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| - I wasn't sure how to rate this, because the parts that were good were pretty great, but they also stepped on my chronically sore toes a couple of times.
Number one pet peeve: Any steakhouse that doesn't include salad and potato with the entrée will never get five stars from me. Seriously. $40 for a steak and you can't throw in a little lettuce and the world's cheapest vegetable? If they upped the price to $50 and included the sides, I would feel much less ripped off, even if that is not the reality. Perception is truth.
In their defense, their salads were really nice. Well dressed, interesting combinations and portions large enough to share. At about 10 bucks a pop, they'd better be.
And the lobster bisque was wonderful: very hot, creamy, and delicious, with noticeable chunks of lobster and the best croutons I've ever eaten floating on the top. I would have paid the freight for a side of those without a squawk.
The bread was also wonderful, very fresh and with a great chewy crumb. (Or did I just like it because it was free?)
Entrees are the usual suspects: steak, chicken, fish. Babygirl got the salmon, which was a large portion, cooked perfectly (moist but done through). The filet was fine, but UH-OH, my sister and I both ordered the rib eye, and it was extremely disappointing. I asked for rare, and explained that I meant warm red, not cold blue. No problem. I got dry brown. Figured they mixed up our orders, so she and I switched. That one was better, but still overdone. She sent the offender back, and they brought out another that was cooked less, but still hard and chewy. Reminded me of the time my old boyfriend complained to a waitress who asked about his steak that "It was a shame they had to cut up a tire with that much tread left on it". Amen.
Sides were a mixed bag. We really liked the asparagus and the cheesy, bacony au gratin potatoes. The macaroni and cheese was dry and kind of flavorless. Guess it was made by the same guy in charge of the rib eyes.
And my baked potato was huge, hot ,fluffy and wonderful. It would have been hard to finish it all if I hadn't kept reminding myself that the sonofabitch cost ten bucks. And I wasn't exactly stuffed full of steak.
It was my sister's birthday (at least that's what we told them), so they brought out a complimentary (Hooray!) dessert- a really pretty baked Alaska that they cut up and served to us all.
Service was fine and the ambience was pleasant enough. It would have been quite comfortable if they hadn't found it necessary to jam everyone in a not-crowded restaurant into one small area. I thought maybe they were trying to make it easy on the wait staff, but they were squeezing between tables and brushing into customers, so I doubt they liked the arrangement either.
In conclusion, I would probably go here again, but not order steak. Not a very glowing recommendation for a steakhouse.
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