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| - This place is like a blast from the past or an homage to old school steak houses. Don't expect like fancy, and by fancy I mean innovative takes on steaks and seafood. The place is a smaller more intimate restaurant with divided and elevated sections with booths to increase the intimacy of a meal. The restaurant is also more dimly lit.
They do something a little different than your standard bread basket, they provide you with garlic toast, warm out of the oven, but don't fill up on these because the steaks and entrees are massive unless you're ordering from the light fare menu. They also provide olives and briny-er pickles.
The escargots come soaked in garlic and butter and/or olive oil, either way delicious. They also coming bubbling so please mind you tongues lest you want to burn them on delicious snail morsels.
The French onion soup has a great depth of flavour but became salty on the palates as described by my partners mother. It had a good amount of melted cheese, which in my mind was the best part of the soup, but again maybe not our smartest decision before getting large steaks because we struggled with this meal.
The seafood platter my partners mother got was accompanied by a cute little set up of drawn butter. The plate itself also has a good variety of seafood (2 lobster tails, snow crab legs/claws, scallops, etc) but be warned this plate is priced at market price (we paid $90 for the seafood platter that night).
My partners father got the prime rib and he usually opts for larger portions be even he recognized that 16oz was probably the way to go vs the 24oz bone in Peter's cut. My partner who can eat, but boy 16oz of steak... she did her best but only managed to complete 2/3 of he steak. The steaks came out perfectly medium rare in the middle and were tender and almost melt in your mouth good. The au jus or whatever the sauce on the bottom added a level of salt that increased as you ate. The saving grace she said was the horse radish that accompanied to help cut the level of salt and compliment the steak. I also recommended cutting up a pickles to eat in between a few bites.
I have the aged New York strip. Again this is not blow your mind steak place but the steaks are all very well cooked and very well seasoned. The striploin has no accompanying sauces but tasted really good tender in the middle but more chewing than the prime rib (which is to be expected). The steak flavour really comes through, likely from the aging process and the accompanying vegetable were crisp and a pleasant break from all the steakiness.
The waiters and one waitress are all dressed up in their suit jackets and our server George was this older I believe Italian man who was really cute. The host does sport a very Gene Simmons-esque hair style which did not match the other server and the interior of the restaurant.
The service was expected of a restaurant of this set-up. The sections are smaller and it appeared as if one server as assigned a section each so they tend to hover at the foot of the elevated section. Some of the server are also sporting a more European accent including the host who when we called my partner had difficulty with understanding him. But they do ask if there are children and if you're celebrating anything. They priced a cake with a written message based on you answer. So my partners father got a very nice chocolate cake. Again not anything fancy but very well done.
Btw the rumors are true. Every lady get a rose from the host at the end of the meal so if you're on a date with someone and you didn't get flowers know this beforehand in case you feel like it's gonna look bad that the host gave you date a flower and you didn't. Just a tip for those splurging on a date night.
In all honestly this should be a 5 star restaurant if this was 20-30 years ago but with the changing landscape of food it a little dated but also an experience that some people might miss. Take your parents of grandparent out to this restaurant and share a plate because like I said the steaks are huge and an homage to an more classic way of fine dining.
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