Houlihan's

Get the potato soup, it can't be missed. I usually order multiple appetizers during happy hour. The mushrooms are good, the buffalo chicken fingers used to be better - I think they're fussing with them and now they taste like Tyson's frozen kind. Good place to meet a friend for fried diet busters.

We decided to go to Houlihans when we realized that it's been 20 years since we last went to one. We went here on a Saturday night around 8ish and were promptly seated. Our server was Willie M. He welcomed us to the restaurant and said that since it wasn't crowded, we can expect a quick service. Uh.....okayyyyyy. For apps, we ordered the disco fries, which is supposed to be similar to poutines. This was disappointing. Not enough gravy. I ordered the Grilled Atlantic 5 oz Atlantic Salmon, which was pretty good. My daughter ordered the Grilled Rosemary Chicken and asked to substitute the California Mashers for the mashed potatoes. I guess she didn't say it properly because the waiter said that she has to be specific so he knows what to write. I'm serious. He said this! So, my daughter says "I would like to substitute the California Mashers for the mashed potatoes." So, he wrote it down. Well, guess what? She got the mashed potatoes anyway. When Willie M. came back, we told him about this and he went on the defensive and said that's what she wanted and he wrote down mashed potatoes. Rather than saying the customer is right and insist that he brings us the correct order, I stepped in and said "That's ok. We'll eat that anyway. Forget it." He didn't offer to correct our order. Instead, he robotically asked, "Are you done with the disco fries? Can I take it away?". I was upset with him. Didn't want to argue about it because I was afraid he was going to spit into our correct order if he came back with it. Anyway, back to the dinner. She thought the entree was ok. Husband ordered the Ahi Tuna Salad. The weird thing about this was it came with bananas. We thought he misread it and it should've been banana peppers. But, he was right. It came with bananas. It was a WEIRD dish.  Willie M came over and gave us our take out boxes but no desserts were offered. Just a check and he left. WEIRD service. What was upsetting about this meal was that Willie M made my daughter clarify her order and he still got it wrong! What made it worse was he didn't apologize or bring us the correct side. But, I got to give Willie M credit, though. Service was quick. Don't think I will go back here.

We had been to Houlihan's before but it was our first time at this particular location about 2yrs ago. We had a bad experience at this restaurant "food-wise" . We ordered stuffed mushrooms as appetizers and got cream-cheese filled mushrooms. I ordered some kind of a chicken and guess what... it was chicken stuffed with cream cheese with a side of cream cheese! I thought the chef wanted to put all patrons on a cream cheese roller coaster. I like cream cheese but not so much in one day and in everything I consumed. We simply paid the bill and left the restaurants with our plates still full. We thought the menu needed to be majorly re-vamped and we never went back to Houlihan's at this location or any other after that.