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| - The dinner from hell. Yes it was that bad, and this is coming from a many years diner at Hyde Park, going back to their first location in Cleveland Heights.
Hyde Park was my wife's and my "go to" restaurant on the semi-rare occasion of wanting a red meat dinner. Never again. It was the worst "high end" dining experience I have ever had.
To start: my wife's cocktail was made with the totally wrong ingredients, and was sent back. The replacement arrived quickly with apologies. We toasted each other and then ordered shortly thereafter.
Her salad appetizer was not what she ordered, and was removed and eventually replaced by the correct one. The onion soup, which I has always loved at this restaurant, looked and tasted like dishwater with a few onions and cover with cheese. Uneatable. The waiter replaced it with a lobster bisque, which was quite good. So far they missed badly on 3 out of 4.
I ordered the 40 day dry aged bone in NY sirloin with peppercorn sauce on the side, prepared medium rare ($59.00), and my wife ordered the lamb chops. My steak arrived looking similar to very well burnt shoe leather and one bite confirmed it, and my wife's lamb was kind of OK. The baked potato was really good! Their featured wine arrived with the meal, and it was kind of like Two Buck Chuck (if you can remember that rot gut).
I sent the steak back not to be replaced, and my wife did semi-enjoy her lamb chops.
By that time management was aware that our meal was a disaster, and a young man came and burbled at our table about how sorry they were and if they could do anything, please let him know. He continued to say this for at least 1 1/2 minutes; again and again. I finally asked him to go away.
He did adjust the check, charging only for my cocktail, my wife's chops, and the wine. He also gave us a $25.00 gift card, so I am pretty certain he thought all was well.
We had a meal that we had both been looking forward to totally ruined. Wrong drinks, wrong and horrid appetizers, 1 inedible steak and 1 barely edible label lamb chops, and rot gut wine.
What the hell happened to one of our once favorite restaurants? A new steak house is opening less than a mile away from Hyde Park. We'll go there and hopefully have a fine meal, or to the close by Red's or Fleming's.
What a terrible meal exacerbated by a a fool of a manager.
And really, I am a nice guy.
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