The Greene Turtle

Well I said I would not go back to Greene Turtle but… a friend of mine wanted to eat there. I was apprehensive after my last encounter there. I decided to give them a second chance we’ll… I have to say everything was excellent and I mean everything!!! The pulled pork tender, moist and extremely flavorful incredibly!!! The Coleslaw wonderful never had anything like it! They have turned a new leaf with me and the manager Eric Very impressive and attentive. WELL DONE TEAM GREENE TURTLE!!! WELL DONE

I’ve been about 4 – 5 times in the past couple of months, I’ve had nothing but great service. The crab dip is good and the location is great. Nice to have a turtle this side of the border.

I’ve been to this location twice and received poor service both times. The first time, the food was prepared incorrectly. The second time, we waited quite some time for someone to take our order at the bar. Once we ordered, it took forever for our food to come-​our order had been forgotten. It wasn’t very busy (the bartender complained it was because Obama was nearby and the roads were blocked off), so I’m not sure why this happened. She apologized at the end of our meal and removed one of the items from our receipt as a courtesy. Twice we had the same bartender. While I’m sure she’s a nice woman, she comes off as very unprofessional. Frequent swearing, giving more attention to «regulars», complaining, and displaying an overall poor attitude. I’m giving this particular location two stars instead of one because the bartender did show some accountability when our food was misplaced.

Go for football, if any day. I ordered the wings. They were gross. They waitress came by about once in hour.

My wife and I live right around the corner from this location and we could very easily make this our go to bar/​resturant. HOWEVER, the service each of us have experienced both while there together and seperate on various occations is borderline horrible. Even with the restaurant 75% empty we have been ignored by both the bartenders and the wait staff. Based on reading some of the other reviews I would almost say it’s intentional. The food though has always been pretty decent and the beer selection is fairly unique that rotates throughout the year.
Bottomline, the food is not good enough to deal with the attitude you get.

LOVE this place! I used to work right across so this place was my after work hang out spot for a drink. Never was disappointed with the service or the food! LOVE their wings, my fav is chipotle and kickin’ bourbon! I have tried wings in so many places, hardly found really really good ones! This place is definitely one of those very very few good ones! Keep up the good work guys!

We’re here for the Eric Monday #takedownthestigma — after party. The wings are so good here we are definitely coming back!

Service is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOW, place is freezing cold and food is mediocre. Not sure why it cost $ 46 for 18 wings, 2 salads and some soup and water… if you want to waste time and money, eat here, otherwise there are a ton of better options out there. I could have eaten at a Great American Restaurant for what I paid here…

TV in every possible direction. Great for football night or happy hours. Thursday nights becomes beer pong challenge. Drinks and food average bar food

Use to come here for Thursday beer pong even though the service was horrid. I seemed to painstakly have to deal with the same rude bartender. She’s the older shorter 40 year old… When I ordered rounds of shooters she huffed and puffed and rolled her eyes for having to shake my drink… she kept doing this till I offered that she doesn’t have to shake it anymore if its that big of an inconvenience. I use to bartend so I’m a big tipper and I was tipping her well so I don’t know why she was so openly complaining?
Tried to come back another night and the same lady was Bartending she wouldn’t take my drink order or any one of my girlfriends… yes it was busy but manageable, the second my boyfriend approached the bar she was very attentive. I waited 30 mins till I told the manager who informed me I was wrong and she was just busy. So we had a guy friend walk up to the bar to grab us drinks she approached him Within a minute and once he told her the order she must of realized its for me and my girlfriends she responded «is it for those girls?» He said yes and she responded «than no»
Ok lady this is your job!!! Sorry that this is the life you chose. Management could have handled this a lot better by just giving our drinks instead of arguing. I’m extremely Disappointed.

I went there for their happy hour on Thursday 9÷9÷15 with a couple of friends to watch the football game. Ordered 2 ciders with fries and a chicken quesadilla from the happy hour menu. At the end of the night a woman with long blonde hair and bad teeth who was working the tables near the bar told me the receipts got messed up and the waitresses were fighting about it and told me that they were only going to charge me for the two ciders ($ 5 – 6). I felt bad and left a tip that would have been appropriate for the amount of the meal was included.
A few days later, I look at my bank statements and it said that greene turtle charged me for 25 dollars. I signed for the 2 ciders! I DID NOT SKIP OUT ON MY TAB OR LEAVE THE WAITER A BAD TIP!
The biggest mistake I made was not taking the customer copy of the receipt. Fair warning to everyone, always take the receipt and double check everything before you leave.
To the waitress and other waiters who were working that night, be a little more courteous next time. If you wanted me to pay for everything, I wouldnt have had a problem telling you every single thing I ate that night. You didnt have to write a fake receipt.

My boyfriend and I were hungry after attending the Paint Nite at the restaurant and decided to eat dinner here.
I ordered the blackened tilapia and it came with picco de gallo. Something in the picco de gallo was really salty, so I wasn’t a fan of that portion of the plate. We also ordered sweet potato fries and those were good! The quantity wasn’t a lot though, which was disappointing.
Service was okay. It was slow since it was around 9pm, however I felt like service should have been better especially since there were only a few patrons in the restaurant. I called out to a server 3 times for the tab but she still didn’t hear me so my boyfriend had to get up and ask her. Overall, I thought service should have been more attentive considering how few patrons were in the restaurant. I did like the fact that a manager came and checked on us during our meal.
Overall, okay food, okay service.

Well I don’t know what to say I returned to the green turtle for a appetizer and a drink with my wife. I thought things of changed first of all the music was extremely loud for me blaring from the front of the bar with the trivia game really suggest putting that back at the back of the bar area music was overwhelming. unfortunately once again service was the worst at the bar I don’t understand why there are no bartenders and we have to wait for drinks over and over. One of the biggest problems we occurred before is that no bartenders were ever in front of the bar they were either socializing in the back are doing service bar. there were two times when we had to remind them about our drinks one person was getting off the other person was restocking this was at 8 o’clock at night. I just don’t get it about this far the most important thing with the bar the size is the always have a bartender there and I think you have a bartender doing service bar at the end of the bar and I have to really look around to get another drink is ridiculous. I do think the food has improved a lot but the service from the barwas the worse than it’s ever been. don’t give me wrong they were nice when they finally arrive but why does someone have to wait 10 minutes why six or gather at the end of the bar. In my opinion a bartender should be watching the barnot doing their side work or doing service bar another bad experience don’t know what to say
It’s very disappointing to find a bar that is trying so hard and different way but Mrs. so many important things

Been to Greene Turtle a few times with friends for lunch, dinner, happy hour, or to watch a game playing. Nice staff for the most part, I don’t think I’ve ever had a major problem with any of them in various locations.
I did go recently and did not see the waffle burger on the menu. I’m not sure if it was a seasonal thing, but I wish it was still on the menu! It was great! This time I went I got the fried mozzarella and it came out in a half circle shape versus the mozzarella sticks I was thinking of. It was ok. Very crispy, but I prefer the sticks.
On this particular night, the ufc fight was on and the waiter we had we could tell was very busy, but he was not very good at his job. We were in a party of 6 and two of my friends left early after they ate and he didn’t even clean up the table and take the plates away. Throughout the night he also never took away the empty cups so it looked like we were just collecting them. He brought out our drinks in different cups as well and jokingly my friend said, «aw, how come mine isn’t in a pretty cup» and the waiter said that they were running out of cups. With that said, when you see empty ones on the table, wouldn’t you want to quickly pick them up and clean them to have more to use? He didn’t check back as often either and at one point brought out water in to go plastic cups. Not a big deal, but he probably needs a little more training. Otherwise, food and drinks were fine and we enjoyed watching the fight there!

Great service. Very attentive. Must try the cheese crab dip with pretzels for an appetizer.
Shrimp tacos were wonderful.
Great atmosphere

I can’t tell you how excited I was when I learned The Greene Turtle was coming to Fairfax City! Having been to many other Greene Turtle locations, including the ones in Owings Mills, Fells Point and Ocean City, I was happy to see a quality restaurant/​sports bar coming to a location five minutes from my home. Unfortunately that’s where the good went downhill.
On my first visit, I got almost everything crab, hey, I’m from Maryland originally, so its in my blood!
First thing out was the Maryland crab soup. Now, I’ve had the Maryland crab soup in the other locations and it was wonderful. How could Greene Turtle screw this up being so close to Maryland, unfortunately they did, it was bland, watery, tasted nothing like the Maryland crab soup at other Greene Turtle locations. Don’t know. Have since tried it and it was the same way.
Next was the Crab dip, which we shared at our table. It was good, nothing to write home about, better in other Greene Turtle location, but not the worst crab dip I’ve ever had. Then our entrees arrived, and sticking with the crab theme, I ordered the Chicken Chesapeake. This was really good, tasty, a great combination, a little messy, but who cares as it was a great sandwich and I knew I would order it many times in the future.
Finished off the meal with a brownie sundae that was very good. I’m a sucker for desserts anyway!
Meal was good, service was horrible. It was crowded, but even for a crowded restaurant it shouldn’t take 2.5 hours to eat and be out. Unfortunately the service is never very good, even on nights when it is relatively uncrowded or late at night when its primarily bar service and bar tables, service is still horrible.
Lately, its been carryout from Greene Turtle, which is just fine.
The only night I can remember really great service was a night I didn’t care how long I was there. I went to watch an Orioles game and they had me ready to leave in 30 minutes. Oddly, I stayed a while and took up a table, though no one really cared, as there was only one other customer that evening.
All in all, there are some good dishes that I’ve had — try the French Onion soup and the Maryland Style wings and the Eastern Shore Mac and Cheese, as well as the Chicken Chesapeake sandwich already mentioned.
Service is generally horrible. Takes forever. Weekend nights are the worst. Sunday’s during football season surprisingly aren’t bad, though no one is really in a rush as they are there to watch football, eat, drink and be merry and not in a rush for time at all.

Pretty fun place to go for drinks. Came the other day for drinks — had a beer and shared the «Hell in a Shell» .mixed drink for 4 people in a huge turtle shell.
Also had a salad with fried shrimps on skewers. Not bad, I liked the Bleu cheese dressing it came with, and it had a generous portion of shrimp
It was a Friday night so they had karaōke. Everyone was getting into it so that was fun! Go up there quick when they call your name so they don’t skip you! :)

I go here to watch UFC. There is no cover. In fact, I was here last Saturday all the way from DC. It’s peppered with TVs everywhere and seldom too crowded. So for that purpose — and that purpose alone — it’s an excellent destination. Seriously, you can watch on a little screen or a big screen, share a booth with your friends, and have the sound to go with it. Seriously, I’ll trek out here for free UFC. You can hang around a table all night, grab a bite, a couple of beers, and enjoy the moment with friends.
For anything else, I just don’t get the hype. There is absolutely nothing special about the menu and the food isn’t very good. I’m not trying to say it’s bad, it’s just not exciting. I had the MD crab soup and it was overly salty. The fries my friend had were a bit soggy. Someone else got a chicken caesar and it was big, though mostly iceberg lettuce. A friend got the chicken tenders in a basket and he said he really liked them and always gets them. I didn’t have any booze but the beer selection seemed standard fare. I think the Turtle needs one good, signature, affordable dish. Otherwise the menu is just too generic and it becomes just another sports bar/​grill.
Service was sporadic. Our water was *very* nice and got all of the orders down correctly, particularly my friend’s complicated beverage order, but there were times when he disappeared. Maybe it’s because we were towards the back but a couple of people at our table definitely resorted to craning their neck and wondering aloud when the waiter again.
I’d come back for sports. But otherwise I’m not sure it’d be my choice for a dinner destination.
(Edited: I wasn’t very articulate the first time around. I owe the restaurant and Unilocalers better.)

2.5−3
Average sports bar. Service is always good. definately a «Bro» type hang out. People hang out here, stay out late, watch sports, and faternities try to earn money by handing out flyers outside every once in awhile.
Drinks are fine and there are TV’s everywhere. Not my scene, but I can see how others may enjoy it.

Best place in Fairfax to watch sports. TVs on every wall and at your booth (dinning area). Different events/​activities every night.
Small bar area and can get crowded fast during a big game night