The Monday night prime rib special ($19.95) SOUNDED like a good idea. We set forth to discover this new neighborhood restaurant with high hopes. The restaurant itself is attractive, if dim. It was hard to read the menu without using our cell phones as flashlights. The hostess made a good first impression; the chairs in our corner table were comfortable and ample.
But the place was so dimly lit, I couldn't tell if "medium rare" was more rare than raw. One taste and I knew for sure it was very salty. Ditto for the au jus. Even my husband who salts with impunity thought it was salty, so there you go. His loaded baked potato was cold on delivery. It was only slightly warmer on its second trip.
As for service, we barely saw our waiter. No water refills, although the restaurant was practically empty.
I appreciated being able to substitute broccoli for the baked potato, but the promised Parmesan-lemon topping was so scarce as to be indiscernible.
The raucous music selections did not seem to jibe with the sedate atmosphere.
Sadly, I don't think we will be revisiting CHoP. Hard to erase a bad first impression.
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