Mike H.
Yelp
Service: 5/5
Food: meh
The Good:
-The restaurant was clean.
-The steaks were THICK! So much potential there.
-The texture of the asparagus was great.
-The Cucumber Spritzer was good.
-Our server, Kenneth, had us laughing every time he came to the table. His timing on refills and check-ins was on point.
The Bad:
-Undercooked fries
-Undercooked/cold-centered steaks
-The house lager was pretty bland, even for a lager.
The Ugly:
-Nothing was seasoned, almost everything was kind of bland.
-They give you a bowl of half-sour pickles when you sit down instead of bread. It was weird and out of place for a steak house, but we tried to eat them anyway. Tasted like the cucumber that had been sitting in a bucket of saltwater with no vinegar or other flavors.
We went in specifically because we saw that they had bison steaks on the menu. Most restaurants only have burgers or meatloaf if they even carry bison at all, so I was excited to try this place.
I ordered the bison NY strip (medium rare) with the 50/50 fries & onion rings and chef's Brussels sprouts (w/o the bacon). My wife got the Bison NY strip with asparagus and a baked potato.
Thoughts:
Fries were floppy and undercooked but the onion rings were good. The Brussels sprouts tasted like oil and nothing else. To be fair they were supposed to come with bacon and I asked for none...but I thought they would've at least hit them with salt and pepper. The texture of the asparagus was perfect and it had a nice smokey flavor to it.
Steaks came with little American flags in them, which was strange but it made us laugh. BOTH steaks were more rare than medium-rare and neither were seasoned. We ended up having to go heavy with salt and pepper at the table to get some flavor because all we tasted was oil. If they used butter, we couldn't tell. I would've been happy with how well they were cooked if the centers weren't still cold. Also, my wife's steak had a 3/8" cap of fat on the side that she ended up having to cut off because she couldn't chew through it. I feel like it should've been rendered down to in the kitchen while cooking but that thing was still a beast when it hit the table. After eating half or more of each steak, I opted to take the pieces of uneaten steak as well as the thick piece of fat home with us. For the price I didn't want to let it go to waste. I ended up rendering the chunk of fat and using it to pan sear the leftover steaks the next morning for breakfast with eggs. When I was done re-cooking, they were still medium-rare.
Overall I was a bit underwhelmed with the dinner as I've cooked, and seasoned, bison steaks better on my stove at home. Though I will say these bison steaks were thicker than any I've purchased frozen online.
Our server, Kenneth, was awesome and so was the cheesecake.
Worth mentioning:
We got there just before 8PM and did not have time to ask to have the steaks sent back. We aren't the type of people that send food back to the kitchen often, or ever really, but I'm sure they would've tried make our experience better if we had time to give them the chance.