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| - (I was going to give this restaurant 4 stars until I found a huge black blob of I don't know what in my baked potato. So now we are down to one star for grossing me out and ruining my lunch! See the picture I posted if you aren't too squeamish!)
So we went on a Wednesday night, arriving just after 5 PM. The place was pretty empty still, and we were seated by the interior window overlooking the grill station.
Our waitress got us our drinks and was ready to put our food in pretty quickly. We decided on the NY strip dinners, his with broccoli, me with the baked potato everyone speaks about so much on here. And we did the onion rings as an appetizer.
The onion rings came out first. There were about 7-8 on a pole stand, massive and done in a beer batter. They came with a tangy horseradish mixed dip, which I enjoyed dipping them into. But after the second one we each had, we found the batter got a bit soggy. Now, granted, we couldn't eat them fast enough because they were huge and HOT! But by halfway down, we were queasy from the grease and the heaviness of the batter. If you're going to get them, have at least 3-4 people split the order. We brought 3 of them home to reheat today because we just couldn't finish them.
The salad bowl came out while we were still munching on the onion rings. It was a fair amount of salad. I enjoyed the eggs in it, and all the fixings. What was really nice was the fact that I had just mentioned Blue Cheese dressing to the girl, and when she said it's a shared salad usually served with house Italian, I canceled out the dressing. However, when the salad came, it contained both the usual Italian in a cup AND a cup of the Blue Cheese for me. Nice!
I was anticipating the hot yeast rolls, thinking they'd be like O'Charley's or Cody's in Florida. But they were stale, crusty on the outside and dry/crumbly on the inside. I didn't even finish one. Took two bites, one of each sliced side, and put them down. :(
The dinners came out as we were finishing our salads. No one cleared the plates, so it was a little tight on the tabletop. We stacked as much as we could, but thought it odd that they left everything there for us to maneuver around.
His had a good 2 cups of pre-buttered broccoli and his steak, ordered medium-rare, which came out more on the rare side. He didn't complain as he enjoyed the flavor and the sear. But I know he would have liked it a little more done.
Mine I ordered rare, as usually they overcook it, and this one came out barely that. Actually, I only ate a few pieces off the end of mine because it was totally underdone. Now, being that I worked in restaurants for years, I know better than to send something back and be a complainer, so I ate half the potato, which was pretty good (and huge!!!), being that I didn't know about the black blob in it at the time, and saved the steak for today. Knowing I was going to reheat it today made it being undercooked an ok thing.
The husband still had half his steak and the onion rings for today, too.
So in closing, it's expensive. It's not Ruth's Chris expensive, but it is up there. However, the food was fairly good but don't get the rotten baked potatoes (!) or eat the stale rolls!!!
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