Food: Applebee's

Applebee's is an American\ Mexican restaurant which serves a variety of dishes from vegetarian to non- vegetarian cuisines. 


During my visit to the DIFC branch located on sheikh Zayed road with a special friend of mine, who also enjoys delicious food, we ordered one appetizer and two main dishes. 

This is the location of the branch using Google Map.

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Appetizer

                     

Our appetizer was the famous Chili Cheese Nachos, a mixture of crisp corn tortilla chips covered with spicy chili, queso cheese, sour cream, lettuce and jalapenos. IT LOOKS DELICIOUS !!! Well, that about it. When we saw the appetizer we rushed to taking photos of the delightful plate expecting a pleasant taste. But, once we started eating it all we tasted was the mixture of oil, that we had to order a bottle of water to dilute the disturbing taste of oils. 

NOW for those who are on a diet and look after calories which I would never do  here are some facts about this exquisite looking dish. 

Calories 1680

Fat 107g

Carbs 133g

Protein 48g

Main Course 

By the time the main course have arrived we were expecting the worse although our dishes looked spectacularly delicious. LOOK AT THOSE PICTURES !! YUMMY HUH !!

The Steak Florentine which was my dish. I decided to start eating the mash potato believing it will taste as awful as the oily nachos. Unexpectedly and shockingly the  mashed potato tasted spectacularly yummy. It had a mixture of flavors, it was buttery, yet a bit spicy but still slightly sour. The flavors were balanced that in each bite you can taste the fascinating seasonings. So, the success of the mashed potato led me to rush and eat the steak which was medium cooked as ordered by ME. The first bite took me to  a new world a world of flavors and spices. WHAT !! that is what you are thinking right now !! I KNOW !! but yup the failure oily nachos was soon forgotten when I started eating the steak one bite after the other until my dish was EMPTY. The steak upper layer was well cooked and in the middle the fresh red color can be seen when cutting through. Even the side mushrooms and onions were well cooked and seasoned with multi-balanced flavors. In short this dish was DEFINITIVE. 

WONDERING HUH !!! I KNOW !! .. you are now looking at this picture and saying with whom shall i go to Applebees today !! .. well let me encourage your thoughts .. GOOOO NOOOW .. Guessing WHY ? .. well this dish Seared Ribeye and Garlic Chili Shrimp which was ordered by my dear friend was beyond humm YUMMY .. the steak was well done with a side of mushroom and pepper sauce .. I DARE anyone to tell me that the sauce had any mistakes =) !! it was perfect the steak was perfect .. YUP as everything good in life there is always a BUT !! Unfortunately the shrimps were worst than the oily nachos !! they had no seasoning at all not even the chili can be tasted !! as if the chef didn't care to cook it !! it was beyond the word awful !! ...  At the end the service was fairly good and the atmosphere was comfy 

 

We paid a total amount of 229 dirhams which was fairly an affordable price for 2 order of steak that are 9oz and 12oz, appetizer, cola and a bottle of water !!!