As per Government instructions, and to help slow the spread of Covid, JoJo’s will remain closed for now. When we are in a position to re-open and take bookings, we will post all the details here.
Obviously we cannot take any advance bookings for 2021, so please do not call, email or message us with reservation requests.
Thank you all for your amazing support and we will be back!
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JoJo’s Meze, Meat & Fish
2 Herne Bay Road
Tankerton
Whitstable
Kent
CT5 2LQ
United Kingdom
Restaurant bookings can be made up to two weeks in advance by telephone only. Call us on 01227 274591.
JoJo’s is non-smoking.
Sorry, dogs are not allowed inside (except for guide and assistance dogs).
We are wheelchair accessible and have suitable toilet facilities.
JoJo’s Meze, Meat & Fish Restaurant
Wednesday: 6.00pm – 10.00pm
Last food order 8.00pm. Booking essential
Thursday to Saturday: 12noon – 10.00pm
Last food order 8.00pm. Booking essential
Sunday: 12noon – 5.00pm
Last food order 3.00pm. Booking essential
JoJo’s Cocktails, Drinks & Tapas Bar
Drinks
Sorry – due to Government guidelines the Cocktails, Drinks & Tapas Bar is currently closed.
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restaurant-guide.com Review
by JoJo's • Reviews on November 20, 2004
Please click here to read www.restaurant-guide.com‘s review (it opens in a new window). Or (handily!) the review is also quoted below…
Visitors to this website (www.restuarant-guide.com) will have noted that we go to some pains to define the nature of each entry – thus Modern English, Middle Eastern etc. Just occasionally this gives rise to problems. For JoJo’s a classification of ‘Eccentric’ springs to mind, but it would fail to do anything like justice to this whacky and informal extension of Whitstable’s mission to present seafood at its best and freshest. Open daily except Tuesday and Wednesday, on which days it reverts to being the owners’ family home, it offers the ultimate al fresco experience. They describe themselves as “cosy, atmospheric, fun and honest”. What they are too modest to say is that the food is freshly cooked, Mediterranean in style, and as presented is the work of a culinary saint. Her name is Nikki Billington, her other half is front-of-house Paul. The cooking is carried out en clientele and it’s all very matey, but highly effective.
Whilst there is an emphasis on seafood, it is by no means exclusive, and the menu is as unpredictable as everything else, so go with an open mind as well as your own bottles. There is a notional corkage of £1 a bottle to cover glasses and corkscrew, with an off-licence just round the corner in case you forget. What JoJo’s does is to take the pomp and circumstance out of great quality eating and replace it with relaxed jollity in homely surroundings. Nor, at around £15 a head could it be described as anything but extraordinary value.
However, such has been the success of JoJo’s that ‘manic’ has turned into ‘impossible’ and in January 2005 they are closing for alterations to their home, the better to cope with an insistent public. They plan to reopen in April. I just find myself hoping they retain the essential spirit of the place – somehow I feel they will. We could do with more places like this – lots more – including one close to our home.
Published: 2004. © www.restaurant-guide.com