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| - Our visit was 6-5. Started off bad. Came here because the grills at out apartments are all having some work done on them. All at the same time; morons. I quietly thought maybe going to another location because my luck at this one isn't too good. They are advertising free upgrades on the size of the Outback sirloin. Server knew nothing about it. Jen and I both ordered the sirloin so I am curious to see if anyone brings it up or what the bill will look like.
Have to give the powers that be from Outback credit for coming up with a sampler finally. Like most samplers they lure you in with one or two things that are popular then make up for their cost by throwing a low cost space filler like cheese fries. If by old fries that were stale and barely had any bacon or cheese then that must be why they call them Aussie Fries. Picture attached because although I knew the fries would hardly be touched by Jen or I, I still wanted to.show what I saw so you don't think I exaggerated. If you look closely you can almost see the cheese. The Blooming onion petals were good. The macaroni cheese bites were ok but the old school ones that TGIFS used to carry were the bomb and blew these away. And FYI, if the plates you received were really hot, it sat in the window waiting too long and that's why whatever you ordered doesn't taste very good.
Jen's steak was over cooked. I took two pictures; the first is when she first got it and it seems to be mid to mid well. The 2nd pic of her steak is after about 2 minutes and it was well done by then. Unless they changed their rules, Outback has always advised that they undercook slightly of your requested steak temp so it is usually a little rarer in most cases of what you are used to when requesting a specific steak temp. Jen and I always order medium rare. Min was almost medium, and you can easily see Jen's was nowhere near medium rare. She also stated that her coconut shrimp were nowhere near as good as Red Lobster. You may think well that's a seafood restaurant. They are both chains so it doesn't really factor in the type, and they have shrimp in Australia too. Her plate was super.hot to my touch, which is pretty hot after 21 years in restaurants, grabbing hot plates has my tolerance built up pretty high to heat. Our food simply sat in the window too long which means they either didn't time the items to come out at the right time, or they forgot something (most likely), or just aren't very good and have no pride in what they do (also a strong possibility).
Check is here. No discount for the sirloins and no mention of it from our server. Either she isn't good at her job or the management hasn't properly trained the staff. I told Jen it's highly unlikely that the staff wasn't advised as rolling out new promotions is a pretty big deal that happens regularly in chain restaurants. We never saw a manager even walking around our entire time here so maybe that's why.
I'm just done with this location. $56.68 was our total. I could have bought 5 filets from Costco for about $40 and they have never been anything less than tender and deliscious. If and when I ever come back to Outback it won't be this location. I just wanted a good steak and since I couldn't use the grills at my place, I used poor judgement in taking the convenient way and driving a few miles to Outback Steakhouse. I should have just ordered pizza.
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