Applebee’s

This review is solely for the waiter SALVADOR! I’m not a huge fan of applebees, I mean we are in Tahoe, why are we at applebees? Lol but my large party and I decided to grab some drinks and appetizers before we headed out for the night and Salvador was amazing! He accommodated all of our needs & went above and beyond! Thanks sal!!!

It’s a chain restaurant. I wouldn’t have left a review but eek, I was charged twice on my card. Dispute is currently in process with the credit card company and god knows how long this is going to drag on. Thanks Applebee’s!
PS. Beware of the little console on the table. The games are NOT free and if you’re not careful your kid might accidentally press the «buy» button before you realize it. Way to squeeze a couple more dollahs.

Omg… food was delicious but even better than that was the service! Kristen was the sweetest waitress ever! Very friendly and super attentive… can she be cloned??? This world needs more Kristen’s… Has a smile always!

It was my 21^st birthday yesterday so I went in with my friends and my boyfriend. The lady who was the server wasn’t very personable and seemed to put us to the side while laughing with another table. When everyone got their food I didn’t. I sat their for 10 minutes waiting for my food ON MY BIRTHDAY! The food tasted like cheap frozen dinner. My potatoes weren’t even cooked all the way and the shrimp was over cooked and leathery. Spent $ 100 on horrible service and cheap food. Luckily I didn’t let the dinner ruin my night but I was very disappointed. I got a free desert out of it! Probably the best part of the whole thing.

We had gone up to South Lake Tahoe so the kids could play in the snow. We decided to head up the weekend after New Years. This restaurant is located down the street from the casinos (California /​Nevada State Line). We had tried a few restaurants in the area and every place had a long wait (over an hour — with teenagers that is too long of a wait). So we decided to stop here and check out the wait. Only 15 minutes so we decided to eat here.
We were seated within 15 minutes. Took a bit for the sever to come over but once he did he took good care of us. Our sever had quite a few tables to look after. We ended up ordering:
Macaroni & Cheese with breaded Balsamic Chicken — this was good; balsamic helped to make the chicken a little sweeter
2 burgers: one was an original type burger and another was a special burger with a fried egg (can’t remember what it was called)
California Fresh Nachos — this was good and light; but I thought it was kind of small for the size (hubby & I shared this).
Food came out quickly. Everything tasted good. The restaurant started to fill up and people were now waiting for tables. Service was good and food was good. We were hoping to try some different places while in Tahoe but wait was too long so this was a good choice.

Their food is disgusting. I always go in hopes to find something new that i like but nope! The only thing i like there is the spinach artichoke dip and the portion size on that is way too tiny for the price

The worst Applebee’s in entire Cali. Horrible pasta, nacho, and chicken wings! No excuse for hilolidays!

My boyfriend and I both got extreme diarrhea here. Just saying. And luke the waiter is a rude dick

First time to go lake Tahoe and it’s no nice to find an Applebee’s there. Just lost my credit card somewhere there tho! But food wise it was awesome!!!

From the moment we walked in, the hostess held open the door with a smile and a warm greeting!
Restaurant is clean and all the employees looked helpful and greeted us.
Food was yum! Came out in a timely manner, nice and hot! Drinks were refilled promptly!
Our server was Juli, she greeted us with a smile and was awesome from the start.
Very professional and gave excellent customer service. We asked for some information about nearby attractions, she gave us some pointers and even grabbed a map for us to check out, since we’re visiting! Much appreciated!
The manager, Daniele than came around and checked on us to see how we were doing, she was extremely nice and asked if we were visiting I told her we are on our honeymoon. she than she would love to treat us to a free desert on the house:)
So niice! Thanks again for excellent service!

Really enjoy this location. With a few friends working here makes it that much more enjoyable. Applebees is your ordinary dinning experience that you can enjoy with friends, family. They offer great tasting fresh cooked food as well as a full bar. Theirs goods, bads here to.
Goods: Did you know you can pay, tip and leave without even waiting for your hostess. With the New! POS system in every table. Full Bar! With Specials every day especially during Football season.
Bads: I really didnt find much here, they could make the menu a bit more organized. There was like Four pieces to the menu.

Great dinner! Sweet sour pickles, Big Texan Burgers & dessert — triple fudge cake w/​two scoop ice cream. Food excellent. Service falls kind of there and kind of not, hard sometimes to get waiter but I didn’t hit that annoying machine to call him over and over as it seems so rude. Food I would give 4 or 4 ½ stars, service about 3 so I averaged it to 4.

We stopped in for a late dessert. Our server was a chipper young lady.
They had touch screen ordering at each table. This was so cool! You could see photos of whatever you wanted to order, place your order and pay for it right at your table. You could even pay 99 cents to play games on the device as you wait for your order.
Our dessert came pretty fast and it was delicious. A hot brownie was served on a hot plate with vanilla ice cream on top with maple butter syrup and chocolate chip sprinkles.
Talk about yummy goodness! This was the perfect time to show up.
Thanks Applebee’s :)

It was just ok. The food was decent but the service was very slow and forgot part of our order. Probably wouldn’t eat here again.

I’m generally not a fan of chain restaurants and try to avoid them if I can. My family was looking for something nearby with no wait though, and we passed by Applebee’s on our way to somewhere else we had Unilocaled that was further away and decided to just dine here instead.
We came around 7pm on a weekday and the place wasn’t too busy in my opinion. It definitely wasn’t full, but it seemed like the restaurant wasn’t very efficient at managing the parties they had. When we arrived, there were 2 – 3 families waiting for a table despite there being many tables open. Worst of all though was the wait for our food. After we placed our order, our server frequently came by to tell us she would check on our entrees, which was good service on her part, but it was probably close to an hour before our entrees came out. We had 5 people and ordered a house salad, a thai shrimp salad, chicken and 2 steaks for our entrees, so our order shouldn’t have been particularly complex or time-​consuming.
–THAI SHRIMP SALAD ($ 11.50) — ⁴⁄₅
[oriental salad, shrimp, edamame, almonds, wonton strips, cilantro, chili lime vinaigrette, peanut sauce; 390 calories]
Solid, healthy option! Surprisingly better than I expected for a chain. I ordered mine without the peanut sauce and thought the chili lime vinaigrette gave it all the flavor it needed. Ingredients were pretty fresh, though there wasn’t any edamame in my salad. Shrimp had good texture.
–BOURBON STREET STEAK ($ 17) — ³⁄₅
[9 oz. steak with cajun spices; served with sautéed onions, mushrooms and crispy red potatoes]
Someone else in my family ordered this steak and I tried some of it. Saying this was average might be generous of me. Texture was okay, nothing better, but the steak was really lacking in flavor. The onions and mushrooms had some more flavor but the potatoes were really bland. I’m no chef but I could’ve made a more flavorful steak.
–SWEET POTATO FRIES & DIPS ($ 2, side order) — ²⁄₅
[sriracha chile lime, BBQ bacon ranch & maple-​flavored cream cheese sauce]
I love sweet potato fries but theirs were a real disappointment. Nothing wrong with thick cut fries, but these were sad and floppy. The sriracha and BBQ sauces were good, but I thought the cream cheese sauce was odd for dipping (super sweet and tasted like cupcake frosting)
Given the wait time for food that was just average overall, I really wanted to give this location a 2, but our server was so incredibly nice and friendly that it made the experience a little better. At the end of the day though, I think I’d still avoid Applebee’s in favor of better food (or just cook myself)

So we had decided to go around the Lake Tahoe loop… but decided we were hungry. So we stopped looping and decided we needed food near base camp, which for us was S. Lake Tahoe.
Since we stayed at the Holiday Inn, close to it was Applebee’s. We sat there and waited for a couple minutes at 2PM… wow. Still full at 2pm. We got a seat and we already knew.
They had a tablet thing which automated EVERYTHING minus server bringing water and food to you. You ordered and paid on there. It was a pain in the a double s though, because you had to click and personalize all your *^!(@.
2 for $ 25
The honey BBQ wings– They were decent. They had enough sauce but not moist enough for me :(
Oriental Salad: Tastes like Costco’s oriental salad.
Ribs: Dry, had enough sauce, small and tiny. Cooked a little bit too long. :/​
Mushroom swiss burger– I loved it. Hahahhaha. It was tender (: and it was placed perfectly with the swiss cheese. But it was a decent size but the price was $ 11. Not really worth it in my book. Came with fries that had been put in too long :(
Service– Slow. Our waitress got us our waters, brought us the food, and then poof she was off to the other tables. Trying to get the check? No one was around, so we gave up and paid on the tablet instead…
Minus the subpar service, for an Applebees, the food was better than I expected. Not gonna lie.

Food was okay, customer service could be worked on.
Came in with my mom, and two grandmas. There were pretty slow at the time. Took about 5 minutes to greet us «did anyone greet you? I guess I’ll be your server». Food came out and didn’t even bother checking on us at least once. We talked to the manager and she helped us out. Then we had ordered Togo through the iPad. We told our server that we placed a Togo. He didn’t even check up on our togo items so we had someone else help us out. Total times we visited the table: 3. I just don’t get it because we saw him take care of this other tables but us. I just think his customer service should be worked on a little more if he wants to make good tips.

Pleasantly surprised for a chain. Josh was our waiter. Very friendly, somewhat new to the restaurant, so he was not too familiar with the menu. But tried hard. No veggie burger listed, but they had one. It was decent. Fries were yummy. Onion Rings possibly Panko breaded, didn’t taste greasy. We did a 2 for $ 25.00 deal. Cesar Salad was ok. House was better. Ribs were great. Chicken tenders ok. Soups were smallish. Chicken and Salmon were good. Half the party had been there the night before, and were happy to return.
Would go back again. Margarita looked great.

Ambience and restaurant façade is great. The food seems pretty average to me.
The appetizers were delicious. I loved the boneless buffalo wings and mozzarella sticks! Try dipping the mozza sticks to the ranch dip, it’s yummy! the onion rings were sweet and crispy!
The entrees were average in flavor. Serving is good for one. The Cedar grilled lime chicken was my order. It was seasoned fine and the flavors worked. I was surprised that the rice tasted delicious, it had seeds and grapes or olives on it. I’m not sure what it was but nonetheless it tasted great!
As for the other dishes, I wasn’t so impressed. The mac n cheese didn’t work for me. It was too sweet and lacked cheese flavor. The baby back ribs were at par with ribs you can get elsewhere. The bourbon steak was also regular, they cook it perfectly according to how you like it tho!

So I only came here because it was the only place New Years weekend that didn’t have a 2 hour long wait. We were able to get seated right away at the bar. I didn’t have high hopes but was very pleasantly surprised with my experience! I had not been to Applebee’s in over 10 years and figured they are just another mediocre restaurant chain.
Our server at the bar was great, despite being so busy. She really made sure we were happy with our orders. We got the crispy wonton tacos and those were great! I really enjoyed the lightness of the the wonton. I also ordered the Shrimp Parmesan Steak. The flavors were great and so tasty. My only mistake was ordering it medium rare. The steak was SO CHEWY that my jaw started getting tired from chewing. I should have ordered it medium or medium done to get a better chew. I did enjoy the veges and mashed potatoes on the side as well.
Overall, I had a very pleasant time with Applebee’s. Good job on proving you are more than just a chain!

Bestes Steak in Lake Tahoe!