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| - Well, my mother, my two kids and myself stopped in just before 5 for dinner. When we got there the place was about 3/4 full. We were seated after about 5 minutes- not bad! And the hostess brought the delicious rolls to the table as we were being seated. Sadly, there begins and ends the positives about this "steakhouse".
First, whatever sadist was in charge of the music kept it at an ear splitting volume. Like, dance-club make-your-ears-pop volume. Then, for some reason, it gets turned down (Hallelujah), only to have a server SCREAM at the top of her lungs something like a birthday cheer a-long. Everyone around her looked really uncomfortable and irritated, but kudos for the party spirit! Seriously, TR, even TGIFridays has abandoned this awfulness. But the staff led fun was just beginning. Periodically a group of staff would line up and do a kind of half-hearted line dance that, literally, everyone was awkwardly trying to ignore.
The food. I ordered the filet medallions covered in mushroom sauce. What came out was 9 ounces of medium rare salt cubes covered in salt gravy and seasoned with salt. My son ate all his Kraft Mac n cheese (to be fair, they're very honest about serving Kraft). My daughter got the mini cheeseburgers and kinda played with it. My mother had the regular filet and was neither impressed nor disgusted.
I feel like TR missed the boat on campy 90s chain restaurants. If they'd work a little on improving the quality of their food and less on really bad ambience (I'm a native Texan, I'm just praying people don't actually associate us with that stuff), I might return. Not holding out hope.
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