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| - We were a restaurant's nightmare. We went in with a large party that while all the food was going to be on one check, the drinks were going to be split between 8-10 people. For most restaurants this would have been a problem but for the RX Boiler Room they treated it like it was no big deal. Their hostesses made sure that the waitresses knew the situation and when we explained how much we loved the lobby area with the tables and couches, told us we could stay in the couch and lobby area which made it easy for the group to get up and talk to various people as our party grew to more than 13 (I lost count at some point). So a big huge thank you to the staff - most restaurants wouldn't have been happy, but you wouldn't have known it was an issue at all for the staff of the RX Boiler Room. I should say we went in on a Sunday night, so had we descended on them on a busier night like Saturday or Sunday they may have been less enthusiastic.
Our party was there mostly to enjoy the ambiance of being in a Steampunk (that's a genre of science fiction that borrows from the Victorian Age which was the age of Steam for it's look and themes), but we were all blown away by the service and the quality of the food and drinks. We must have ordered at least one of every side dish and small plate. While everything was good, the favorites were the chicken pot pie nuggets, the inside out french onion soup, and you would have thought we were little kids in corsets, top hats, and goggles when the cookies and milk came.
Drinks are $10-12 so it is not inexpensive to drink there,but the drinks are creative and interesting and the staff is great on advising regarding your choices. Food is fairly reasonable, especially for strip prices and a few appetizers/small plates really dose work well for my husband and I.
I have some minor knocks on the place:
They have a slide show of Steampunk art, but no credit is given to the artists who made the work. Whoever did their slideshow should go back in and put in artist name and website/tumblr/blog link in the lower right corner.
I had heard drinks came in beakers and didn't see any drinks served in science type glass ware. Maybe we didn't order the right drinks? It was kinda a bummer, but nothing major.
I wanted to go around and give all the waitstaff hats or fascinators, depending on gender. It was one missing fashion piece to cap off the look. That said, they were all attentive servers and absolutely at the top of their game.
So if you like Steampunk, go, you won't be disappointed. If you like good gastropub food/tapas style dining you won't be disappointed.
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