Sis and I were out and about in Forest Lake and stopped in here for lunch. We haven't been to an Applebee's in years, but know they have a nice atmosphere and good food. We were about to get seated quickly in a booth. There was a big group of high school basketball players and parents near us. It was nice to see all their food come out from the kitchen so I see/smell things before I ordered. Sis decided on the Whiskey Burger and that was a part of the 2 for $20 deal. So we looked over our appetite options. Mozzarella sticks are always a solid choice. I decided on the new menu item, the O-M-Chz burger. Both entrees came with fries. Whiskey burger was a classic cheeseburger with bacon. The Whiskey bbq sauce had chucks of bacon in it too. "Very good". OMC came out pre-cut in half, cut end side down, sitting in a sizzling melted cheese sauce. And on a hot plate similar to fajitas. I thought delicious. And I would call it a open faced Juicy Lucy. It came with a hot honey mustard sauce. I am glad I asked for it on the side. It would have been too much flavor if on the burger. Overall, a successful visit for lunch. Staff was friendly and checked on us the right amount of times. read more

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Food was as expected, service was a pleasant surprise. Our waitstaff, Becky, was beyond awesome. I really have not experienced this level of impressive hospitality in years. I spent my 20's as a server at an Applebees and am not easily impressed. Applebees is not a usual choice, but Becky may have changed my attitude. Well done. Becky is a gem. read more

We visited Applebee's in Forest Lake, MN, after a fun evening at the Dead End Hayride, and overall, it was a solid experience. The late-night appetizers were decent--just what we needed to satisfy our cravings. The menu offered a good variety, and everything we tried was tasty, hot and well-prepared. Service was okay; our server was friendly, but not very attentive. While it wasn't a perfect visit, it certainly hit the spot. I'd recommend it for a casual bite, especially after a local event AND after 9pm! Overall, we give it four stars! read more

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Food quality has greatly improved - hadn't been here in 5 years due to declining food quality. One negative, they tried to charge me 2.99 for playing a game on the electronic device on the table. No notice or anything that there was a charge. I was going to give a one star - but that wouldn't have been fair to the better quality of food served. read more

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Not the best Applebee's I've been to, but overall it was a nice spot to get some appetizers. Me and my boyfriend got the sampler with wonton tacos added on. They didn't give enough chips for how much dip they gave us and it really wasn't as filling as I thought it would be. I would recommend the wonton tacos though! They were good. It was pretty packed on a Friday night but that's expected in a local Applebees. We sat at the bar and had to wave down the bartender to order and get drinks. Overall, it wasn't my favorite experience at an Applebees but wasn't expecting a 5 star restaurant service either. read more

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This was not a great experience for how much my family and I end up spending. Our server had no interest in helping us, she only wanted to spend time by the door chatting with the hostess. We almost didn't order dessert it took so long for her to come back. There was about eight tables filled and we waited about 35 minutes to get our food. She never came back for refills and it took another 10 minutes for her to finally come back with boxes. The one in Coon Rapids is much better. The hot honey chicken skillet is amazing! The food was great, compliments to the cooks. read more

Alright, so here's my review for the only chain restaurant bar that is in Forest Lake at time of writing. I was here for 3 nights while I was visiting family. I'll say that Applebee's is better than the family, but given my current family situation I am not sure that is a hard bar to beat. Food is solid. It is what you expect at an Applebee's, and I had no undercooked or overcooked items. My burger was perfectly medium rare, and the appetizer was tasty (I had different ones each night). Service was great. I sat at the bar all nights and had the same bartender. I don't recall her name, but she was attentive and did not pressure me on anything. It's a quiet place in the evenings during the week too which is nice. It's not crowded with rowdy drunks or irregular people. Overall, I like this spot and would return here in the future. read more

Our server was great and attentive. We ordered drinks and they came fast as well as our food. I'm not huge on chains but they where the only ones in the area open past 8pm on Thursday. All of our meals came out hot and all tasted the way they should have. I'm sure we'll be back sometime in the future when we are looking to eat after 8pm. read more

Even though this is a chain location, it really feels like a neighborhood restaurant. Ever since Covid ended, Applebee's has become a place where everyone knows your name. I really never see a frowning face or anyone who is afraid to work hard at providing excellent customer service. Here's the best part, money has been tight and I can't go as often. The team members never forget me and my friend! We always feel welcome. Thank You! Claudia. read more

I had the best lunch experience today! This location was recently remodeled & we really like the new decor, featuring local scenes & photographers. The waitress Kaitlyn was bubbly, attentive, and one of the best staff we have ever had in any waitress. I had a Strawberry Chicken Salad which was a 10 out of 10! Big chunks of chicken, huge fresh strawberries and a healthy portion. Very reasonably priced for the quality. My son ordered the chicken bacon sandwich & the amount & quality of chicken was enormous, a super value! Most restaurants these days skimp on the meat or portion size, but we felt like the meals were not lacking at all! Very impressed & we will definitely be back. It had been a very long time since we were here as we had a negative time in the past with service but Kaitlyn dominated today & made a huge positive impact! Nice job Applebee's! read more

3 stars for trying to make things right. Placed an order with door dash and had a large order close to $100 Almost half the items were missing. I was told initially that the door dash employee was responsible for making sure things weren't missing. In order to get my replacement food I had to go pick it up, which was fine. The manager did replace what was missing and upgraded my Caesar salad to a large and gave 3 deserts as an apology. She was very nice and apologetic. After getting home and having what we needed we finally were able to eat. My sister bit into her burger and it wasn't fully cooked. The lemonade drinks did not taste right and the there was a lack of sauce on the wings and burger. We did call the manager to let her know about the uncooked burger and she did ask what could be done, however we were over the situation. I'm new here to forest lake and hope this isn't a reoccurring issue as there isn't much places to eat here. read more

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Have loved Applebee's Forest Lake MN for over 10 years. Tonight we had the baby back ribs. Very good. Service is always great, but tonight, May 19, 2023, table 82, Kendra G. was especially wonderful, friendly, and easy going too! Thank you for making our experience special tonight! Syd S. read more

I'm pretty upset about the "half priced apps" they have select appetizers that are half off but don't mention that until you get your bill back and realize that your bill is more expensive than you expected. If you're going to have half priced apps then why wouldn't you make them all half priced... read more

Kitchen staff here is pretty bad. Food comes out in wrong portions and ignores special requests. Servers and food runners failed to look at what they bring to tables. Server was slow and inefficient, table of 8 was never pre-bussed from apps to the time we left. Not all Applebee's are this bad. Coon Rapids location has better staff and serves a much better product read more

i picked up a burger and chicken macaroni to go. it was busy inside but they were quick and friendly. my burger was AMAZING!! my boyfriend didn't like the macaroni very much "not cheesy enough" but overall it was good (: read more

I have only been here and overall it has been decent, As I arived the service was slow; it took about 30min for the waiter to take our order. She was verry friendly. There are a varity of great deals and combos and a abundant amount of choices. It was verry stressful ordering because I was still thinking after the 30m wait. Wether this was my crippling anxiety or just a poor desison making brain I dont know. We got the aptisers about half an hour later and they were delicious however the plates were dirty. This was rather unpleasant after the great start. Our food came 40m later and it was pretty decent read more

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I made this review because the friendly and kind employees found my missing wallet on the floor thank you guys for finding it also your food was extremely delicious I would go again and again. read more

So...after my infamous review I had never again set foot in any Applebee's again until tonight, I had an old gift card in my wallet and my two daughters wanted dessert so... I thought how bad could it be? You can't really screw up ice cream right? Well I was correct, you can't. Also, our waitress/bartender was very nice, didn't act like we were weird just getting desserts, she even checked my old gift card from 2002 just to see if it still worked and it did. The desserts were all good I got the Apple Fritter one, looked nothing like the online photo, but solid. The Manager offered me awhile back to come back in for a free meal to try their place again, I suppose my last review...well got reviewed...so I may come back in and try a regular meal again. Dessert was a baby step and the bartender was awesome so she deserves kudos... I almost told her I was "Cecil" obviously not my real name, but I stopped at the last second. read more

Not sure what COVID has to do with Quality of meat and seasoning of meat ordered two steaks Both were poor quality and tasteless

Ordered a hamburger and asked that it be well-done. Was assured that there would be no pink in the middle. The meal came with everyone else's at our table after a very long wait. Their meals were fine. My hamburger, though, was not well-done. The waitress said that they could make another one. Wasn't worth the effort in getting another one made since everyone would be done eating by the time my meal arrived. Very disappointed. read more

Went there a few days ago with a few others and it was very quiet with plenty of staff. That said, every order was messed up one way or another starting with the burgers still being pink in the middle. One order wasn't even placed. Do not recomend going here anytime soon. read more

I have returned to Apple bee's because my wife had a gift card so here I am because my last dine in was not very good and lord behold they repeated the lame service again with a new dish with cold ravioli and forgot the chicken breast, manager was nice enough to send me home with something else which I refused so I payed for my $5 beer and waited for my wife to finish her sub-par steak. read more

On Sunday Oct 3 I went to the forest lake Applebee's for dinner while I was there and ordered my food it was a horrible experience. My food was raw and this is the second time. The manager offered me a salad or soup I guess she figured that it's probably the only thing they could offer me that they would be fully cooked because you don't got to cook neither one really. I will not be back. Customer service was lacking as well read more

I read terrible reviews about in Applebee's Forest Lake. We went to try for ourselves the staff was friendly, and it looked clean. The food was so so. It definitely wasn't the worse experience in a restaurant we had including Applebee's. Try it for your self read more

Worst service I've ever experienced in my life. 20 minutes to get a plastic jug of chocolate milk. Over an hour to get entrees over half of which where COLD, salad ha no dressing. Horrible. Never again returning read more

I googled Applebee's Forest Lake hours and the website said open till 1am. We arrived at the restaurant just past 11pm on Friday night. When we walked up to the door and the sign said open till midnight. But to our surprise the restaurant closed at 11pm. So we wasted a trip to Forest Lake because someone is to lazy to update store hours. Oh and its covids fault. Apparently some restaurants are doing better than others after covid and can afford to run less hours and not update times. Guess my money is better spent on the struggling restaurants that still believe in customer service. read more

Samuel H. as been our server 3 times now and he has been absolutely wonderful! Each time he has been extremely respectful, kind, and courteous to us and always is willing to go the extra mile for anything we would need. We recently went there for Veterans Day and he shook our hands and thanked us for our service. Its that type of service that makes our experience here really wonderful and makes us happy to come back here to eat. read more

My family ordered online today and got some steaks and Mac and cheese, we were all excited we like Applebee's, our steaks weren't even close to being rare, and the Mac had like water all in it, we used to like going there. read more

My past was not hot. Barely had any sauce it was like wet noodles had been placed in a tiny bit of sauce. Everything is watered down from the pasta sauce to the soap in the bathroom. And they brought out soaking wet chips for the dip. Ridiculous. And super slow service. Nobody to greet at the door and it took 15 mins just to get a water after sitting at our table. Pathetic read more

Stopped by tonight. Asked for a seat with good view to watch Wild game. Got seated. Waited 10 minutes for someone to come wait on us. We weren't acknowledged by any staff after being seated. Got up and went home and watched the game at home. Funny too. As we were walking out the hostess says. Thank you. Ya. THANK YOU. read more

Ordered car-side to-go and they forgot half the order. I had to drive all the way back in and get the order. They had offered me a free drink when I waited for so long for the first half of the order but they offered me no compensation after I drove all the way back in to get the second half of my order. This is the second time that this has happened at the same restaurant. read more

Server was sort of crabby: ignored my requests. Food was cold specifically the French fries. Pretzel sticks are limp. At least the place was clean... read more

Sometimes the food is average and sometimes the food is horrendous. This place is way too inconsistent for me to recommend to anyone.

Do you like horrible food, weak watered down over priced drinks and horrible service? If so, then this is the place for you! I have been to this Applebee's 4 times in the last year. I have yet to get my order right. It's not like I order difficult items, how hard is it for a burger with sauces on the side instead of on it? After our last visit I vowed I will not step foot in this establishment. Our waitress took almost 20 minutes just to take our drink order, I guess talking to the bartender at the bar was more important then helping her customers. When she finally took our drink order she took our food order. About 30 minutes later she set food down in front of us and wandered away, never to be seen again. The food was terrible, everything tasted freezer burnt and over cooked by their microwave. My burger tasted "nuked" instead of grilled as did my wife's pasta. It was completely disgusting and I would have complained if we had a server. Don't even get me started on their "specialty drinks"! It tasted like a kiddie cocktail! We ended up requesting our check from a different waiter who looked just as bored as our initial server. Our check was paid with cash and we left vowing never to return. Don't waste your time people, there are MUCH better restaurants in the area. read more

Food is always good, new to the area so the closet thing to home was pretty much applebee, monday they had 5 dollar burgers, which i was very happy about, order two burgers off the menu, and usually i can eat, also had half off drinks and stuff. great place, great service, def coming back every monday. read more

Friday, July 22, 2016. Terrible meal, terrible service. I had to ask them to clean the food off of the booth seat then had to also do it myself with a napkin. Asked the waiter for a new napkin, he threw some at us and left the crusty one on the end of the table for the whole meal. The steak quesadilla had burnt steak. The salad had stale croutons and rotten tomatoes on such a small plate you couldn't cut the lettuce without the content falling onto the table. Our pop came after we were finished eating. We would have talked to the manager instead of writing a review on Yelp but the waiter never came back to see if we needed anything except to give us the bill. Terrible experience. Not at all what we expect of Applebee's. read more

Very subpar experience. Expectations are never high coming to a place like this, but this was bad. Server was friendly, food was horrendous......I mean really bad! Will never come back. read more

I'll be honest, this place is Applebee's, a restaurant that is not the great place it was ten years ago, the food is just bland and boring, but this location is one worth going to if in the area. When I think of Forest Lake, I don't think of good service at the local businesses but our server was so pleasant and friendly. Outstanding service. read more

Had a wonderful waitress and very good food. The best applebees meal I have had. I would return. Try the double crunch shrimp!

Waiter Nick wasn't quick and efficient like a waiter should be. The whole time it just felt like he wanted me and my family to leave as soon as possible. Ordered the all day breakfast burger and it was a disaster. All I tasted was meat and cheese. And we weren't even asked how we would like our meat. It was fully cooked and dry tasting.... Afterwards, I couldn't finish my food so I asked for a box. 15 minutes later, no box so we just left. So good job Nick! Bad service and bad food! And thanks for not refilling our water until we were right about to leave! Two stars for the fries. (All in all, Applebee's is a last resort) read more