Texas Roadhouse Vs. Outback Steakhouse Vs. LongHorn: Which Is Best?

Publish date: 2024-05-06

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A good steak is a rare and precious thing, like a newborn child or a cool day in August.

That's why going to a steakhouse is such a risk. There are many ways to cook a good steak, but even more ways to cook a bad one. And if you're going to shell out for steak, you don't want to shell out for a bad one.

Outback Steakhouse, LongHorn Steakhouse, and Texas Roadhouse are the three biggest steakhouse chains in America, according to a 2019 Nation's Restaurant News report. But when it comes to restaurant chains, size doesn't matter.

Steak does.

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Like the woman in those old Wendy's commercials, I had a mission: to find the beef. And not just any beef. I embarked on a search for the best beef in steak-chain-restaurant America. It was to be a long and arduous journey through mountains of deep-fried appetizers, forests of steamed broccoli, and rivers of house margarita. My destination: bone-in ribeye steak, medium-rare.

I went to three New York City-area locations — the Outback Steakhouse in Manhattan, the LongHorn Steakhouse in Queens, and the Texas Roadhouse in Teterboro, New Jersey — to see how the dining experiences compared.

I ordered the same meal at each place: the chain's most popular fried appetizer, a house margarita, a side salad, and a bone-in ribeye steak medium-rare with a side of vegetables and a loaded baked potato.

Here's what it was like: 

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