$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.

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 return in a timely manner. I'm sure all of you would rather me use my precious time getting your drinks or your soups or salads than telling you about my specials. Now think, I have to do that for up to 2 or 3 other tables, effectively making that amount of time even longer than other resturants. Granted, not every person who decides to wait on tables is able to take this challange, but I can say for myself that my service is excellent, and if you plan on eating at a Houlihan's make it as easy as possible for your server. Don't make excessive modifications on your food, if you dont like something once, don't order it again and expect it to be better, and please dont think that we get paid to wait on only you. We also have several other responsibilities! The food, by the way, is excellent!!! I eat there 9 meals or more a week, so ASK YOUR SERVER ABOUT WHAT THEY LIKE! They know it best and will give you an honest opinion! Plus they will like you for wanting to know something about you and will go out of their way to make sure your Houlihan's experience is as great as it can be!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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