We dine, at the longhorn fruitville location at least two times a month for dinner or lunch. tonight's visit was beyond what we expected! we have had our waiter before by the name of Eric but tonight we got snow not only a little bit more about him but the restaurant and the chain in general since he has been there for 20 years.. I'm usually not impressed with waitstaff to be honest with you I just find them either over eager to get a good tip a rushed and rude none of the servers of this location are like that especially not Eric who somewhat we've seen treats every guest like a welcome guest. as I had a sad and emotional day his ability to do his job and make us laugh and to be on top of his other tables was more than a balancing act it was a reflection of how serious he takes his job and how proud he is to work for a company like longhorn. he made that very clear not flat out but as he talked about the company and especially the employees in the management of the fruitville location. to me he is the definition of a team player. although we've never had bad service Eric remembers us and makes us feel like we need to come back more often and that we will. the food was excellent the service was excellent the new parmesan cheese fries might be a little too fattening since we devoured all of them and three things of ranch dressing love the fries! Thanks Eric and staff in the front of the house and back for making our night and for your service. I will say I've ate at the other location and Sarasota in fact we ate there last week for lunch. and in my opinion the service and the cleanliness of the fruitville location should be highlighted because there is a difference. I highly recommend anyone who's thinking about going to LongHorn steakhouse who hasn't been and I can recommend Eric as a server because I will guarantee you that he would be on top of your table and welcome you like he welcomes us. read more

Friendly, efficient, knowledgeable, and attentive service! Nice atmosphere - great place for a date night! Great French Onion Soup! We got an extra to take home. Excellent house salad, and very good blue cheese dressing option. Both the small and large filet entrees were perfectly done! Very flavorful and perfectly seasoned. As a former midwesterner, greatly appreciated! The sautéed mushroom side was excellent - very flavorful! The honey coated crispy Brussel Sprouts were fantastic, as well! read more

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Stopped in for lunch and was pleased with the service and our meals. Wife ordered the Strawberry salad and a sweet potato, I ordered the lobster and shrimp soup along with the lunch pork chop with a sweet potato side. Staff waiter was super and engaging, in short our meals and visit were read more

We ate here for lunch and the service was amazing but the filet was a little grizzly and tough which surprised me. I always order well done steak and don't have these issues. My hubby said the cheeseburger was delicious! We always love the ambiance here. Relaxed culture. read more

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i go here pretty often and i'm ngl the food here is so good. the one in bradenton never gets my steak temp right but this one does every time. service here is also pretty great and efficient, even when it's busy the food comes out pretty fast. definitely get the parm fries or steak with parm crust because it's literally so gas read more

Are experience today was flawless Chelsea and her team simply made our 10 residents from Brookdale very happy. The food was hot the presentation was perfect you got exactly what you ordered. Chelsea's team set a calm setting which made my residents very comfortable. Thank so much we will be coming back good job read more

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Good place to hang out. Celebrate my birthday with girl friends there and it was wonderful. The filet was nicely cooked. We weren't sure if it was filet mignon or not but after I tasted it, Imho it's not. Went to outback 2 days earlier and theirs is actually better. If you like veggie, try their Brussel sprouts side. All of us like them! They have yummy pecan cheese cake. I dont know the correct name but It's new in the menu, so the picture is there. They are pretty busy last time we were there maybe need to book in advance if you planning to come on the weekend. read more

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Great place for a nice steak. Appetizers and desserts are amazing. Always enjoyed the food and atmosphere. Service was great! read more

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We ordered four 12oz ribeye steaks for a large party of,seven. The server brought one ribeye and three unidentified substitute steaks and insisted that they all where rebeye's. The manager would not acknowledge us and we had them packaged to,show to our meat professional. The steaks where a lesser cut of bottom round and estimated to weigh max 6- 8 ozs. before cooked. This is a complete ripoff and I would a refund on the three bogus steaks. Been a long time customer for years and never had an issue.,Server stated the steaks,come pre-packaged,from a provission company and they can only go by,the pacjage label. read more

My mother and I were at your Longhorn location on Tuesday evening 4/29/25 around 5 pm. We were served by a very nice young server named Travis and he was very pleasant and accommodating and the food was very much to our liking. The restaurant was nicely lit and clean. Travis served us our food quickly and we were still able to make it on time to our ballet performance at the Sarasota Opera House in downtown and he even gave us good directions to arrive there. Thanks Travis! read more

The manager Chelsea is very good at keeping her customers happy. Our service by Julie was a little slow but good. Our food was flavorful. I would add a divider on the rear of the booth located at the hostess' 2nd stand. Sitting there hearing the employees full conversation was not the ambience of choice. read more

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What a great experience. The manager Chelsie and our server Lydia went above and beyond to make my brother in law's and my wife's birthday super special. The food was perfect and the service exceptional. Thanks so much. We will be back. read more

Great lamb chops! I don't care for any of their soups. The desserts are overpriced and bought in the service. Staff tends to be more stable and more mature than say the Texas roadhouse sides are cheaper at Longhorns than Texas roadhouse. Longhorns is might go to place for lamb chops they cook them perfectly and they are quality meat. Currently the closest Longhorn to me is about 20 minutes, but they are building one here where I live. It's already built. They're just getting ready to start staffing once they're open, they will be my go to place for red meat and we pretty much replaced Texas roadhouse where it's just too noisy too busy, and the stuff is always changing and it's very young and says stupid things to me like it's hard to make a 12 ounce ribeye medium because it's so small. Can you believe a waitress at a steakhouse said this? Yeah, that's what you get at Texas roadhouse. read more

We hadn't been to a Longhorn restaurant since we left New Hamshire. Tonight we went to the one on Fruitville. Everything was absolutely delicious! The baby back ribs were cooked perfectly. The fries were so crispy and well seasoned too. My husband had the lobster bisque and claims it is now the best he ever had! Highly recommend this location for a great meal and very good service! read more

sat down with my family for about 20-30 min and did not even get a server approach our table worst service of any long horn ive been at

The steaks here are tasty and tender, service is great, and loaded baked potato was great. We went there a couple of weeks ago, i was really impressed with the service and the food. The LongHorn steakhouse that is being built ner Costco on route 64 is not opening up until June 2nd. Last week we went back to the LongHorn on Fruitville Road. When I opened the menu i saw the prices were increased since we were there about a week before. All the steaks went up in price about 20 percent. I asked the waitress if they just raised the prices and she said they just did the day before. Maybe over the tariffs thing, the steak was still great and the service was still excellent, but i wasn't expecting a rise in prices. Every item on the menu was raised up. I guess this is the shape of things to come, read more

Went to Longhorn Steakhouse Gulf Gate and had the worst experience. The food was poorly prepared. Was told my meal came with 3 sides but turns out one of the sides was a supreme side which tacked on an additional $2.99. Of course the waitress didn't have the courtesy to tell me that was not included in the 3 sides. Also, I sent a couple of items back because they were horrible and the replacements were just as bad. Price for what you get is horrible. Plus no butter knife only an extra large knife for all your cutting needs. Hard to put butter on bread with a huge knife. Will not return. F- read more

Food was great but our server was not. She started off with a strange sassy tone towards us and we didn't really feel cared for by the end of our meal. so we forgot to tip her but paid our bill. then we see her run outside to try and confront us... 0/10. Would not recommend her. read more

Today I celebrated my Dads birthday and my server was Sally. I have a loud obnoxious family and she handled us very well. Her service was perfect. Carefully walked us through the menu and recommended great choice. She enhanced the experience and my Dad was pleased. Thanks Sally you're a rockstar read more

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I haven't been here since all the covid nonsense when Longhorn had a "limited" menu. When I pulled into the lot to park, the first thing I see is all the trash in the grass and bushes of the parking lot. I don't understand why a manager wouldn't at least walk the lot and make sure the excessive trash was picked up around the restaurant. It's not OK to just leave it. It's not going to clean itself. The restaurant wasn't overly busy when we got there. We were seated quickly. The service was slow, not because the server was slow, it was because there weren't enough of them. The food wasn't bad at all. I'm not sure why with the new menu (full menus are back) there wasn't a BBQ grilled chicken dinner as there used to be. Regardless, I asked the server and he was great. I got the BBQ chicken dinner. Overall, I took two stars because the service was slow and the parking lot area is absolutely filthy with trash. The management should do better. The server was great and the food was too. read more

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Great meal. Filet was perfectly cooked and wonderfully seasoned. Excellent vegetables and strawberry salad. Glad ai found such a good place to have a steak. read more

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At Fruitville location, Yes we had 5 star experiences, it was a Sunday afternoon and our server, food timing, And above all Quality of the food was the Best we've had at several Florida locations: especially note of the west coast Florida. FRENCH ONION SOUP UTMOST BEST: Browned crusty cheese top, hot but easily can divide and conquer crust over the plentifilled oniony tastey soup. Steaks PERFECT, salad PERFECT, and broccoli JUST Right!: how other locations wimp and ruin things Repeatedly shows kitchen's uncaring.. repeatedly things Can be Done easily Well. Maybe corporate isn't smart as We Public And Careful Kitchen as are the priority: Public and Kitchen. . NOT Corporate stalemating food quality. Thank You for reading and Thank You who try/care at such delicious food that actually is Respected. :) ! And yes this Fruitville Rd location near i75 (Target area) is CLEAN TOO with a team of employees can be comfortable served by. Gulfgate Longhorn could be tad cleaner, broccoli served timed with steak appropriately Done at temperature one knows broccoli and meat ate health unrisked (Port Charlotte locale Needs timing + temp improvement because semi-raw broccoli tough cooled Isn't healthy: same bad cooking is at PC's Prime Steakhouse AND Cool French Onion Soup TOO!).. it does work Better to pre-brown/bake a bun bottom with or later with the cheese too then crisp perhaps flame tinge cheese atop french onion cheese added atop already hot soup.. working out a Good Outcome process makes all the difference , let's all eat enjoyably. read more

We've been here twice in the last month and each time was wonderful. I love the legendary Don Julio Margarita and Texas Tonion. The steak gets cooked perfectly every time and we've had nothing but polite staff each visit! read more

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My husband and I went with my parents. We went at 6pm on a Friday night. We were quickly seated. Penelope was our waitress and she was excellent. It was busy and she had multiple tables- but she didn't miss a beat. The refills of soda and tea kept coming, we asked for additional sauces/sides and everything was exactly as ordered. She was kind, efficient, helpful and un-intrusive. She is a pro! The food was great! Especially for the price- it was super yummy and didn't break the bank. I got the filet and it was extremely tender and juicy. Our experience was great bc of our server. We will definitely come back. read more

Service sucked. Waited at the bar for 10min before anyone asked what I want to drink or eat. Food was shit. I had the filet and it was all fatty and tough. read more

Always count on the food being good no matter which state you're in. Consistent quality for a chain restaurant. The 7 pepper salad was fresh and good! The service was friendly but had to remind our waitress a few times if missing things; but she made them right! read more

My friend invited me to dinner tonight. I ordered a rib eye steak. When served it looked great. But after two bites, it was soooo salty I couldn't continue. I complained to the waitress, she said she would order another one with less seasoning on it. What I got this time was not a rib eye. I'll make a good guess it was a strip steak, cooked on a flat grill, over cooked, no seasoning at all and so chewy I couldn't eat it. This is why I personally don't go there. read more

In random order. This place is understaffed. We sat at the bar, ordered 2 cocktails, 2 soups and a salad. the beer was not ice cold. Next we noticed it took a while for the bread to arrive. We had to ask for utensils. They forgot the salad dressings, then brought the wrong one. The soup was semi-warm at best. As people left the bar, the dishes remained ...so for about 20 minutes we looked at empty glasses and dirty dishes. Even the party next to us had to get the manager involved on their take out order. Just an awful experience. Stay away. read more

Really great steaks and nice service. About as good as a chain steakhouse can be. I hope you like country music.

Had the worst experience. We sat and watched every table around us be taken care of while we sat and waited for her to take our order. Sat and waited for our salads and food. Sat and waited forever to pay. My best advice, ask for anyone other than Tyra H. at longhorns on fruitville. read more

The steak was melt in ur mouth goodness. Service was pretty quick which was great being that it was busy. And inside was nice low dim lights country music lol. And clean. Had a blast food was awesome. read more

Tonight, we started at Bob Evans and left because nobody waited on us after 10 minutes. Longhorn was better with service, but they greeted us with what they were out of. We don't have any Brussel sprouts, lava cake, 6 oz. sirloin and something else. We literally thought the waiter was kidding, but no he was not. I'm not sure if they were short staffed in the kitchen and with servers or what?? We've always dined at the location in Gulf Gate previously and had nothing but good service and food. We won't go back to this location. My wife had the parmesan crusted chicken which was good. Our friend couldn't get his usual shrimp/steak (surf & turf) special since they were out of the 6 oz. sirloin. They actually charged him for the 8 oz., so I guess that's a new way to "upsell" the customers due to poor management. Overall, it took more than two hours to get dinner without appetizers/dessert. It needs to be noted that this restaurant is just a few steps from the Winn-Dixie grocery store, so there is NO reason to be out of a single item on a Friday night during "season" with good management! I recommend that you just skip it, since there are many better restaurants in Sarasota! Trust me on this one, since we eat out every night... read more

I came here after driving back from Siesta Beach I'm on vacation and don't know the area well . I figured because I've had a lot of good experiences with Longhorn I'd come to this location. I came in with my mom and son and we were starving after being at the beach all day in the hot sun . We were sat very quickly by the bar at a booth table . Chris was our server and wow did we get lucky to have Chris as our waiter ! We all were saying "this guy Chris is the man "! Let me tell you he was on point at every single second we were there . He was filling drinks before we even got a chance to ask and filling the bread before we asked ! He was like a mind reader and I can't say enough good things about him . I myself have been a server for over 25 years and I was so impressed with him . On to the food we ordered the salmon and the ribs both meals were excellent! We left full and so happy with the experience, the service and the food were top notch . Thank You longhorn and thank you Chris ! read more

Service was horrible. We were seated in a booth and liked the decor of the restaurant very comfortable seating. Each ordered a nine ounce carafe of wine and water. We received the wine, but not the water. We ordered a appetizer of mushrooms and our waitperson encouraged us to order our entrees and she would space out in a timely manner, we agreed and finally got the water. Appetizer arrived and it very enjoyable. Once finished with the appetizer our entrée arrive. We told the person that we never received our bread and salad. She said the salad were ready and waiting for us. We reminded her about the spacing of the order and how we wanted it served. Her insinuation was it our fault. We were already into our entree 6oz fillet my wife's but very rare as was mine, I ordered my rare hers was supposed to be medium rare. When our waitperson came back we were half thru the meal. Steaks were very salty. We did speak with the on duty manager and she comped the steaks. I will go to other Longhorn, but not the one on Fruitville in Sarasota. read more

9oz Flo's fillet is to die for! Perfectly seasoned and tender as butter. The grilled shrimp are sweet and very delicious.

I will not patronize such AWFUL customer service !! The little "high school" hostess was RUDE AF. And the manager was even worse Joshua was his name store number 5576. I will be reaching out to corporate first thing in the morning at 10 AM. Very unprofessional. And he had the audacity to ask me to just excuse her because she's a teenager. I don't think so. Teenager or not know how to be professional with her Customer service. That's what's wrong with these young teenagers. Now you don't hold them accountable and they feel like they can smack their teeth and roll their eyes that you of their job to do. read more

Got the sirloin and shrimp combo. Very good and a great price. Staff was very attentive and took care of us. I'm stuffed! read more

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I ordered the Lunch Ribeye. Poor quality at best. The plain baked Potato was surturated in Salt. White wine for $9.00 was just poor quality. Total meal $35.00 so not worth it. read more

Save your money at those high end steak houses, my husband and I have been to 3 Longhorns in 3 different states and we always get the outlaw ribeye($27) and it is truly the best steak we've ever had. We get the bigger steak so that we can enjoy those delicious leftovers! read more

Never again. I ordered the Ribeye and it had to be the thinnest, overspiced, oversalted and just the worst piece of meat I ever encountered. My wife ordered the shrimp and needed to be reminded exactly what it was. We should have known when the stuffed mushrooms were crunchy, a first for us both. We didn't complain because we were guests of friends. And we did not want to extend this at all. read more