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| - Rare has one of the most interesting dining rooms of all the Steakhouse options near the square, wood paneled and well lit rooms compliment the comfortable seating arrangements, whether it's booth or chairs, and you'll need that, because you're likely going to be planted in that seat for a couple of hours for your experience here.
Service: Our table's server was excellent, very knowledgable about the menu, the meat, and prepared a wonderful Ceasar salad at our table, which despite not ordering, I ate anyway since the 3 who did order it did not care for the taste at all. I enjoyed it and found it preferable to the Lobster Bisque I had chosen (a bit too salty, but still good enough that I nearly finished it all). The drink/silverware server unfortunately was not on her game at all, very curt and borderline rude behavior coupled with poor body language, sighing etc...diminished the experience a bit, I had to convince two of the ladies at our table not to ask for a manager (I understand people have bad days, and she didn't do anything that was overtly offensive so I really didn't want to make a scene about it, but her unprofessionalism must be noted here).
Food: The second roller coaster of the evening, the Ceasar and Lobster Bisque as I mentioned were both pretty great, fresh and flavorful (despite the slightly too salty bisque). The popovers are also extraordinary, warm, golden, flaky, begging to be pulled apart and slathered with regular or strawberry butter. High marks as well for the shrimp cocktail, crab cakes, and duck fat fries our table of 6 shared.
Onto the Steaks, the supposed highlight of this venue, I was leaning towards the 10 oz. Filet but opted for the special, 14. oz dry aged strip "Oscar style" mentioned by our server. It arrived Medium Rare as I had requested, the cut was mediocre at best, and should probably have never been thrown on the grill in the first place, consisted of 4-6 oz. of tender and generally inoffensive but not particularly flavorful beef, accompanied by large portions of fat and gristle that rendered most of my meal inedible, though I must note that the crab and asparagus that topped my steak was outstanding.
Across the table, my friend was so disappointed in his Porterhouse, it had to be sent back, although it should be noted they removed it from the bill despite him not protesting to be charged for it, even though he only had a few bites. My date had picked the 10 oz. Filet and was thrilled with it's tenderness and flavor and demanded I try it as well. Though she prefers her steaks Medium, I still found it to be very tasty and easily the highlight of what I had eaten that evening.
Perhaps my experience would have been different had I just gone with the Filet I wanted originally, but the bottom line is, in a place that has a reputation for being a top notch steakhouse with cuts that you're paying top dollar for, you need to have better than a 1:2 hit to miss ratio.
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