Cindy O.
Yelp
New Year's Eve Dinner. We made reservations based on what sounded like a great menu.of offerings. Unlike Thanksgiving, where they offer a special menu along with their regular, only the Special NYE menu was offered, which was fine as why we came dinner.
Service as always was excellent. Our server, C, was very friendly (and funny). We brought a bottle of our own wine (very soecial bottle) and requested to.have it decanted (older vintage with sediment). Their corkage fee is very reasonable, $25. C took very good care of us, checked in often, refilled our wine glasses and waters.
The food, a bit disappointing in comparison to our many other visits. Possibly new menu items and execution was not quite there. We started with the Parker House Rolls. I sure hope they consider keeping these on their regular menu! Rolls stuffed with garlic and Truffle butter, so good! Next we ordered the Gem Ceasar Salad, very good as it usually is (a staple and on their regular menu). I ordered the Beef Wellington. I was so excited to try this! It's usually quite a bit of work to prepare and an item I rarely make at home! A bit of a surprise when it was served. I would call it more of a deconstructed Beef Wellington. There were mushrooms (and a nice variety) on the side and the Beef sat on top of Purple Mashed Potatoes with a piece of pastry placed over the top (not a completely wrapped roll with the meat and mushrooms with thecsauce on top). The filet was done perfectly, rare, and tasty. The pastry wasn't completely baked and with the mashed potatoes under the beef and Bordelaise sauce under the potato layer that just gave an overall soggy feel to the entree. Soggy bottom and top!
Moving on to the Tomahawk. My husband and son ordered the Tomahawk for two. The sides, including the fingerling potatoes, were all done al dente, which were great. The meat was sliced thick, with lots of fat, flavor was just okay. We have ordered Tomahawks before and definitely this one was no where near as good as the other ones we have had recently. It should have been sliced thin but guessing with all the fat, maybe they weren't able to? Not a great cut.
We took Basque Cheesecake to go for dessert. We enjoyed it later. It was good just not amazing.
Overall, we will be returning as we love Saint and Second just not for NYE. We spent well over $400 and left disappointed! I recommend this restaurant often, especially for out of towners! I will continue to recommend.