Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar

We went here in a pinch last weekend because the wait was very, very long at the restaurant we originally wanted to order form.  So we decided to just get take-out and eat at home.  The food wasn't very good.  I'm not one to knock chain food - there are plenty of chains whose food I enjoy a lot.  Applebees isn't one of them.  I got the turkey avocado sandwich on ciabatta bread.  The turkey was ice, ice cold.  Like it had just come out of the freezer cold.  And it was slimey - like it was defrosting slimey.  The avocado was decent.  The ciabatta roll wasn't very good.  And it was supposed to come with a green goddess dressing -- I didn't taste that at all.  I was really disappointed in the sandwich and ended up tossing most of it.  We split the pretzels appetizer.  This was the one upside -- the beer cheese dip was very yummy.  Overall, I just can't see us returning to Applebees.

Today's food was good. The service was amazing until the bill got dropped off @10:35pm. I waited/watched patiently but the server never came back for the bill. The server thought I was just hanging out & chilling. Earlier when I asked for the bill, I told the server I was ready to go. So at 11:35pm, I walked up to the Bar & asked the Bartender for the manager. The manager came out & listened to my concern as mentioned above & apologized for this mishap. The server approached me asking me what's wrong. I asked the server "can I be honest?", the server said sure. I proceeded to let the server know that the food was great, the service was great, then the bill was never collected & I was ignored for 1 hour & I had a long day so I was starting to drift/nod off at the table I was sitting at.
I've been to this location a few times & everything is normally remarkable. Today was a 1-star visit for failing to collect the bill in a timely manner. I hope that this is taught during a staff training so this doesn't happen again.

Great lunch time deals and our waitress was very nice and on top of her game.  Seems they have specials going on everyday - which is great for a family on a budget!!