iMacOfDeath

A remembrance of childhood. Use to come to a local Friendly's with my grandmother everyday after school when I was a kid, getting a grilled cheese sandwich with fries and then the reeses pieces sunday. That was 30+ years ago, times have changed, and so has Friendly's. Don't get me wrong, I still adore the place, the old school feel of it all, but you can see the writing on the wall when you walk in and there's only a single booth in use during peak dinner time hours. But enough with that sad nostalgia, what about the food? Well I tried their Doritos Cool Ranch ChoppedCheese Burger, Onions Rings, and a Happy Ending Sunday. Total coming to just under $30, which is pretty standard for my Friday night endeavors. The Cool Ranch Burger I replaced the patty with the Impossible version, since I'm not big on red meat, and overall my impression was "this is a mess, a mouthful of mess, but it's kinda tasty." It wasn't as spicy as I expected given the presence of jalapeños, and it held together better than expected when first judged by appearances. The rings were perfect, crispy, crunchy, and great fried onion flavor. And the Sunday, which comes free with certain meals like this one, was a refreshing way to cap things off as I opted for the Peppermint Stick ice cream. Overall I am full, satisfied, and mildly saddened by the decline of this once bumping east coast establishment.

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Great service - Rachel was very attentive, friendly and did a great job !!\nGlad there is a still a Friendly's in our area !!

Great service - Rachel was very attentive, friendly and did a great job !!\nGlad there is a still a Friendly's in our area !!

Delivery was great! My mom got the open hot turkey sandwich/ meal and loved it and is very difficult to please

Delivery was great! My mom got the open hot turkey sandwich/ meal and loved it and is very difficult to please

it was fun went with the fam love the ice cream too there sundays are the best thing ever made

Great service good food friendly people good location always busy !! Also great to go there before and after movies!!

Great service good food friendly people good location always busy !! Also great to go there before and after movies!!

As always Excellent food / service \nGreat atmosphere, bringing back great memories from my youth

Only 1 server and she was very pleasant. Food was as i remembered. Delicious and hot. Can't wait for dessert!

very fast and good food great service as well ... prices are great too! Friendlys has good servers very nice and friendly

The food was delicious at Friendly's in Clifton Park, the restaurant was clean and the service was excellent!!!

Great food (still) and great service! It's nice they are still in the area. Restaurant is clean and pleasant. Atmosphere is wonderful!

Went for lunch today. They have a lot of good options on their menu. We want to come back just to try some of the things since it was so hard to choose. I love that they do different monster sundaes. It brings back nostalgia from being a kid and going there! I would say for a Sunday; they should have more people on. There was a constant line at the door not being sat and our waitress seemed to have a bit too many tables to provide service that is necessary. Appetizers were delicious but took a half hour to come out. If they had more staffing I think this would have been 5 stars. Otherwise, I am happy with the food and atmosphere!

Randy Rosette

We have gone many times to Friendly's. It is EXACTLY what it it is meant to be. Decent food, decent prices. Fun for families with kids, grandkids. Yummy ice cream. They have had a lot of challenges with staffing... but is better now than it was. Wait time for a table has DEcreased. Once you get to the table, the service is fine.

Martin Kipp

I'm giving it a four because I so appreciate the hustle that the two adult ladies showed when we went there on a school holiday. Patty melt had some kind of beef that well.. . I'm not sure it was beef.

Came in today at 1pm. The restaurant was not busy and there were a few waitresses. The family in front of us said they had been waiting over 20 minutes to get sat. When a waitress FINALLY showed up a…

Food was good ..... service was excellent. Our server was one of the best I have seen in a long time. Family friendly atmosphere.

Food was good ..... Service was excellent. Our server was one of the best I have seen in a long time. Family friendly atmosphere.

Clams, burgers, and chicken were OK. Service was friendly. ice cream desserts were tasty but scored with sugar as much as flavor. Salad entree had decent ingredients but pieces were cut large and l…

Had my second meal here and man really really not bad. Service is good, ambiance is nice, food is regular and cooked well. Everyone odds nice, and prices are decent. ‍

Had my second meal here and man really really not bad. Service is good, ambiance is nice, food is regular and cooked well. Everyone odds nice, and prices are decent. ‍

Good food, excellent ice cream and yum yums. Their food is filling, prices are fair for whatcha get and their desserts and ice creams are great.

Every time I come the service and food seems to get worse. They are always under staffed and the wait for to go orders takes forever, if they don't forget you all together.

Every time I come the service and food seems to get worse. They are always under staffed and the wait for to go orders takes forever, if they don't forget you all together.

Every time I come the service and food seems to get worse. They are always under staffed and the wait for to go orders takes forever, if they don't forget you all together.

Ok so I went to Friendly’s today for lunch trying to remember my childhood and see if it was the same. It pretty much was. The most enjoyable was the cup of New England clam chowder. Tastes just like I remembered it and was pretty good. My wife got the fishamajig and I got the patty melt, both came with fries. Overall mediocre but a lot of families with young children were coming in for lunch. It’s good to see some of the old s hook chains hanging in there. Nostalgic for me fun for the kids. The plus is you can get a good sundae before you leave for desert.

TheLawrence Homestead

Within a year this place will be closed. 3 things we wanted to order were out( were told as we ordered). Watched a plate sit 13 minutes under the light from our table. (Not ours) our food came out, 3 of 4 plates cold. They were even too low on ketchup to give us more than a 4oz cup for the entire table. No one had the same portion size of fries. Had to stop the server for drink refills. Empties (plates and cups) sat on the table even after we got desert. I don’t except the world from friendlys, but it was also consistent in portions, hot and decent service. These days are gone. Even ice cream took an excessive amount of time. For the busiest time we were there being 7 tables, we shouldn’t have been at the restaurant for 2 hours.

The food and ice cream is very good. They are sometimes low on staff and I wouldn't say it's worth the wait. Sometimes the wait time is 45+ minutes. Most people are kind there and it's usually a fu…

The food and ice cream is very good. They are sometimes low on staff and I wouldn't say it's worth the wait. Sometimes the wait time is 45+ minutes. Most people are kind there and it's usually …

Every surface in the restaurant needs cleaning...from the hostess station with the grime on the edges, to the walls, to the splattered booth dividers. I'm not talking just today's filth- this is *mon…

Good food for a lunch stop, but I wish they would stop changing the menu. Easy on an off 146 and I-87, and they have outdoor seating as well. Good waitstaff and good pacing and attention as well.

Good food for a lunch stop, but I wish they would stop changing the menu. Easy on an off 146 and I-87, and they have outdoor seating as well. Good waitstaff and good pacing and attention as well.

Tommy Kergel

The loaded waffle fries. The fries were good. Everything else. Horrible. A homeless man wouldn’t even be able to down that. The cheese sauce was immaculately disgusting. Reminded me of bleach.

This place has definitely gone downhill! Not only the service but the food too! waited at least ten minutes to get sat then another ten just for the waitress to greet us! She checked in maybe once …

Fries were black from the dirty fryer. Got 2 sets of dirty silverware. Used my straw to put sour cream on my quesadella. Called the manager who didn't appear to care. Do yourself a favor and just don…

fries were black from the dirty fryer. Got 2 sets of dirty silverware. Used my straw to put sour cream on my quesadella. Called the manager who didn't appear to care. Do yourself a favor and just d…

We stopped in for Lunch on a Saturday. We were seated in a booth, soon after the hostess sat a family with 4 small children right across from us, 2 children in highchairs, They were screaming as smal…

Deshawn Thomas

Was waiting in line on Saturday with my mother and this tall women with short hair come from the back to curse out another customer by the ice cream come to find out I asked the worker if that was a manager they said yes shame on you for making that your face of your restaurant. We ended up leaving wasn't going to make a complaint but this hasn't sat well with me. Even if customer was wrong way she spoke to them infront of everyone was not ok.

Diane Vaillancourt

I asked for water with lemon. The lemon was rotten brown in color I wouldn't even put it on the table if I was the waitress. I would have said we ran out of lemons. They just opened at 11 am this was 11:30 asked for a bowl of beef barley soup we just ran out. So I went with cream of broccoli soup. This was after 25 minutes waiting for anyone came to the table to wait on us. When I got the soup the cream was broke clumps and cold. Waitress never came back to the table to ask if everything was OK. Didn't come till she dropped off the check. Friendly has never been like this and will not go back.

Sarah B

Burger was caked in pepper and close to being inedible. Had a stomach ache for the rest of the day. The service was okay but took almost 20 minutes before we ordered our drinks

Kimberly Priest

Waiting almost 45 minutes in a mostly empty resturant for someone to greet us and seat us. Service was very slow. Food took over an hour and came out cold.

Dori

Rude staff. I was just chewed out by an employee for trying to ask how much longer an order would take after waiting 15 minutes. While I tried to express my empathy for their situation, he spoke over me and put me down. I pick up from here often and have never been spoken to so rudely here. I only wanted to ask how long it would be so I could report in the app so the next person who received the order didn't have to wait as long, but he wouldn't let me speak long enough to explain that, accused me of complaining before walking off. I never got an answer or an eta.

Brian Bloom

Got there around 5pm Saturday evening. A little over half of the dining room was occupied. We stood there, at the podium waiting to be sat, for 10 minutes while employees walked around, back and forth through the small walkway from the door to the podium, constantly asking us to move, whole bot acknowledging we were waiting to be sat. We haven't been to Friendly's in years due to poor service. We decided to take our son tonight for the first time. It will be the last time we ever consider Friendly's as an option.

asterka iwaniuk

My favorite thing at Friendly's is the chicken quesadilla. So I was super excited that I was working next to one and could order a quesadilla for lunch. I was extremely displeased once I opened up my food, but I was too far to turn around. They had barely any chicken or cheese. Looked like someone just threw them in the box.