Dinah T.
Yelp
This was my first time going to this restaurant. I've heard so many good things from people who I know that had eaten here. I decided to come here on Easter Sunday with my mom for Easter Sunday brunch.
The building is across the parking lot of the Oak Brook shopping mall. So there is plenty of parking.
When we entered, we were guided to the elevators as the first floor is Furniture that they are selling.
When we got to the third floor, we went to the hostess station. They were very nice and was able to sit us down earlier as we arrived very early for our reservation.
They had a large water fountain in the middle of the room and greenery everywhere like you were eating in a beautiful park.
All the tables were made out of white marble some of the seats were long sofa like and chairs with no arms so the seating arrangement kind of felt like a community table where we sat because we were close to the family next to us and we sat in the corner of the restaurant by the windows where you could see the outdoor patio, which was a nice view.
Currently, it was cold and raining today so they didn't have the walls opened that you can experience the outdoor breeze.
Jose was our server. He was a very nice gentleman.
My mom ordered a mimosa which was delicious. The orange juice tasted fresh.
I ordered the Malbec wine, which was very smooth and tasty a good pair for our steak.
We both shared two different dishes, the prime, ribeye steak we requested, medium.
And the warm vegetable salad with grilled shrimp.
We also ordered a side of potato purée.
They put the dishes in the middle and gave us sharing plates, which was a nice touch since we said we were sharing the dishes.
The potato purée came in a small dish with chives and seasoned butter. The potato was nice and creamy.
The prime ribeye steak was enough for both of us to eat and it came with finishing salt flakes. But if this was my only dish, I would definitely finish it by myself no problem. For some reason, I was expecting it a bigger size kind of wish it was bone in ribeye personally and thicker. We are a bit snooty when it comes to a good piece of steak, it was a bit too much tendon my mom had a hard time chewing some of the meat and a little disappointing because it seemed dry and we noticed it after we finished eating the steak when our waiter Jose took the wooden serving platter up and away. There was a crack in it and all the steak juices were all over our table, no wonder why our steak was dry - so he had to grab a towel to wipe down the juices and noticed the crack too. Definitely should have not served that platter to customers. So if you order the steak and it comes on a wooden platter, make sure there's no cracks or else you will have the same dry steak.
The warm salad with the grilled shrimp was very tasty. It had grilled sliced asparagus, zucchini, grilled corn kernels, soft ripe avocado and grilled shrimp we will definitely get this again.
It took a while for our server to come back. We're thinking maybe because they were short staffed and it was a holiday.
I was surprised that there was no water person refilling our water glasses for us.
We also noticed that he was the only one serving in our row of tables so it took a while for us to order the butterscotch crème brûlée, which was tasty. We would definitely get that dessert again.
Overall, it was a nice experience minus the dry steak cause of the cracked wooden plate.