John J.
Yelp
Lots of positives, but get ready to lighten your wallet in a major way. We loved the ambience - modern, light, and classy. We started with drinks, delicious table bread, and an appetizer. Most all the appetizers are priced like an entrée would be in other restaurants. The chicken fried lobster ($39) was unique and delicious/outstanding! it was lightly breaded and fried with a wonderful sauce underneath it. You could definitely taste the sweet lobster. I highly recommend it.
Large selection of cocktails, spirits, and wine. Wine by the glass and spirits were overpriced, but that kind of goes with the territory in a high-end steakhouse. The Benton Lake Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley was very good and reasonably priced. I definitely recommend it over the more expensive Pinot Noirs by the glass.
Next came the salads. Our friends split the III Forks salad ($16) and loved it. Surprisingly each half was about the size of a normal salad. I had the wedge salad ($16) which was very good, but was half of an iceberg lettuce that measured only about 3 inches in diameter. Pretty small wedge salad which certainly could not be shared.
Steak prices are what they are these days. Here they go all the way up to $350 for a tomahawk ribeye. We stayed with the 8 ounce fillet ($58), prime 16 ounce ribeye ($75), the 8oz New York strip fillet ($49), and the Seabass ($56). Pretty sure there was a mistake made on my friend's fillet because it looked a lot more like 6 ounces and certainly was not even close to the size of the 8 ounce New York strip fillet my wife had. he said the fillet had a nice flavor, but it was small. Her strip fillet had great flavor, but had a ton of gristle and fat in it unfortunately. She was not able to eat much of it and I was surprised our server didn't ask her about why she had so much left and wasn't interested in taking it home. But his response was OK after she said she didn't want to take it home because what was left was all gristle and fat. She definitely would not order that cut again. My ribeye was cooked perfectly medium rare but honestly didn't have the flavor of a prime steak and I would not order it again. At that price, it should have had that buttery prime flavor and bid more tender in my opinion. The Seabass was very good and a large portion which my friend took half home.
The sides we had were outstanding and each was delicious; sautéed spinach ($13), creamed corn ($15), and six cheese roasted sliced potatoes ($17). Of those I would recommend the spinach and creamed corn. They come advertised as family style but honestly, you need to order multiple sides if you're going to be sharing between more than two people. Each one by itself is only enough for two. We had three sides and that worked well for the four of us. They were all gone.
It was a fun evening and we enjoyed our time there. Our server, Nam, was exceptional and made a big difference in how well the evening went for us. If we return, I'd love to have him serve us again.