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| - Not great, even for Applebees. I recently moved to the area so I'll be checking out the local places. For this place, I went on a Friday afternoon for Happy Hour. Applebees is so generic it's hard to mess it up, right? That's what I was thinking, anyway. I ordered margaritas and some appetizers. Although the staff was nice, nobody is doing their job well I'd say, mainly because everything I ordered was slightly off or slightly not cooked.
The margarita was strong I'll give you that- but there was way too much salt on the rim and the bartender didn't even give me the tiny straws or the lime with it so I had to ask. That's nothing to really complain about, but the shakers they give you are odd and clumsy too. I can see someone totally spilling their drink. They basically serve the drink in the shaker it's made in which is not aesthetically pleasing or functional. Anyway, the drink was good and strong and I had 2 more after that as I ate food to help stave off the buzz I had, but still prefer Chili's presidente margarita over applesbees.
The wings I ordered first LOOKED good, but did not taste great. It's "double battered" which means it's mostly breading, extremely fried, and not much meat, and the sauce they use gave me heartburn into the next day. NOT GOOD! A one star for the wings, will not come here for wings again.
I also tried some sort of pretzel appetizer which you can imagine to be like a baked pretzel, but these were... maybe fried? I'm not sure. They came out slick with oil and had sesame seeds on them, not salt, which was unappetizing. It was like a fried breadstick slicked with oil and no other seasoning at all. The cheese sauce with it was good, but I returned this appetizer as it was NOT GOOD even if it was only 3$.
I also ordered a bowl of french onion soup because I love that stuff. However, it came out luke-warm and the cheese wasn't even browned on top. I am usually not a fussy person so I ate it anyway but it tasted bland and cold and the cheese not being properly melted was disappointing. Whoever the guy working the fryer was, he apparently is great at his job, but the regular cooks and other guys needed to step it up, because my entree was cold in the middle as well- I ordered bourbon chicken and shrimp, which is basically a pre-cooked freezer chicken breast, some crappy tiny popcorn shrimps and some potatoes that are supposed to be kinda crispy and cooked well but were raw in the middle (very unpleasant). It's to be served on one of the "sizzling" pans on a bed of sauteed onions and mushrooms. The entire bourbon chicken dish I ordered because it was low-cal, but to add flavoring they basically just throw some flavored margarine on top which does nothing to add to the dish positively and just makes it kinda oily. Also, the onions and mushrooms were NOT sauteed more like raw, and there was literally like ONE mushroom and a few slices of onion. The sizzling pan was not sizzling, either- another dish not properly heated.
Also, I must say there was a faint "bathroom" odor lingering in the restaurant at all times. The mark of a a plumbing issue for sure. I was seated on the right side of the bar, and the bathrooms are on that side of the restaurant so maybe it was less obvious in other areas, but it was quite unpleasant. Also, the next morning i had tummy troubles- from what I would guess was the improperly cooked food. Anyway, certainly not worth the expense and I will not be going here again and I would recommend people go to Chili's down the street instead.
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