I arrived at Longhorn with my lovely girlfriend after leaving another horribly serviced restaurant. Longhorn is on the way home from work and although it's a chain, I have eaten at them before and thought for price paid and service it was a good deal. This was not the case tonight. I was surprised as every time we drive by this location it is always packed. We even skipped on it before multiple times for not wanting to wait.
Anyway, we get in, were quickly taken to our table with drinks ordered. Food was next I opted for Bone in Rib eye with salad and sweet potato and she ordered non-bone in rib eye with loaded baked potato and side salad.
Our waiter was a bit on the overzealous side and spoke with his best fake Texan accent...Little did he know my my lovely is in fact a True Texan.
Anyway...Salads come out and were pretty good. Drinks were empty and were not now offered to be refreshed....I was impressed w/ the BBQ chopped salad and she seemed to like the Caesar salad. Bread was good....
Next the main plates...First off they describe in the menu a loaded baked potato which in reality is not even close to what is served; rather more like deflated microwave cooked baked potato with day old butter on it. My sweet potato on the other hand, just did not taste fresh. I love sweet potatoes and I'm not sure how this got messed up, but it did.
As for the steaks, Rib eye ...it was almost like eating sirloin.....not very juicy although we requested Medium cooking (hers was more medium well done). The best part of mine was the small part attached directly to the bone. Overall it was not very juicy and did not seem to have good flavoring cooked into it.
I was quite upset to realize my delicious tasting memories of Longhorn are now long-gone.