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| - My husband and I started at the bar for drinks then decided to have dinner in the restaurant on a Friday night. Big mistake. The disappointment started when I noticed that, having only 1/4 of his beer left, my husband had something big floating in it. I still have no idea what it was. Not wanting to make an issue out of it, he simply ordered another one. Little did we know it was the beginning of a bad evening. I started my dinner with a salad and ordered blue cheese dressing. Not only was the blue cheese on the salad tasteless, the dressing had absolutely NO taste. None. I have never had tasteless blue cheese before. My husband ordered clam chowder, which he said was okay. I ordered the Shrimp Trilogy ($28). The fried shrimp were FAR overdone and were extremely tough. The stuffed shrimp was not loaded with lump crab meat as the menu said, but rather a ball of bland stuffing. The worst part was the shrimp scampi -- the sauce was HORRIBLE! It was very sour and bitter, like it had vinegar or lime as an ingredient (I could not tell). It was absolutely terrible! I tried to eat the shrimp after rubbing the sauce off. It was inedible. The side of sweet potato orzo was good, however. My husband ordered the buttermilk fried shrimp ($21). As I mentioned with my meal, the shrimp was so overdone and tough. They butterflied the shrimp so that it was split all the way to the tail, which only allowed for the shrimp to cook even faster. I think my husband ate 2 shrimp (if that) and took the rest home. When he tried to reheat them later, not surprisingly, they became even tougher. They went in the garbage, as did a good portion of my meal. I watched an episode of the Billion Dollar Buyer where the owner of the Landry's chain, Tilman Fertitta, said he keeps his food costs down to 25% or lower. It shows! We left around 6:00 pm on a Friday night, and there were only 2 other tables occupied in the restaurant. Now I know why. Not what I would have expected from a higher end restaurant.
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