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| - Since I gave it a low-mediocre rating, let's start off with the good things.
GOOD: The place is very nicely decorated, dark, moody, romantic, with nice vocal jazz background music. There's plenty of free parking. The staff are friendly, prompt with empty plate removal, and quick to mention any specials or recommendations. The Foie Gras Pate was quite a tastey treat. Their prix fixe meals seem amazing in value. They cooked our steaks perfectly to order, no messing up! Medium-Rare really was Medium-Rare, and came Au Jus on the side. Dessert cake of the day tasted very nice, seemed fresh. The waiter brought us water without us asking for it, it's something not a lot of servers remember to do these days..
BAD: The welcome drink appeared to be the leftover syrup in a Del Montes can of fruit salad mixed with orange juice or something. It was tastey and looked nice, but when we got our Lobster Salad it came with fruit salad that seemed as though it was from a Del Montes can and this is what made us think twice about the welcome drink. The Lobster Salad itself was half a lobster with mayo squirted on, they did not clean out the gills/organs, you can only eat the tail and claw meat. The Claw meat tasted extremely rubbery and funky. Since it's a cold lobster it could have been in the fridge for days.. The Lobster Bisque soup is anything but! It's literally gravy mix poured into a bowl that had 2 small pieces of cold lobster meat. It's not the real cream-based rose coloured lobster bisque soup. We also found bits of mashed potato in the soup, I don't know what's up with that, but it looked and tasted like gravy so we didn't finish it... For the mains, we had 8oz steaks. Cooked well, juicy, flavourful, but I've easily had better at your local mainstream steakhouse. It came Au Jus on the side, lovely. No sides were served with the meat, sadly. Even the pieces of zucchini slices that were on the plate were raw and for garnish only.
OVERALL: We had a good time regardless, the deal we had was fairly good, I just wouldn't pay full price for the food there. A tad too expensive for mediocre food.
Final note, it wasn't busy on a weekday, but upon leaving nobody said thanks or goodbye as we walked out.
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