Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar

Ugh, I don't know why I let my hubby pick this place when we go out to eat. The kids enjoyed their mac and cheese and chocolate milk, but really, you can get that almost anywhere. The adults shared an appetizer-- spinach dip with chips and I had a southwestern shrimp pasta. Everything was very underwhelming. Too much salt and grease and not real flavor. The service is good, but that's not enough to bring me back.

It's the prototypical American chain family dining restaurant, with somewhat mediocre food for the price but better appetizers/specials.  Sizable bar area nestled in the middle of the restaurant seating, but Beer selection is minuscule relative to their nearbly competition, and the staff includes both remarkably good and frustratingly inattentive personnel.  

Very family friendly, a little pricey for the quality if not ordering a special or happy hour item, and even a little more generic than TGI Fridays and other stereotypical American restaurants.

Mass market american food and overpriced. On principle alone, i find applebees offensive because it does two things,1. doesn't try to be different and 2. places like these drive mom and pop greasy spoons out of the marketplace. They celebrate how generic they can be in their menu items and I noticed that they seemed to purge their item of any unique items that they add to it. To top it off, at this particular location, the service is downright mediocre. Many a time i've gone in (not by choice mind you) to find a somewhat rude waiter or waitress. In general, I can't recommend this place. You don't get good food, you don't get good service, and you get an environment that has been much better done by TGI Fridays, Old Chicago, Buffalo Wild Wings, Ruby Tuesday's, 3 of which are right across vicksburg from this location. I know that Applebee's is catering to be generic however, in terms of quality to price, if you compare them against a greasy spoon sort of restaurant, their quality is significantly beneath that of the greasy spoons I frequent and applebees is substantially more expensive and that is really sad because these restaurants become more and more common and the greasy spoons where you actually get to know the waitress and chef are becoming rarer and rarer by the day. If you must have generic food, there's an Old Chicago, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Ruby Tuesday's across Vicksburg within walking distance from applebee's.