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| - I didn't know about this place (but I checked it out on Yelp, and also looked at the menu online, which does not have the dinner special on there, either, BTW) until my brother suggested we all come here to celebrate the December birthdays, mine and our mom's. Nice, quiet steakhouse, pretty elegant ambiance faux fireplace with the mantle nicely decorated for Christmas, dim lighting. Not many customers either (if there were, they were all older). Nice staff, very attentive, we had three servers for 15 member group (only one baby). Excellent service.
The dinner special is posted at the front entrance post (not on the menus given at the table). Three course meal $18.99, starter (soup or salad), steak diane (comes with steamed vegetables, I chose the baked potato, came with all the fixings- cheese, sour cream, butter, green onion, bacon bits), and dessert (bread pudding, ice cream, creme brulee); b-day choice (NY style cheesecake or chocolate cake---complete with lit candles and a birthday song).
Since our four parties came at different times, we started with the bread basket (pretzel bread---so yummy, but I stopped at one (I could've had more!!!), everything bread roll (hubby's fave), cranberry bread slice). Once most of our group was here, we placed our orders, appetizers were battered shrimp with cilantro chutney, mmm, (huge! it was really good) and calamari---two orders (served in fried tostada bowls, which you could eat too; very good, cooked perfectly). Our son really liked the calamari, which is a good thing, because it seems like he is getting picky these days. It didn't seem like a long wait for each course to arrive. Our servers kept checking in on us, and took plates away pretty quickly, too.
My salad with blue cheese dressing on the size (romaine lettuce, cucumbers, olives, cherry tomatoes, shredded carrot) had blue cheese crumbles (nice but unexpected) but there were some lettuce pieces with brown edges which I just picked out. My steak (medium well) had nice grill marks, and it wasn't overly fatty, but only finished half (took home the rest). I am glad the sauce was on the side because it was very heavy (my sister didn't like it), but cream-based sauces are usually heavy and salty. The A-1 sauce made it better. My baked potato was perfect, but I only finished a quarter of it (yes, leftovers!). Steamed vegetables were skinny green string beans with diced tomatoes, I had a couple bites (noticed that most of the teens did not touch them). Hubby and I switched dessert (the NY style cheesecake is very dense), but I couldn't finish the creme brulee because I really got full from the entire meal (and I love creme brulee). And our niece gladly welcomed the ones we couldn't finish. Most of our group got the ice cream, which were in the old-fashioned ice cream glass tall cups (generous size!!!). My mom also had leftovers because she said she ate too much bread and crackers (it's like the chips and salsa at mexican restaurants).
My brother had a comp credit of $200, a $75.00 coupon, and so, the final cost was $49.99 because he had a club card to use (more discounts), as well. Thanks Kuya! Our group had two younger ones, so in total, thirteen meals were ordered. I guess the special used to have more choices, but they recently changed it.
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