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    Friendly's

    3.0 (134 reviews)
    Open 8:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Dogs allowed

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    The stand-alone building for Friendly's.
    Jan-Michael T.

    **INITIAL REVIEW** When I found out there was a Friendly's still open in the Space Coast, I had to make the trek primarily for nostalgia. I remember the simple foods of their children's menu and enjoying Cone Heads there, when I was young, worthwhile memories at a worthwhile place. However, that location was originally on Babcock St. in south Melbourne, and has been closed for many years. As a matter of fact, the old Friendly's building was bulldozed over in which a modern-day 7-Eleven was built in its place. This Friendly's location is on Eau Gallie Blvd. in Indiantlantic. It sure had the nostalgic look of a Friendly's so that was good, but unfortunately, nostalgia would not be enough to truly enjoy my outing here. Maybe I didn't know because I was young and didn't know any better, but Friendly's, at least this location on its initial visit, was sad and disappointing. Though an address is provided, Friendly's is its own building, a nostalgic building that kept to its original build from its heydey, on the southwest cornery of the Eau Ballie Blvd. and AIA intersection. Upon entering, you will be greeted with the classic Friendly's interior, too. However, you can literally "smell" that the wash water needs to be changed out. So imagine the old school smell of clean being a mixture of stale water and old water-based cleaner. That is what you smell walking into the place. I showed up at the swing from breakfast to lunch, and I wanted lunch. Unfortunately, it seems as if making the sudden switch was too difficult for the cooks in the back, an older gentlemen who I was able to hear complain about how it was "too early" for lunch. I still got lunch, though, but you can tell there were issues. For starters, the fried ravioli bites were served to me as if they were cooked in a gas station microwave: scalding hot on the outside, frozen and hard on the inside on a few of the bites. The others were... well... okay. The grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup was okay, too. I will say the basic grilled cheese was better than some other establishments I been to, such as Mash Monkeys Brewing and Planet Grilled Cheese (basic grilled cheese), but the soup was watery. I didn't even bother getting a Cone Head, which as the nostalgia I really wanted to experience because I was disatisfied. The saving grace this visit to Friendly's has is the waitress, an older lady named Jessica. She was very kind and accomodating, and even relayed any of my concerns pertaining to eating lunch "early" though it was at the beginning of the time. I made sure her tip was more than decent. Ultimately, I am going to have to give this Friendly's a two-star rating out of five review. It could definitely be better, but I also believe in the rule of averages and I want to say this might be the one unsatisfactory outing that happens every once in awhile. As for Jessica, thank God for her. You definitely need to give her her due diligence because she definitely deserves to work at a place that is better.

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    Sue G.

    It's been awhile since I've been at this friendly restaurant. When walking in we were acknowledged by a couple of different people and one came over right away to seat us. My Mom hadn't been here in a while either. They have some great specials we decided on the one that comes with a Happy Ending. My Mom had the BLT with tomato soup, I had a toasted cheese with Clam Chowder. When ordering I asked how much extra for the soup, she said a small upcharge. To me a small upcharge is maybe $1-$2 well it was $ 3.99 for one $2.99 which to me seems like we paid for a cup. So because we didn't get fries a small upcharge ended up costing us almost $8 more for lunch! They do have a 1/2 sandwich with soup for $9.99 that's what we almost got and decided against it because the waitress told us there was a small upcharge. The waitress did check on us a few times , handed us a check for someone else then came back and apologized. I have to say we both really enjoyed the sandwiches and the soup. The clam chowder had a bit more potatoes than I like I just picked them out. My mom enjoyed the tomato soup. And I thought the Clam Chowder was very good. And we both got a Happy Ending, which was choice of ice cream and a topping with whipped cream and a cherry. Of course you can't go wrong with friendlys ice cream.

    Linda D.

    When here today with a friend, I've been here before, but today was really nice. Hardly anyone was here. Our waitress was totally awesome. Had a hamburger without the bun side of fries and a soda and ice cream sundae with chocolate sauce. I usually don't eat this much, but totally enjoyed it for the day being with my friend.

    Lyndsay V.

    Nostalgia bought us here and great service and food had us returning 3 more times in a little more than 24 hours! This location has a cute outdated feel to it, but in a great way. It was still very clean. The waitresses we had all were absolutely amazing. They were knowledgeable of their menu and were great with our kids. Our kids want to come back to Melbourne just to go to this restaurant. It is officially their favorite. The food is what you expect and perfectly cooked every time (we should know, we went four times lol). The ice cream is also just as good as we remembered! It was such an amazing feeling and moment watching our kids fall in love with a restaurant that we also loved growing up. 100% would we be back if we could! Thank you to the staff that made what started as a not so special vacation so very special for my kids. We will always be appreciative of it!

    Christine J.

    If I did not have a little one with me who insisted on having a monster Sunday, I would have walked out five minutes into our 14 minute wait at the podium for someone to seat us. I have never heard "someone will be right here to seat you "so many times before. The waitress did come over to take our drink order almost immediately and they were brought right out. We decided not to have lunch since our wait was so long to be seated. I could only imagine how long it would take to get a meal. I almost didn't order anything because my favorite sundae the Reese's peanut butter cup was not on the menu , thankfully I did ask the waitress and they do make it still! Our ice cream was bought out promptly, however there were no napkins on the table, nor did our waitress give us any. Small children need napkins when they eat ice cream I couldn't find our waitress. She never came back to check on us. The people at the the table next to us were looking as well as their children needed napkins. The grandmother from that group went to the bathroom and brought everybody back paper towels from the bathroom. They do provide children with a kids pack that has a color changing spoon in it to go with the ice cream, which was nice.

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    Food was fine, service was fine. Until they rip you off on the receipt. Tip price recommendations are over 10% different than what they should be. Absolutely shady. Just based on that we won't go back.

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    staff is amazing, food is always fresh and delicious, and the dining area was nice and clean. definitely recommend.

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    So good. The chicken is amazing. Great service. Very cool looking. I will definitely be coming back again.

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    The wait was soooo bad. The food was cold and we heard "sorry for the long wait" at every table. Would only go back for the ice cream.

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    the food was great and the service was great ask to be seated in Jades section you will get fantastic service!!

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    fast and friendly service and delicious dessert. ordering through the Friendly's app was very easy.

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    Omg. Just no. Dirty. Much needed maintenance of building. Will not be back. Service was fast but server was dirty.

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