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| - So either I'm crazy, I had an unusually bad experience, or I've just eaten at some really good steak houses and this one does not compare to those AT ALL.
Here's my story: made a reservation, got a great seat by the window so we could people watch, table was ready when we got there [good], and then everything went wrong from here.
Took a friend of mine here from San Diego, I live close to Mandalay Bay, & I had a $50 Restaurant.com certificate, so it was a logical choice. My only downfall was I took her to Panevineo the night before so the dining experiences were extremely different.
They don't serve bread to start, but rather french fries. Interesting. Making America fatter, I dig it! I have never seen this before, I'd rather eat these with my meal then prior, but whatever. Fries were great! I mean they weren't McDonald's fries but they were dang tasty.
Ordered 2 cocktails, one with a splash of cranberry [that never happened], limes in the cocktails were actually quite gross. They looked old and discolored they had been cut days prior and when we got brave enough to squeeze them into our drinks like 2 drops of juice came out.
We ordered a stripsteak, lamb chops, and brussel sprouts [see pix]. Lamp chops came out extremely under done since my friend is Greek and ordered them well done, her mom likes to over cook lamb and that's how she's used to eating it. She put some brussel sprouts on her plate and then we proceeded to hunt for our waitress so we could get the problem rectified. Friend starts eating the side dish on her plate, flag down a bus boy, who tells another waiter, waiter comes and removes her plate from in front of her--doesn't even offer to get her a side plate so she can continue to nibble, but says they'll bring out more sprouts.
Now she has no food, no bread, so she's staring at me. Naturally, I offer some of my meal to her she starts eating some of my steak [fine]. About 10 mins later lamb comes back ready to be eaten.....no sprouts???? About 10 mins after that round 2 of sprouts appear. OK so their preparation is interesting on this as well, they shave the sprouts so they remind you of cole slaw???? Add bacon and then drowned them in butter. Like there is a pool of butter on the bottom of the dish. Not my favorite. My strip steak was ok, but it needed chimichurri. There wasn't really a selection of sauces you could put on your steak much like you would see at STK or other fine places in this city. Menu was rather limited and lacked depth to me.
No apologies for food, etc [fine] . Bill finally comes, we've been here now for like an hour and a half, give them the restaurant.com certificate, and now the waitress has to find the manager to take it off. ANOTHER 10 mins goes by, finally get the bill back, and thankfully we checked b/c they took the certificate off but then added 18% gratuity. OK. Our waitress was not worth 18%, I can guarantee you that, but fine. What I didn't like was that she didn't mention that the tip was on there, which I HATE. She was sat with a 10 to 15 top in the back, and 3 tables of 4. THEN another table sat down of 6 men. They got the menu, waited a bit, no-one came to help them, they got up and LEFT--and I don't blame them.
So that was my story and my morale is: pick another steakhouse :) there's some really good ones in town.
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