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| - Came here for a random date night and had an 'A-Ok' experience. Walking through the casino through a cloud of smoke (seriously, I'm not sure this place has any ventilation) wasn't appreciated but I can't really hold it against Shula's. Just not something I'd recommend other's bring a date to if they're trying to impress.
We had reservations for 6:30 and encountered some traffic on our way there so we called to let them know we'd be a few minutes late. I had a very weird conversation with someone and when I said we'd be a few minutes late, she said, okay, we'll see you at 7:30. I corrected her and said no, it would be closer to 6:45. Luckily the traffic let up a bit and we walked in at 6:40. There were three people at the hostess stand and were all working on checking in a party of 5 that took several minutes. Not a single one smiled at us as we stood there and waited, which is always a big no-no in my book, especially when you know the dinner check is going to be well over $100. We were finally acknowledged, checked in and showed to our table. I was appreciative that I didn't have to hear the football stories either.
*Date Note - Unless your date is a sports fan or you're looking for an unromantic evening, you might skip this place (I saw a few other parties that we're subjected to the stories and photo descriptions as they were making their way to the table). Maybe it floats some peoples boats, but definitely not mine.
We had the team of three different servers helping us through our dinner. While they were all pretty good, only one smiled throughout our dinner. We ordered a bottle of their moscato wine given the reasonable price of $32 for the bottle, the crabcake and wedge salad as our starters, the 12oz filet to share (medium to med-rare), the scalloped potatoes and the roasted corn for sides. Service moved fairly quickly for the steakhouse but I think it helped that we ordered everything at once. The bread we were served was pretty good. The crabcake and chutney sauce was good too. I'd never had a crabcrake and the fiance said it was probably one of the top five he's tasted. The wedge salad was standard, nothing spectacular...the same for the steak. It was cooked to a solid medium with no blood on the plate. The meat had good flavor but there was no other seasoning on it. It was accompanied by a bernause sauce that was okay, a bit heavy. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had ordered another sauce for $2. Each side was okay, nothing spectacular in my opinion. I might go for the mashed potatoes and the creamed spinach if there is a next time. Since we shared the steak we opted for the $16 lava cake at our servers recommendation saying it was the best on the menu. If that was the best, I'd hate to try the other deserts. The presentation wasn't great. The flourless chocolate lava cake was on a plate by itself and then in two small cups were a scoop of ice cream and of their whipped cream. I though Chili's lava cake was better than this one. Its not something I order very often and I would definitely skip it the next time.
Overall, this was just an okay experience. Not somewhere I would ever take anyone to make an impression. I'd only maybe visit there if I somehow decided I could take the smoke and go gamble a bit and was in the mood for steak.
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