Pink Poodle Steakhouse

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!

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.

The Pink Poodle was the place to go for the best prime rib in the area. The food is still very good, but the atmosphere had a lot to be desired. My family of eight dined there on a Saturday night and we were the only diners that night. The menu, that night, was very limited and disappointing. The on line menu had several pages of delicious entries, sadly we had a one page listing only a handful of items I wish the Pink Poodle all the bed and hope they return to their glory.

Great prime rib. It came out cooked exactly as I ordered and is definitely some of the best prime rib around! The ham and bean soup was also really good even though I'm not usually a soup with steak person. They have a local mushroom medley as an appetizer I wish we would have tried - next time! The restaurant decor is a bit dated, but it's part of the old school steak house charm. We enjoyed our dinner and had a good experience.

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.

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.

It may be old, but it is still the best Prime Rib around!CAUTION: The fresh horseradish will light you up! LOL I loved it!Kind like eating at your Mom's if she made this good of Prime Rib! Baked potatoes like no one in Omaha makes! Great soup & drinks too! Hard to find a steak house that has the old school traditional service and food like this any more. So many choices of salad dressing brought to the table with a nice big plate of salad!Not that stuff from a bag like all of the places serve now days.And the Onion Rings...WOW! Great batter on them and of course they are homemade too, not frozen! Fresh hot bread. Plenty of everything!They will ask you like 20+ times (just kidding about 20+, more like every time they come by the table) if everything is alright and I really like that kind of service!Nice drive too. A great chance to get away form the city and get that great food you remember, if you have ever been there before! In the 80's it was a regular stop and in the 90's we slowed down to a few a year, but now we'll be going more regularly since it's priced right and great homemade food!Management and the staff are super too! Keep up the excellent work!Go out of your way and stop in and tell them Average Joe sent you!

Hannah alone is a reason to return. She was super sweet and a lot fun. Our table loved her.The steaks, the soups and salads and baked potatoes were all delicious.Thank you!

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

I remember a time when this restaurant was literally open 7 days a week and actually served lunch. Talk about yesteryear.......I was there not too long ago on a Saturday night and the food and service was mediocre. Nothing like the days gone past. - not even close. Not too sure if I'll be back.....but would like to see it go back to the way it was with a packed house and great food........