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Free valet was a wonderful option that the restaurant provides and we took it. The valet guy was great, prompt and honest as my husband left his brand new cell phone in plain view in the console and it was not touched.
Walked inside and WOW, the place is much larger than it looks from the outside, cavernous almost!
We were seated way at the back at 530pm (with resos) in a cave-like area as the ceilings were lower in that spot. I liked it, and I liked that at first we were the only diners in at that point. It did fill up by 8pm or so, good crowd.
I personally loved the red, old school, gangster feel to the place. I had it all built up in my head from what I had read from on-line reviews and it did not disappoint.
Our server was older, reserved, polite but in all honesty, I felt like he would have rather been doing cartwheels on the moon than serve tables this evening.
Our friends had been before and pointed out to us the menu area of Emperor's Feast where you get a steak/entree, bread to start along with a garden salad, your choice of dressing) and a little French Onion soup. For me, it was a lot of food and I brought home half my entree but I chose the wrong cut of steak for this restaurant. I was so looking forward to being able to "cut the meat with my butter knife" but on the NY Strip, this did not happen and my friend beside me also was disappointed in how tough hers was. She said it could have been an off day or bad meat selection as she has had the strip before here and said it was terrific. The men at the table scored with their steaks, those being a rib eye and the 10oz Filet. Both sumptuous, I got to try both and nothing needed additional seasoning. The server seemed to understand the trouble with the strips and his manager was nice enough to take $15 off each steak without us even asking for compensation of any kind. Classy. This review would have garnered a 4 or 4.5 if the meat had been a nicer cut, but the cookery itself was spot on. I loved how I could see the steak grilling from our table, outside the kitchen.
I loved the little details of this place - like how the salad plates were stone cold as they should be and the dinner plates were hot. The soup was OK, salad great and the bread was fantastic. My friend beside me went into orbit over their parm cheesy bread, a nice twist on fresh Texas Toast. I preferred the garlic toast included in the basket but both rated as excellent. Refills of the bread were no problem.
The table did not love how the skinny glasses of pop at almost $4 each did not include refills. But, the meals were a great value starting at $38 for the rib eye.
We would absolutely go back just for the originality of the place but I am sure there are other steakhouses in Calgary to try first.
3.5 stars.
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