TGI Friday’s

Here’s the thing… If you have somewhere to go, you’re gonna be late if you come here. If you like cold food and slow service you’ve come to the right place .The servers are quite nice however they move slower than the irs with your tax return. They get one star

Absolute works service ever! Please do not visit this location unless you want to wait 3 hours and still non of your food it right or hot if even actually arrives at your table. We arrived with 12 guest was only given one waiter until after 2 hours we asked to speak to the manager because non of our food was correct. In a party there was one pregnant women and a 7 year old. Her food came out ice cold and my nephews food was not right when the first brought it to the table. He ordered a simple grilled chicken sandwich off the kids menu the brought him fried chicken nuts. We sent it back 2 hours later after we asked to speak to again since the server never came back to give us an update. They brought my nephews food out in a to-​go container since we could wait any longer we had to find another place to eat. I haven’t had terrible service like this ever! It wasn’t like we were ordering something hard. Majority of out tables got burgers… we had 4 bottle of ketchup on the table and every single bottle was empty. I order a medium jack Daniel’s burger and it came out blacker then the shirt I had on and the waiter tried to convince me that was medium. After we asked another table if we could use their ketchup we were able to squeeze out able a teaspoon of ketchup so I asked him he could fill the bottle. He came back back with a bottle but guess what… I still didn’t have a burger!!! I could go on and on of how terrible this service is but I will close with this. I was visiting family from Texas so I don’t have to ever visit this place again but I got back to my sister n laws and told her about the service not telling the location of the restaurant. She says on the TGIFridays in the marketfair… oh yeah they are horrible. So this is obviously not the first this horrible service is a thing at this location. Of I could give negative 5 stars I would!!!

Tl;dr AVOID: Quite possibly the worst restaurant I’ve ever been to. Food was decent but service was terrible, our waiter was a middle aged man named Dave who hit on all the girls in our party hard, the food took over 40 minutes per round and Dave barely came around at all, then threatened to charge my friend who wasn’t eating anything because he shared a torria chip, terrible experence, won’t be back.

We used frequent this Friday’s often when I was younger. Fast forward several years and now I was back for the holidays and we stopped by after a movie. The space is relatively modern and clean, though it’s pretty dark inside… lots of dark wood and paint and few windows make for a very pub-​like atmosphere. We were seated fairly quickly and our cheerful and witty server took our beer orders. 3 beers took a bit too long to come out… not sure what the bartender was up to as the place was fairly empty at 9pm on a Monday night during a holiday week. But whatever, they came out cold and in tall glasses. We ordered two half racks of ribs and an appetizer sampler… over 20 minutes later we were wondering where our food was and asked our server. Of course, he realized shortly thereafter that he forgot to fire our order in the computer. Ugh. Well, as a server myself I can’t say that some version of this hasn’t happened to me while I was on the job, but I at least send the manager over if there are any sort of issues with a table. Not our server! Though the food came out pretty quickly after that it didn’t come out all together, and my food (the apps) of course took longer and THEN he told me they were out of mozzarella sticks! Not like I needed them anyway and I didn’t make a big deal about it at the time but jeez… not a lot of communication between the servers and kitchen at this place!
After all this not even a small discount on the check, just a few extra rewards points for my dad that made him feel special but really aren’t worth anything. Server was nice enough but he could have handled the situation better, in my opinion. Food was solidly average. Slow bar. I’d skip it if I were you!

A quick stop before a hotel check in.
Nachos. The right way. Flat triangles, toasted, smeared with refried. Wait
This is Jersey. Would that be «schmeer»?
No matter. Corn tortilla, refried. Crispy. Topped with cheese. Lots of guac, pico, jalapeños… make a mess. Lick your fingers, get more napkins. Washed down with watermelon cocktails of some sort.
Looked good on the table tent. Tasted even better.

Let me start by saying we love TGIFridays and we go often because it is kid-​friendly.
We came in at 1:00 on a Monday. It did not seem very busy in the area we sat. There were two waitresses in our section. Immediately, we were helped and asked for our drinks and the. We ordered our appetizers and lunch. A good start. However, it went downhill from there. We waited 50 minutes for our appetizers, impossible to find our waitress at the 35 minute mark… about 40 minutes in, we asked her where they were and she said that they were «slammed» and it was unusually busy.
The tables around us were empty. Three parties came in about then, at the forty minute mark sat down tables near us. They literally got their orders by the time we had finished our appetizers (15 minutes or less). After finishing our appetizers, we waited another 20 minutes for refills and for our main meals.
I had the kids pack up the good because their sister and her friend had gone to Bobby Burgers and were done before we got our appetizers and I didn’t want them to wait any longer… They had been waiting 30 – 40 minutes already.
The food was good as always
Very disappointing. No one wants to wait over an hour for lunch

I have been a customer of this Friday’s for years and visit them about once a month. The food is good and the staff if Friendly.
This 2 star review is not really for this unit. The 2 stars are for their corporate office.
This unit now has real competition in the form of the Bahamas breeze, and the Sessions 52 that have opened next door to them. This I’m sure this did not come as a surprise to the corporate office.
I visited this unit last Friday as I walked by their new competition they were both doing a very good volume of business. Bahama grill also has an outdoor screened in area and every table was occupied.
I expected Friday’s to also have a good amount of business with at least a waiting time before being seated. To my surprise thee were 5 customers at the bar and 1 idle bartender. We had our choice of tables and were immediately seated. This was great for us but disastrous for a Friday nights revenue.
As a customer my advice to the corporate office would be to make an unannounced visit on a Friday night to this unit as and see if you can come up with new ideas to take on the competition. Unless the accounting staff has already decided to roll over and use this unit as a tax loss.

Worst Friday’s I’ve ever been to & it is also the one I have frequented the most. After 2 terrible experiences, I didn’t return for years until I went with a group. No better years later even after 3 additional experiences. ANY other location is good, well priced, good service, etc. I’ve frequented over a dozen other locations. This one is a dud.

Very disappointing service this evening. Came i before closing and was told that kitchen was closed. Bartender said she was closed but would serve me anyway. If your doors are open, you’re open. Very surprised.

Ok, it’s a T.G.I. Friday’s, and a very good one! With really great staff!!!
I prefer to sit at the Bar, always nice people there to have a little chat with.
Friendly, competent Barkeeper-​team, Draft Beer even at midnight during the week (which is IMPOSSIBLE to find in the Princeton area).
Every day specials/​happy hour!
My favorite bar!

This is a good Friday’s. Prices are reasonable and food is decent. Service is hit or miss. I don’t go out of my way to come here – but if I am close by it’s a good spot for late night drinks. It’s a chain and it’s pretty consistent food wise. The kids’ menu has a fair selection too.

Let me start by saying that writing a 2 star review for a chain restaurant may seem like a cop out… but I actually really love Fridays in Hamilton Square (like 5 star love) and so I was compelled to tell you how much I hate this one.
Why all the hate? Well, I came here on a FRIDAY… let me repeat on a FRIDAY… during happy hour at 5 PM… and it turns out the ONLY day of the week they do NOT have a happy hour at TGI FRIDAYS is… you guessed it, on a Friday. This fact alone should give them a 1 star review, considering they have one thing to do, their one job is to make people happy it’s Friday!
I was between a 1 and 2, I gave it a 2 because I did have the bartender give decent suggestions and service despite also attending to the bar. She suggested we have the $ 10 rib meal they were featuring which had decent flavor, it was a good portion of small ribs for $ 10, but definitely not a traditional half rack in any type of rib place.
The ambiance of this place is very dark and gloomy, which is also not very festive for a Fridays. Overall, I will not be returning to this location, I will stick to my Hamilton Square one that makes you want to lay back and watch a game and stay there eating wings for hours.

I agree with other people saying it is a typical tgif. It is not a bad place if you want to hang out with friends and get decent food and drinks. But if you are looking for a elegant restaurant, this place doesn’t fit that bill.
The service was pretty good so I cannot complain about that, although occasionally the wait time for receiving our entrees can be a little annoying.
Some of their deals are pretty solid so look for those before you decide to go as you may save a little money.

I went on a Saturday afternoon for lunch with four other people. I noticed it was not crowded. We were seated promptly. Our service was good and the food was also. I would recommend this Fridays.

My entire order of fries was «bottom of the bag.» Not like I have a high bar for a pub chain, but would it have killed them to open a new bag of frozen fries and toss just a couple of the non-​mutilated ones into the order of stubbies they told me to «enjoy»? They’re not even trying. The beer was cold and in a clean glass so it wasn’t all bad. Nice job Sam Adams.

The food was decent. Some of the things I liked some were terrible. My broccoli wasnt good and friends meal was cold. It’s typical chain food restaurant. Service was poor too.

New menus and new items on their menus!
They also changed the recipes for a few items like their mozzarella sticks and loaded potato skins.
The mozzarella sticks new recipe was fabulous — it has that super soft melts in your mouth type of cheese that is rare in most mozzarella sticks (I’ve only encountered it a few times in my life — and it’s my favorite!). The potato skins were also pretty good with big chunks of bacon bits and cheddar cheese. The BBQ chicken wings were pretty average though.
I ordered the chipotle chicken and shrimp noodle dish for the first time, and I had high hopes for it. It has a creamy fettuccini like sauce with chipotle spiciness to it — however, my dish came out SUPER spicey, tooooooo spicey for me… Unless you like that sort of thing. I wasn’t a fan — I started breaking out a sweat after a couple bites. Sadly, I ended up refusing it completely, but luckily they my waiter asked his boss if I could delete it off the bill because I hated it. It was gross. The sauce was weird and too spicey.
I had to chug my whole iced tea to chase the spice and even then on the drive home my mouth was still burning a bit.
Ryan seemed to really enjoy his ribs and steak meal though. It was pretty expensive and the portions were standard. I tried it and thought the steak was decent, juicy but nothing amazing. Ribs were all right too.
In short: Good appetizers & drinks. Not that great meals. Sort of expensive. Slow but polite service.

I never have high hopes for a TGI Friday’s, but the interior here is super dated and dark.
I wish they would renovate the place — it could be a decent place to get dinner and a drink before seeing a movie at the theater down the hall.

3.5 stars
Just like any other TGIF, it serves pretty decent food with good drink selection. Great place for a hangout with buddies. Not a great place for a date.
Servers are very attentive, coming back often to ask about how we were doing the whole time, and never showed any frustration even though we stayed in our table for 2 hrs without ordering any food/​drink. We really appreciated it.

Horrible! Our waitress was RUDE! I asked her how our big their soup crock was and she couldn’t answer me. She made up an answer. When the soup came out it was cold and half cooked. If that wasn’t bad enough, she messed up 2 of the 4 orders at our table. She specifically asked me when I ordered if I wanted my dressing on the side. I said yes and my salad came with dressing on it! Then another member of our table didn’t like her food. The waitress argued with her about how it was cooked. After a bit of arguing the waitress took the food back and forever to get the new dish. The waitress in training have us the new dish. She was a better worker with a MUCH more pleasant attitude. TGI Fridays should reconsider who they hire!