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| - We were impressed! Steak on a Stone was recommended to a fellow worker and me as a fun place to take a customer. It seemed kind of gimmicky, and there's manual labor involved on your part since you pretty much cook your own steak... but we loved it.
Some other Yelpers mention the dismal interior, and I will agree that the lobby area is dated. But we were seated in the airy side room, and it appeared clean and bright in there.
I arrived early and had an excellent dirty martini (plus teeny tiny blue cheese stuffed olives) in the bar.
We started with three appetizers - Saganaki, crabcakes and sauteed scallops. The flaming cheese was the best of the apps. Both the others were on the small side, and I wouldn't recommend them.
I went with the 8oz filet, adding on 1/4lb of shrimp. This came with my choice of two sides (salad with Ranch and steamed broccoli) and two sauces (Bernaise and Creamy Garlic). Your meal is brought to the table as a raw hunk of beef and a single shrimp sitting on your own personal hot lava rock. The waiter turns the meats and presents the stone to you. You will then carve off individual slices of the meat and press each side on the stone for a couple seconds, dunk in sauce and eat.
What I particularly liked about this way of cooking is that the stone sears the meat and won't cook it beyond about 1/4" thickness. So, you can chat it up with the rest of your party for 20 minutes or more, and you'll still have perfect steak when you're ready to dive in.
Now, I didn't pay for my meal... and it is a pricey place (my steak and shrimp ran $34), but I would go on my own dime. Heck, I'm already thinking about how Ken and I can roadtrip to the North Olmstead, OH one since its a tad closer to home!
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