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Outback Steakhouse
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- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
6 reviews for Outback Steakhouse
Some chains are guilty pleasures and Outback tends to be one of mine. In a pinch or a foreign locale, you can usually count on them for decent food. Even though this location was just robbed at gunpoint, I thought it would be safe to check out (statistically speaking) for a quick bite.
The main drawback of this particular Outback is that the service has ALWAYS been hit or miss, more often miss, but I'm an optimist, so I went anyway. This would be my downfall.
The service was awkward at best. We ordered appetizers, she never came back for the entree. We had to grab her time and time again to get anything during our meal. When one of the appetizers came out incorrectly (wings were far from well done), she just said "ok" with no offer to fix it. I really have to question what kind of training, if any, she received as a waitress.
Now the food usually makes up for it, but it failed me as well. The bloomin' onion is a solid standby, but the cheese fries, when devoid of bacon, are lackluster with no redeeming qualities and the wings, even though very meaty, did not rise above mediocre.
With that heavy load of food up front, I still went with the burger (I was famished). I hadn't ordered one of their burgers since it was called the "Mad Max" on the menu. I was hoping for a meaty monstrosity that would satisfy all my carnivorous desires. Instead what came on my plate was a burger I could have made myself at home. The bun looked store bought, the toppings lifeless and even though it was cooked correctly (medium rare) I could tell the type of meat they used was not the same quality they had used in the past.
I was seriously disappointed by the entire experience. Even the hostesses, usually a perky oasis in this desert of bleh, were robots going through the motions with all the personality of a napkin holder.
I'm not expecting 5 star service, but could SOMEONE at least look like they enjoyed being at work? Could they fake it just a little?
Same weekend as Flashback Diner, different day. Ralphie and I decided to finish off the gift card that this restaurant was a part in. It didn't look that busy, but there were people.
When we got seared Ahi Tuna with ginger-soy sauce and wasabi vinaigrette as the appetizer (instead of the Bloomin' Onion' rings with the sauce), my hubby got a little annoyed by its portion/look and a little nervous about it. He was like "how do you know it's fresh..?.. we're in a chain restaurant." I wonder if that gave me the cold the 2nd time this fall.
The food took a long time. The waiter was nice, but we still had to call him back to get more water. His chicken salad, which he thought was just chicken on a salad.. came out mixed with mayo. The manager took it back with no problem and brought him another without it, which was fine but not good for the diabetic to wait again. Because of our appetizer choice, he couldn't nibble on anything but bread which he was supposed to be avoiding as part of his diet then. I didn't want to start until he got his, but he told me to just go and not wait. The steak was great and the size was good enough for me with two sides (sweet potato, which I didn't really finish, and broccoli, which was forgotten till I mentioned it.)
When I asked to get the rest of the bread home, the waiter decided to put in a fresh one to go. Nice of him, but I think he felt bad about the order that didn't make Ralphie happy. Didn't see any hair in our food either, so not too bad.
I never liked chains. I did however make exceptions for Outback because I always liked their salads, fries, burgers and salmon.
I never liked their steaks since they always overseasoned them and they made me sick.
Now, unfortunately they have decided to make their portions half the size of what they were (Corporate decision) and lower the prices. Unfortunately the quality of the food has diminished as well. They use MSG in many of their dishes as a flavor enhancer (but they wont admit it) and the salmon is now awful. The service in this particular location is awful and the management is just as bad. This location is quite dirty as well. We found a disgusting hair in our entree and there were roaches crawling on the walls. Stay away from OUTBACK in general. I would !
FILTHY! This place is incredibly dirty and disgusting. Outback isn't known for fine dining, but like most chains, you can usually count on a relatively acceptable standard. Not this one. It's a pig sty. We decided to try a bottle of Paul Newman Cabernet, but I can't tell you whether or not it was good. The wine glasses had such a pungent stench of dirty dishwater that I couldn't smell or taste the wine. My partner ordered prime rib, and I ordered parmesan pasta. We waited a long time for entree's and when they arrived, I could see that the food had waited a long time, too-- under a heat lamp. The pasta had congealed to the consistency of Elmer's glue. Someone had sprinkled the dish with chopped parsley, which had turned to blackened ashes all over it. Best of all, the pasta was served in a soup bowl without any liner under it, so in order to pick it up, which it appeared lots and lots of people had done, one needed to stick one's thumb right into the bowl. There were gluey thumb prints all over the rim of the bowl, which had turned deep brown and captured the black parsley ashes. But at least this revolting travesty was, at one time, the dish that I ordered. My partner was served a piece of beef that I cannot identify, but that was definitely not prime rib. After a while a manager came to our table, and he was kind enough to acknowledge that the beef was not prime rib, although he pretended not to see anything wrong with the pile of glue I'd been served. He took everything back to the kitchen and personally delivered a prime rib and a fresher version of the pasta, but I can promise we won't ever be back.
Dear Outback Cook,
Thank you for the thick, black, curly pubic hair sitting atop my warm french fries. I will never be back.
Love,
Nydia G.
They were very nice to my kids here. Aside from that the food is chain food.
