TGI Fridays
Reviews
Terrible service. The drinks are not a whole heck of a lot better. For out last visit starting at 7 PM Friday night, went there for a B-Day dinner with a group of about 20. Now, to be fair, I would expect things to go a bit slower when your dealing with a larger party, but 3 hours start to finish? The waitress, who was very pleasant the whole evening, was woefully under trained or under experience to deal with a large party with split checks. It took over 30 mins to straighten out the checks. There seemed to be no urgency in her actions to get things settled. Other then that, the food was decent, but staggered over 30 mins or so. Meaning people that ordered at the same time did not receive their meals at the same time. And the Long Island Iced Tea was the WORST I have ever had, was nasty. Something was out of sync with that drink! Had to send it back. Replaced it with the Fuzzy peach, iced tea, lemonade cooler. The name from the menu may be different, I don't recall the exact name of the drink, but it was mediocre at best. Tasted very watered down, very difficult to pick out any flavors in that one. I usually have 2 drinks with dinner, but not with that crap coming out of the bar that night. And my previous visit several days earlier, for food only, had issues with the server. Quite surely, and slow to take care of the table. We arrived to the table and there was no silverware or napkins. No worries I think, as long as they come before food hits the table. Well that didn't happen. When the appetizers came, no napkins or silverware. We had to flag down the server and asked when we might get some, and her response was, "don't worry, we wont make you eat your diner with your hands". How about some napkins while we eat our finger foods? How about if someone din't want to use their hands to eat the greasy, buy good tasting appetizers? Server was lucky I was there, because the wife was not amused and would have stiffed her for a tip, thats how much she cared for the crummy service. In the past I have had diner there and the food is usually decent. And you cant beat the 2 for $20 deal! It just seems the quality of staff is not up to par. And the bartender that made my drinks, wasn't a very good mixologist by any stretch. Not looking forward to my next visit.... if there is a next visit.
They have an amazing balloon guy. He made me a two foot tall parody of Batman. I have never seen anything so cool.
I agree with the other reviews about the slow service. I don't know why, but in the few years that I've been going here the service is almost always slow ... sometimes excruciatingly slow where one of us has to get up and find a server. Not the greatest selection of food, but it's decent and it's consistent. If you're into appetizers, go for the Three for All.
There was a big fat black worm that made its way out of my margarita. I suspect it was the mexican in the back that looked at me funny when i went to the bathroom.
The best around. The service has become a lot better and the atmosphere has always been top notch.