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| - Best way to describe this place is an overpriced sizzler where you cook your own food. Salad bar was basic normal salad bar. Nothing special, nothing to write home about. Lettuce, a few topping, and some dressing. The beans from the hot side tasted like they were fresh out of a can. Everything on the salad bar was like that, no special care or prep, just normal stuff. The steaks were decent, but for $34 each I could have just gone to Frys, got a Ribeye just as good or better for $8, and cooked it myself at home. The cooking your food yourself is a neat concept, just poorly executed. The stones took up a huge amount of space and made it tough to get to the sides. The bread was the hands down the worst bread of any place I've had, ever. Stale, cold, and no flavor. My steak was at least 30% inedible being gristle and fat, but my wife's was not.
Service was good. Only thing I could complain about service was the "loaded baked potato" was $2 extra, when baked potatoes, cheese, sour cream are all available as part of the salad bar. I didn't see the $2 extra on the menu, and paying $2 for chives and some bacon bits is a bit extreme considering the rest is all included as part of the salad bar.
Dinner for 2 was $107 after tax/tip. For $107 I'll goto the Keg or just spend the extra for Steak 44, Maestros, Ruth Chris and actually get a good steak, not a cook it your self grocery store steak. For 1/2 as much you can get a nice meal at Texas Roadhouse.
It was extremely noisey inside too, so if you are looking for nice, or romantic, or good date place, skip it.
Besides the $2 potato charge there is nothing the server can do about the business model or poor pricing. No way I would return unless prices were cut in at least half. This is coming from someone that spends good money on steaks. $250 on a Wagyu tomahawk at steak 44 is a normal nice meal and worth it for the steak you get but $33+ for what is worse than a $5 grocery store steak is basically robbery.
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