Applebee’s, Country Hills Blvd Calgary
Dinner time again and again no time or energy to cook myself so this time I wanted something a little different then the normal chain restaurants that you find in Calgary. OK maybe Applebee’s is not that special for some of you but there are just very few in Alberta and there is only 1 in Calgary (707-388 Country Hill Boulevard).
It was last night around 7.30 that I went to eat at this Applebee’s and I was a little bit surprised that there was a wait to get in. The wait was not long but still on a rainy day like this at this time I was just not expecting it. The lady at the front was nice but she didn’t give the option to sit on one of the free high tables in the bar area while there where 3 of them empty I don’t know if they where reserved or something or if they didn’t have staff to serve them.
But no worries after 15 minutes or so a nice place in front of the window showed up and that gave a nice view on the rain falling hard on the pavement.
Let me start with how this Applebee’s looks now I can be short it looks great nice layout with the bar area in the middle with no big Tvs distracting me from my food. They offer a lot of other distraction on the walls, I saw all kind of stuff hanging there from Calgary Flames stuff to old photo’s from Calgary from movie starts to a section about trains. The only place that could be a little bit nicer decorated is the washroom not that they don’t look like great toilets but it is a BIG contrast with the restaurant.
The menu of Applebee’s offers a lot of choice and the pictures on the menu look almost to good to be through.
I went for my normal food that I normally try at all those food places so this time again it was an Hamburger and let me tell you it was cooked to perfection the beef patty was nicely done and tasted like a real piece of beef and not like one of those processed piece of meat. The order was nicely put on a plastic kind of serving dish and to me that was a little bit disappointing specially together with the plastic drink glasses personally I don’t think it is a smart thing to still use plastic in restaurants specially with all those stories about bad plastics these days.
After my very good tasting meal there was room for some more, YES the portions are not to big to finish OK they are not small either but they offer a changes of some nice deserts.
Here in Calgary Applebee’s offers some small deserts there is a choice of 4 different shooter size deserts for $2.99 each and I got myself the Apple one (can’t remember it’s name) it look great and smelled liked freshly baked apple pie. The taste of it was great and almost to good. To bad that there was something artificial popping up on my taste buds and I guess it was the caramel sauce.
My conclusion for Applebee’s is great place to go eat at just a shame that Calgary only has one it would be great to have some more Applebee’s to compete with the Montana’s, Earls, Tony Roma’s and all the others.
This Applebee’s stays on my lists of place to eat at and I will not think twice about visiting it and leave some room for desert 
Written by George on May 30th, 2008 with
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#1. June 8th, 2008, at 8:16 PM.
I used to live in that area and have been to that location a few times. Their service isn’t too shabby and their food isn’t bad either. I really do like the decor. Great place to go if you want to sit and grab some quick grub after a movie at the theater close to there.