Ruby Tuesday

I used to love there salad bar. It is awful now. Ordered salmon and asparagus the asparagus was mishandled and horrible. Went a few months back. We were seated. The restaurant was pretty much empty when a waitress never came we asked if someone was coming they said they were busy and someone would be with us shortly. We left.

Horrible food. $ 11 salad bar half of the things missing and zero selection. Had a vodka martini. Zero buzz totally watered down. Going back NEVER!

Stopped in at Ruby’s medina for dinner, had a half rack of baby back ribs Texas dusted. The seasoning was great however in my book half a rack is not 4 bones. Disappointed to say the least. Left hungry, Won’t be returning. Texas Roadhouse definitely takes better care of you for the money.

The place is way overpriced. Service was just so so.

It was okay… I had the salad bar and a burger with fries cause I am a creature of habit and it’s REALLY REALLY hard to mess up a burger and they didn’t do that so win win!
It’s not a Whities or GLB or Harp… It’s a national chain so I would believe the food is pretty cookie cutter but good…
So there!

Stopped here again for lunch, and one caveat I must share to the uninformed diner is, Don’t come if you are pressed for time, e.g. have to get back for work!
The time before last, although the waitress came and checked on us several times, the meal took extraordinarily long to arrive, so much that by the time it was due to arrive we just asked her to bag it for takeout, as the salad bar and wait combined had served to make us both disinterested in eating anything else.
The waitress advised that the night shift hadn’t performed the prep work they normailly do, so everything had to be made from scratch.
The wait itself suggested they also had to run over to Giant Eagle and buy some items as well when our order reached the kitchen.
This last time, although the wait wasn’t as long, it still seemed to be inappropriate for a weekday luncheon.
Do they cater to the unemployed only here?
How do they expect a reasonable luncheon trade if they can’t get stuff out of the kitchen in a timely fashion?
Oh well, when one’s dining companion is as engaging and lovely as mine the wait is relatively irrelevant!
On the good side the food has never diasappointed, and there are a handfull of things that make them stand out, including a compact but very fresh and varied salad bar that is now included with the meal, (one can opt out for a second side), and a wide array of sides beyond the standard «vegetable medley» that EVERYONE seems to offer, frequently to the exclusion of anytthing else.
They actually offer such relatively uncommon sides as snow pea pods, and asparagus!
Whoa, they actually spent more than a few seconds when ordering vegetables!

The last two visits to this Ruby Tuesdays have succeeded in ending my business with same. Service was not bad, but the food quality was below poor.

Ok, get out the pitchforks and torches — I like a chain restaurant. I have stopped by for a quick dinner a few times in the past months. Swallowing my pride, I prepared to swallow some overly seasoned factory assembled chain garbage.
And I had nothing to fear. The new menu has a great selection of fish, seafood, steak, burgers and chicken. Not to mention a large well stocked salad bar. And even better, the menu includes many low cal selections. Now I’m not going to go on about the particular menu items as it seems they are updated often and by season. But you generally know what is on a chain menu. The difference here is that he selections actually taste good, are generally well seasoned, and served at the correct temp and level of doneness.
The service has been great each time I went, big +.
So my palate hasn’t completely died, I get that I’m not getting fresh locally sourced everything. But this is about as good as it gets for chain food for me lately. Call me a reluctant fan.

A small group of us (three co-​workers and me) descended on RT for lunch. I was in the mood for salad, and they have an expansive salad bar that is either included in multiple combos on the menu (salad + soup, salad + sliders, salad + quesadilla, etc) or can be added to any menu item. We all went salad + and were raring to get up there!
Oh no… rusty lettuce. In three of the four bins! (baby spinach appeared unscathed) We reported it to a passing staff person, but they didn’t refill while we were up there. The rest of the bar was stellar, but to have browning lettuce be your first look at the bar is just not good!
My White Chicken Chili was tasty — spicy, creamy, white meat.
Our waitress did a very nice job, with the highlight being that she brought out a cup of Thousand Island dressing (not on the bar) before one of my co-​workers, who only uses TI on his salad, had a complete meltdown.

Saturday night’s gonna be alright at Ruby Tuesdays!
This was proven last weekend when hubby and I met two other couples here for a birthday dinner.
My girlfriends and I. well. we can get a bit raucous. We make each other laugh. loudly. I often forget there are other patrons in the place, but Ruby Tuesdays seems to be one of those restaurants you can laugh freely in and have a good time.
Jana was our server on this particular evening and she helped make the experience memorable. When we would ask questions or ask her to help us make a decision, she didn’t hesitate. She was friendly, personable, and truly adorable. It seemed that just when we would think of something we needed (extra napkins, water refill, plates for appetizers, etc.), she would come around the corner with that very thing.
This was my fourth time dining at this location and the fourth time I was impressed by the service and food (that shrimp fondue is heaven!) and that salad bar!.. and they had a fun retro pop-​rock mix playing over the sound system Saturday night that kept us entertained.
As if our laughter wasn’t enough.