Ruby Tuesday Restaurant

I've been going to this Ruby Tuesday at Southdale for a long time. I've always thought of this as a better chain restaurant.  They recently went through a menu make-over for the better.

I generally get either a burger or a "fast-fresh combination" because of the unlimited salad bar. The salad bar is 4 out of 5 times fresh looking and great. Occasionally depending on the time of the day it isn't looking too hot. Pricing is pretty good if you go with the salad bar route. Considering most people average 2 heaping plates PLUS whatever else you ordered it's a good deal.

As for drinks I wouldn't recommend them. $5 isn't really a deal, especially as they are $5 every day all day there. More of a marketing gimmick.

I have only really had a couple bad experiences. Both with the same waiter who was absolutely terrible. He told us he has had everything on the menu and that everything is good. He also proceeded to give us our menus and then stand next to our table for 5 minutes. Would check back every 2-3 minutes. Extremely unprofessional and annoying. I haven't seen him the past few times i've gone. I'm hoping he has been let go.

This place smells bad. They don't actually have cocktail straws and 5$ for an absolut drink as a special? People wonder why I don't want to leave minneapolis

One of the best things about chain restaurants is, you can get the same thing at every one of them.  Ruby Tuesdays makes their own lemonade and it kicks ass when mixed with Seagrams 7.

OK, so first I tried a Sam Adam's BL on draught, a beer you shouldn't be able to go wrong with; but they haven't cleaned their beer lines in so long it tasted worse than a tap beer at Bullwinkle's before they shit the bed.  Someone needs to get the memo about craft beer =- Craft beer drinkers know that the freshest best beer is served on tap because kegs are always kept cold and there is no risk of light pollution, if you don't clean your gawddamn beer lines you've defeated purpose of having craft beer on -=

Anyway, the bartender replaced mine (Seagrams 7 and lemonade) without a fuss and I had 3 before the movie started, my no-neck, chickenshit friend refused to say something so he had to pay for that crap.

They run a good appetizer happy hour (chicken fingers, spring rolls and wings for us), all was decent, so we had a good layer for the movie theatre popcorn and Coke.