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| - When my folks were here to visit, and staying at the Paris, we all agreed to and were excited to try this place. Menu, pricey but attractive. Wine list, quite good. Service, spot on. Food very good, not great. Ambiance, is the downfall. Very noisy place, with the music and lighting, more like a nightclub. I guess that's to appeal to the new steampunk millenial hipsters. Usually going out to eat entails conversation, here, though possible, it is difficult, noise and seating is close, lacks privacy that you can expect at restaurants of the same price and caliber. At first, they tried to sit us at tables facing the kitchen and between the staff, banging plates, and radiant heat, we had to go to the Maitre'd and ask for a better option. They did take care of it and we only had to wait about 10 minutes over the 15 minutes past our reservation time we were seated. So 7:45 became 8:15, but that wasn't an issue for us. In my honest opinion this place is more about a celeb name and the kind of place to go and see and be seen/at the scene and post your status to social media to impress friends. I had suggested we go to Flemings on W. Charleston, which is much more what I am used to as a dining experience. When it's dark, club music playing, weird lighting gave everything a reddish hue, maybe that's a Hell's Kitchen thing???
Some of the other diners were trying way too hard to look important and chic.
Wines we chose were a 2012 Patz and Hall Dutton Ranch Chard, was excellent as expected along with the 2011 Robert Biale Black Chicken Ranch Zinfandel.
Our server Humberto was really exceptional.
Total tab was a little over 500 US dollars for 3 people. Wine, 2 American/Kobe skirt steaks and 1 NY strip, 2 orders of oysters and a soup, 1 dessert and 1 double expresso. Plus the vino of course. Which was $200 for the 2 bottles.
Was it good, yes, could it have been better, also yes.
For the price, I'd recommend, Flemings, Ruth Chris, Del Frisco's or one of many other great options in town.
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