TGI Fridays

Was there today and never disappointed service is always high above average! You get waited on fast and was not disappointed with the waiters or waitresses. They leave you alone while you eat and just come by and grab your drink and refill it,

My experience at this Friday’s was not what I was expecting. I am always looking for new Friday’s locations to eat at. This one, made me want to toss the warm beer the bartender gave me, right in their face.
Anytime I go to a Friday’s I order one tall glass of the best beer in America, Bud Light. This beer is like champaign and it makes my whole stomach nice and cold. Well, like I said above, the bartender gave me a warm glass of beer and it was not my Bud Light, it was a dumb craft beer.
What is a craft beer? Why was my beer warm? Better than that, why was my pot sticker appetizer in my beer? I did not find this funny at all!

Today we dined indoors after a bike ride on the rail trail. I realized I’d never been inside before, only out on the deck facing the trail/​river. While I love the outdoors and would always choose that first, it wasn’t available today so inside we go. This particular Friday’s is nice inside with space between tables. The one in Monroeville seems quite a bit more cramped.
The purpose of this update is to brag about their burger. OMG! This was the best burger I’ve enjoyed for quite some time. I’ve been to specific burger joints that just simply try too hard and either I’ve had bread components that fell apart immediately upon being held or various edible entities on the burger that just didn’t go well together or overpowered the burger itself.
Here, I opted for the «your call burger» in which you select a cheese, a spread, and 2 toppings for 11.95 and it comes with fries. I opted for Smoked Gouda for my cheese, the Truffle Aioli for my spread and Onion-​Bacon Jam and Crispy Cajun Onions for my toppings. Note that the spread comes on the side which is nice as I didn’t use very much.
Again, let me rave about it and tell you this is the best burger I’ve had in a long time. The burger was moist and juicy and well-​complemented by the cheese/​toppings/​spread/​bun. I ate every morsel plus the fries plus a small side salad and was a happy diner.
That is all. Thank you.

I called ahead so we didnt have a long wait. I checked in when i got there recieved text from them as well as downloaded the no wait tip. All was working until we had one in front and nothing socthey sat 4 more tables and we ask and they dropped my reservation. Luckily the lady at the booth saw my text from them and cleaned a table and sat us right away but that was pretty frustrating being 9 months pregnant w a 6 yr old and my mother in law w back problems and having to stand there when we should have been seated. Otherwise the food was great i got endless apps and it was so filling for the money. Service was excellent we had Ed and we was really great made the experience very pleasant so thank you to him. Overall good experiance other than the reservation experiance and FILTHY bathrooms!

Quite possibly the worst service and seating arrangement known to mankind. I cannot believe this restaurant is actually redesigned to accommodate bigger crowds better. The wait staff didn’t even acknowledge our party of 9. When they did they seated us at 2 different tables because they couldn’t figure out how to accommodate us. See my attached photo of how absurd the situation was because they weren’t even busy.

So I understand by posting here I’m admitting that I went to Fridays. Not that it’s not a great place depending on your expectations. Very convenient to the Loews waterfront theater. I’ll be quick and concise. The hostess was fantastic. I wish I got her name! Saturday night February 13 neither my date nor I realized it was Valentine’s Day weekend the place was slammed. Oh maybe she did, but I did not. The point was to take her son to see Star Wars. Long story short very very slow service with an attitude from the waitress. She also wore a very heavy perfume that was not only offensive but I’m sure in bad taste. While she seemed like a pleasant person outside of work (just based on conversation for a brief moment) she was not very happy tonight. She was so annoyed that we questioned the menu that she actually sat down at a chair next to us and looked at us with anticipation and perceived annoyance as to what we would order.
The best part of the evening was when our entrées came. My girlfriend is a vegetarian and ordered a salad with no meat I ordered a Cobb salad. Her salad arrived via the food runner, to the table with a full load of chicken. She expressed to this individual that she was a vegetarian and while she knew he was going to take the salad back asked him not to just remove the chicken but to prepare fresh salad however she did not expect that. To our surprise the food runner was a vegetarian identified with her and brought her a completely new salad free of any animal protein. His name was Greddix. I am sure i misspelled it. However what he did not only put my girlfriends mind and myself at ease but he identified with customer need and took the opportunity to rise to the the occasion and take care of the need at hand. I am a Director of Catering at a major hotel in Pittsburgh and deal with issues like this from time to time. Kudos to Greddix! I am sure her will move on to be very successful. Great positive attitude.

Unprofessional!!! Went out last night to grab a quick bite with the wife, a quick bite that turned into a 2 hour debacle. There was a wait so we decided to eat at the bar which was not crowded and had plenty of available seats. After 10 minutes 1 of the 2 bartenders finally came over threw down menus and for some reason only asked my wife what she wanted to drink. Another 10 minutes later my wife got her drink and I requested one since I was not asked. After another 20 or so minutes 1 of the bartenders finally took our order and had 0 personality and did not smile the entire time we were there. We waited for another 30 minutes for our appetizer, so we are over an hour in at this point, which was brought over by a waitress since the bartenders never went back to get it. Our dinner eventually came and was over-​cooked and dry. Now we are approaching the 2 hour mark and neither of the bartenders have come over, asked about refills, or took away the dirty plates. After flagging down a bartender and requesting the check we immediately pulled out our credit card to pay. We were actually holding it out so that someone would take it, please keep in mind that the bar is still basically empty, finally it was taken after 15 more minutes and we left after 2.5 hours. This was one of the worst dining experiences I have ever had, the bartenders were moody and did not want to socialize at all with the patrons. I am usually a good tipper 20−25% but in this case I think the 10% I left was still too much. This used to be a good place to have a drink and enjoy the atmosphere, but unfortunately this has changed and it will be a long time before I return.

Service was very slow from the beginning. It took a while for us to get our water. I ordered a blue raspberry slushie which also took awhile to be served. It tasted okay. But the mango peach slushie was way better! You can change flavours!
We got the all you can eat appetizers for $ 10 but now you can only get refills on the same appetizer you ordered. Whereas in the past, you could change the appetizers you ordered.
So we got loaded potato skins which was delicious. The skin was crispy and the potato was soft and the cheese was so good! The bacon bits were crispy!
We trie jack Daniels and barbecue boneless wings. The jack Daniels were my favourite. They were sweet and crispy!
The potstickers were very hot when they were first served and after awhile, the skin of the potsticker was just really floury and chewy.

Fridays seems to have gone down hill. I was quite surprised when we went and there want a wait. I thought we had lucked out. We were seated quickly and our server came over quickly. There was only one other table that had people in the section we were in.
I ordered a Jack Daniels burger-​cooked medium. Our food came quickly. My burger was well done and dry. Without the Jack Daniels sauce there was no flavor at all. The fries were pretty good.
I was sad to see how far down the quality of food had gone. Thankfully our server did a nice job.

I understand its a chain, and pretty standardized everywhere you go, but I found this location to be especially bad. First, when you walk in the restaurant has a very stale grease smell that permeates throughout the restaurant, nothing visibly dirty, but smells like the entire joint needs de-​greased. Second, the service, the host was a typical younger girl, efficient without too much professionalism, not a big deal. The waitress, a «professional», but unfortunately not in the way of experienced great service, but moreso as experienced in efficiently moving things along. Our food took a long time, and she ‘saved’ herself by telling us that she didn’t know why our food wasn’t ready yet, but would check again, and of course, hot plates with luke-​warm food came out soon after. She reeked of cigarette smoke, so i’m going to make a dumb assumption and guess that’s where she was. The food, typical TGI-​fridays food, good enough, for a chain restaurant. Extremely unlikely that i’d return.

A T.G.I. Friday’s is a T.G.I. Friday’s. You either like it or hate it. This location is pretty standard; it has the expected mash-​up of decorations around the walls that try to give the place a laid-​back lounge feel and there’s nothing outstanding about the menu or what they offer food wise (and like other Friday’s, it’s not particularly easy to eat here if you’re anything other than a meat lover).
Honestly I wasn’t expecting to eat here any time soon; I had called a few days before eating here while planning a day out with friends and asked about reservations for a large group (as it says on the T.G.I. Friday’s website that it’s ideal to call ahead when you have a large party). However, I was told on the phone that this location does not accept reservations. So my friends and I looked elsewhere, and finally walked across the street to Friday’s after discovering just how darn long the waits at other restaurants were. At least Friday’s only had a 15 minute wait.
Once we were seated our meal went by pretty uneventfully. I remember that we had to repeat ourselves a lot to our waitress and I had wondered why she was having trouble hearing us, but at least she was willing to ask questions and clarify things as opposed to taking a potentially wrong order back to the kitchen. Kudos. The food, as I mentioned earlier, was standard T.G.I.Friday’s. Nothing particularly wrong with it, just not that exciting either. I had actually found one of the only low-​calorie items on the menu at the last minute — a steak and vegetable dish — and standard or not I was honestly pretty happy with it. My steak was surprisingly juicy, came out fairly pink and was not overcooked at all (I’d ordered a medium temperature steak), and the simple and tasty vegetables offered a nice alternative to some of the other excessive dishes I saw on the menu. Not that that mattered after I ordered a rum punch cocktail, which mixed so much rum, fruit juice, sprite and other sugary beverages together that my teeth probably rotted a little bit in my head. It was worth it, though — that drink was a sweet, tall cup of Heaven.
This T.G.I.Friday’s really fits my exact definition of an «a-​ok» place — it’s not terrible, nor is it not exceptional. It’s just a decent place to grab a bite or to enjoy a drink. I’d consider coming back again, but admit that they wouldn’t be my first choice so much as a solid back-​up plan for when other Waterfront eateries are super busy.

Came here the other day for a late lunch with a friend. The place was pretty dead and we were seated right away. Took 30 minutes for our waiter to show up and we just order both drinks and food then. Took another 30 minutes to just get our drinks (2 beers on draft) and tables who were seated after us were served much faster then us. Finally our food came (soup, salad, boneless wings, and fries). A different server delivered the food and it looked like it had been sitting out for awhile. After being given our food we were completely ignored, along with others in our section. Us and two other tables waited over 45 minutes just to try and ask for our check (one table just got up and left!)
Being a server myself, I try to be very understanding to the wait staff. But this was ridiculous, the restaurant was not even close to busy and my section of about 5 – 6 tables was ignored.

Went with 5 others for a weeknight dinner. The server was very friendly, but seemed a little overwhelmed. Maybe they were short handed. The food was to me not even average. I ordered a burger, which very overdone and dry. Had to drown it in mayo to get moisture in it. My friend ordered nachos and what arrived looked like they had broken some taco shells down the middle, then put cheese and one jalapeño slice on each piece. Imagine 6 half-​moons of taco shell. Not like any nachos I’ve ever seen, and more importantly not even the way they were served the three prior times my friend had ordered them.

I haven’t been to this location. We came to celebrate a birthday. The bartender Jeremy was very amicable. Jeremy made excellent drinks and had a great sense of humor. We got a booth once the rest of the party arrived. Our waitress was Jackie and she was patient with the requests from some of the group members. I always order the bruschetta chicken pasta and it was delicious. I would recommend coming here and if you go to the bar hopefully Jeremy is working and if you get a table hopefully you get Jackie.

I had a gift card so I decided to use it for a to go order. The food tasted frozen and microwaved. Nothing special just around average!

Dining outdoors after a bike ride on the rail trail. Just the right venue for that.
Jack Daniels ribs and shrimp. The ribs were divine. The shrimp not quite there — I’d say they were overdone.
Our server, Ed, was very attentive. I asked for celery in my bloody mary. Not only did it come with a celery stalk in it, he brought over more celery. Yummmm…

Everyone’s been to Fridays I am sure, but I enjoy the Yucatan Salad it’s delicious. My children love Fridays it’s usually there 1^st choice. I also love the Cajun Chicken & Shrimp Pasta very very good.

I’m not opposed to chain restaurants but this TGI Fridays in comparison to some of the other ones in the area truly falls short of the «chain» expectation.
I order the Jack Daniel’s chicken and shrimp with just fries. The fries were undercooked and thrown haphazardly into the sauce holder. The shrimp was over cooked and just deepfried. The chicken was fatty and just tasted like it came from their freezer. Even the water tasted weird.
Fortunately, we had a very nice and charismatic waiter and all of the staff was very friendly.
I’d recommend the TGI Fridays out in South Hills Village over this one any day.

If I were to describe this place in one sentence I would call it a mediocre, and cheaper version of Bettis 36 on the North Shore.
My wife and I won a gift card in a raffle. We went for lunch on a Saturday. It was not crowded
We entered the restaurant and were promptly seated by a nice server. The restaurant was clean and nicely decorated and did not feel run down or old in any way.
Our server took our drink order and returned promptly. We got the pretzels with beer cheese appetizer and we each got a hamburger.
Our food arrived promptly and the appetizer was «fine». 10 years ago I would have called it good or better but time has marched on and expectations are higher then they once were.
The same goes for the main course. The fries were unremarkable but decent as were both burgers.
The bill was also fair. The meal with two drinks and an appetizer was reasonable for what we got. The server was pleasant and attentive. All in all this Fridays as a good but likely quickly forgotten experience.
I would return here for lunch like I did today.

Boo! What happened to this location? It used to be happy and fun! It just feels depressing and nearly everyone there is just doing the bare minimum to get by? So sad.

This place. Is ok if ur grabn something quick. But they do have a great happy hour tho

3 words…
I …walked…out

Haven’t been to TGIFridays for years and was never really a huge fan. I get tired of going to the same places all the time for lunch so we decided to try it out. I must say that I was very impressed with how extensive the menu was and all of the delicious options. I had the two for $ 10 lunch special with French onion soup and terriakyi glazed chicken strips. I was told that the broccoli soup is very thick so I opted for the French onion. It was okay but I think that I would get a salad instead of the soup next time. The chicken strips were wonderful and I am still craving them. The portion was huge and there were leftovers. My co-​workers ordered the Jack Daniels Sampler and burgers and were jealous at the portion and choices from the pick two. The service was good and we had no issues. I will definitely be back.

I love Friday’s sesame jack chicken strips but I loved NOTHING about my day at this location of TGI Friday’s!
One Sunday before going to see a movie, my friend and I decided we were going to grab a bite and chose Friday’s as we both had said «decent food, quick, and we have not been there in awhile.» What a mistake! Unlike most of my other experiences at a Friday’s (which was pleasant), this one was NOT that way.
AWFUL service, awful food, and awful environment… we joked that we felt like we were being served lunch in a women’s prison. Terrible! The area they sat us in was filthy and loud and they had just opened and they were not busy. My friend’s order was completely wrong and they comped her an iced tea (what kind of a manager does that?).
Needless to say, after this experience, I will not be back to this location, but I will definitely explore the others in the area.

Like other locations, good food + good server. pork ribs + potato skin = my favorite foods in Friday’s. Their long Island Iced tea and desserts are too sweet for me though.

Meh, I’ve experienced better is an understatement.
Friday’s is like the «fine dining chain» for every yinzer in Pittsburgh…
1. When we were seated, it was quick which was a surprise. Somehow this restaurant gets packed and I never understand why. I was happy about that.
2. I ordered one of their «skinny margaritas», blackberry to be exact. It was a nice size, however, at $ 6.00/pop, that was half of my food bill.
3. The waitress started off attentive, but after our food came out she was gone. I ordered a turkey burger with pickle and mustard. Loaded mashed potato on the side because I wanted heartburn ha!
4. Food came. My burger had lettuce on it only. Waitress was supposed to go and get our next round of drinks. I had to wait to ask for my pickle.
5. The loaded potatoes were more like rubber than potatoes and not what I was expecting. Disappointment.
6. The waitress then went into oblivion and only returned with our check.
Never again will I eat at Friday’s. I will, however, go should a happy hour arise…