Ruby Tuesday

Several weeks ago, I was there with my husband and 2 dear friends. I started to cough after taking a bite of food, I could not clear my throat and airway. I remember trying to stand and I said «help me!» Very quickly and efficiently, I had a young man — a waiter named Chase C. come to my aid. I still couldn’t clear my airway by coughing, so he performed the heimlich manuever several times and as I coughed, my airway was clear again. It seemed like it was forever, but he really saved my life, because I couldn’t breathe. I thought I was going to die. Thank you does not say enough, Chase. I will not forget how you helped me. You and your boss, Mr. Unger were very kind and we appreciate you very much.

I was really surprised that my experience wasn’t better. It started out great. Got a table pretty quickly with a very friendly waitress. At first we were presently surprised when our food came out very quickly. however, my tilapia was under cooked, the rice was cold are under cooked, and my son’s fried shrimp was overcooked. As we progressed through dinner, we heard at least 4 tables around us send their meal back to the kitchen for similar problems. Maybe the kitchen staff needs to be retrained.

Lunch here was just okay. To be honest, it’s one of the only games in town so there aren’t many options. And we were a large party, so it was good to make a reservation for our group and not have to worry about waiting during the Sunday post-​church rush.
I had the ribs and chicken tenders combo ($ 17). The half-​rack of ribs was okay, not amazing, but the chicken tenders were clearly over-​fried to the point of being dark (burned) and were way too hard. I was surprised that they’d serve these — surely someone in the kitchen doing QC noticed this, but then again my dining companion had a complete plate of burned chicken fingers, so maybe that’s just the way the serve them. Not great.
Kid’s meals are mostly around $ 5 and do not include drink.
Salad bar was pretty good, and the pre-​meal mini biscuits were delicious.
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I have been going to this location since it was Po’Folks and since it first opened when they had goofy stuff on the walls before they went chic. I keep going back and regretting it each time.
FOOD: The main issue I have had with the food is the portion size. Don’t get me wrong I know that it’s not a place you go to load up at but when someone orders grilled zucchini. and gets 4 of them? HOW OFFENSIVE TO A CUSTOMER.
EXPERIENCE: Overall this place is good to go for a family or if you are trying to have a couple and catch up with an old flame who secretly still wants you but you feel the need to play with their head– I’ve seen in a hundred times.
I can say in 10+ years of eating here I have never had food poisoning or any huge issues, it’s just certain hiccups and issues that come from having a young staff.

This was my second visit; I was trying to give the place another chance. It was a little faster on the service, but the pretzel burgers we ordered were not made correctly. I ordered the portabella mushroom, crispy onion hamburger. The burger had button mushrooms and no crispy onions. I had previously had this burger at another Ruby Tuesday and it was awesome. The employees hanging around were unprofessional. We walked in the place to find one employee laying on the benches on his phone. He did not even bother to get up when we walked in. I won’t go here again.

Ok Guys… This is a chain. You aren’t going to have the great all awesome meal that you’ve ever had. Set your expectations right here and you’ll have a decent enough meal.
The service was a little iffy when we went, frankly, but I think we just got lost in the mix. Once we had someone assigned the service was decent enough.
We shared a rib plate, and you know what? It was actually pretty darn good. The meat fell off the bone (which you don’t get at some BBQ places even) and the sauce/​rub wasn’t bad at all.
The drinks are VERY weak, but hey… for 5 bucks for any mixed drink… you aren’t going to get something amazingly potent. So, if you feel like a drink get one… they’re cheap, so you’ll get cheap… but my Margarita was tasty… I don’t know if it had any liquor in it… but it was tasty regardless =)
Because of the issue with service they gave us a free appetizer. The cheese and chips thing. Ok. this is the only gripe I kinda have. I can’t complain too much about it, cause it was free, but if I had paid for it I would have been pretty unhappy with the experience. Don’t order this thing… just don’t.
TAG: American

This place is fine. It’s a chain restaurant so it’s pretty standard. I don’t know why people rate chains so badly, what do they expect?

«Great Simple American Food». Hmm… interesting tagline. Let’s deconstruct this:
1) Great – does this refer to size, quality, or service? Well, this one got a negative trifecta on that. Lousy portions, mostly poor quality, and typical bored teenaged service (which only happened after they got done chatting with their colleagues about the upcoming plans to hang out at Burger King)
2) Simple – Possibly a description of the mental acuity of the cook who created most of these dishes. The steak was putridly overseasoned with god knows what spices, and medium-​well seems to mean «dump in fryolater». The consistency was cardboard that’s been rendered even more inedible. The mashed potatoes were flavored with some type of fake butter, and a LOT of it. I felt like a tester in some fledgling company’s food kitchen. «No, let’s try one without so much suck in the taste!»
3) American – what section? Louisiana? Is it attempting to recreate food during or just after Katrina?
4) Food – well, I guess it does qualify as food. I saw several sparrows picking at crumbs in the parking lot, and they happily flew away.
As for the salad bar, it was laid out okay, and I didn’t get sick. So that’s a notch in their favor. And I have to admit, I very much enjoyed the crab cake. It was lumps of crab arranged in a circle to simulate a cake, which is not how I’m used to seeing it, but maybe that’s an idiosyncracy of this particular region of Maryland. The sauce they supplied with it was very tasty, and that I would give a «fully satisfied» rating to.
Follow the sparrows. Fly away to some other spot. The Texas Grill place up the street is much better in every way.

The salad bar at this place gave me food poisoning. I should have known when I saw someone dumping a new container of cottage cheese on top of the old cottage cheese and stirring it in. Everyone else in my group got sandwiches and didn’t get sick, fortunately. Warning! The staff seem to be completely unfamiliar with vegetarianism– we overheard some Indian customers asking if there were any vegetarian items on the menu and the hostess actually thought they were saying their last name was «Vegetarian.» I wouldn’t recommend this place but it’s way better than the Denny’s close by, which I would give a .25 star if such a thing were possible.