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| - This is supposed to be one of the best restaurants in the country. I was super excited to eat here, but it is nothing special.
I've eaten at every famous steakhouse you can name. SW, STK, Ruth's Chris, Morton's, Mark Joseph, Del Frisco's, Porterhouse, Michael Jordan's, BLT, Wolfgang, 212, Striphouse, Uncle Jack's, BLT Prime, Bobby Van, Frankie & Johnnie's, Smith & Wollensky, Charlie Palmer, Palm, Capitol Grill, N9NE, Echo & Rig... and these are all better than JG.
I don't eat meat anymore, so I ordered shrimp cocktail, burrata salad, and the diver scallops.
I have high expectations of service here, and most were met, but it can be the little things that make it less than fabulous.
Our front waiter was a nice, experienced girl who was well versed in the menu and restaurant but has no idea when to stop, as in she doesn't shut up. She over sells. She can't read people. And she comes across as totally like a robot.
Her job is over once she takes your order. Then the food expediters and back waiter take over.
My shrimp cocktail came with two sauces. The cocktail sauce was watery and ordinary and not even enough to consume the 4 large shrimp. I have no idea what the other sauce was but it was not appealing. I was dipping my shrimp in the cocktail sauce and was already down two shrimp when the back waiter showed up with my spoons to use on the sauce. Bring me what I need to enjoy the food BEFORE the food shows up, so that was a strike against the type of service I expect from a restaurant of this caliber.
Then my Burrata salad arrived and it was only mediocre. The tomatoes were so cold, which tomatoes are not supposed to be, they lose their flavor, and the homemade burrata had a great texture but no flavor. I think this salad was not freshly made but was premade and sat in a cooler because the tomatoes were just under frozen.
Then the scallops arrived. They were topped with bread crumbs and laid on a very spicy sauce, and I love spice but this one was just not a good one. It was spice with dill, which I don't think is a good combination. I only at half before I was sick of the sauce. I expect scallops to be crispy on the outside and tender inside. These were tender through out and just uneventful.
One guest had a filet mignon. It came perfectly cooked as he requested medium. What I don't understand is the mint sauce they include with every sauce. I like the presentation, that the sauce arrives in a marrow bone with a tiny spoon. However, they then bring four more sauces, one is bearnaise, and the rest I didn't pay close enough attention. I have never been to a steakhouse of this caliber that offers this many sauces, and we all thought it was overkill to bring five. Why is one on the plate and then four on the side. It's odd. I think if a steak needs a sauce, it either sucks or the diner has a very amateur palette.
Other guest got salmon & shrimp and she enjoyed that.
We got the lobster mashed potatoes, which are really puree, like baby food. I don't care for that. It's nearly a soup. It tasted good but was too runny to get on your fork.
We also ordered the creamed corn, which isn't creamed corn at all. It's fancy corn. It tasted good, but wasn't what we expected. They removed the corn from the husk and throw spices on it. It's not creamy at all.
And we had fries, which tasted good, but I didn't feel at all they were freshly cut fries which was shocking. They were too perfect shaped and in their consistency, like they were mass produced and from a frozen bag and air fried.
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