Houlihan's

Approval Rate: 55%

55%Approval ratio

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    webster45

    Mon May 17 2010

    If your going somewhere to get drinks before a night out, this is the place to go! Amazing drink specials, they have a cocktail made with tyku that is soooo delicious! And the appetizers are the perfect addition to snack on while drinking! Go there on your next Friday night out and you won't be dissapointed

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    fb570048324

    Mon Nov 05 2007

    $6 pitchers of Long Islands...this place could serve Pop Tarts and I'd still love it. Don't worry though, the food is good too.

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    suburbanmisfit_s

    Mon Aug 20 2007

    I'm an actual SERVER at a Houlihan's in New Jersey. Please don't judge a resturant (partly if not soley) based on the level of service if you're ignorant of the service industry and want to assume all waiters and waitresses are the same, YOU'RE WRONG!. I get paid $2.13 an hour which I never see in my Void pay checks (YOUR TIPS MAKE MY INCOME!!!). The corporate mumbo jumbo rules they impose on us servers are nothing I have ever seen before in a resturant. We're forced to tell you your specials in vivid detail about every course of your meal, or we're under risk of being terminated. We have 'secret shoppers' to come in and review our level of service (the likes of which are set by the severly one sided opinions of our misguided power-hungry management staff), and some servers have been fired before for not meeting these exact, rigid, standards. Since these things are expected, we are forced to talk to our tables for much longer than whats necessary to effectively take your order and retu... Read more

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    edt4226d

    Mon Jun 04 2007

    It is what it is. More a corporate concoction than an actual restaurant, it serves acceptable food at moderate prices. You're never going to get an extraordinary meal there; you probably won't get an absolutely horrible one either, whether you eat at one in Connecticut or NJ or NY or wherever else in America they have them. Yesterday, I was coming back from NY with my mother (my half-brother and his wife have just had another baby), and we were on Rt. 17 in NJ and we were tired and it was raining and we were hungry. We were in and out of the place in less than an hour. My mother enjoys Houlihan's far more than I do, but I had a bland, reasonably satisfying meal, a too-rich and too-sweet dessert, and 2 glasses of wine, for not a ton of money, and I was as content as I had any right to expect. If all that equals success, then Houlihan's is a successful dining chain.

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    badbearduke

    Tue May 16 2006

    In the last 6 months we've ate there 3 times, each time we came out saying that we would not return. Trying to give this place some kind of chance, I think 3 was way more than I would ever give to anyone, I can honestly say that we WILL NEVER set foot in a Houlihan's EVER again! Piss poor service, and WAY overpriced for what you get. On my last two visits, I ordered their chicken marsala. I could have puked when it! It was delivered to our table and It looked like it sat somewhere for about an hour. The sauce had separated into a pool of oil. My bitch is this was strike 2 with the same problem, along with the non-existant service. No don't waste your money.

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    doctor_of_madness

    Thu Jul 29 2004

    The one closest to my home (now closed)(no, not my home, the restaurant)never cleaned the draft beer lines and that alone should condemn them to death. Also they destroyed the Daryll's chain in North Carolina. Nice job, guys!

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    minkey

    Mon Mar 29 2004

    There were a few Houlihan's scattered around the Northest. The one I used to go to was at the West Farms Mall which is on the West Hartford/Farmington line in Ct. I had fun there and thought the food and drinks were good, and priced the same as any other comparable chain. This particular Houlihan's was doing great business but the other ones in the Northeast were failing so they decided to close them all down.

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    classictvfan47

    Tue Mar 09 2004

    High prices, boring foods and a bland logo. Another sit-down failure. But, on a plus side, they did let me bring a bag of fast food in when my mother and her friend ate there!

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    tsukiakiko

    Tue Mar 25 2003

    Went to the Sunday brunch several times, but I have moved to an area without a Houlihan's. I miss it.

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    callmetootie

    Mon Apr 08 2002

    Tiny variety of foods, and not very good quality. Terrible service and high prices. Cool environment.

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    stan2675et

    Fri Dec 10 1999

    The service is steadily going downhill, and at a number of locations.