Reviews for Applebee's Grill + Bar in Gainesville, FL
Could not have been worse! I ordered a strawberry mango swirl smoothie for curbside pickup (just this ONE item). I checked in,... waited, waited, waited?..ten minutes after my scheduled pick up time I finally went in to see what was taking so long. When Ifinally found someone who would take the time to ask what I needed I was told they were out of that flavor and and offeredanother. This particular restaurant is out of this flavor of smoothie on a weekly basis and is TERRIBLE about not communicatingthat information until long after the order was scheduled to be picked up. VERY frustrating to spend my entire lunch break topick up my order?.only to have nothing for lunch and the task of making sure my card that was used for payment is credited backcorrectly. Read more
The food was good, service was fast, environment was clean. Twas an overall great lunch! Thank you Millie & The Staff for being... awesome! Read more
Went on a date with my husband and the food was terrible it seem like they ran out of alfredo sauce and scrambled together with... little sauce they had left and added water they poured it over my pasta. Someone banged on the window and scared my server sobad that she had to take 5 to 10 minute break to calm her nerves before taking our orders to the kitchen to be prepared. I askedmy server if they had any hot drinks like coffee or tea and she said we have Coke and sweet tea still don't understand that onebut anywho worst experience ever they had no salt and pepper on the table I asked for some they brought me some but then it wasin the little packets and I had to open like seven packets to season my bland food not too sure I'm ever going back toApplebee's again. Read more
Took 20 minutes just to get drinks and there were only maybe 6 people in there to eat other thank us. The food was terrible. The... steaks tasted like they were cooked on a dirty burnt grill. It was overall bad Read more
We went to Applebees at 6:00pm on a Monday and we got seated right away. The place was pretty much empty as we only saw maybe... five or six tables full and a couple of people at the bar. We ordered a couple of burgers and they came out incorrect. Shetouched our food in front of us as she was taking it away but assured us, after we brought it up, when she came back that shehad them remake the burger. It was believable and she apologized. When finally served the correct meal we still had no napkinsand there were not any napkins at the ready and couldn?t really see any in sight. In retrospect we should had asked for themupfront instead of having to get up and look to no avail. Because the place was scarce, the TVs were never changed off thelocal channels and thus the local new was on loud enough to hear it no matter where you sat. We were with kids under 11 and thesecond lead In story was about kidnappings and missing 12-year olds who were found years later. Not what you want to hear andit turned the conversation the wrong way, using menus to block the TVs until we could get it turned down and changed and leftsoon there after. It wasn?t a total bad experience per se, but there were enough people standing around that this could havetaken care of right away and avoided. We won?t be going back because it requires too much effort at higher prices to have anaverage experience for the group. Read more
Restaurant was filthy. Almost every table still had food and drinks on them. The floor had food on it. My family sat at a table... where there was a disgusting broom and dustpan right behind my child's chair. It took almost ten minutes to even be seated. Thenanother 10 minutes to receive our drinks, after ordering them, and another 5 to get straws. Multiple patrons, including us, hadto wait for refills from waitresses. We never did receive refills, nor were asked if we needed any. The buns to my burger werecharred and tasted burnt. My burger was undercooked, extremely greasy, and pink. The sauce that was supposed to be put on myburger was put on my wife's burger. The boneless wings were minimal in size, and I included a picture. We did feel bad for thehostess though. Although she kept taking off to go do things before seating us, when she finally did try, all the tables in thearea were not cleaned and still had food and drinks on them. We went to another area, where we ended up staying, and she wasunaware of who our waitress was even going to be. This is where we noticed food under our table, and the disgusting broom anddustpan sitting against the wall. The hostess apologized multiple times, stating she had just come in and was trying to get setup for the night. There was one good thing about our visit though, other than leaving the restaurant. When we went to pay thecheck our waitress was very quick on that. Overall, we will NOT be visiting this Applebee's ever again. Our visit, consideringeverything that happened, was possibly the worst experience we've ever had at a sit down restaurant. Read more
Our visit to this location was actually good. The food took a while to come out, but it was very nicely presented and tasted... good. Our server was working hard to keep everyone happy and we appreciated her efforts. Read more
Bartender was an absolute gem of a customer service representative. 3 cheese penne was actually really good. Salmon cooked... perfect. Drink prices are unmatchable. Place was mostly empty except super friendly regulars at the bar. Great meal. Thanks'Bees! Read more