LongHorn Steakhouse Menu – Prices, Popular Dishes & More

Sometimes a burger fits the mood better than a full entrée. The Half-Pound Steakhouse Cheeseburger and Crispy Buttermilk Chicken Sandwich both come with seasoned fries, less steakhouse experience, more solid comfort food. A decent fit for a picky eater at the table, or anyone not in the mood for a full entrée that visit.

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Before getting into individual dishes, it helps to know roughly what a meal costs depending on how you’re eating. Lunch and dinner aren’t priced the same, and a full sit-down meal with an appetizer and dessert adds up faster than most people expect walking in.

Breaking it down by category gives a better read on where the money goes once the order starts stacking up.

Steaks are where the biggest swing happens. A smaller Renegade Sirloin starts around $18, while the largest bone-in cuts, like the Porterhouse, climb toward $35 to $40. Size and cut explain most of that gap. Beef pricing in general moves more than nearly anything else on the menu, so don’t be surprised if the same steak costs a couple dollars more or less depending on where you’re sitting.

There’s no printed gluten-free menu, but LongHorn keeps an official allergen guide flagging the FDA’s major allergens for every item, and plain grilled steak, chicken, and seafood are naturally gluten-free before sauces are added. Fried items and the bread basket carry the highest cross-contact risk since they run through shared fryers. Tell your server directly rather than the host, and confirm anything serious with the restaurant, since this is general guidance, not medical advice.

A steak ordered well-done loses most of its tenderness, and that’s true of any cut, especially the leaner ones like the sirloin, which don’t have much fat to fall back on once overcooked. Ask for medium if texture matters. The Porterhouse is built for sharing, and ordering it solo on a regular visit usually just means walking out with leftovers you didn’t plan for. And don’t expect a dinner-sized portion at lunch prices, since the lunch menu is intentionally smaller by design.

1. August 1981First location opens on Peachtree Street in Atlanta
2. January 1982A snowstorm strands Atlanta commuters; LongHorn stays open with cheap drinks and steak specials
3. 2007Darden Restaurants acquires LongHorn
4. TodayClose to 600 locations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico

LongHorn Steakhouse opened its first location on Peachtree Street in Atlanta in August 1981, founded by George McKerrow Jr. along with George McKerrow Sr., Bill Norman, and Bill Dukes, under the original name LongHorn Steaks Restaurant and Saloon. Business started slow until a freak snowstorm hit Atlanta in January 1982 and stranded commuters across the city; LongHorn stayed open with cheap drinks and steak specials while much of the city shut down, and word of mouth took off from there.

The chain expanded steadily through the Southeast and beyond over the following decades, leaning on the same fire-grilled process and ranch-style dining room rather than chasing passing trends. Darden Restaurants, the parent company behind Olive Garden and The Capital Grille, acquired LongHorn in 2007. Today LongHorn runs close to 600 locations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, still built around the same idea it started with: a real, hand-cut, fire-grilled steak that doesn’t need a special occasion behind it.

LongHorn rotates a handful of limited-time items tied to a season or holiday, fall desserts and heartier sides, summer seafood specials or a fruit-forward margarita, and these don’t always show up in every region or return the following year. If a seasonal item is the whole reason for the visit, check the app first, and treat any seasonal pricing as its own category rather than assuming it matches the year-round menu figures in this guide.