TGI Friday's

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• Average price 2 courses:
   £9.99 (set lunch)
   £15 (evening meal)
• House wine: £10.25 per bottle

• High point: Cajun-spiced green bean fries
• Low point: Overflowing bins in restaurant area
• Food served: Mon-Fri noon-11.30pm; Sat 11am-11.30pm; Sun noon-11pm
• Bar open: Mon-Sat noon-midnight; Sun 12.30-10.45pm
• Open since: 1993
• Also offers: Childrens portions, Childrens high chairs, Wheelchair access, Take away

The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008 is now in the shops.

This review is from the 2007 edition.

TGI Friday's has been spreading its buffalo wings across the UK since its arrival from the States in 1986. Families are prepared to queue at weekends: after all, kids get their own menu, an activity pack and a balloon from the invariably sprightly staff. Adults, on the other hand, get tipsy on cocktails such as the Bramble - a blackberry liqueur, lemon and gin mix that makes the music sound sunnier and the memorabilia look even shinier. Sticky fingers are inevitable with 'Times Square Big Share', a combination of chicken wings in a Jack Daniel's glaze, potato skins filled with bacon-speckled cheese and crispy mozzarella dippers. A coarsely-ground beef burger with battered onion rings and a smoky BBQ sauce doesn't taste as processed as expected from an establishment whose menu operates in pictures as well as words, and the fries are nice, too: seasoned, irregularly cut and a few still in their skins. Steaks and ribs fill the air with the smells of America, while puddings are super-sized. So if your dining partner fancies the dense New York cheesecake while you'd do anything for the popcorn brownie sundae, you might have a sweet debate on your hands.