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| - This restaurant might be pricey, but you get what you pay for - the food is simply outstanding! I was visiting from Houston and Hy's was just as good as the best steakhouses I've eaten at in Texas!
Everything I ate was amazing:
- Cheese Toast (5/5): Superb!! This was basically a decadent grilled cheese sandwich, and it was simply fantastic. Gooey, melted cheese oozing out between two slabs of buttered toast. We ordered two servings of these to share as appetizers for the table and they lasted all of 5 minutes before being devoured. If you come to Hy's, get these to share (or not)... you can always start the diet tomorrow.
- Caesar Salad (4/5): Prepared table-side for the "ooh-aah" factor. The lettuce, cheese, and croutons were pretty standard as far as caesars go, but the sauce absolutely made this dish. Right away I could tell that they had incorporated a nice amount of anchovies into their Caesar salad dressing, because it had that beautiful, pungent taste that only briny fish can provide (which is a very good thing for a proper Caesar!)
- NY Strip (5/5): Whoa. My 14 oz steak was absolutely stunning. Probably in the top 3 steaks I've ever eaten in my life. Beautifully medium-rare as requested (even a bit on the rare side, which is fine by me!) Lovely salt-and-pepper rub... quite simple, but just enough to bring out the flavor of the meat. Melt-in-your-mouth tender and juicy. I savored every single bite and I was sad when it was all gone.
- Sides (4/5): For the table, we also shared a side dish of sautéed mushrooms (excellent! Would highly recommend these), broccoli (good, but nothing to rave about... it's hard to elevate broccoli, after all), and my steak also came with a baked potato (lightly salted, didn't require anything additional to bring out the flavor, although they were kind enough to offer bacon bits, cheese, and sour cream)
- Dessert (4/5): Despite being about ready to burst, I ordered a slice of their cheesecake and greatly enjoyed it. Light and fluffy, with a generous dollop of fresh fruit compote on top. Most of my coworkers opted for their famous bananas foster (flambéed table-side) - I had a small bite and it was excellent! And I say this as someone who used to live in New Orleans, where bananas foster was invented - this could give the original at Brennan's a run for their money!
My only major gripes is that the service was slow (our waiter was very pleasant and polite, but seemed to forget about us for long stretches of time... for example, he took nearly 30 minutes to take our orders after being seated) and that they didn't provide bread and butter, which I thought was pretty standard for steakhouses, but maybe that's just a US thing. Anyways, not enough to detract from an otherwise 5-star experience.
OVERALL: 5/5. If you come to Calgary and want to have one amazing meal, splurge on Hy's Steakhouse - everything here is worth the money (and calories). Absolutely delicious food, and some of the best steak I've ever eaten in my life. Had a fantastic experience here and with any luck, I'll be able to dine here again the next time I'm visiting.
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