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| - First trip here May 1, 2012. We were early, about 5:30pm. We walked right in and were seated with no wait.
Wait staff were professional and respectful. We asked questions and had all our confusion resolved quickly. After reading many of the reviews here on Yelp I was prepared for a different dining experience. I was pleasantly impressed.
The salad bar was a little un-impressive with a small-ish selection of veggies, cheese, meats, and dressings. I've been to a lot of salad bars in my life, this one was the nicest to look at but one of the poorest selections. I did not understand the concept of cold veggies normally served heated. Who serves cold cooked asparagus? This place does.
So the process is simple. Seating, order drinks, go to salad bar, and when ready flip your round coaster from red to green and the many meat serving men stop by with their steaks and other meats on steel rods to slice a serving after you specify your desired cook cut (medium rare to well). They give you tongs to grab the slice and pull it to your plate.
As long as your coaster sits green side up they keep coming every few minutes. Turn the coaster to red to halt the meat.
They seemed to come in waves with cooked meats to offer. I had the beef and declined the chicken and lamb. The meat guys were a bit on the quiet side so many of them I had to have them repeat which cut it was since I wanted to avoid lamb and pork.
The meats came fast and hot. We got filled-up quickly.
The service was excellent, dining room and salad bar was clean and beautiful. I would gladly return here. Probably not a place to go in jeans and a t-shirt. Our cost for two with tip was about $130, we don't consume alcohol or dessert.
Follow-up: Been here twice more. Always pretty much the same experience. If I could change a few things; offer a way to warm the veggies on the salad bar, and to spread out the gauchos because when they arrive one after another after another makes it hard to eat and talk and deal with them. Plus if there was a way to communicate that the lamb and chicken guys can stay away, just the beef only please. What about different shaped coasters, colored, to communicate things like beef only? Just a suggestion. Oh yes, and the meat servers could speak a tiny bit louder too, or maybe a sign on the meat skewer instead of their table side whisper?
Maybe next time I go back I'll bring my own BEEF ONLY sign!
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