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| - We visited Chicago Chophouse last night with the recent Groupon and although it was very good, it wasn't fantastically awesome. I think Vintage takes that title.
For starters, the beef cut tomato salad was fantastically awesome. I highly recommend it. We ordered oysters as well, and thought it odd that the server did not know what kind they had for the evening, although she was happy to check for us. However the only info she came back with is that they were from Village Bay. She confessed that she had not know that there were different types of oysters.
Our steak was very good, cooked as ordered and our sides were tasty. The asparagus had a great wood fire taste to it and the fully loaded new potatoes were good.
The dessert menu sounded really good, but we did not order any.
What affects the star rating mostly for me was small service oriented things that I would expect a fine dining establishment to to; i.e. know what the nightly oysters were, how they would be served, their flavour, their size, etc or when laying out the steak knives, have them pointing the right way.
All in all, it was a good meal and the ambiance was nice.
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