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| - The boyfriend is going to kill me when he reads this review, because he loved the dinner and he spent a lot of money on it, but I was overly unimpressed.
We started off with the special chopped salad. I thought this was rather good, but it was so drenched in dressing that I could barely distinguish the different ingredients. I tasted bacon, and I felt the lettuce, but that's about it.
I forgot, the table bread is forgettable. Yes, it's soft, and covered in sesame seeds, but there was nothing special about it, besides the fact that it was a giant piece you had to break by hand and it left seeds all over the table. I LOVED the whipped butter, however. It was fluffy and salty, overall perfect, and I could spread this on anything and everything.
We ordered the bone in ribeye to share, since we had a large lunch. When it came to the table, some lady mangled it. She cut a 3-4 inch slit to ask us if it was cooked properly. We asked for medium rare, and I saw a lot of white-ish meat, but the bf gave his approval, so we took it. I wanted to let the steak sit for a minute, but the lady proceeded to cut it in all sorts of sloppy pieces.
It was a massacre. I've never seen anything like it before. She first tried to separate it from the bone. It was like she had never handled a piece of meat or a steak before. She was all over the place, and splatters of meat juice were shooting around the table. I don't know if any of it hit us or our clothes, but I saw stains appearing on the white tablecloth all around.
It took her forever to separate the bone from the meat. At one point I thought she was going to give up, because she just couldn't get the job done. The whole time, I was staring at the knife and wondering if she had grabbed the wrong one, or if it was dull or something. It was appalling.
Next, she cut the steak into pieces. She said she wanted us to have equal shares of each section of the steak. We had four pieces (one with the 3-4 inch slit in it), and then she decided one piece was bigger than the other, so she cut off a piece of it and threw it to the other portion. OMG. In the end, there were five pieces of mangled meat that were divided onto two plates. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
The meat looked bastardized after this.
When I bit into my portion, it was, to my surprise, tough. I'm not even exaggerating here. It was really tough for a $50 steak. I've cooked more tender rib eyes bought from Costco or from Omaha's online catalog. And it wasn't anything near medium rare. It was quite possibly medium, if not more done.
The flavor of the steak was good, but most of that was due to over salting. There is a lot of seasoning on this meat, so much so, that it was hard to actually taste the steak. I overly salt my steaks at home, but I'm not buying really expensive cuts. What I'm looking for in a pricey steak is texture, tenderness, and flavor (past the salt). I didn't get any of these three. If I had gotten this steak at Sizzler or at another, cheaper, restaurant, I'd be ecstatic, don't get me wrong. I am so critical, because this was supposed to be the best steak ever, and it fell short. By a lot.
The sides were hit and miss. I thought the mushrooms were nicely done and were bursting with flavor. I don't even like mushrooms, but I thought these were a nice pick. The special green beans were also good. The famed lobster mac and cheese that everyone raves over...wtf? The pieces of lobster were small, and although it was creamy, it was more milky than cheesy. It was extremely loose and runny in texture, and the predominant flavor was the taste of the breadcrumbs. Um, no. I had some the next morning (cold), and the congealed consistency was slightly more appetizing.
Overall, the next time I'm in Vegas, I'm going to look for steak elsewhere. In my humble opinion, it's not worth the price.
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