Gladstone's Long beach

Went here due to Gladstone experience being a waste of time. Got food fast, people were nice and music was different.

+3

The restaurant needs a deep cleaning everything is sticky and unclean. It smells horrible in here from walk in to bar to the restrooms. Nats flying in the dining room, moved outside and it was of course better. Bar is filthy and needs to be cleaned. Service was super slow and it wasn’t busy, Valentine’s Day with a light crowd and in sure the servers could make more money if they paid more attention to the clientele. The guys at the bar really need to learn customer service and need to be attentive to the people in front of them. Waiting 40min for warmed up bbq is a waste very disappointed. Edit: Youseff needs to be retrained or let go his service was the worst I’ve ever received anywhere. Truly horrible out him in the kitchen and not around guests eh

Drove to LB for the AYCE chicken wing deal. It was alright. Super dim. Floors sticky. Waters/Sodas took forever. They were not very busy. Cornbread was great. Liked the flavor of the wings, Buffalo. Very underwhelming first experience.

Not real happy here. Used to love Dave's. We got takeout. Pork was over salted. Portions felt small. They left out a side. No longer has their delicious pecan pie except "holidays." Went there for the pie. LOL

The hostess had a personality like wet rag. The 1st seemed friendly but vanished with our saying anything. We waited for our for 20 minutes until we flagged another waitress. She ended up giving us the wrong bill. The food was decent but based on the hideous service I am never going back!

Service at the bar was really slow and food all tastes like ketchup. If you’re at the pike go somewhere else to eat the food trucks across the street give better service and food. Sadly disappointed need to change the two guys at the bar cause they’re making you lose business you need impeccable food for this type of service like was this a Jamaican restaurant or bbq with hospitality lol. Beware do not come here

Horrible service. One person trying to wait on half the restaurant. So you never see her. The fried chicken was good but way over priced. The ribs tips were stale and hard. Ribs are hit and miss. Sometimes good. Other times dry.

I was really looking forward to a BBQ meal, but the pork rib tips and brisket completely ruined the experience. Instead of that tender, fall-off-the-bone texture you expect for rib tips, they were tough and unpleasantly fatty. The brisket wasn’t much better. The fat hadn’t rendered down properly, leaving it greasy and hard to swallow. Good brisket should melt in your mouth with a smoky crust and juicy interior — this was more like something that had been pulled from the smoker too early. For a BBQ joint, properly cooking the meat should be non-negotiable. Why is there corn in the mac and cheese?! Some things just don’t need reinventing — and creamy, cheesy mac is one of them. The corn adds a weird sweetness and crunch that doesn’t belong with all that gooey cheese. It’s like two sides collided on the plate and someone decided to call it innovation. I’ll give points for creativity, but honestly, I just want my mac and cheese to taste like… well, mac and cheese. The collard greens were pretty bland; they needed more seasoning, maybe a bit of salt, spice, or smoked flavor to bring them to life. Unfortunately, Famous Dave’s did not have my palate in mind.

Very disappointing experience. The brisket was extremely tough and nearly impossible to chew… it felt like it had been smoked days ago and reheated. To make matters worse, not once did the server check in to ask how our food was or offer refills. Overall, the quality and service were far below expectations.

The food here was disgusting. The brisket was like small hard pieces of flavorless meat between a web of jelly. The beans were in a greasy liquid. The corn on the cob was basically desiccated. The chicken was okay, pulled pork okay and the cornbread good. We paid over $100 for that meal and it wasn’t worth it in the slightest. It was a beautiful day so we sat outside and the table cloths had MOLD on them. When we asked if we could have a new table cloth they said they don’t have any. We checked all the tables and they all had mold. Our server (who was also the bartender) tried to wipe it away, but you could tell they had been like this for a while. Never recommending and never going back to a Famous Dave’s anywhere again.

Popped in on a quiet Friday afternoon, place was quiet but looked the part inside... brisket sandwich and pulled chicken sandwich ordered... beers and food came very quickly. The brisket was awful... at best can best described as bits that were ready for the bin from previous cooks chopped up, heated up and popped on a bun. Not tender at all and not what a smokehouse should be offering. Friend said chicken was good. On a plus their bbq sauces where very very good but unfortunately they were badly needed for the brisket

Sunday afternoon they had reruns running on the TVs in the bar one small TV had football games on. I asked for my salad wings out first everything came out at one time. It was cold. The bartender was not very nice at all. We never got water we asked for other things that never came. Just absolutely horrible. I’ve been in famous days in Phoenix many times as wonderful. This place is a joke.

I went to the restaurant and the menu had some delicious looking food however, when my food came, all I had is four piece of chicken, cornbread beans, and fries. How can that possibly be messed up? I will tell you how the chicken appeared to look like some cooked up I don’t know what but I couldn’t even take a bite into the chicken because it was so hard that we would’ve probably broken my teeth, and when I peeled it with those burnt crispy things off the bone, I looked, and the bone was burnt. Only in my thought was that this had been cooked and re-cooked it was horrible. I couldn’t eat. The only reason I’m given the staff of one star is cause I was seated. I can’t give a star on the restaurant. There’s no stars for the food and when I had mentioned this to my waitress and the young man waiter, he just rolled his eyes like whatever and walked away, and then both of them just laughed at that point I asked for the manager who wanted to look at the food and I’m showing her actually I picked up the chicken and said could you eat this? I was refunded the meal. You don’t have to do this and then I’m gonna refund everything except the soda. I’ll comp the meal but not the soda. OK that’s fine. Weird but OK I do not recommend this restaurant within five minutes of leaving. I had taken a couple bites into the cornbread. I was immediately sick. I felt like I had food poisoning from the corn bed and the bite. I did eat from the inside of the chicken Perhaps if it was chicken. I had tried to take a bite from the inside of the chicken, but it was so hard. It couldn’t be chewed, but I was immediately sick for a few hours after you eaten those few bites if I could even call them and bites of whatever that was, that was on my plate because it did not look like Chicken.

Took 20 minutes just to get a server. Took 40 minutes just to get our food. The place was not very busy. Other tables around us sat with dirty dishes and cups the whole time we were there. I’ve owned and operated restaurants in the past and I know it starts w management first and servers 2nd. Food was subpar. I do not recommend this place. This place needs to do better!