Outback Steakhouse Beaufort

Katherine was our server and she was perfect!!! That needs to be said first because she was quite possibly the best part of the visit. We were visiting from out of town and don’t typically go to chain restaurants when in from out of town. Tonight was no different, we were actually headed to a local pizza restaurant but when we passed Outback we thought prime rib sounded good and we like it at Outback so it was a safe bet. When we got inside half of the restaurant was empty and we were greeted with an apology because there was a 20-25 minute wait, they had a party of 30 on the other side of the restaurant and they didn’t have enough servers. We weren’t in a hurry so we waited. We got seated in 15-20 minutes only to find out that they were out of prime rib, bone in ribeyes, and rice. No worries we’ll have the regular ribeye instead. It was not a good piece of meat, lots of gristle (not fat) and the food was slow to come out. They would’ve replaced it but it wasn’t really worth the wait again. I’m sure that the kitchen was behind because of the big party so they get a break for that and Katherine made sure we had drinks and that all was well until the meal did come out. We overheard another server telling their table that they were out of 6oz sirloins and kids sirloins too and when dessert time came around they were out of the chocolate tower cake. As always we realize that everybody has a bad night and we will def give Outback another chance because we do enjoy it, just very frustrating. All of that to say it could’ve been a miserable experience but Katherine was awesome and helped us make the best out of a what wasn’t the best experience, I hope Outback realizes what an asset she is!

The food was good, and so was the service. I don’t know why this restaurant got a 2.5 rating on Yelp. They are much better than that rating. I would definitely go there again.