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| - We had been excited to try! Finally got to on a Friday night with resos.
It was quite busy when we arrived and had to wait at the front door for at least 20 min for our table. A little awkward as there is nowhere really to stand while you wait.
The restaurant itself is quite nice and when we finally were seated, we were glad to be more in the interior, up on the second level. We waited another 20 min at least for our server to come by even just to fill our water glasses. He so obviously had been on break. It happens, but we found him to be flip, curt and not super helpful about the menu when he was at our table.
The service for Vintage almost downgraded the stars to a 3 overall but wow, the food here was good and made up for it. We were glad for the choice of coming here in the end.
We started with the Caesar salad which I have to tell you maybe have been the best of its kind I have ever had. Double smoked bacon, crisp, cool lettuce/lemon wedge with just the right amount of dressing and not too many croutons. Perfect. And large.
We also got the escargot which comes in a brown gravy sauce in a little ramekin with brioche for dipping. This too was very good. Rich but delicious.
We also got little sourdough rolls on the table, complimentary. You could tell these were "end of the night rolls" but they were the perfect size and the sourdough taste really came through. They would have been a 5/5 had they been warmer and fresher.
We of course came here for steak. The 10oz Prime Rib starts at $29 and if you want any other type of steak it jumps to $44. Not having an expense account of any kind for this evening's dinner, we each went with the Prime Rib. Med Rare is the rarest we could have it so that was our choosing.
The sides... YUM. I love how you can pick a side to go with your meal here. Not like other places where all those are separate from the meat.
We opted for the asparagus and the onion rings. Oh, the onion rings, thanks to another reviewer here on Yelp that raved about them, THANK YOU x 1000! They were so good, quite possibly THE best onion rings I have ever had. Huge, well seasoned and crispy. 6 to an order and the asparagus was well cooked and plentiful too for sharing.
The Prime Rib served in its own jus cut through like butter and we were happy with all of our choices. We for sure had leftovers.
We had a beer and glass of wine respectively and no complaints about these offerings.
The music playing was - odd to say the least. No top 40 here, no classic rock, I am not sure what it was. But, we were happy to see a band was setting up for live music.
Our server seemingly wanted to get out of there so he packed up our food to go, did not ask us about dessert and proceeded to bring us the bill. The credit machine automatically asks you for a 20% gratuity to be given even for 2 people.
Ya, not deserved tonight.
We were meeting friends below for a drink in the lounge after dinner.
WOW, you go down the stairs and into another world. From fine dining to a meet/meat market!
The band was great and it appears that every Fri they have someone new playing. I thought from what I read on line that they played Jazz here Fri nights but this is no longer so!
We would perhaps come back here for a delicious dinner and give the service another go but may try another lounge afterwards for a different, less obvious hook-up scene.
DEF:
Meet market or meat market, is an originally pejorative term referring to two related phenomena:
a location or activity in which people are viewed as commodities and
a business like a nightclub where people typically look for a casual sex partner.
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