after normal lunch time. The - Mashed Potatoe w cheese, this was abit cold when serve, dun think it should be cold thou. Fries was a let down. The fries look spicy and good but turned out tasteless, not even salty. Psst Psst...I prefer the fries @ Astons :p

AND NOW...

The Botak Burger, patty came medium-well with a slice of tomatoe, some raw onions + my cheese and bacon topping. I actually like the burger. It's juicy and the melted cheese make the burger even tastier. I wish the bacons were more crispy thou.

Service is good.

A complete meal cost $7.50 without the add ons. I left feeling full and satisfy. Why not? :)

The food is okay, not fantastic but okay. My friend and I went there on a weekday, I ordered fish n chips and she ordered chicken gumbo. The fish is crispy with a twist of lemon on it, nothing special, very much the ones you'll eat at normal hawker centres. The taste of the chicken gumbo is good I guess (my friend did not complain about that), but the rice given is really very little. It's about one quarter bowl of rice given only, she has to go back constantly to ask for more rice.

I always thought botak jones is a place which offers generous servings of food, but I was wrong. The servings given are not enough to fill our stomachs. The price of $6.50 for a bowl of soup (chicken gumbo) is really quite expensive considering it's only an outlet in a hawker centre with no air-con. I think Astons is so much better compared to botak jones. Folks, try Astons~!

Had this Botak Jones craving for the past 1 week after a friend keep raving non-stop about this Bedok joint, which was supposedly better than the rest(Brother says overated)

Well,food-wise it was definitely a worth my long walk from the carpark as I was given the wrong block number...
Ordered fish & chips, which came in a jiffy so I believe that it was pre-prepared, thus not piping hot but good enough. Sauces was delivered to us promptly before the food was serve and I must say that it was really a generous serving, but I seriously dun mind more fries tho....love it.

Service was pretty fast, just that queue was a lil long, prob due to the dinner crowd...but once your order has been placed, your food will come pretty fast.

Ambience...coffeeshop la, very hot..but for the price & food there, I will just close an eye.=P

Well, already decided that will drag my colleagues there again after work ...=)cun do this every day with my expanding waist-line...thanks to more botak jones

I am a botak virgin no more! Been hearing so much hype about it so thought I'd give it a try. Went there for lunch today with 4 other colleagues. We had:

- Botak burger: it comes kosong, only with thick beef patty and raw onions and lettuce but you can order extras and pay extra. Like cheese or sauteed onions or egg. I took egg but was disappointed cos it came a bit runny looking. I like my egg nicely done.

- Cajun chicken: my colleague had this. I kept attacking it cos it was soooooo good!

- Fish and chips: good price but it had a strange taste to me

We wanted to order a side order of cheese fries to share but our waiter Elmo said why not pull together all the fries from our dishes and top up a bit to add cheese. Good idea. In the end, still cannot finish.

Overall, a nice experience. I liked my burger but it was really tooooo much. And I would have gone with cheese instead of egg next time. Then again, next time I will order the cajun chicken. It's simply super flavourful.

Service is great. Typical laid back angmoh style where the waiters chat with you and are easy going. Prices are OK! Seriously, for a beef burger, $5.50 (before adding the other stuff) is really an awesome price.

No ambience to speak of, it's a normal coffee shop. But at least it's relatively clean.

I've eaten at various Botak Jones branches numerous time but this was the first time I ordered take away from the Bedok North branch and it turned out to be a most pleasant experience. I ordered the Botak Burger Set with cheese and egg, waited for about 10 minutes, got my food and drove home. (I live a couple of streets away)

When I reached home and inspected the food, I suspected something was amiss because I did not have any coleslaw. I called them up to ask if they usually give coleslaw with the meals, to which the guy who answered the phone (Mikee) replied in the affirmative. Alas, they had forgotten my coleslaw. I must admit I was rather disappointed. However, when Mikee realised it was a mistake on their part, he immediately apologized and offered to send the coleslaw to me! I wasn't quite expecting that and so I told him that it was really okay, but he kept insisting that he should and that it was only right for him to do so.

And so about half an hour later, Mikee was at my door with my coleslaw and a complimentary slice of oreo cheese cake.

Now this is truly amazing service. I think the food is pretty decent, especially when I'm in the mood for a cheap (proper) burger fix, but this is the kind of service that makes customers feel valued, and makes sure they keep coming back. (and makes them want to write reviews too!)

No matter what people may say about standards dropping because of more branches opening around the island, I think Botak Jones is still definitely doing some very important and basic things RIGHT.

Came with my fren to this Bedok Outlet to try out their food.. I had the rosemary lamb chop but not really to my liking cos its kinda oily with all the visible fats :P but portion of the food is realli big.

My fren had the fish and chip which is quite value for money considering that they pile up a big heap of fries together.

Ambience wise.. It's located in a coffee shop so you can imagine how it goes about :) During the time when we were there, the entire outside as well as the inside of the coffee shop were sitted with Botak Jones' customers while the rest of the coffee shop stalls are practically beating mosquitoes.. haha..

Despite the numerous customers, their service is pretty fast. :)

Botak Jones is now all over Singapore but believe it or not, this is my first visit because going to AMK or Clementi etc for BJ just didn't seem like a good idea. I have not been to Astons, so I can't compare - I suppose Astons is a bit like a real restaurant whilst BJ is still a coffeeshop. At least this Bedok coffeeshop is decently clean and pleasant - I have seen many worse ones.

3 of us ordered 1 x 200g ribeye $14.5, 1 fish and chips %6.5 and 1 cajun chicken $7.5. For lunch - actually we ordered too much and could not finish the fries because it was just so generous.

The ribeye came larger than I had expected and I think it was probably more like 230g. It came perfectly medium as specified and was decently tender. The fish - well there was 3 pieces of crispy breaded fish - quite good and the cajun chicken - well it was OK for a piece of chicken breast.

All 3 came with a generous scoope of fries (we ordered without the spice on top) and coleslaw. The fries were good (too much after a while) and the coleslaw was fresh and not overly mayonnaised

Service was pleasant and friendly.

SUM UP - a good first time at BJs

6 December 2007 : RL & I decided to come here for dinner. When we arrived at around 7pm, there was no queue to order food.(i guess we were fortunate because 20 minutes later... a queue started forming) There were people feeding on botak jones dishes at almost all the tables.

We ordered :
[JC] : Rosemary Lamb Chop ($11.50)

[RL] : Fish & Chips ($6.50)

TOTAL = $18.00

Both main dishes came with a very generous serving of 2 side dishes (chips & coleslaw). My lamb chops came with some greens(tomato & lettuce), mint sauce and a rather buttery mushroom sauce. I would have preferred if they put some lamb stock and a dash of wine into the sauce.(just my personal preference). The lamb chop were ok... i could not detect the taste of rosemary at all... The lamb chops were soft and tender and not salty at all. I requested for my chips sans the chilli powder. They were piping hot and crispy..just the way i like it. I enjoyed the coleslaw very much too. I tried some of RL's fish & chips... the fish was crispy and tasty... not bad at all.

Ambience : Well this is a coffee shop... if you are a peasant like me, this is a perfectly good place to fill up your hungry tummy. Botak Jones was playing "THE POLICE" cd on speakers and the music filled the coffee shop.

My revisit to botak jones was a good one - i certainly liked the food this time. I plan to try Brewski Jones one day after work at the sweatshop.
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Thursday (6 Dec 07). JC and I came here for dinner. We arrived just slightly after 7 PM and we did not encounter any queue to order our food. As we had surveyed the menu earlier today, we knew exactly what we wanted already, and wasted no time in placing our order.

While waiting for our food to be served, we noticed that more than three-quarters of the occupied tables were of Jones' customers. The rest of the occupied tables were mostly of the zhi char stall's customers; and the odd few from the other stalls. I noticed that the other stallholders for the Vegetarian Food, Chicken Rice and Fishball Mee were sitting about looking really idle. It looks like Botak Jones is going to put lots of pressure on the other tenants within the coffee shop. Botak Jones serves alcoholic drinks too, thus giving the drinks stall a run for it's money too!

It took about 10 minutes for our food to finally be served.

RL - Fish and Chips, $6.50
The fish and chips came with a mountain of coleslaw, which I happily devoured. I enjoyed the spicy fries and polished them all off too. The fish was nice and it came with a generous quantity of tartar sauce.

JC - Rosemay Lamb Chops, $11.50
I had a little of the lamb chops. I did not like it, not because it was bad or anything, but lamb does not personally appeal to me.

This branch is located within a coffee shop, so don't expect too much for ambience.