Johnny Blacks Public House
1711 E Auburn Rd, Rochester Hills
(248) 606-4479
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A large spacious restaurant with many TVs and an outdoor area. A very popular restaurant with a good food menu and excellent service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food was 10/10 and our server Gracie was amazing. 100% recommend
Food: 5
Service: 5
Attended this location a few days ago and really enjoyed my experience! Our service gracie was very attentive and sweet! Food was great, had to order extra breadsticks! Overall really recommend to visit for dinner!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
great place - love coming here! gracie is such an AMAZING server!! always working hard and so sweet to everyone! :)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
If you like the Gen X sticky bar with a layer of filth, this place is for you. There wasn’t a single clean plate, fork or glass in the entire restaurant. Even Buffalo Wild Wings is cleaner. My wife ordered a wine, which arrived with a floaty, I got severed a fork and knife with scum on it and every glass looked like it had never been properly sanitized.
Our waitress, Grace, was amazing. Very friendly, kind, and ran around like crazy making sure the patrons were taken care of.
The food was mediocre, reminded me of your average place that serves GFS or Sysco foods. Can’t say I’d advert come back or try their new place Juan Blank’s, especially is it’s anything like this. I would have rather gone to CK Diggs, which also has mediocre food, but at least it’s clean.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 4
Overall great experience. I’ve had a food not great servers, and while I usually love the cheeseburger, it’s not super consistent.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
My friends and I went today, 10/09/2025 around 2pm for a quick bite to eat. First of all, we walked in and there were only 10 other customers in the entire restaurant, and only one at the bar. My friend and I sat down and it was 5 minutes before we even saw anyone working out on the floor, and another 5 minutes before our bartender came to take our drink orders. Maybe 20 minutes later we ordered food. I ordered the toasted ravioli, which I expected to be regular ricotta filled ravioli, breaded and deep fried. What I received was nothing of the sort. I got raviolis filled with….queso cheese? I’m not exactly sure what it was, but it definitely wasn’t ricotta, and it had tomatoes or red peppers inside. It also arrived with ranch when it said it came with marinara on the menu. My friend ordered chicken sliders which had pieces of chicken on it that were so big, one piece would have been enough for 3 sliders. Her fries were also undercooked and hard. The bartender didn’t seem to have a clue about what was going on. We asked if she had a specials or happy hour menu to which she responded, “Uhhh……I’m not really sure.”
I’ll be honest….I have never had good service here. I’ve been a few times with family and now I only go back when a group wants to go there, because I’m always so disappointed in the service. The food has always been fine up until today, and this was the final straw for me. The food and service were so awful that I do not see myself returning for any reason, which is sad because I live close and it is a convenient place to go when I want to grab a bite to eat or meet up with someone. I definitely won’t be going back anytime soon.
Love this place! Great everything especially bar tenders
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The music they play completely stinks, very annoying country music. Food is okay.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Good place to get beers and bar food. Nice atmosphere and good service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
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Love the atmosphere, very slow time, 5 at bar , 5 at tables, took food over 30 min for flatbreads. Out of all the johnny blacks we would love to use this one for friend meet ups, but service and wait time on food is not good. Thank You.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
I checked out Johnny Blacks Public House for the first time anout a week ago. Food and service was fantastic. Completely satisfied and I will be back..
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good karaoke and great prices and excellent food
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sophie was a really rude waitress and we’ve normally come here and never have had an experience quite like this
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 1
I was very disappointed in last nights meal. Friends and I have gone here many times in the past but it had been a few years. We all had the all you can eat perch wed special. First round I had to cut my fish with a knife and it lacked flavor. Second round fish was mush and again it had no flavor. I am wondering if this was really perch or zander. Choice for potato was mashed ( I noticed my friends barely ate theirs) tator tots, French fries or sweet potato fries for a $2 upcharge. I chose the fries. Very limp hardly fried and had a taste of old oil. Not sure if I will be back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
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