Applebee's Grill + Bar — Restaurant in Vienna

Nothing really great. The wonton tacos were okay but so much slaw and too much dressing made them a soggy disappointment. They just don’t live up to the hype for me. The Cesar dressing was off I can’t pinpoint exactly why but I ended up not eating my salad because it tasted spoiled.

Fries are really overpriced for the amount you get in a takeout order. They were overcooked another item we ended up not eating.

Mozzarella sticks were disappointing too, overly greasy and not near as good as something you can get yourself on the cheap from a freezer section at any local store.

The club sandwich was actually good out of everything we ordered it was the only thing we ate all of. It’s the only thing I’d recommend.

The fish was nothing but oil. I was looking forward to it but I couldn’t choke it down because of the grease it was floating in.

Return visit with a friend today to see if done it was better than takeout. Nope down to 1 star and that’s a stretch.

The waitress was horrible. The food wasn’t much better. Never in my life have I been just left sitting for so long waiting to ask for napkins.

Then this bugs me as a good handling concern. The waitress comes to our table to drop the check / while holding another tables desserts right in our faces and picks up OUR dirty dishes before trotting off to drop it at the table it went to that she had to PASS to even bring our check smh. Not sure about anyone else but yuck I’m Really not wanting another tables people or dirty dishes coming in contact with my food.

One of the worst waitresses I’ve ever had.

Not pictured was a steak and donut bit dessert. Really overpriced bland steak and was well done when we ordered at medium rare. The donut bites were hard, like you get with old yeast dough.

My search continues for a good place locally. Alas this was...

I had family in from NY, my mother wanted to go to Applebee's because she loves it (usually). We had to wait at least an hour for a table, which I understood to a point seeing as it was Sunday and the church crowds can get pretty big. After finally being seated, we ordered our food which took over an hour to come and that's only because we had to flag down a manager and ask what the deal was. Both my sister and I were waitresses all through college, so we understand how things get busy to a point... but this was ridiculous. There were only 4 of us and one toddler, it's not like we were a large party to wait on. When we finally had our food brought out, 2 of the 4 dishes were completely wrong. All of our food was COLD, and the cheese on the grilled cheese for my daughter wasn't even fully melted. We talked to the manager who comped us for our meals, we didn't even eat them, we took them to go because at this point we had been here for nearly 3 hours and had other plans. Plus our child was upset after having to Sit still waiting on these fools for well over 2 hours combined. Lazy, careless staff. The manager seemed to be very apologetic (only because we confronted them, she had passed our table for over an hour and could have seen we weren't being served) but they honestly blew it, we will never go back. I had half the mind to warn all of the people still waiting to go somewhere else. Really big disappointment and a total waste of our time, when my family comes in to visit I want us to enjoy ourselves. Not waste the limited time we have to spend together waiting for crappy food from a bunch...

Consistency is an issue. Every time I go I never get anything the same way. If I get a steak once then order one the next time it won't be as good or seasoned differently. Sides leave a bit to be desired. Salad and potatoes. About every six times you might get something good. They never have sweet potatoes. The price is too much for the lack of consistency. I got a burger and the two halves were garnished differently (go figure).

6-15-24 Today this visit was a little better. Our server wasn't too bad. He was pretty attentive at first but then towards the end of the meal we had to stop him in order to get boxes. But he brought the boxes quickly. He also looked into which salad mix was used for the salad my mom wanted and made sure it didn't have too much cabbage in it. I got the fettuccine with chicken and broccoli in it. If was good. I kept thinking if was very hot when it came out, but it wasn't. I almost enjoyed it more than what I got at outback a few weeks ago (the chicken and shrimp over fettuccine noodles. But I only get chicken because I don't like shrimp). We also got onion rings for our appetizer. They could have been just a tad more done. The BBQ sauce served with them was great. It wasn't bad today. But sometimes...