Applebee's Grill + Bar

America's neighborhood restaurant, bar & grill, serving up good times, featuring steaks, chicken, burgers, salads, desserts and more. Visit Applebee's today.

7 / 10
99
ratings
Address

3900 Merle Hay Rd (at Douglas Ave) Des Moines , IA 50310 United States

Reservations No
Credit Cards Yes (incl. Discover & Visa)
Wi-Fi Yes
Outdoor Seating No
Menus Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Happy Hour
Drinks Full Bar, Cocktails

Comments / 40


Keywords:

potato twisters margaritas burgers desserts staff dinner lunch mudslides boneless
Patrick H

The food is excellent wait staff friendly . Doesn’t take long for your food no matter what you order. Go here every week or more. Great place. Sometimes noon hour can be packed. But still fast

Isaiah Rutherford

Cheyenne was an amazing waitress , she was kind and quick with service, definitely made sure I had everything I needed. Best service I've had in a long time.

Isaiah Rutherford

Boneless hot wings and a mudslide is the best combo ever ! Especially after a hard day of work. Definitely my new favorite spot for after work drinks.

Daniel Petefish

Sit at the bar . Pretty much every bartender here is amazing! Great conversationalists, great service, and always good food!

Tiffanie Lynn

Free Wi-Fi, open late every night but Sunday, and being remodeled. Stop in and check it out....

Meredith Pocius

The food is excellent there and the server did a excellent job at taking care of her customers.

Allen Huffman

$1 drink specials most months lately... come for the drinks, stay for the food!

Shannon Hoffman

The firecracker Shrimp . Pasta says is a new spicy dish . Bummed...not one ounce spicy ....

Jeorjette Twogood

Ask for Israel, he is an awesome waiter and a great people person.

Sara Burrier

Make sure you grab Wali as your server! Great smile and great service!

James Jones

Even more bummed that the cook didn't or couldn't follow what we thought were clear requests: no seasoning (and salt is a seasoning) on fries , and quesadilla with just cheese .

P H

This place has great food & service friendly waitress & wait staff .

Mark Egly

Jodi at bar was incredible server and just amazing with my 11 year old daughter. Best service person I can remember this year!

Margaux C

2 for $20 queso blanco , three cheese chicken penne !

Joshua Smothers

Try the margarita with the Coronita drip. #boombaby

Stephanie Shirley

Mauricio is the best waiter ever! Get the triple meltdown for dessert !

Jane Roul

Lory is my very favorite waitress at this restaurant !!!

Gary N.

Usually our food and service has been good at this location. For whatever reason, not so much tonight. We'll still come back.

Jen Renaud

Cheeseburger Quesadilla is delicious!!

Anna L

Don't sit in the middle where it feels like you're sitting right with other people. Need better partitions.

Clayton Masters

"Do you have IPA on tap ?" "What's an IPA ?" EATING GOOD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

James Jones

Bummed that they don't have the pick two option.

Shelby George

Blue coconut Margarita is amazing!

Millie P

Server was too worried about making plans with girlfriend instead of serving. If try to sit you in Eli's section asked to be moved or you might wait 20 minutes for a refill on your drink.

Miranda Awesome Sauce

My favorite one!

Mayra de Munoz

Eli was great today...he rocked service!!!!

Chip Albright

Wednesday night is kid's night. 99cent kid meals . Booyah.

Emily Roemmich

The new potato twisters are to die for!

Ale Saldana

The potato twisters are delicious!

Bernard Schratz

Nice spot!!

Elena

Great food!

Pamela Goode

Monty is the bomb!

Emily Eckman

Service and food were fine.

Ken Nead

Seven oz. serloin with shrimp....mmmmm

Mike Dennis

No public wi-fi at this location.

Chad C

Didn't get waited on, so we left. Other tables around us did.

Debbie MacLeod

Love our favorite bartender Caroline!!

Fabio Sonda

The dining room is absolutely freezing whenever its not busy because of customers' body heat, and I brought home a takeout meal to find a blatantly obvious hair on my food. Not going back.

Kelsey Vermillion

Not the greatest service. Almost forgot to seat us and messed up the order.

Nichole Tatge

The service sucks.

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