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| - Summary: upscale restaurant has decent service and somewhat satisfying but not excellent food
Top Must-Get: the complimentary bread comes with honey butter; steak soup
Top Regret: prime rib
Their lamb chops used to be so darn good. Alas, they changed the menu a couple years ago...
We came here on a Thursday for a celebration. I remembered the lamb chops being so good here back then, but to my dismay, they've pulled it from the menu.
We arrived around 7:30 pm and were seated right away. They were a bit slower to take our order though. The server checked in to see if we were ready at 7:35 pm, and when we weren't, didn't come back until 7:45 pm, which seemed a bit excessive.
We both went with the prix fix option that comes with a starter, main and dessert for $36. Our order was punched in around 7:48 pm, and the bread came within 5 minutes. It seemed we switched servers as the young man who introduced himself to us was not the person who ended up serving us throughout the meal. Strange?
Their bread is not made in house, but the honey butter that comes with it is very good.
Starters came within 10 minutes
The Starters (7:55 pm)
Steak Soup: pretty good, chunks of steak actually in there
Garden Salad: they were light on the dressing which is how we like it
The Mains (8:18 pm)
Prime Rib with Mash: people recommended this, and maybe it's because two recent restaurants I went to had REALLY amazing prime rib (Copacabana and Paninoteca), but this one just didn't do it for me. It was tender, but not in the same way, and I didn't love the horse raddish. It came with mashed potatoes, and the sauce didn't go as well with it as I hoped.
Salmon: well, this was okay. The green sauce tasted like blended peas, so if you're into that...
Dessert:
The double chocolate brownie is, predictably, extremely sweet. Again, if you're into that...
It was nice to come back to relive memories of that lamb chop I had years ago, but that'll probably be it. It's a nice environment but not really worth the price point.
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