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| - I don't get the hype. So I'll first qualify by saying I'm not a big steak guy so this may discredit my opinion in your eyes, but Morton's is just an ok steakhouse (especially comparing it to Jacob's or Hy's). We got:
- French onion soup: Best part of the meal for me. Not as good as Barbarian's (which has the best onion soup in the city), but this was great - lots of gooey cheese, just the right amount of bread, and the soup wasn't overly salty.
- Mac and cheese: Looked really good until we dug in and it tasted a bit bland.
- Filet mignon with shrimp and bacon wrapped scallops: The steak was cooked to the right temperature and had good flavour, but the shrimps and scallops basted basically like butter and were a bit rubbery.
- Jumbo shrimp: Lacked any distinct flavour.
- Morton's legendary hot chocolate cake: I know I may be the minority here, but it was far from legendary. Tasted like many other chocolate lava cakes I've had.
I guess what also made my Morton's experience less than expected was the dining area itself: super crammed (to the point that servers were having a difficult time navigating through guests as they stood from their tables; we even witnessed a patron crashing into a server), really noisy, and there was a bar area which weirdly almost seemed like a sports bar with all its tvs. So it was really not the vibe I was expecting from this place.
I may have been expecting too much, but for the prices Morton's charges, I was hoping for a more fine dining experience. From both the food and venue experience, it failed to meet these expectations.
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