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| - Cleveland Chophouse & Brewery is like one of those movie previews that got you all excited, but when you see the actual movie, you're left thoroughly disappointed and utterly ripped off of your hard-earned $9.25.
I was pretty excited, after 3 nights of eating room service food, to finally have a proper food in a restaurant that is supposed to be more than decent. And what's not to love about the place - the dark wood-paneled interior, the servers in crisp white shirts, the interesting posters on the wall, ad infinitum.
So we ordered the sampler appetizer. Huge, two-tiered platter of chicken tenders, breaded calamari, portobello mushrooms, and prawn cocktails. Quantity, yes. Quality, uhm....
Then out came the special for the day, bone-in steak with blue cheese crust, cooked medium rare with mashed potatoes. The steak was the toughest piece of beast I've ever had, semi cold and a bit too rare for my liking (and I'm the type that likes my steak bloody).
The mash was strangely hard - not sure how that is possible. I don't cook and my version of mashed potatoes is out of a box and into a pot of boiling water and it still tasted better.
The saving grace was the warm apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream. But then again, the Hyatt's warm apple cobbler (also with vanilla bean ice cream - must be a Cleveland thing), was just as good if not better.
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