I hate to give such a poor review for such an interesting small business but I feel like this review will help people decide if it's right for them. I'll start with the good.
Good: The steaks. They were fantastic. I had the cowboy ribeye and my wife had the filet mignon. Both were cooked perfectly. Seasoned perfectly. The steaks had great sear marks that added flavor as well. Definitely worth the price for each.
The decor. The building is amazing. It looks very original and from what little I read about the history, it seemed like they strive to keep it that way.
Unfortunately that's all I can really say was good about the restaurant. Next are the cons.
Cons: The rest of the food. We started with the cod bites. They were flavorless and had zero salt on them. The sauce they came with was pretty good, but the bites were just flavorless. I guess the fry cook was having a bad night because he also didn't salt the French fries. The fries were okay otherwise, they could have cooked awhile longer to be crispy, but it is what it is. My wife had broccoli with her steak and the broccoli was wayyyy over cooked. The broccoli looked almost grey because it was so over cooked.
Our seat location. They sat us at a small, 2 seat table directly behind the bar. The whole time we were eating or waiting we had people constantly standing over us and just being too close. I don't really blame the patrons on this, this was just poor effort by management to squeeze in another seat in a tiny restaurant. Not only were we constantly crowded, but we also had to deal with servers practically running by our table with food/drinks. I'm very surprised we didn't have our drinks knocked over with how often we were being bumped by everyone.
Our server. I hate to call her out by name, but our server {redacted} was terrible. I think it was because she was a Bar tender trying to cover food tables as well, but I'm not sure. She was dressed in all black as opposed to the normal attire the other servers were wearing. The whole night she seemed to be missing or at the bar. It took forever to have our food brought out. The food did come out warm so that might be the kitchens fault. We felt like we were just an after thought our whole time there. We had to sit with empty glasses multiple times because she wasn't around. Another thing that sealed the fate of our trip was when {redacted} finally decided to bring my card back after paying she didn't even stick around 2 seconds to say have a nice night, she dropped my card at the table and was about 5ft away when she finished saying have a nice night.
All in all this was a pretty bad trip. I've heard people raving about it and was super disappointed by the whole experience. We thought we had given them enough time to sort out the new business troubles but I guess we were wrong. I don't believe we'll be returning with the way our experience turned out.