longhorn steakhouse

tonight i ordered a ribeye,mediumrare. for the second time in as many months, they brought me a new york strip instead. the first time i thought i had to be wrong. after all, this is a pretty nice place. tonight there just no doubt. there was so much silver skin you could barely eat the streak. if i ever go back, and they do this again, i will send it back.

this place has really went down the tubes. we sat at the bar for dinner and ordered an appetizer when ordering our meal. the bartender brought our salads out 10 minutes before the appetizer showed up. i ordered an 8 ounce filet and they brought me a sirloin. my friend ordered a sirloinmediumrare and it came outmediumwell we sent her order back. i questioned the manager about the filet it was not round and thick. he said that they have different cuts depending on how it is ordered. i have no intention of going back to this place

mediocre at best. the chief good thing about this restaurant was that it was quiet and peaceful--maybe because there were so few people present. my husband and i shared a new york strip steak and baked potato with each of us getting a salad and tea. the salad was fine; the potato was nothing special at all. the steak was terrible. husband found way too much gristle; i found it tough and tasteless atmediumdoneness. neither of us finished even our half potions. we did like the bread and iced tea. service was fine. i would rate our steaks the lowest in comparison to other similar steak restaurants. we have avoided this restaurant due to reading bad reviews over the past few months but the couple with us chose to go here. doubt if we'll return.

dinner tonight, pretty good overall. update: 25 may 2014

we had dinner here, and the first bad experience. ian and i both ordered ribeyes, medium,. and got ribeyes, well done. it took a couple minutes to get our servers attention, but she immediately agreed they were completely overcooked. i asked, almost pleaded, that the meal not be hurried; i had a baked potato to keep me busy. the steaks came back still on the top end of medium, just a hint of faint pink in the center. the manager brought them. i was on the verge of sending them back again (i hate wasting a meal, this was very hard for me), but the manager preempted me by telling us the streaks were comp'd. there was no way in heck i would send them back then. a medium-to-medium well steak beats the heck out of well done, dry steak any day.

so maybe a trainee cook, but this was the first steak i've had from a longhorn that was sent back. the manager did the right thing by us, though, and we'll keep going back.

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our family of four ate dinner here this evening. we started with three bowls of potato soup and a ceasar salad. raegan got the trout, erin got the parmesan chicken, ian got a ribeye, and i got the chopped steak. everyone except for me reported their meals were excellent. i think my chopped steak could have been improved by replacing the "wine sauce" with gravy. i had ordered itmediumwell, but it was just over well done (not a bad thing since chopped steak is hamburger that needs to be cooked to kill bugs).

the iced tea, soup, salad, and bread were all very good. service was excellent. our check was 89.41.

i like longhorn. the longhorn, saltgrass, and logans chains are the gold standard for a very good steak at a reasonable price.

cooks can't cook. i usually order my steak cookedmediumas at most steak houses your get it on themediumrare side. but longhorn's menu has a very nice scale and description corresponding to the cooking scale. so i ordered minemediumrare thinking they would cook it as indicated. wrong! it was a beautiful thick sirloin, but very rare. sent it back only to receive another the same way. the complimentary cocktail was not worth the unsatisfactory experience. the waiter and manager seemed they couldn't care less.

terrible!. i ordered one of the most expensive cuts, the prime rib, and i wanted itmediumwell and they couldn't even get that right! the outside wasmediumand the inside wasmediumrare. even my girlfriend's was ruined by a well done to burnt when it was supposed to bemediumwell also. never going here again.

manager scored points!. we received a gift card for christmas, so my husband and i wanted to try longhorn and use our gift card. we had a short wait for a table (on a tuesday night), so we went to the bar. the bartender made excellent cocktails and was friendly even though he was slammed and the only one on duty that night. we were seated about 10 - 15 mins. later. our waiter came over promptly and asked about drink or appetizer orders. he didn't mention any specials (maybe there weren't any?). we ordered the spinach-artichoke dip which was bland and unmemorable; try something else as your appetizer. the waiter came back and took our food order. we were enjoying a rare night out, chatting and didn't notice that about 45 mins. had passed. the waiter came over and said something about them putting in a new computer system and that was causing problems in the kitchen and the resulting delays. shortly thereafter, the manager came by and said dinner would be on them and he apologized profusely for the delay. funny thing was, we weren't even upset. my husband and i both ordered prime rib,mediumrare. his was fine; mine was bloody and cold. it literally wasn't cooked. back to the kitchen it went. the waiter brought it back and it was cooked to the correct degree. i've had better prime rib before, but it was good enough. i will try the steak next time. the waiter was attentive and the delay was not his fault. i would give the longhorn another chance and see if they've improved.

well i couldn't finish my last review but the prime rib as u will see was perfectly cutt the baked loaded potato was small the lobster tail $10 more to add was good. wish he would have asked at the ordering process for an extra plate ... but all in all it was great end of the year meal. i hope blake gets some help in the serving dept. but it is what it is...... let's hope the key lime pie tops it all off.. for the food a 9 for service i'm sorry but that was a 7 to 5... we will be back for the food maybe during lunch but the prime is defiantly worth coming back for. :)......


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blake is our server .... so we were told by the gentleman passing by 6.30 minutes of sitting with no greet:(. but when blake did come by he seemed to buzy... no much personality... and thank goodness our drinks came when he did! we are spliting the prime rib 16 which is 21.99mediumrare lets hope after asking to make sure they have it, it comes out that way. point for our server he brought plates with the bread and ceser salad wich by the way the steak comes with one side the salad is extra....

please..no more. i have been to longhorn steakhouse twice. on both occasions i sat at the bar, and the service there was decent to good both times. the food, however, is horrible. the first time i visited longhorn i ordered a filet,mediumrare, and my friend ordered a ribeye, medium. my filet came out moremediumthanmediumrare, but was a decent steak. my friend's ribeye, however, came out well done rather than medium. the bartender saw the mistake, and promptly sent the steak back. this actually repeated itself several times, all with wildly varying steaks and cook times. the manager suggested that we take the steak(s) home, so each time they boxed it up for us. we actually left with six steaks, all of which were terrible. the second time i visited i shared some appetizers, and they were not impressive but the drinks were good and the service was average. maybe i would go here for happy hour if my friends insisted....