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| - I used to come here about six times a year prior to their menu redesign in early 2017. I got busy and hadn't been able to go but finally did have the occasion to go with some friends at the start of 2018.
First off, a few comments about the menu. Their old menu was OK, but the new one is spectacular with a lot more variety. I have been looking forward to trying the new menu out for a year. One very important thing to note is their menu online is NOT THE SAME as the menu in the restaurant. It visually looks the same but it is not and this is a big problem. The meatballs appetizer is online but not on the actual menu. There's a pork kabob on the actual menu that's not online. The filet mignon prices and are higher on the actual menu than online. Truffle fries, potatoes au gratin, and crispy onion straws are online but not on the actual menu. Instead, on the actual menu you can pay a small amount to upgrade your entree side to potatoes au gratin, and they have onion rings and steak fries instead. A dish called chicken ogden is on the online menu but on the actual menu it's been replaced with cajun chicken.
Anyway, after being seated you get a small loaf of sourdough bread and some butter, plus bottled water. I'm not a huge fan of sourdough but it was pretty good. The butter has this slight honey/orange flavor which is odd. I'd have either preferred regular butter, salted butter, or cinnamon butter if you want to go the sweet route.
As for the actual dishes, I ordered the filet medium-well and butterflied with cajun blackening and my wife ordered the cajun chicken, her favorite from the old menu. For sides we got mushrooms, steak fries, onion rings, macaroni & cheese without lobster, and I upgraded my potatoes to the au gratin potatoes. In general the sides were good but the entrees were not.
They have changed the cajun chicken and doused it in this sauce. I thought it was OK but my wife thought it was awful. As for my steak, it was woefully undercooked. My medium-well was somewhere between rare and medium-rare. In probably 100 steakhouse dinners I've only sent an entree or side back once, but I had to send this one back as well. After it was cooked some more it was now somewhere between medium-rare and medium. I was with other people and didn't want to seem like an ass so I just sat there without eating it, took it home and heated it up myself (it was OK). Keep in mind, the steak was butterflied, so it should not be difficult to cook -- I try to make it easier because I know cooking a thick filet to be more done is difficult and time consuming.
As for the sides, my wife said the mushrooms were good, as were the green beans she got with her entree. The onion rings were fairly normal. The macaroni and cheese was actually penne and was nothing special. The steak fries were probably the best I've ever had. Lastly the au gratin potato upgrade is worth it.
In general the service was pretty attentive, although I'm slightly miffed that they did not offer to remove the steak from the bill or take half off or some such. I am not one to create a big scene or ask for a manager, but both the server and the server's assistant knew it was wrong, saw me the entire time with it in front of me and not eating it. They offered to send it back to get cooked some more a third time but I figured why bother if they messed it up twice already and my wife & friends are halfway done with their meal.
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