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| - First, I'd like to say that anyone who doesn't give this place 5 stars is delusional!! This is, hands down, the best restaurant we have ever gone too.. and we've been to a lot of restaurants! The first thing that hits you when you enter is the wonderful smokey smell coming from the open fire grill! Then the visual... eclectic ambience. As we walked past the open grill / meat station, I was utterly mesmerized by the amazing selection of gorgeous steaks and chops!
We were seated and started looking at the menu.. admittedly, we were overwhelmed at first because literally ALL of our favorite things are on that menu - oysters, caviar, iberico jamon, foie gras, aged steaks and even those famous potatoes! We decided on the Jose's Way tasting menu augmented with an order of that heavenly jamon. On the server's suggestion, I started with a glass of Cava (delightful) and my husband had a smoked cocktail, the name of which I can't recall, but which tasted wonderful (and I don't even like bourbon). This accompanied our first few courses, all of which were beyond wonderful.. smoke and ice oysters (wow!!!) stuffed olives, liquid olives (how the heck do they do that?!) and that candy cane foie gras (surreal) !!!! There was some fabulous steak tartare, too! We ordered a bottle of Faustino red wine to have with the rest of our meal and it was very good.
The iberico jamon gets a paragraph of its own... no words can describe how good this was. I died and went to heaven, plain and simple.
The tomato tartare was wonderful - came with lettuce leaves for wrapping and it was a nice counterpoint to the meats. The main meal included a lovely roasted cauliflower, asparagus with a piquant tomato sauce, those buttery potatoes and a Rosewood TX rib-eye steak. The steak had a lovely salt crust, smokey flavor and was cooked to perfection.
The dessert selection that came at the very end was just right after such a large and wonderful meal. I would do this again in a heartbeat! If I could give more than 5 stars, I would! Thank you Jose Andreas!
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