Outback Steakhouse

Sitting here wife my wife and I have the 20 once Porter House and it was perfect! It started with us being seated within 5 minutes, then our server came to the table right away and brought our drinks to us within ten minutes. The food came out to the table extremely fast and we were on our way in about an hour. Just a really efficient team.

I just left this restaurant. I am staying at a hotel a few doors away and walked over for dinner. It is Saturday and the time was 5:00 when I walked in. I came alone. I understand that single on a Saturday night do not tip as much as couples or parties of more. But, my waitress was in a real hurry to get rid of me before the Saturday night rush. I can understand it to a point. But, when the check is set on the table while half my steak is on my plate — that makes me feel unwelcome.
The food was okay. I think the steak was a bit under cooked but not too bad. The service ruined the experience for me.
If you enjoy mediocre food and horrible service, this is the place for you!

Wasn’t overly impressed with the food or service. The 8.99 combo was not up to the standards that I would expect from the Outback. Service for Lunch time could of been better in the bar area since there was very few people and hardly any drink orders.

Came for blooming onion it came out half burnt and other half uncooked batter and just right long wait for ribeye melt and pretty chewy and Caesar salad drowning in dressing waiter was pleasant enough they need better quality control

I was visiting and staying in the hotel connecting to this Outback. We originally had planned to go to another restaurant, but we talked to the hotel staff and they recommended we go next door! We were greeted by a friendly face immediately as we walked in the door and seated immediately. We required two high chairs and had a family member who was handicapped; the staff accommodated us and had our group settled in immediately.
The food was great– I appreciated that the staff double checked about how I would like my steak cooked. The manager stopped by our table and ensured that our food was cooked appropriately. The staff was professional and efficient– overall great experience!

A special thanks to the staff here for making us feel comfortable and well taken care of. The cocktails were great and the food was prepared exactly the way we requested. Whenever I am traveling back through Milwaukee I would definitely consider stopping in here again.

Nice waitress.
Everything seemed like it was frozen improperly, and heated up really quick. No texture. No flavor. Just mushy wetness. Almost like we were eating leftovers.
Everything is nice there except for the food.

I know why they have low ratings. We are staying in the hotel that is attached to the outback and after spending the entire day at the children’s hospital we just wanted to have a good meal. Emerging through the hotel entrance we walked by 15 open tables as we walked to the front hostess station. As I’m holding my sleepy granddaughter I was informed by a guy in a tie, manager?, that hey had to reboot their computers and it would be about 5 minutes. After waiting about 5 minutes manager came up and whispered something to the hostess. She looked at us and told us it would be a 15 to 29 minute wait for a table. I looked at her and said there are 15 empty tables on one side of the restaurant and several on the other side. She said they need led to be cleaned and it would be at least 20 minutes.
Now I understand why when I stopped in the day before for lunch and they were empty. In reading the other review its a bunch of the same with complaints about service. I like outback and the one in my home town is great. I hope this one gets a competent manager.

We seemed to have found another hidden gem for a good fish fry
Nicely seasoned, and filling all for a great price.
I’m thinking we’ll be back soon.

I guess with a chain, all food is pretty standard. I had the potato soup, which had a very watery consistency but was very flavorful. I assume because it had lots of oil. The coconut shrimp was delicious, but also very oily.

Wir waren hier gestern mit 9 Personen. Alle waren rundum zufrieden. Die Bedienung war sehr freundlich. Die Speisen die wir bekommen haben waren alle warm. Die frittierte Zwiebel als Vorspeise war richtig lecker (1 hat uns zu 9 aber auch gereicht…) würde hier sofort wieder hingehen lohnt sich aufjedenfall. Was mich persönlich allerdings immer stört ist die Kälte in den Restaurants aber ist hier in Amerika ganz normal und wirklich überall so.

Staying at the attached Country Inn and Suites hotel. Ate here two nights. First night received great service and fantastic food. Second night the waitress was great, but my shrimp was not hot (scampi butter congealed). They took it back to heat it and it came back the same. After two tries I suggested the fried shrimp. Received overdone shrimp. At that point I decided to finish the rest of my dinner and call it a night. The server did deduct for the inconvenience, but that really wasn’t the point. She was great, not her fault the kitchen was having issues.

Steakhouse? Wife had filet and I had the porterhouse, both added the auce shrimp.
The steaks were a disaster, inedible, questionable quality at best. Have had better steaks out of the back of a chevy S-​10 (door to door crappy beef deals)…
The shrimp took a long time to get and asked after receiving the garlic butter shrimp if it was supposed to be served cold or if you could get it warmed? Server seemed concerned about the delay and temperature but didn’t address either issue after taking 20 minutes to return with the next order of shrimp. To her defense, she did bring us each an additional serving for waiting, but again they were cold. The shrimp being served cold created quite a gelatinous nastiness.
Overall; The outback is just nasty. Why waste your money?

Our server was run and gun kinda guy. Smooth talker. We started with waters and bread. Ordered pretty quickly, waited on appetizer wings.
We both ordered steaks with sides; mash potatoes, Mac and cheese, salad. My son ordered a flat iron steak and I choose the sirloin. Wings were 5 mild and 5 hot with blue cheese dressing and celery. We plowed through the wings pretty quickly. My Cesar salad was drenched in dressing with a healthy dose of parmesan cheese. It was very tasty. Waited on steaks. We where told it would be 20 minutes. Much longer than expected.

Why even make a reservation if they still treat you as first come first serve? Nothing new here though, this has been a 12 year problem and we usually just go elsewhere than deal with it.

I had been bugging my boyfriend for months to take me to the Outback Steakhouse. I was craving steak and lobster at a reasonable price. I was telling my boyfriend that I wasn’t going to order the filet mignon since this is a steak place they should know how to make a good steak even if its just a sirloin steak. Boy was I wrong steak was horrible. The steak was hard to chew although they did get it correctly made being medium rare the outside look like it battled with some charcoal was black and chalky. I also asked for a mushrooms in fried onions on my steak, but I ended up with a bowl of button mushrooms and what they call fried onions. It was horrible no taste very plain, and then when I got the bill I saw that I was charged $ 2.99 for the horrible mushrooms and fried onions… Ridiculous. Now lets go on to what they call lobster, I understand I’m only paying 8 bucks for a lobster tail but I really did expect more than 2 tablespoons of lobster meat. I was so pissed at the quality and quantity of the lobster tail and the food. I couldn’t even mention it to my boyfriend, because he ended up paying 86 bucks for food and drinks that I didn’t even care for… and it wasn’t like I was going to tell him his hard earned money went to shitty food. The only reason I’m giving them one star is because they’re berry sangria was pretty good that’s where they get their one star. Also the waitress was screaming at us yelling at us like her voice tone wasn’t pleasant, it seems like she was constantly yelling and barking out stuff at us it was not a relaxing experience. When we got home my boyfriend said he was glad he got the bloomin onion but he could have passed on everything else. It’s pretty sad when your boyfriend says he doesn’t know why we go out to eat when I cook a steak it’s better than most restaurants. Honey we go out to eat because I get sick of cooking every single day. ;)

It’s an Outback — so, considering things are pretty standardized, it’s A-​OK.
The good stuff: Add yourself to the waitlist in advance via their website or by calling. I’d never been to this location before and was shocked when we found out it’d be a 90 minute wait, so we wandered around Target until the designated time and then were seated pretty quickly after arrival. For those who do find themselves waiting in the lobby for a while, the staff was periodically coming around with menu samples, which was a nice touch. Other than that, the food was as good as any other Outback I’ve visited (that bread = top notch).
The «meh» stuff: Perhaps due to the busy crowd, but there just seemed to be confusion among the staff and kitchen. In general, food seemed a bit slower than expected coming out of the kitchen. Our waiter kept apologizing because another server apparently grabbed our appetizer two separate times, so it arrived about two minutes before our entrees. Not a big deal and the manager kindly comped it without our asking, but the poor waiter seemed exasperated about it. Hang in there, dude.

The service and food at this restaurant chain has fallen in the past several years.
Quality and quantity.
Went on 10/​18/​2014
Ordered ribeye and baked potato.
The complimentary rye roll was dry and tasteless.
Steak was ok but just ok
Potato was under cooked with sparse butter, sour cream and chives!

This is not a great chain. The steaks are not great and the past two times I have been there the service has not been good. For the prices they charge the food should be a lot better. The one good thing is they have some tasty bar drinks. I recommend go for drinks and skip the food. Oh and the blooming onion is way overrated

The food was too spicy. They are very heavy handed on the pepper. We took our young son out with us, as a treat. He didn’t want to go unless he could have french fries. We said we’d go to a french fry place. When we ordered for him, we specifically asked for french fries. The waitress said he’d get fries. When he got his order, no fries! I asked the waitress about the fries and she said: there’s already a starch with the meal, so he doesn’t get fries. What the? I’m his parent! Aren’t I the one to decide if he can have «a starch» and which starch? Never going back. I don’t want to support this chain anywhere.

Overall a good experience. Filet portion of the porterhouse (classic style) was very good, but the strip portion seemed almost too lean and had more pepper than I would have preferred.
Again, the baked French onion soup was definitely above average, by my taste.
My main gripe with outback: the «call ahead». We only waited 5 minutes for our table, I just wish they didn’t take these silly almost-​reservations, which are just a mind game anyway.