TGI Friday’s

Tonight me and my family went for dinner at this place and we had great food the baby back ribs was so good, We are satisfied… with our dinner…

Great place to go with friends to eat and drink, good food, price and service. The kitchen was fast and the drinks were ok

Alright, I’m pretty sure you guys know what’s coming, but it must be said. When walking into this TGI Fridays, my friends and I were hungry as can be and were eagerly anticipating the $ 12 Endless Apps, and yup, you guessed it! They f**cked it up. The whole scheme behind their endless apps special is to keep you waiting 20+ minutes in between each appetizer, as we as patrons are being taken for chumps. You got me this time Friday’s, but never again.
*And no take home bags. Really?

We came during lunch in a group of 3, there was only one other table of diners in the restaurant, and just our appetizers took 36 minutes. Our entres took another 20 minutes. Never come here if you’re in a hurry.

I hated the crowd. Our waitress was friendly, however everything took long. The food was okay, but nothing crazy.

They currently have great drink specials for the football season. They have certain beers, margaritas, and mojitos for $ 3. They also have $ 5 appetizers. This sounds great, so my friends and I took advantage of these deals.
We came here on a Thursday night, the restaurant was not busy. There were plenty of seats available everywhere, but they still had us wait for a table. We waited about 5 minutes, which I felt was unnecessary, but oh well.
I ordered a mojito, and once I received it I found a curly hair in my drink. I do not have curly hair, so that wasn’t mine. I immediately called the server to inform him, he apologized and I asked to get a beer instead.
The food is typical bar foods. We ordered cheese sticks, pot stickers, and buffalo wings. It was good. The pot stickers were the best part.
Our server was very attentive, funny and in a good mood.
If I’m in the area and looking for a place to get a beer, this would be an option.

I went with a group of women and our waitress, Sam, handled us all very well. We paid separately and she got all of our orders correct. There were no problems. She was also very friendly and had a good personality. I think the server you have makes a huge difference! Ask for Sam when you go :)

Avoid this place as much as I can. It’s a hit or miss really, but most of the time it is a miss. The drinks are pretty much water, the food is old. We always leave here with a stomach ache. I gave it two stars because their tomato basil soup on Tuesdays is so awesome it gives me cravings at times. But honestly I’ll just pass by and pick it up most times, I won’t really sit and order.

Not one of my favorite TGI Fridays out of all of the franchises.
Slow service, the longest wait time to get attended, and the food here definitely tastes different than the other locations.
I live about 8 – 10 minutes away but I make an effort to go to the other locations!

I have been to several different TGIFs in the U.S., and usually the experience is about the same (except NY, where prices are absurdly high and service is.well. it is NY after all). But unfortunately things are changing at TGIF, I clearly feel that the quality of the food and the service is going downhill.
Last night we ordered ribs and the grilled chicken and shrimp. When the food came we all giggled. the picture of the chicken and shrimp plate on the menu shows very different sizes (of both the chicken and the shrimp), but anyway, what else is new in this business?
But the taste was good, everything was hot, in my opinion a 4* for a chain restaurant.
What blew 1* off my rating is service. Although our waiter was nice and friendly, he was missing in action most of the time. Our drinks took forever (drinks = two glasses of draft beer, complicated?), arriving almost at the same time as the food, which by the way took very long too. Ordering the bill was another challenge in time travel, and then waiting for him to get my credit card to close it definitively signified a singularity in the time continuum black hole phenomena.
One thing that really bothers me is the WATS («waiters avoiding table service»), since the only job of a waiter is to … wait tables! If he is always missing in action then he needs to change careers. Sorry. I’m paying… and tipping… I expect and deserve service, and I WILL knock off stars (and add stars too) for the quality of service I get.
I hope TGIF fixes these issues, I like the concept and the food, but if I’m not 100% happy after spending my money I will start to look for other alternatives.
Cheers!

Blah. I use to really like this place but after my last visit I reminded myself corporations SUCK!
The food weighs heavy after I’ve ate it. And it doesn’t taste authentic…
The service has mediocre. The server got our appetizer wrong, came back with a plate and told us to put the wedges in that plate since its not what we ordered.
So you want us to grab the wedges and put them on your place so you can serve them to someone else? Or toss them out? Lol
Anyway idc to come back. This place sucks.

Food and ambiance — mediocre at best.
Also, to anyone enticed by the «bingo nights» in the hopes that they will win $ 300? Don’t get your hopes up at all. Our good friend won bingo, they announced his win over the loudspeaker, and the grand prize to be given to him. After half an hour of isolating him in the back of the restaurant, it was decided that he wasn’t entitled to the $ 300. The manager then proceeded to «apologize» to us and handed our friend a $ 25 gift card to Fridays instead of the $ 300 supposedly «promised» to the winner.
We use to go every Wednesday. Never. Again.

If I could remove my one star I would. These people are absolutely ridiculous.
Your food will pretty much always come out cold.
The drink specials are not that great (grove has better ones and better ambiance)
But I think the absolute worst part of this Friday’s establishment is the manager who you never see and frankly, CLEARLY does not care at all about customer service or satisfaction.
Avoid this place. ESPECIALLY Wednesday bingo nights and if you go to UM, they’re just trying to take advantage of you.

Lame. Their draft beer wasn’t working. Mixed drink took almost 15 minutes to get and their was only 6 or 8 people in the place! When the food arrived it was good but we had to hear the servers huddled around their station complaining. Lots of GD this and GD that.
We ate and left to never return.

I’m writing another review for a chain restaurant, and as usual, I’ll rate it a 3. Nothing really stood out to me, but nothing was oh my god awful.
I definitely like having the TGIF Stripes rewards (very easy to sign up for this) because you get free chips and salsa as a starter. And studies have shown that it’s in human nature to enjoy free appetizers. I think it might even be stated in the Bible, but in one of those lost books no one really knows about.
Unfortunately, the drinks at this location were extremely weak, but I think this is true of most Friday’s locations. The Blackberry Long Island Tea Shaker didn’t even make my cheeks rosy, but it was still tasty and refreshing. I thought those drinks were supposed to be notoriously strong. And the strawberry daiquiri my family friend ordered was bubblegum pink, not the true reddish pink of a legit daiquiri — and it apparently tasted more like ice than strawberry. When we asked the server if they accidentally put in a virgin daiquiri order, she was very accommodating and said she’d ask the bartender to add more mix. When she came back, they definitely bumped up the alcohol level. So if you go to this location and your adult beverage tastes like it has zero alcohol, don’t suffer in silence. They were very nice about fixing it.
As for the food, it was fine. Burgers are always a safe bet. And the server let us try a side of the Jack Daniels sauce — I wasn’t crazy about it, but I ordered the black bean burger. Not the best combination.
All in all, TGI Friday’s offers good discounts, good burgers, and the friendly staff clearly wants you to enjoy your experience there and come back again.

Coming to Fridays was one of the best parts of my teenage years! Sad to say, but things have changed and not for the good! Miami has become quite the foodie city, so the competition is huge! The Larger chained restaurants are competing with smaller businesses which offer better service and food.
Fridays totally stayed behind. To start off theybremodeled their location not so long ago and it’s horrible! Extremely plain. I loved all the items they had hanging from the ceiling and on the walls! A very edgy and lively place to dine at. Not anymore :(
I know the crowd is young most of the time but that doesn’t mean you can talk to your guests like they’re family. There’s got to be some sort of professionalism. Our waiter recommended us some drinks that when they came tasted more like sour mix than alcohol. I opted out and got a berry mojito, let’s just say all I tasted were the berries. Extremely watered down berry juice.
Now, the only reason I gave them 2 stars is because I absolutely LOVE the fried green beans. They now have a deal that you pay $ 10 and get unlimited orders of it. It’s a pretty good deal but I feel like they have to constantly do stuff like that to lure guests in.
But apparently unlimited was limited! He explained that we couldn’t get 9 or 10 of them. I mean who gets 9 of the same appetizer, but if it’s unlimited what IF I do want 10?
I usually get the Fridays shrimp for dinner, with regular fries. A dozen Fried shrimp. My husband got a sizzler which consisted of tiny chicken breasts and a few shrimp. Honestly, with what I paid here, we could’ve gone to any smaller restaurant and gotten better and bigger amounts of food. I’m sondisappointed with Fridays! It’s just turned into a tragedy!

This used to be one of our favorite places to go and just enjoy good food and drinks.
It’s sad to say that after our visit today it has changed. To begin the service was not anywhere near what it used to be. The place has gone from friendly and helpful waiters to careless unprofessionals.
We sat and asked for drinks. The waiter recommended one of the new margaritas on the menu and my wife got a berry mojito shaker. When the drinks came, they had all the ingredients but the alcohol. The margaritas were pure sweet and sour mix with a bag of sugar added to them. The mojito tasted like water with a drop of raspberry juice. We sent the drinks back and when we received them again our waiter said that the recipe was done correctly. Apparently there is a new bartender in the house.
I ended up asking for another berry mojito with an extra shot. It came separate because the bartender refused to mix it.
Time for the food. Our waiter explained the new 10 dollar unlimited appetizer deal. When we decided to do it, he began to explain we couldn’t order ten appetizers and that he was going to do an exception for us by letting us order up to four times. Seriously who orders more that 4 of the same appetizer at Fridays! I have to say we felt very uncomfortable with his recommendation and almost canceled the order.
The food arrived for everyone but myself. I had ordered the shrimp and chicken sizzler and it arrived after the rest of the table was finished. By this time I had lost my interest in my order and was even more disappointed when the plate was placed in front of me. Two very minuscule pieces of chicken breast and 4 small shrimp, over yellow cheese and a spoonful of mash potato.
What a disaster and horrific experience. What once used to be the place to enjoy in a Friday night has become anything but that. Definitely won’t be stopping by for a long time.

I had a truly pleasant experience at this location. I sat at the bar and had great service. The bartender I believe her name was Holly was very personable and knowledgable about the menu. I always am a little apprehensive about coming to chains like this, but my service here definitely exceeded my expectations.
Only con was that we stood at the hostess stand for a few minutes while a server was crouched down at the hostess stand on a personal phone call ignoring us. That is the reason we dined at the bar, unbelievable!
The food came out very hot and the drinks were good. Try the Parmesan fries as a side, they are DELISH!!!

Menus recently have been changed to mock a fancy restaurants– with high prices for the same food they had before and somehow also, the service quality has also plunged very low.
*This part may be specific to this location*
It all really happened…
–Our server waited 10 minutes to ask us for our beverage choices (before food)
–He took it upon himself to decide what comes out– when; he brought out my
salad 10 minutes after serving my boyfriend what he ordered for his entrée.
–When I ordered my food, I read it off the menu and our waiter said «Which one is that?». I literally had to tell him the price of it because he had no idea what was on the menu.
–My ceasar salad came out dry so I had to ask for dressing. He came back and gave me Italian dressing– for my Ceasar salad O_​o
–My chicken and fries came out COLD and STALE, I had to have it sent back.
–I asked for a side of sauce THREE times. It came to the point my boyfriend had to get up and go to the kitchen himself. The waiter came and asked how the food was that I hadn’t touched yet– and I had to remind him for the 4^th time, I’m still waiting on my sauce.
–The waiter was saying sorry left and right to each table around us, and even asked someone at another table– «Wait, what did you order again?»
–He decided he would give us 20% off (wonder why?)… when he brought us back our bill that totaled a little over $ 11.00, he deducted .60 cents– saying that this was the 20% off he so kindly granted us. See attached receipt.
In conclusion, prices have gone up, food quality has gone down, and service has completely deteriorated.
The server’s name (for future reference) is ‘Anfal’.
We wont be back.

From the draft pile.
I know I know its getting drafty in here!
Visit 3−17−13 around 7:30pm We had came here since we just picked up tourist visiting They didn’t want to eat at any of the Cuban or Caribbean styled foods so American food was what they wanted. after a short wait about 20 minutes we were seated this place is very busy. Our server took great care of our table and explained the specials. Our meals were delivered fast and hot just like I like it. I did not expect this considering the low ratings
Food 4
Service 5 (great server made all the difference.)
Ambiance 4
Location 3
Value 3