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    Pink Poodle Steakhouse

    3.5 (80 reviews)
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    Moderate noise
    Happy hour specials
    Good for groups

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    Jimmy H.

    I haven't been to the Pink Poodle in quite awhile. The decor hasn't changed since I can remember. Folks go there for the beef, not the ambiance. We walked in an the reception stand seemed a bit chaotic, even though there were plenty of open tables. It took 20 minutes before our server showed up at our table. Note: At first glance it looked like much of the staff was high school kids or recent graduates. Our server, once there, was pleasant. She, although not a kid herself, seemed under trained.. . The menu was indeed "limited". My wife ordered a NY Strip, only to be told they were out! Our waitress offered a club steak, which it turns out the also didn't have... We settled on the ribeye and a sirloin. Now the positive - The soup, salad & bread were delicious (also all you can eat). Get the homemade Italian dressing! You'll thank me. The steaks were delicious and cooked perfectly! Another issue was I asked for a refill of my diet coke. After awhile the waitress told me they were out! #WTH? My take away was that the Pink Poodle is really struggling. It's no longer the place to drive 45 minutes to get a meal. However, they still put out a good, filling meal, especially the steaks. I hope the management gets things back on track. We will probably give them another shot, (maybe) down the road.

    Homemade bread
    Jessica L.

    Service was great! I got the prime rib medium and it was delicious! It came with soup, salad, and a side. All were great! My husband and daughter got the chicken and loved it! It also came with the same as me soup, salad, and side. Complimentary homemade bread was amazing! The appetizer we shared was the fried cauliflower/broccoli and we loved it! Fair prices! $88 total for all! Not including tip! Will definitely go again!

    Dirty carpets.
    Angela S.

    The cons... Instead of the hostess greeting us, she sat in her chair and asked us how many in our party before she ever stood up. She was nice enough, just not welcoming or well trained. The place smells like an old church basement. The carpets are extremely dirty! (You can see in the photo. No thats not some kind of shadow, its just cleaner close to the walls were people don't walk) Not just old, or a stain here and there. It was absolutely filthy! If the dining room is that dirty, it makes you wonder what the kitchen (that customers don't see) looks like. The texture is falling off the cracking ceiling, huge cracks in the walls. Our waitress brought our drinks out carrying them by the rim of the glass. Umm... Could I have a straw please? The soup bowls are at the table when you are seated, but the waitress takes them off the table after you order, and back into the kitchen to fill them. When the bowls are at the table, the wait staff is to bring a pot of soup and ladle it into your bowl. So ya... that was weird. When she brought our salads her thumb was actually on top of the lettuce! The sad little plate of lettuce was squished flat. I am guessing they make them up ahead of time and stack one on top of the next in the refrigerator? When the waitress sat down our salads I told her I had changed my mind and didn't want it. She never asked if something was wrong. I would have politely told her for future reference not to put her thumb in peoples food. I had the chicken alfredo. It was grainy- gritty, paste on noodles. I only had one bite and my husband had one bite. We did get a laugh at how absurdly awful it was. It was served with a thumb in the sauce and 2 pieces of garlic bread. About 1/4 of each slice was burnt BLACK. But the flavor was much worse then it looked. I tried the not black end and it tasted like it had been cooked in an oven that had just recovered from a grease fire. I would guess that it was just that dirty. My husband tried a bite and complained for quite a while that he couldn't get the rancid grease taste out of his mouth. My husband ordered a prime rib. (it is $25 now for a regular cut and that's high for the area.) He ordered medium and it was very rare. It was chewy (as most rare prime rib is) and not much flavor. Once again, I had a bite and he maybe finished 1/4 of it. Just a disappointing piece of meat. It was served with a plate of hashbrowns set directly on top of his prime rib. Why on earth don't they use a dam tray!! NOTHING is served on a tray! The waitstaff just pile plates on top of each other, carry your drink around the rim and trot out into the dining room with them! I don't get it! It wasn't just our waitress, it was everyone we saw. One gal had to have had 6-7 salads stacked up on top of each other, leaned up against her chest on her way to serve her table. Come on, you are supposed to be a nice steak house! Village Inn has more class than this. It was obvious that there had only been 1 or 2 very small bites out of the chicken alfredo. our waitress asked if I would like a to-go box and I told her no and that it tasted awful. Without apology, she then asked my husband if he would like one and he told her yes, the dog might enjoy it. She brought out our bill with absolutely no adjustment ( I would have expected to just be charged for soup and bread/butter). The waitress should have informed the manager that we were unhappy, but my husband had to ask to see the manager and tell her to take the alfredo off our bill. It still cost us $40 for bread, soup, Iced tea, lemonade, and the dog's dinner. Pros... The iced tea was fresh and brewed. The lemonade was above average. The fresh-baked bread was fresh, warm and good. The ham and potato soup was good. The waitress didn't put her finger in the prime rib au jus. The waitress was attentive and pleasant. Her mistakes were down to lack of training/ poor management. The hashbrowns were good. The dog enjoyed his prime rib. We stopped at McDonald's on the way home.

    the pink poodle after-dinner drink. highly recommended!
    Sarah G.

    It was essentially everything I'd imagined and hoped for. Super friendly service, small town atmosphere, way too much food, cheap prices. Saturday was my first trip to this long-standing institution and while I typically shy away from 'traditional' steak house type restaurants this one has had such good reviews and local acclaim - even on our side of the river - I couldn't pass it up. We started by ordering random drinks off the extensive menu based solely on their names. What arrived was a surprise to both us and our server, but he was a good sport about it all. I had the Snuggler, which ended up being an alcoholic hot chocolate of sorts. Other drinks ordered at the table included the Pink Grin, Yellow Bird, Harvey Wallbanger and Scarlet O'Hara. For some reason we ordered appetizers and dug into fried cauliflower and cheese cubes before the meal, which started with warm loaves of bread with butter, side salads for all, and soup served table-side (french onion or ham/bean). Then... the prime ribs arrived (because we all ordered it). It was delicious and I ate way more than I should have. The fries were just the kind I like as well. Then, we ordered some after-dinner drinks in the same fashion. Mine was the Pink Poodle, which had ice cream and who cares what else. Others were the Rusty Nail, Stinger, Fluffy Monkey and Drambuie. The best part about the drinks, which were all delicious, is that these crazy specialty drinks were only $3.75/each! Unfortunately rumor has it that the Poodle might be shutting down due to the flooding issues and decreased traffic flow they've experienced this year. So get there while you still can!

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    Kim J.

    Well, we had been here several times YEARS ago but not recently. I sometimes work in Crescent and suggested we go back, for the novelty of it. As other reviewers mentioned, this place is very big. And it is like stepping back in time. Very old fashioned looking. The menu is huge. Of course we were coming for the prime rib/steak. My husband ordered the prime rib and I ordered the rib eye. Both of our children ordered the fettuccine Alfredo with chicken. Apparently they were busy over the weekend as they had no chicken. All meals come with soup and salad. The selections were beef noodle and minestrone. Neither was great. The meat in the beef noodle was questionable and the vegetables had been so overcooked you could not tell what they were. When they bring you your iceberg lettuce salad, they bring a selection of dressings. The salad was your typical iceberg salad with croutons. The portion size of the fettuccine Alfredo was HUGE. Neither child could eat more than half so they had leftovers for the next day. My husband said the prime rib was good. My rib-eye was not. It was not flavorful at all and had a bit of a weird consistency. I could only eat about a third of the steak--it also was very large. Service was fine. Our server was a mature woman who I imagined had worked there for many years. She was very kind to the children but seemed a bit flustered at times. For me, the Pink Poodle was a nostalgic place that I had been to when my husband and I were dating. We wanted to go back for the memory of it. I don't know if the food got worse or we just became more picky. It's definitely worth coming here at least once but I can't imagine I'll ever go back.

    Loaf of Bread
    Edward P.

    This was our third stop on our "Fox 42 Steakhouse Tour" and I was extremely pleased with both the service and the food. So far Iowa is beating Nebraska. There is nothing outstanding or interesting about the outside of the restaurant. When you go inside there is an interesting collection of dolls and pianos. For ambiance, that is about it. We got there at 6:30 and were seated immediately. The woman who seated us, Debi V, was courteous and was also our waitress. After she took our drink order, she brought us warm bread and a bowl of the Soup of The Day. Since today was Thursday, the soup was Vegetable Beef. It was delicious. Next came a lettuce salad with croutons. What makes this salad different is that they serve the salad dressing in jars on the side. They give you 4 to choose from: Blue Cheese, Thousand Island, Dorothy Lynch, and Italian. Since you get a jar, you can use as much as you want. Next came the Cut and a Half Prime Rib (18 OZ). I asked for mine rare and my wife wanted hers medium, both were cooked perfectly. The rib was one of the tenderest I have ever had and the au jus gravy was the perfect topping. It is easy to see why this is their signature meal. It was served with a baked potato, little on the small size, and came with only butter and sour cream on the side. Nothing fancy about the plating. For dessert, they served a New York Cheese Cake with Strawberry Topping, delicious. Like the other Iowa restaurant on the steakhouse tour, Tobey Jack's, it is pretty plain, with no table cloths, only placemats and paper napkins, but you don't need much when you have good food, good service, and very reasonable drink prices. My wife wants to return to try some of their steaks, I'll stay with the ribeye, but will probably add a lobster tail. If you live in Omaha or Council Bluff area and like beef, I think it is definitely worth your time to try this restaurant.

    Cut-and-a-half of prime rib, cooked "medium." This is supposed to be 18 ounces, but it's probably 20 or 21 oz.
    Thomas I.

    Great prime rib; mediocre everything else. I had the green beans as a side, and they were worse than the canned green beans I eat at home -- and I actually like canned green beans. It was either green beans or fries; they didn't offer any other sides. The salad was nothing special, though the creamy Italian dressing wasn't too bad. They didn't have much in the way of beer selection, either, and my friends who got the Manhattan said it was nothing like a traditional Manhattan should be mixed. To top it all off, the place is too well-lit to really have any ambiance. But, oh, the prime rib. It was right up there with some of the best I've ever had. They had three cuts -- the regular cut (12 ounces at $23.95), the cut-and-a-half (18 ounces at $36.50), and the Diamond Jim cut (24 ounces at $47.50). I had the cut-and-a-half, and by my estimate, it was a little bigger than 18 ounces -- probably closer to 20 or 21. It was perfect. Swimming in au jus, perfectly done, perfectly flavored. I wish the whole experience of the Pink Poodle was as good as the prime rib; if so, it would certainly be a five-star experience. As it is, if you love prime rib, it's worth a visit.

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    The food was aweful. The place was dirty and old looking. We didn't enjoy our experience at all.

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    Great food for the value. Decor is not the objective here. Prime rib is good. Lots of space and it is quiet.

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    Service was horrible, the establishment was run down and food for the price was unacceptable

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    Great atmosphere and multi-generation owned restaurant. Lots of local customers who have been dining for multi-generations!

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    As fun as the ambiance is the food is not good at all and the service is very SLOW. Very nice staff & offers a kids menu.

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    Very average food tonight. Nothing special nothing bad. Just very ok. Mushrooms were the best I have had I will say.

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