Popular restaurant chain is opening a new location in Raleigh area. Here’s when
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- Outback Steakhouse is set to open at Grove 98 shopping center in Wake Forest.
- Bloomin’ Brands said the restaurant could welcome customers “as early as this summer.”
- There are multiple Outback Steakhouse locations in the Triangle, including two in Raleigh.
Bloomin’ Onion lovers, rejoice.
Outback Steakhouse — home to the fan-favorite dish — is opening another restaurant in the Triangle. The new restaurant in the Raleigh suburb of Wake Forest will add to the chain’s portfolio of roughly 40 locations across North Carolina, according to its website and the Wake Forest Business & Industry Partnership.
Here’s what to know about when and where the newcomer plans to welcome customers.
Outback opening in Wake Forest
Outback Steakhouse is set to open at 680 Richland Grove Ave., a roughly 15-mile drive northeast from downtown Raleigh. The site is at the Grove 98 complex, which is home to apartments, a Wegmans supermarket and other stores off N.C. Highway 98, the partnership wrote in a Monday, May 4 news release.
“We’re really looking forward to joining the Wake Forest community and becoming part of everyday moments for our neighbors,” Elizabeth Daly, director of communications for Outback’s parent company Bloomin’ Brands, said in the release. “Outback Steakhouse has always been about bringing people together over a great meal, and we’re excited to be a place where families and friends can gather and feel right at home.”
Outback Steakhouse on its website didn’t list a specific opening date but said the Wake Forest restaurant is “coming soon.” Daly in the news release said the location could get its start “as early as this summer.”
Fans of Outback Steakhouse already have options in the Triangle. The chain has seven locations in the region, including two in Raleigh and others in Cary, Clayton, Durham, Garner and Smithfield, according to its website.
Outback Steakhouse is known for serving steak, seafood and the Bloomin’ Onion, a massive fried onion appetizer. The Australia-themed chain started nearly 40 years ago and now has hundreds of locations across the United States.
Bloomin’ Brands didn’t immediately share additional information about the restaurant opening with The News & Observer on Tuesday, May 5.
Other restaurant openings
The restaurant joins other businesses that have started to call Wake Forest home.
In the past two years, Bibibop Asian Grill, Piada Italian Street Food and other restaurants settled in the Grove 98 shopping center. Then in March, the fast-food chain Whataburger launched its first Triangle location in the area, The N&O previously reported.
