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Chili's Grill & Bar
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Restaurants
1120 BEAVER CREEK COMMONS DR
Apex,
North Carolina 27502
This is a great place to eat in Apex. I love their chicken tenders. It comes with great French...
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This is a great place to eat in Apex. I love their chicken tenders. It comes with great French fries and corn on the cob. My wife likes their Chipotle Blue Cheese burger. They have great chips and salsa. They have the best salads around. I like the Quesada Explosion salad. Normally, we eat at the bar because they are very busy. Everyone loves Chili?s. Usually, we can find two stools at the bar. The bartenders are great servers.
Friday nights are their busiest, other nights are okay.
Pros: Great food
Cons: Busy on Friday nights
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This is such a wonderful tea room! The ladies who run it treat every customer with friendliness,...
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This is such a wonderful tea room! The ladies who run it treat every customer with friendliness, consideration, and lots of special attention. Their tea selections are fantastic, especially the Wedding Blend. They serve delicious scones, clotted cream & jam, and sandwiches – everything so delicate and divine. They have lots of cute hats for customers to wear in there during tea. Definitely a great place to have a girl tea – I had a bridesmaid’s tea there and it was perfect. Just don’t get a group too big, the room is a bit small. 8 max is my suggestion.
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Starbucks
Category:
Coffee Shops
940 Us Highway 64 W
Apex,
North Carolina 27523
I love this and a few other SB locations (Have not been to all) . They all have great customer...
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I love this and a few other SB locations (Have not been to all) . They all have great customer srvice, friendly atmosphere and kid friendly. My drinks are always the way I like them!
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Love the number 13 mikes way. Fresh sliced piled high cold cuts meat and cheeses. Love all the...
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Love the number 13 mikes way. Fresh sliced piled high cold cuts meat and cheeses. Love all the Apex H.S. pictures.
Pros: Best subs , On the way to lake
Cons: none
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We have eaten at Ichiban many times and it has always been awesome. Last night we had a fantastic...
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We have eaten at Ichiban many times and it has always been awesome. Last night we had a fantastic meal. My husband had the Ribeye Hibachi. It was delicious. Big pieces of super tender, perfectly cooked steak with lots of veggies and rice for only $14 and it came w/ soup and salad. Great deal! We also had 4 different rolls which were all excellent. I have not had better sushi anywhere. The service is also excellent. I highly recommend Ichiban.
Pros: great Hibachi and sushi
Cons: none
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Subway
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Restaurants
1232 W Williams St
Apex,
North Carolina 27502
Subway is awesome! I think it's a perfect place to eat healthy and the kids that aren't too...
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Subway is awesome! I think it's a perfect place to eat healthy and the kids that aren't too choiceful of their foods can eat here too. Some places have pizzas, which I haven't tried, but I think it's a great idea. As for their subs, I enjoy their turkey, provolone cheese subs, with just a little mayonaise & I'm set. I also enjoy their sweet chicken it's so good! One of my kids seem to like their steak subs, and my mom loves their Italian BMT loaded with meat and all the trimmings! There's even veggie subs to choose from as well. They have the best brand of chips to choose from! The price isn't that bad for what you get, if you get a footlong well expect to pay a reasonable price and their 6 inch is usually price nicely with the addiction of chips and a drink, so it's a great place to have a quick lunch on the go.
Pros: Good food
Cons: Need more drive-thrus, bring back the crabmeat, more drink choices, their seating space is limited, so you can imagine lunch hour
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One China
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Restaurants
764 W Williams St
Apex,
North Carolina 27502
We've had take out from here maybe 15 times in the last couple years. Shows we at least like it...
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We've had take out from here maybe 15 times in the last couple years. Shows we at least like it enough to come back. Food is generally good, decent number of choices, fair prices. Not the best we had in the Triangle, but around the downtown Apex area, its a good choice for Chinese takeout.
Pros: Good Chinese, enough choices
Cons: Not alot of seating for eating inside - mostly a take out place
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Longhorn Steakhouse
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Restaurants
1411 Beaver Creek Commons Dr
Apex,
North Carolina 27502
Long Horn has the best steaks. They are awesome. They have a shrimp appetizers that is out of...
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Long Horn has the best steaks. They are awesome. They have a shrimp appetizers that is out of this world. The service is great. You may experience long lines on Fridays because everyone goes there.
The bar is very disorganized. Chili's does twice the volume with half the people. My wife and I have tried to eat at the bar, and the service was terrible. We've sat at the bar waiting on our table, and the service was just as bad. They have two people working the bar, and we will sit for 5-10 minutes before being served. At Chili's we are served immediately or within 1 minute, and they usually have 1 person working the bar.
If you want a great steak in Apex go to Long Horn.
Pros: Best steaks in Apex
Cons: Terrible bar
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Carrabba's
Category:
Food & Dining
1201 Haddon Hall Drive
Apex,
North Carolina 27502
(919) 387-6336
The Carrabba's in Apex is our favorite place to eat out. The entrées are so tasty - the...
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The Carrabba's in Apex is our favorite place to eat out. The entrées are so tasty - the Chicken Marsala is terrific, and we love the Minestrone with the fresh bread with dipping oil. Try sitting up on a stool where you can see the chefs in action - you just might end up with a sample or a mistake being offered to you, and it's fun to watch. Get there early on the weekends though - it gets packed quickly. I prefer here to Daniel's and I'm a big fan of Daniel's.
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Ocean Grill
Category:
Seafood Restaurants
121 N Salem St
Apex,
North Carolina 27502
Let me start out by listing what we purchased for dinner:
Appetizer - one pound of shrimp...
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Let me start out by listing what we purchased for dinner:
Appetizer - one pound of shrimp ($15)
Drinks - two dirty martinis ($7.5 each)
Beef Medallions ($22) with asparagus and mashed potatoes
Fried Seafood (Scallops and Oysters) ($17) with fries, coleslaw, shrimp and sausage jambalaya
Creme brulee
The total before tip was $84.
Let me start with the good parts:
1) the batter for the fried scallops is very light and excellent
2) the batter for the fried oysters is different and not bad, it is a heavy batter and they manage to have a dressing type sauce inside the friend oyster
3) the first martini was very smooth (read on though)
4) the mashed potatoes were very good
5) they actually used real scallops
6) french fries were good and cooked an appropriate amount
7) asparagus was not over cooked like most places do
8) having the bar separate from the main dining area works out well from a noise standpoint
Now for the bad:
1) the first martini was very good and very smooth (i.e. a quality vodka), the second martini seemed to be made with a non-so-smooth and pretty rough vodka. We sent it back and the replacement martini was better but still seemed to be made with the non-so-smooth (i.e. cheap) vodka. We were wondering if they intentionally went to cheap alcohol as the night went on hoping no one would notice.
2) the service was pleasant, but not around much
3) they messed up my order (which is why I ended up with 4 side dishes, they brought me the ones I originally asked for)
4) the beef medallions were not impressive, we were wondering if they were made from london broil. My wife was expecting a more tender meat than that, especially for $22. The taste of the beef medallions with a very limited amount of sause (which was a surprise) was not impressive either
5) the fried oysters had an oyster taste, but I had difficultly finding much oyster inside the individual pieces, too bad when they have such a wonderful batter
6) the scallops were sliced thin (i.e. they probably had three or four pieces from the original scallop). I will admit that this is a good way to do scallops and they should continue this. However, I only had five pieces of scallop (which meant they only used approx. one and a half scallops for a $17 plate). That struck me as being cheap. If you are going to slice the scallops thin (which IMHO is a great idea) add a few more pieces so the diner doesn't feel slighted.
7) the jambalaya was weak, i.e. it was mostly rice and spices. The pieces of sausage were tiny and I never did see a shrimp. I've had much better jambalaya from a box from the grocery store. There again cheaping out on materials.
8) Caramel creme brulee was tasty and in a wide bowl but wasn't very deep, giving the impression of cheaping out on the amount of material.
The issues that I saw with The Ocean Grill are remotely similar to the things that I didn't like about the Peak City Grill (which we have been to several times). Both left me with a feeling of pretention over substance.
Keep in mind that parking in downtown Apex is limited so give yourselves a few minutes to find a spot and walk. Most of the time the longest walk to a spot is under five minutes so it wouldn't be an issue unless you had a mobility impairment.
On the flip side, I'm glad to see another seafood restaurant in Apex.
Pros: Great Batter on the Scallops and Oyseters (see below)
Cons: Just see below.
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