Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar

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  Great lunch combos.
  Berry spinach salad SOLID.
  Decent service.

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  Posted on 07.16.13 Meghan D.

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  How can I describe awful?  How about an entire meal that comes to you undercooked not once, but TWICE?   Really?  When I ask for a steak done "medium, Hot and Pink" and it comes out bleeding and red, that's nowhere near medium.  The baked potato was hard as a rock, and the vegetables?  Try warm salad on my plate, because everything was totally raw.  I've blanched vegetables for freezing more than these were cooked.  Even the Zucchini slices were hard and raw, and every cook knows those are the easiest veggies to overcook, but you can't cook them mixed with carrots and broccoli without expecting the squash to disintegrate or the veggies to be raw.  C'mon, guys, that's home ec 101.  You steam the tough veggies until just starting to be tender, then you add the tender veggies to finish the dish with the seasonings.  And a baked potato has to be cooked until you can squeeze it.  And the steak?  if you don't use a meat thermometer that is accurate, then you can slit the middle half way to look at the readiness, then turn it over to serve it if done, or turn it over to cook it a little more if not done enough, to keep the heat in the meat.  You have to know the hot and cool spots on the grill and cook the more rare steaks over the hot spots shorter, and the mediums and well dones on the cooler spots longer.  
  
  My meal was so poorly prepared, I had to take the meal home to cook it myself to get the steak to the proper done-ness.  The potato and veggies were still raw after giving it a quick blast in my inverter.  I had to nuke the potato for an additional 5 minutes to get it done to barely edible, and the veggies I ended up throwing away as they had already gotten dry and I got tired of trying to fix their screwup.  
  
  This is a very simple dish to prepare, but the cooks aren't capable of of preparing the most basic food well.   Being open late is the ONLY thing this place has going for it.  The food here isn't worth dirtying a dish....    The food is overpriced and poorly prepared.  Probably the last time I ever eat at this chain.

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  Posted on 09.23.12 G C.

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  The food was better than I expected (blackened tilapia), but I wouldn't necessarily come back here.
  
  We came here for dinner a couple weeks ago, and got a table right away. Our server was very friendly, but his table side approach was lacking. He walked right up to the table and said "what can I get you to drink?" No hello, no nothin'.
  
  The women's bathroom floor is very sticky, bathroom smells strongly of sewer gas - so much so it was difficult to breathe.
  
  Server next to us was very thorough in cleaning and moved tables to get under them.
  
  The weird thing was we didn't get our check or a goodbye from our server. We got our check from someone else with no explanation. It was a really bizarre ending to the meal.

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  Posted on 08.28.12 Danielle S.

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  Well, color me surprised and pleased.
  
  I won't lie.  I don't think much of chains like Applebee's and Chili's.  I consider them "expensive fast food".  So, tonight, when the only thing open around us was Applebee's, I was prepared to be disappointed.
  
  We walked in around 11:30 PM, and the bar was packed.  I had a splitting headache and asked the manager (who was seating us) to please sit us in the quietest area he could.  I could tell that large portions of the restaurant were already closed down and being cleaned, and I wasn't going to be a jerk and ask him to seat me in any of those sections.  But, he smiled, and said he knew of a quiet place.  He walked me to the other side of the restaurant, as far away from the noise as we could get, and sat us in one of the already closed section.  I was more thankful than I could tell you.
  
  We got the 2 For $20 deal.  My Fiesta Lime Chicken was really freakin' awesome.  The chicken breast was cooked /perfectly/ and was really nicely marinated.  Even my fries were perfect.  My boyfriend's salad wasn't as good as my entree, but come on, it's a salad.  The spinach artichoke dip was also really good.  Our waitress (Traci) was really bubbly and friendly and put me in a good mood (and, I really wasn't in one when we arrived).
  
  Despite our seating location in the closed section, we were still checked up on more than once to make sure we were happy with everything.
  
  What can I say?  It was a great experience, and I'll be back.  I would have given them five stars, but the prices are really high.  $10 for a club sandwich?  Meh.

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  Posted on 07.01.12 Alicia J.

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  This is another place me and my other half hit up 'to go' ordering and I love it. They have nice employee's, Their food is good, They ask what you're driving and actually bring out your order to you as to go ordering should be.

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  Posted on 07.12.11 Lindsay C.

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  I used to like this place. The food was good and the other diners were civil (read: they used their inside voices). I've since become a vegetarian so the pickings on the menu were very slim. But that's my problem; let's get to the reason for my poor review of Applebee's. THE LOUD MUSIC. Why do restaurants insist on playing hard rock music and turning the speakers waaaaay up? Do they think we don't want to converse with our dining companions? Do they think their music is better than any conversation we could possibly have? Do they think we actually ENJOY that crap?
  
  Maybe I'll have to open my own restaurant where the music is just "white" noise and maybe I'll pick classical music instead of pop rock. Maybe I'll divide the restaurant in two: one half for the people who insist on talking loud enough so everyone in the restaurant knows their business, and one half for people who use their inside voices and respect their fellow diners. Anyone have $200,000 to help me get started?

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  Posted on 02.02.11 Ellen K.

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  Great place to hit up for late night happy hour... very friendly staff and Ryan is a great bartender :)
  
  Played Farkle at the bar for a couple hours, got hooked up on drinks, had some wonton chicken tacos that were very tastey, and got the WII out to do a little friendly battling.
  
  Apparently also there is a mystery man who makes the "BEST" margaritas... he even brings his own tools in to concoct these drinks... one of these days I will meet this man and test out this drink.

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  Posted on 03.25.10 Alicia H.

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