Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar

It's an Applebee's. Absolutely, totally, unswervingly middle of the road.

My experience here was bad from the get go...from astoundingly slow service, to chicken being in the vegetarian tomato/basil soup (that a vegetarian had ordered), to sitting for a good 20 minutes after our plates we taken waiting for our bill, to the waitress not returning my card to me and having to return the next day to pick it up.

I am pretty easy going about service and feel like the first couple of times I had to ask for something more than once (a clean knife, a straw etcetc) was okay. I get it. But the fact that at 3pm when there was barely anyone in the place and every request was forgotten or messed up....just wasn't acceptable.

The margaritas are always good, perhaps I should have ordered one of them to ease the pain of dining at Applebee's.

I love that this place is open late.
I love that they have a pretty nice drink special (wish I could remember what it is).
They also have a happy hour special- You have to get a drink, but then you get cheap appetizers, too (half price, maybe?).

I don't usually do the appetizer special, though. I usually like to get chicken or a steak. The fiesta lime chicken was always pretty tasty. I've had steaks that were tolerable (emphasis- tolerable, no more than that, really). The last steak I had there was some sort of parmesan srimp and steak. I usually don't do the stuff on my steak, but I did, and the steak was horrible. It was incredibly fatty and flavorless.

I've always had pretty good customer service from our servers at this location, though!