I have been a fan of Fred's on Madison for a very long time. The food is still delicious and the service is excellent. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a great meal... plus there is the store. And I have seen more celebrities at this restaurant than any other - which makes it even more entertaining.

On a spontaneity for a lunch on a Friday, it again didn’t fail my expectations for a nice comforting meal and wonderful experience for us.

Delicious food. And you can actually hear the conversation. The portions are very large. Just love the place.

Not the usual food, this time quite bland. In spite of restaurant being half empty was offered the worst table, right next to the service station, hostess also not very nice when I asked to be switched . Not what I’m used to at this restaurant, hopefully was an exception

As always, consistently excellent food, service and ambiance. We return regularly.

. . . Request Aggie ! . . .

We have a much postponed birthday lunch. Service was friendly and professional. Food was delicious. We'll be back!

My favorite lunch spot in NYC. Always outstanding service and food!

Felt welcome - sever 3 Alper C was excellent!
Table 62/1 was quiet enough to hold a conversation!

All ways a treat. Enjoy the omlet or the burger. Don’t miss the fries. Wine is a good value.

Terrible service. Despicable. Waiters were unfriendly. One of us with a nut allergy and they brought the salad without sny dressing did not even made the effort to say the salad dressing had an ingredient she could not eat. We had to beg fot olive oil and vinegar.
The food was not good and the noise level really unbearable.

Surprisingly quiet and civilized in the early evening, happily, in contrast to other upscale restaurants in the neighborhood.

It is interesting how someone with no reservations gets seated immediately and I who was 15 minutes early for a reservation was made to wait to be seated. There should be some consistency.

I only go to a Fred’s because the salads are delicious. But the waiters are okay. They seem to not offer bread. Or choose who to offer bread too which is kinda weird. I particularly do not eat bread but find it weird.

Salad was tasteless and expensive. Ingredients were tired, not fresh.
Friend's shrimp tasted like iodine.
Wouldn't go back

I went for my birthday lunch. It's a great spot to people watch. Clams and linguine were amazing.

Met a friend for lunch. Didn’t rush us out while we were catching up at lunch. Great food..nice portions ..bit pricey.

I work in the same building as Barneys so it is very convenient.

Food is always great. Service was not. Had to ask for water several times and the check twice.

Great service and food

This has to be the worst food I have ever ate at a restaurant. The food was stale, lacked taste. It was my friends birthday I had requested a dessert sent to our table. I called the restaurant and asked for that to be done. They called me and I confirmed and they didn’t do it. They said they had no request put it.
The service was terrible. We had to keep flagging our waiter to get water. They served bread to many tables but we had to ask if we could try some.

Very disappointed

Ate there 2days in a row!!Not from NY and eating before and decided to return.

Superb service (everything was prompt and correct); exceptional food (I highly recommend the Estelle's Chicken Soup); and of course the people-watching is fascinating. It's a noisy restaurant, but so what? Just goes to show that everyone is enjoying a nice lunch break.

Excellent food and service. Very nice and elegant. Very pleasant atmosphere. Love the paillard and profiteroles. Favorite lunch spot in the city

As always, superb food, service, ambience. One of our favorites

Read about the chicken salad in The NY Times so I immediately booked a table for an upcoming visit. Warm greeting from hostess. Waiter left a lot to be desired. Slow and brusque. We were clearly not of consequence to him. He took the order and only came back to the table to drop off the check (after I had someone go hunt him down!!!). Quite disappointing. Clearly his other tables were more important. The other wait staff was great. Food was great though the lasagna was a little too saucy.

Wonderful food, wait staff amazing, very friendly and helpful.

Amazing servers, food and ambience!

Restaurant has lots of natural lighting. Excellent food and service. Good portions. They easily accommodated my dairy allergy.

The ambience and service is very pleasant. The quality of the food was quite poor. The food and drinks were excessively high and not even very good. I would never go back thee again even all the great places to eat in NY.

There were two hairs in my food and they didn’t even apologize.

Great food

Whenever I’m in NY I can’t miss the opportunity to go to Freds .
I love the Rabiola

Really, really slow service this time. Not the usual.

We had a lovely brunch/lunch. Was very glad we chose to come here.

My fav restaurant!! Best salads in NYC. Great service and over all highly rec.

The over priced chicken salad was disappointing

This was my first time here and I had heard how great it was and quite the experience. I found it to be pretentious, overpriced, and not welcoming or friendly. 2 of our 3 person had arrived and they would not seat us; when we said we would order for our friend ( who was delayed), they finally did seat us at a back room corner cramped table.

The cobb salad was tasty but quite expensive for what it was.

Hostess and gal seating those of us With reservations were the Rudest pair i've ever had the displeasure of having to deal with in a restaurant. They should be fired

Even with a reservation there was a 20 minute wait (with everyone in the party present and accounted for), but it was still a great lunch.

This was my first time eating at this restaurant and I was pleasantly surprised. The food was very good and the Ambiance was lovely. Unfortunately, the chef was out of the papardelle by the end of the evening so they let me choose any other entree on the house. That's amazing customer service. Hopefully the next time I come back, I'll be able to try the special.