Taking a long historical architectural journey through Bisbee landed us at Jimmy's. We are suckers for old historical buildings / neighborhoods & dive joints. I would leave 5 stars, but details below.
The Good - Food was ample, delicious & economical. The fried cod was the best we have found in Southern AZ. The shrimp was large & both cooked perfectly. The cod piece was 11" long. I grew up in a California River town 1.5hrs from San Francisco. I'm picky about my seafood.
The better half grew up in an Italian district back east. When we saw they had an Italian beef & sausage with giardinera (pickled veggies), that was our second choice. We ordered it with the au jus on the side.. fries & coleslaw. The sandwich was far larger than we expected. Low carbers, keto carnivore can definitely find options here. Everything tasted as we had hoped.....for the most part. To be honest, their menu is quite extensive with so many things to try, we will definitely hit them up again. I saw a couple of orders of jumbo foot long hot dogs come up & they looked awesome. Our bill was around $26 & that included a large ice tea. They did not have fresh lemon for the tea or seafood & the seafood cocktail sauce was hard & cold....which leads to..
The removal of one star - additionally, fries & most hot foods can't be wrapped in parchment paper without the food steaming itself. The fries tasted good, but were soggy within 3 minutes of unwrapping in the truck. No one wants soggy fried foods. There are better to go options to keep food crisp. Even our sandwich bun was already wet within a couple minutes.
Why did we eat in the truck? Because for some reason, it's OK for 15 people to stand around inside the very small strip eatery waiting 10 minutes for their food, yet it's not ok to eat inside. Arbitrary theater.
Our other choice was to sit outside in the wind. No thanks. Soon that sun is going to be full force & their outside seating area is limited with no shade.
As we were leaving, an older guy with no mask was walking in. His name is Max Cook. He works in a govt position of sanitation, safety. We got in a convo & he agreed. It's arbitrary. Open the door, allow air flow & let people sit & eat their hot & fresh food. We would have been irritated to have ordered all that wonderful food to take home & have it soggy. We would have been delighted to sit inside like humans.
All that being said..adorable & worth the money. Just go back to normal & let people enjoy your food the way it's meant to be eaten. read more