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    Applebee's Grill + Bar

    2.2 (50 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 11:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    Kat K.

    Only place open on Sunday night in Pella and I recommend they close. Of those we saw, servers were really poorly trained and seemingly unhappy to be there (One server complained how ready she was to go home and no one seemed interested in picking up new tables). Food had too much sauce and the chicken had a weird, rubbery/fatty texture (chicken won ton tacos which were much better at an Utah Applebees). The French Onion Soup was flavorless, think brown water with warmed cheese on top. Cocktails tasted watered-down. Closes at 10pm but chairs already upside down on tables at 9pm. Very uninviting. Zero stars if I could.

    Classic Bacon Cheeseburger

    Burger was so full of grease that when I bit it the grease poured out, Bun and lettuce was drenched. 2 hairs in pasta and only gave me a $7 discount. All and all maybe ate two bites of the food that we waited an hour for. We were told that the manager would come talk to us but apparently they couldn't have been bothered to do so. Terrible experience would not recommend to anyone! Please please choose somewhere else to eat! (Also somewhat unrelated but the "Average ticket price" for all the waitstaff was posted by register and our waitress was near the bottom so I am assuming that is why there was only a $7 discount)

    Brisket tacos
    Michael M.

    Applebee's, I want to praise you like you deserve. Like an old blanket or Grandma's house, you are always there for me. All too often you get a bad rap being that you are part of the "corporate" hierarchy that is slowly destroying my America. Granted, you are not the French Laundry but you are consistent, you are everywhere and you are delicious. I forgave you when you removed chicken fried chicken from your menu which is still a mistake of biblical proportions but we've moved on, haven't we. I wanted a steak but I wasn't interested in visiting an overpriced steak house. I wanted quick, I wanted delicious and I wanted to have enough money left over to be able to buy my needed recreational pharmaceuticals. It's the only way that I can write Yelp reviews or anything else for that matter. "I want the Bourbon Street Steak and Shrimp" "Mashed alright" "Yes ma'am" "How would like your steak" "Medium rare, more on the rare side...like my sex life. Dt Coke." My companion ordered brisket tacos, two words that definitely do not go together but who am I to judge. For being in the middle of a pandemic, it was pretty busy considering that it was 12:30 on a Tuesday in Pella Iowa. Granted, it was mostly seasoned citizens but old people know where the good food is. I was there for lunch. They were probably there for dinner or a nightcap before going to bed. Again, I don't judge. Old people just know. My steak came out sizzling as it should, on a cast-iron platter, covered with shrimp and mushrooms and snuggled up to a mound of mashed, this wasn't the first time that I felt the desire to impregnate my food, it looked that good. The steak was perfectly cooked and delicious. The mashed were piping hot and might have caused 3rd degree burns to the roof of my mouth but unlike that bat shit crazy McDonald's coffee psycho, I'm not suing. The acid in the diet coke quickly extinguished the searing flesh in my mouth so I could return to enjoying my butchered cow as any good American would. Applebee's, because America!

    Here's a picture of our friendly waitress, Carin.

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    Very upset waited for 3 hours to get our food and sit down and got it and had a hair in it and the chicken was still pink in the middle.

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    Great food and good service. We love the Buffalo Wedge Salad! Our favorite place to eat in Pella!

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    Food has always been great. Service is definitely adequate and staff are friendly. Always seems clean. Love their drinks

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    Great place to eat!!! They have great food for good prices!! And the staff are awesome!! Especially Sara!! Highly recommend this place!!

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    We stopped in for drinks and dinner while staying nearby, mostly because it was within walking…read moredistance of the hotel. The drink specials were good, and honestly the drinks made the Walmart run before dinner a little more tolerable. We came back later for dinner, and the food was fine. I had the Kickin' Raspberry Chicken for $14.99, which was a grilled chicken sandwich with Jamaican jerk seasoning, grilled pineapple, ghost pepper cheese, and raspberry sauce on ciabatta. It was good, messy, and that ghost pepper cheese definitely had some fire to it. I liked it. I honestly do not remember what Kim had, but not because it was bad -- just because the meal overall was not especially memorable. The bigger issue was the service. Our server seemed like she was ready to be somewhere else, and that threw off the vibe for us. Nothing was bad enough to complain about, but it was just barely good enough not to. We probably should have stayed at the bar like we usually do, because the bar side seemed more fun and the bartender looked like UFC legend Chuck Liddell, which at least added some entertainment value. I would come back for the drinks, especially if I was staying nearby again. The food was okay, my sandwich was actually pretty good, but the service left us wanting to finish up and walk somewhere else.

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