Walked in about 6:20 on a Wednesday and it wasn't very busy, there were a lot of open Booths and tables. They had at least 5 servers that I saw and 2 hostesses. I saw the Manager Brandon who didn't even acknowledge us either. We ended up walking out after our "10 minute" wait ended up being more close to 20. The hostesses gave me the feeling like they didn't know what they were doing. We ended up eating at the Diner down the street that actually wanted our business. I never write reviews like this, but I feel like other people should know.
Review Source:I'm not big on the lunch/dinner menu at Applebee's. Â They take regular food and try to spice it up too much. Â On this particular visit my daughter tried the ribs but they were too peppery and she didn't finish them. I had the fried shrimp but then again, I know what to stick with here. Â I usually opt for the chicken tenders which are very good. Â
The desserts are awesome!
I have always had great service at Applebee's so that' why I gave them three stars instead of two. Â I also like their 2 for $20 and 2 for $24 specials.
Went there last Saturday night around 9:00.  Waited at the front door for over 5 minutes before the hostess showed up - that should have been a sign to leave.  When she finally came the first thing she said (no hello or welcome) was "it'll be 5-10 minutes". Even though we could see empty tables all around.  We said, how about those - pointed to 2 tables  right in front of us.  She said "the waitress in that section already has 3 tables so it'll be at least a 10 minute wait.  We said fine, we just want to sit down.  Terrible customer service.
After sitting, our waitress came by after about 5 minutes and said, "Oh, nobody told me you were here." Â She was adequate although the service was much slower than in other Applebee's. Â The server never came back to ask how our food was, so we finished. Â The food was typical - not great but not terrible. Â
I used to be a regular at Applebee's in my previous hometown, but never again here. Â Worst customer service I've had in any restaurant for a long time.
Oh dear God in Heaven, I really don't care for Applebee's at all. Alas, a spark of evil lurks within the hearts of even the kindest, purest souls and it is frequently manifested by the giving of an Applebee's gift card. I guess it beats a cursed monkey's paw.
Usually, we tuck them away in corners until they fall through the crack in reality that also sucks up socks and pens but spits out wire hangers. But this one was from the Mother in Law and it seemed wrong to treat it that way.
So last night we were really bored and feeling really lazy so we decided to get the Applebeing over with while school was shut for the holidays. Bound to make for an emptier restaurant, right? Holy over-salted food, Batman. That place was swinging at 9 p.m.
OK, forget Applebee's for a second. What does it say about a college town that the bloody Applebee's is the hottest game going on a Saturday night? Yeah. And that too.
So anyway, as I've been writing, I've decided I'm not going to discuss the food. There's no point, right?
I'm not a food snob, I will cheerfully eat a Big Mac, even though I know the Horrible Truth about the "meat." If the prices at Applebee's were about 5% cheaper, I wouldn't complain about it at all. As it is, it is what it is. Or something. (Tip, if you get the buffalo style chicken wings and like the least bit of heat in your food order the Very Hot.)
If I didn't include the food in my star assignment, I'd give this place a solid 5**. Why? The staff was brilliant and this despite the aforementioned crowding, including several tables with young kids. Our order came out sooner than we expected as well.
Ashley, our waitress was very friendly and calm even though the place was packed. And she memorized our order, which I always find impressive. Â So really the only nice thing about the evening was eliminating gift card guilt, the staff, particularly our waitress, and being able to leave her a nice tip.
The service was good, but that's about it.
I haven't been to an Applebee's in a few years, but have portions always been this small? Â Especially the appetizer (the crispy green bean thingies). There were about 8 on the plate for my husband and I to split.
I used the restroom, and the first stall door lock was broken. Then when I went to wash my hands, the faucet came up off the sink. This place seriously needs a renovation. Maybe they are saving for one by cutting back on green bean portions.
(Shrugs)
I attended a birthday dinner at this Applebee's the other night and let's just say my Yelper instincts were in full swing.
Our waitresses, Sarah and Sarah, were on point with delivering drink refills. They must have aced their math classes back in high school because they totally nailed it with giving all sixteen of us separate checks. Sarah and Sarah managed our large party very well.
I have a problem with the fact that many of the items on the menu are pre-made and thus can't be customized. This problem is an Applebee's-in-general problem and not a Baltimore-Avenue-College-Park-Applebee's problem. I don't know which is more of a problem for me, the fact that I can't tell them to leave things off of the food item or the fact that the food isn't entirely fresh. I ordered the chicken quesadilla appetizer as my meal and I didn't want the pico de gallo included. Sarah (waitress) said that the quesadilla is pre-made and they can't remove the pico de gallo. The quesadilla was enjoyable but did not taste super fresh, and it had the unfortunate pico de gallo all throughout it.
The dishes my friends ordered looked good. The food served at Applebee's is better than what we get at our campus dining halls but not as good as pretty much everything else.
I'm all about lemonade, and maybe I'm too critical because of my vast experience with the drink, but the lemonade at this particular Applebee's was jank*.
The decor around the place, as someone at our table described it, would have been cool when we were in high school. The decor contains high school memorabilia, odd portraits of men wearing sombreros, a pop art painting of a roulette table, et al.
You have to view the Applebee's experience in context: we're college kids and Applebee's is a cheap meal. We're used to food from a dining hall, so anything other than that is considered 5-stars. We all had a swell time celebrating birthdays, friendship and life.
*jank: a word that negatively describes anything you want it to. I.e. "Having a broken ankle is jank."
Everyone and their mother goes here for a (slightly) better quality meal... Literally. A lot of parents take their kids here when they are visiting the university. Family friendly, and pretty standard Applebee's food. It's all a chain, so there's nothing absolutely surprising here that you won't see in the Applebee's commercials on TV during your Law and Order programming. Half price appetizers after 9 PM are a great deal.
Review Source:We had to sit at the bar because they were short staff?.. for weekday lunch?! Â Okay so good that bartender was attentive and very fast with her customers at the bar. Â We ordered the spinach and artichoke dip for starters and my friend wanted the oriental chicken salad (which is her favorite) and the birthday boy, Fr. Russel and I ordered the soup and salad combo: tomato bisque and grilled shrimp and spinach salad. Â It was pretty good - I can't complain about the food; I would have just prefered being able to get seated at a table.
Review Source:"Meh. I've experienced better." sums up my experience here perfectly. Applebee's and its ilk always seem to come up short for me. I go in and everything on the menu sounds pretty good. I order it, receive it, and end up incredibly disappointed.
Two of my housemates and I decided to come here for dinner. They ordered some drinks that weren't bad, and I ordered a sweet tea. The tea tasted fine, but you could probably find sweeter tea at a diabetics convention. Then again what could one expect? This isn't a small family-owned grill in the South.
One of my friends ordered the chicken tender basket and she found it perfectly adequate. The other ordered the appetizer sampler and found it similarly uninspiring but unoffensive. I got us a bowl of mozzarella sticks to share and the fish 'n' chips for myself. The mozzarella sticks tasted pretty plain, they could have a bit more seasoning in the batter. Then again they probably arrive in frozen packs from ConAgra headquarters, so I wasn't expecting much better. The fish 'n' chips also let me down. The haddock comes fried in a thick batter that will make your arteries clogged but without delivering on taste. The fries were fine.
I paid $22 for what I ordered. Definitely not worth it. I recommend just getting an appetizer or a small entree and a cheap drink (I hear there are $3 Long Islands on certain days). Come with zero expectations and you'll walk away satisfied. On the bright side, our waitress was very friendly and attentive as was the hostess.
The plates were FILTHY! This was just the start of a bad visit.  We showed the young lady the stuck on food and she went to get others, but came back with the news that they ran out of the barbecue sauce.. Not even worth going into the bathroom! Sad even when the waitress says" oh I have heard worse"  I ended up cancelling our order, and just paid for the drinks. We went to another establishment,and the manager came over to our  table several times, asked how everything was. I would say the name of the other place we went to, but this place needs to FIRE the management and clean the place up.
Review Source:Staff was friendly but seemed very unorganized. My boyfriend and i went on a Monday night and had to wait about 25 mins along with alot of others while we looked around at what seemed to be more than enough tables available for everyone. Â When we were finally seated i ordered a sirloin steak (medium) and my boyfriend ordered the chicken tenders basket, along with a spinach dip appetizer. When our food arrived, i had no idea that the spinach dip wouldve been the only acceptable dish. My steak was cooked well done, the vegetables on the side looked stale. The chicken tenders looked re fried and not fresh at all. Â i didnt have a good experience at all with the food or the amount of yelling and loud game and i will never go to another applebees.
Review Source:Bottom line up front: Â Unpleasant and got sick. Â Also, metered parking now.
The girlfriend and I stopped in for dinner.
You know it's going to be bad when there's no students at a restaurant in a college town on a saturday night.
The place wasn't close to being full, but it was pretty loud. Â This was in part due to the speaker system blaring a football game at full volume and the customers shouting every few minutes. Â It wasn't just the drunk folks at the bar, it was everybody.
We ordered a half chicken caesar salad (me) and a quesadilla (girlfriend). Â She asked for no meat or toppings, which is to say just cheese and a tortilla. Â We also ordered a strawberry mojito. Â The waitress had a tough time finding her pen. Â Kinda strange, but nothing to write home about.
The waitress brought by my water after a few minutes, and fifteen minutes or so later some guy brought the salad to the table. Â Nobody mentioned anything about the mojito or the quesadilla. Â After another fifteen minutes our waitress shows up with the mojito and mentions that she'd put in the order for the quesadilla and that she'd made sure to tell the kitchen to leave off everything but the cheese and tortilla.
Judging by the taste, the mojito was one part strawberry syrup, two parts sprite, one part windex, and assorted strawberry bits and leaves that were something other than mint. Â The water was just fine.
When the quesadilla showed up, the waitress asks if it's what we ordered (just cheese and tortilla), and mentioned that she'd been sure to tell the kitchen it was a special order. Â No only was there lots of bacon in the quesadilla, there was a mountain of lettuce on top. Â On the one hand, the kitchen did leave out the cheese and most of the toppings, on the other hand, the waitress either didn't check the plate before she left or she was hoping it'd be good enough and we'd not notice the bacon. Â Either way, not so great.
Half a mojito and half a quesadilla into the meal, the girlfriend suddenly got sick. Â It's possible she'd eaten something earlier (we shared a couple of mozzarella sticks earlier), but since meat makes her ill, it's more likely that there was something else in the quesadilla. Â As I'm writing this, she's pointing out that the floor of the bathroom was sticky.
The salad was so-so. Â The lettuce was limp by the time they managed to get her the quesadilla. Â Also, the cheese on top was in thin slices. Â Not bad, but not wonderful either. Â The rest of the meal (all five minutes of it) went ok. Â We were in just under an hour, of which we spent about 10 minutes eating. Â When the waitress brought the check, she asked if she could remove my plate and simultaneously reached for it, which would have been great had I not been hunched over my plate at that time. Â It was a bit strange finding a hand in my face asking if it could take my plate. Â Also, she managed to spill water on the little book the check was in, and instead of making some attempt to wipe off the water, she shook it a bit (about as hard as, say, a magician waving a magic wand) and handed it to me. Â Maybe she was hoping a rabbit would appear or something. Â Nothing horrible, but not so great either. Â We didn't find a rabbit in the check, for the record.
I wrote on the check that I'd be writing a review, so if you're the waitress looking for it, this is it.
By the way, the parking lot now has meters. Â Bring change. Â They were checking cars at 9pm or so. Â According to the girlfriend (sick and in the car for 15 minutes before I got there) the meter checker was walking around diligently handing out tickets. Â A lot of cars got ticketed. Â We lucked out and found a meter with time on it (and saved a whopping 75 cents).
Also, the wifi didn't work.
Summary:
Service varied from strange to lousy, the food was literally sickening, and the drink tasted like something I put together in a janitor's closet once. Â We'll not be going back.
Also, the parking lot is metered. Â Bring change.
I decided to finally go to the Applebees located in College Park since I had been holding on to a gift card since christmas. I ordered  the Ultimate Trios to go which is three different items. The boneless wing were very small, thec pork wonton tacos were very salty and only item that was good was the steak quesadilla towers. That was my first and last time going to Applebees.
Review Source:I went here once with my family. I'm not the biggest fan of chain restaurants cause they're simply inferior to smaller joints, and my experience at this one just made it worse. I've been to other applebees before and usually it's a pretty good experience. Decent food and nice service. However this one was just terrible! They got two of our orders wrong and the food was very dissapointing. Furthermore it took nearly an hour and a half for our food to come out! Never again will I go to this applebees
Review Source:Heeeyyyy....I really like this Applebee's!
Every time I've been there, it's been a pretty normal experience. Â Like a Friday's or something regular like that. My friends and I usually go for the happy hour [from 3-7] and the late night happy hour [from 9-close]. Happy hour is pretty good, a lot of half off appetizers and 3 & 4 dollar drinks. They usually make them pretty strong too.
The food is good, like what you would expect from an Applebee's. Â I absolutely love the boneless buffalo wings and my friends crave their quesadillas all the time. The service is pretty consistent, sometimes you have a waiter or waitress that is a little off, but there's never a problem. Most of the people working there are really nice.
Thursdays are karaoke that I think starts at 9. Those nights are always fun. The djs have all types of music. Some people can sing and others, like myself, just want to have some fun... With that being said, if you're looking for quiet, don't go on a Thursday night.
I mean if you're looking for a 5 star restaurant to have the best dining experience of your life.....I'm preeettty sure Applebee's wouldn't be the place for that anyway. But, if you want to grab a bite to eat, relax, have some drinks, talk with friends, have some fun at karaoke, maybe watch game...then check out this Applebee's!
I was at a training/workshop at Univ of Md-College Park and we decided to find something closeby. Â We were already discouraged by all the parking signs and meters. Â Parking should be not be a hassle with worrying about time running out on your meter when you are waiting for a table and then eating. Â I guess since this is fairly close to campus and it makes it difficult. Â We circled a couple times around and gave up since there was pretty much no available parking. Â We ended up driving out a bit further near a shopping plaza for local restaurant.
Review Source:I eat her for lunch with my coworkers from time to time. Â The service isn't the best but its ok. Â Today was a different story.....
Me and my coworker were eating lunch at this location and she found a roach in her food. Â We took pictures and notified the manager. Â He was very apologetic and offered to pay for our meals and offer us a free meal whenever we decided to come back. Â Thanks but no thanks, we will not go back to this location again
We went on a Saturday night and they only have meter parking. Luckily, the free parking started at 8pm so we parked for free. The wait time wasn't long considering this is a college town. I haven't been to Applebee's in a very long time and my husband never went at all. I ordered the three appetizer meal which consisted of sliders, chips and spinach dip and hot wings. My husband ordered the ribs. As always, he liked his food...I don't think he ever says otherwise. My food must of been ready 20 minutes before his because it was obvious that it was sitting under the heat lamp. The buns on the sliders were hard as a brick! The hot wings were dry. The spinach dip was good. At least I don't ever waste food or money because my husband always eats his food and mine. And he thought the brick buns were good on the overcooked meat. The service wasn't great. Our waiter didn't ask us if we needed anything or refill our drinks. I won't be going there again.
Review Source:I had one of the worst experiences at Applebee's in Delaware, and vowed never to go again. However, hunger struck and my friends wanted something local so we came here.
Unimpressed by the Yelp reviews, blaring hip hop oldies, and loud silly conversations by undergrads, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the menus seemed new and updated, and had some budget friendly deals (i.e. 2 for $20 + appetizer), and the dessert shooters ($1.99).
Oh god, please not mediocre service, I hoped--and hope pulled through! Our server was really nice with an awesome sense of humor. The waiter at the front was also super friendly and fast. Seems like there's a lot of fun events that go on; a full calendar is located at the entrance that includes karaoke and giveaways. Not my thing for a chain restaurant, but I'm sure many college students would find this a plus. Also, we went when it wasn't too packed, so we got our food and drinks very quickly.
FOOD:
-sirloin with potatoes and vegetables -- standard, good stuff. Came out medium rare just like we asked for.
-penne pasta chicken 3 cheeses -- nothing wow, but standard like Lean Cuisine. Garlic bread was good.
-artichoke & spinach dip with chips -- delicious
Overall, this is a good place to go if you're not looking for a super awesome meal but rather something college friendly.
Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised after reading the awful reviews. It's not fine dining, but the menu seemed to have been recently updated and featured a lot of interesting choices. My girlfriend and I both got the new sliders, which were pretty good. We didn't have any problems with the service -- in fact, the restaurant was not crowded at all even on a Friday night.
Tip: Don't forget change for the parking meter!
Why is there nothing on this menu for a small appetite? Â Everything is big plates. Â Sure there are appetizers, but there's nothing on that list but oily meat, oily cheese, deep fried stuff, etc. Â The closest you come to light is a turkey club. Â And I do not consider half a chicken breast on a bun as light.
Also, a word of warning: DO NOT ORDER NACHOS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR CHEESE. Â There was no cheese in evidence on our nachos this past visit. Â Nachos without cheese? Â At first we thought the stuff dripped over them was some combo of tomato-something and maybe cheese, but the more we tasted, it just seemed like salty tomato-something in a sort of creamy base.
This joint gets an extra star for being (1) hilarious and (2) useful. Â Long story short, I did some contract work over the past few years for an employer who sent out rather generous Applebee's gift certificates to his employees for Christmas. Â Since my employer is located across the country, he is unaware that, unlike most of the rest of the country, there are very few Applebee's in the DC area. Â But a nice gesture nonetheless, so my gf and I consequently have a standing date here every January.
Now, being located on Route 1, this Applebee's is relatively close to IKEA. Â Being as IKEA is about the only DC area place I go regularly that's not Metro accessible, this Applebee's is USEFUL because it makes the drive out to IKEA for 6 jars of lingonberries and a Prinsesstarta seem less wasteful. Â The drive from IKEA to Applebee's also takes you down the main drag of the University of Maryland's strip of bars/stores, which is FUNNY, because that area is never not an absolute characature of college. Â
Service at the restaurant itself is bad, but in a tragicomic way, kind of like watching a baby giraffe try to stand up. Â During my first visit, the hostess informed me that, because a number of staff had failed to report for work, the wait to be seated would be close to an hour, despite the considerable number of open tables in plain view. Â I will say that she was accurate in her time estimate. Â What can one do in such situation but laugh? Â On my next annual visit, the power went out for around 30 seconds (blown fuse, I believe), resulting in everyone's order being lost. Â Cue pandemonium. Â Our order wasn't substantially delayed, and we did get to see the couple across the aisle harrass the general manager for a free meal for upwards of 10 minutes. Â That was FUNNY. Â
The experience transitions from tragicomic to tragic once your food arrives. Â But this part of the experience is USEFUL. Â No longer will you wonder at the source of America's obesity epidemic, and you may even find the true cause of America's declining standing in the world. Â Truly, when you stare into that titanic bowl of three-cheese chicken penne long enough, does it not stare into you as well? Â My point is that eating here will make you think deeply about how your views on portion size, ingredient quality, agricultural subsidies, and many other food-related issues. Â Or at least it should. Â If nothing else, you can gauge your long-term success at controlling your own portion sizes by just how much of an Applebee's "serving" you can finish. Â Also, the margaritas were weak and sugary, and parking was ample.
P.S. Aaron F.: you took a date to Applebee's? Â I'm guessing more than just the restaurant itself received a one-star rating that night.
I'm not normally a big fan of chain restaurants, but Applebee's in College Park is hands-down one of the worst I've ever been to in PG County. Â A close friend of mine picked this place for all of us to meet on her birthday. Â It was all downhill from there.
1.) Â They forgot our reservation for a party of 8 and thus forced us to wait 15 minutes to be seated at 7:30 on a Saturday night.
2.) Â Nearly all of the alcoholic drinks were either forgotten or delivered incorrectly.
3.) Â After the waitress FINALLY came around to take our food orders, it took nearly 40 minutes for the food to come out.
4.) Â My chicken quesadilla came out as a quesadilla burger. Â It took HALF AN HOUR for the correct item to come out and they had forgotten the guacomole I ordered. Â Thankfully, Rachel's UMCP pals were nice enough to share some of their food as I waited... and waited... and waited for my own meal to arrive.
I told the manager that he could either take the food back or take the item off my check, but either way, I wasn't touching the food until he had agreed that I wouldn't be paying for it.
I felt so bad for my friend because she was patient and had really tried to work with them, but this was just the worst possible service. Â To top it off, the waitress frequently disappeared without so much as an explanation of why everything was going wrong. Â Other waiters came by and tried to help, but they had their own work to do.
Don't waste your time at this dump. Â If you're looking for American food on the cheap while cruising Route 1, go to the MUCH BETTER Plato's Diner next door.
If i could give less than one star i would.
Short story: Took a date here and couldn't tell if everyone standing around was at the bar or waiting for a table so i asked what the wait was - response was (not exagerating) well you see people in front of you right? my reaction- yea that pretty obvious but why don't YOU tell me how long the wait is since i can't tell how many are here for the bar  or not)  they said 20 min, it ended up being 1/2 hour
nice waitress took our order - and forgot to put it in. - i waited an hour for my food.
the steak i ordered finally arrived and on one side it was dry the other side was covered in cheese- LOW AND BEHOLD - the melted cheese  was covering  up the charcol black burned steak.  The manager came over (after i dind't get the sides i ordered)  and offered to get me another steak - i had lost my appitite after seeing some flies on other peoples food after they'd gotten up so decided i had enough and left. never to return.
tacky and dirty with bad service - but a nice waitress only perk
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