🍕🍪 BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse Review: Extreme Pizza, Elite Wings, and Too Much Chocolate 🍪🍕

We're back with Part 2 of BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse, and this time PJ McCormick (@peejmccormick) and I actually sit down to eat. The service feels a little detached, the vibes are exactly what you'd expect from a brewery, and PJ remains baffled that this place ever started as a pizza joint.

🍕 Pepperoni Extreme Pizza Surprisingly Lives Up to the "Extreme" (What is this, 2002??)
🍪 A Trio of Pizookies: Salted Caramel, Strawberry Shortcake, and WAY Too Much Chocolate
🍤 New Orleans Jambalaya Didn't Matter At ALL
🥨 Big Twist Pretzel Hanged for Pickpocketing
🍗 BJ's Original Wings Steal the Whole Meal
🎙️ PJ Shares His Best and Worst Restaurant Experiences
🚫 Domino's Earns PJ's 0 out of 10 (and I Protest)
🏆 A 10.00 Goes to Vegan Italian Pasta

💬 COMMENT BELOW: Is BJ's as good as we scored it?

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👉 NEXT WEEK: I head to Papa Murphy's Take 'n Bake Pizza with stand-up comedian Peter Murphy. Yes, we drove 4 hours just to pick up a pizza that we had to cook at home...

🍕🍺📚 BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse: Finding the Gimmick (It Was Beer) 📚🍺🍕

This week kicks off Part 1 of our BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse coverage with a full Eat Deets history episode, joined by PJ McCormick (@peejmccormick). We trace BJ's unlikely evolution from a Chicago-style pizza experiment to a beer-forward empire, debate whether pizza was ever really their best foot forward, and draw a completely reasonable comparison between BJ's brand identity journey and Stone Cold Steve Austin ditching the Ringmaster gimmick. Also yes: blowjob jokes.

🍕 "BJ Grunt's" Got a Cease-and-Desist
🍺 Explaining the Real Gimmick via Stone Cold Steve Austin
📈 From Pizza Joint to National Restaurant & Brewhouse Chain
🍪 The Birth of the Pizookie and How It Stole the Whole Show
🎤 PJ Pitches His Dream Restaurant: A Pho Spot Where You're Immortalized for Not Coughing
⭐ Yelp From Strangers Includes a "Fat and Ugly" Man Mad His Hot Waiter Wouldn't Hustle for the Tip

💬 COMMENT BELOW: Is BJ's a pizza place, a brewery, or just a Pizookie delivery system?

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👉 NEXT WEEK: Part 2 as we actually eat BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse and find out if the pizza, the wings, or the Pizookie can beat Chili's.

🍕📊🍴 Domino's Pizza Review: Three Pizzas, Vibes, & Getting Deputized 🍴📊🍕

Season 4 continues as James Werner (@jamesyjoehenry) returns for Part 2 of our Domino's Pizza episode, this time putting the pizza where the mouth is. We actually ate inside a Domino's, sat at a real table, and watched the pies come together from what can only be described as the Young Pizza Inspector overlook. With all-star service, we break Domino's down category by category to see if it can clear the Chili's bar.

🍕 Reviewing the Full Spread (and Absolutely No Salad)
🔥 BBQ Chicken Pizza, Ultimate Pepperoni, and Pan Pizza with Pepperoni, Bacon, & Garlic
🍝 Penne Pasta, Garlic Bread Bites, Cinnamon Bread Bites, and Chocolate Lava Cake
🏆 James Is the Champion of Shouting People Out
🎨 Decor That Made Us Wish We Could Vandalize the Walls
👀 Deputized to Inspect Pizzas
🍕 Yes, I Do Crave Pizza Despite Not Liking Cheese
✈️ James' Worst Restaurant Experience Ever Involved an Airport Sandwich
🍌 His Best Experience Was Weighted by Flashiness of Bananas Foster
📊 The Final Score: Is Domino's Better or Worse Than Chili's?

💬 COMMENT BELOW: What's your go-to Domino's order?

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👉 NEXT WEEK: I head to BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse with comedian PJ McCormick and dive into their history (including pretty dumb etymology).