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    Applebee's Grill + Bar

    3.0 (57 reviews)
    Open 11:30 am - 10:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    APPLEBEE'S GRILL + BAR ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Happy hour specials
    Good for kids

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    Mac and cheese with honey chicken strips

    Applebee is my favourite chill place for comfort food. They give good portion sizes and the staff were friendly. The meal was fantastic and very tastes with lots of flavour.

    Portobello veggie burger with a side of four cheese mac and cheese
    Mary T.

    I was first introduced to Applebee's when I lived in Winnipeg. It was a ten-minute drive from where I lived. Since I returned to Markham, the closest Applebee's is in Ajax. I choose to backroad getting there, which takes me half an hour. I have been to this location twice. The first time was probably a good decade ago. I couldn't tell you how I felt about my food experience then, but I do remember the person that I was with! Last weekend, my dear friend and I met to exchange Christmas presents early and to shop at the box stores. After we were done, I suggested Applebee's for dinner. She was game. She is vegan. We sat in my car and I looked up the menu. There was a portobello mushroom burger. Sold! I love mushrooms, especially portobello. This burger isn't a full portobello as the patty. Rather, it's a veggie burger topped with slices of portobello. It was still fabulous. You can substitute any burger for a veggie burger. My friend did that with the barbeque burger. She had sweet potato fries as her side. I chose mac and cheese as my side. The veggie burger was flavourful and moist. Thank goodness it didn't taste like cardboard! My friend was happy with her burger and sweet potato fries. I enjoyed my mac and cheese. It was the perfect size and portion. We were both stuffed that we had to say no to dessert. I couldn't even try to shovel down the brownie bite. My favourite is the maple nut blondie with pecans and vanilla ice cream. I am drooling just thinking about how yummy this dessert is on a hot, sizzling plate. It was snowing heavily that evening, so we had an enjoyable, quiet time chatting as we ate. Unfortunately, some jerk decided to smoke in the women's washroom, so it smelled like an ashtray when I stopped by. I recommend coming to this restaurant.The food is delicious and staff are incredibly nice. Although this next detail has nothing to do with the restaurant, a customer came over to my car as I was clearing the snow off my car with my brush. He asked if he could use it. I said that I would lend it to him once I was done with it. A minute later, I was done. He thanked me and went to his car to brush off the snow. He then came back and thanked me again. Just a public service that we live in Canada and we should always have a snow brush when it's Winter! (244)

    Adele W.

    I was here the other night with my family and we opted for the 2 for $25 deal noted in their menu. This offer comes with two main entrees and one appetizer, which I thought wasn't such a bad deal. For my main dish, I ordered the Double Crunch Shrimp and my husband ordered the Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburger. My parents both ordered the Oriental Chicken Salad. The appetizers we selected were the Spinach and Artichoke Dip and my parents had the Onion Rings. Let's start with the appetizers: Although I was impressed with the size of the Spinach and Artichoke Dip appetizer, I was not impressed with the flavour! It was quite bland and had more cheese than spinach... and I don't think the artichoke even made an appearance! I'm also not quite sure why it came with a small dish of salsa on the side... seemed like an odd combination. The onion rings, although large and crispy didn't seem to compare in value to the dip (see pictures attached)... but I must say, they did restore my faith after the John Anderson's onion ring debacle (see previous review). On to the mains: The Double Crunch Shrimp consisted of 12 breaded shrimp, cocktail sauce, fries and coleslaw. I'm not sure what justified the name of 'Double Crunch' though as there wasn't really much crunch to them at all. The fries were so bland that they weren't even worth eating. I think the only saving grace for this dish was the cocktail sauce (to give some flavour to the shrimp) and the coleslaw. The Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburger came with all the usual condiments and I must say, the bacon was cooked perfectly. Sadly to say, even though the burger was flavourful, it was really dry... and we won't even get back into talking about the fries. The saving grace for this dish was the salsa that came with the Spinach and Artichoke Dip... perhaps this is what added the flavour to the burger...? On to the Oriental Chicken Salad. This dish left a lot to be desired. The chicken had far too much breading and was extremely dry. The lettuce wasn't even a nice mix of greens, it was just romaine. Romaine! That's it! Are you trying to tell me that there are no other types of lettuce in the orient? C'mon! There was so much more they could have done to this dish... I'm not even sure why it was called 'oriental'. The saving grace for this dish was the dressing. It had a really nice consistency and was quite sweet. I can't say that I'll be back. Applebee's used to have good quality food for a good price. I feel that the quality of the food has gone down in direct relationship to the rise in prices. There are far better restaurants out there for me to spend my money at. Last, but not least... the saving grace for the whole evening was the service. Our waitress was pleasant and cheerful. She even presented my Dad with a free dessert for his birthday. Happy Birthday Dad... sorry we picked such a shoddy restaurant.

    Wonton chicken tacos
    Chris T.

    I was in the area with family today looking for lunch. Since I wasnt familiar qith the area I used Yelp and the first place I saw was Applebees. There was an offer to check in and receive a free app (up to $12.50) with the purchase of an entreé, and another offer for mentioning yelp to get 15% off total bill. What a sweet deal!! For the free app we got the wonton taco with chicken (4/5). We ordered fish tacos (3/5) with a side of 4 cheese macaroni & bacon (4/5) and another entreé with mashed potatoes, sirloin steak, topped with gravy and onion rings (3.5/5). The mac & cheese was pretty good. We ordered another side of it! The total bill came out to $40 after the 2 promos. Thank you Yelp!!!

    Stalty chips n steak
    Chef A.

    I absolutely hate Applebee's. It's always one of my girlfriends who drags me into this establishment. Usually on the pretenses that they're paying, because if I were paying there's a lot of other places I would rather be. Let's start with what they do good. The service is usually pretty good the people that work there are very nice, you never usually have to wait for a table. I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing. Whenever you have a complaint staff usually address it with no hassles and a smile. The order was the spinach dip with the fiesta chicken and a bourbon steak The spinach dip was Ok the chips were coated in salt, so much that I found it to be not edible. The fiesta chicken tasted like a nacho supreme from Taco Bell with chicken The Bourbon steak it was good I mean you can't really screw up steak but it came with the wrong side order. I'm still trying to figure out what people like about this place.

    Bourbon steak n roasted potatoes

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    11 years ago

    Great location, service a bit slow, greaters I found not overly friendly, food and portions a decent size. Nice variety in the menu.

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    9 years ago

    Applebees is a favorite place for me to dine! Great menu selection! Also go to Applebees in California.

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    13 years ago

    Fish and chips are good but the ribs were a bit poor. Everything is a tad too expensive for a chain restaurant. Staff are decent though.

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    14 years ago

    Food wasn't that good. Overpriced and small portions. Service wasn't that good. Won't be going back.

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