Billy P.
Yelp
TLDR: the food fails to meet the same quality as its service.
Overall Rating: 2.5/10
Amount Spent: ~$170 for 2 people (including tax and tip)
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Wish I could rate this place higher.
The service? Id give it a solid 9/10, although they did have a mishap or two, they were on top of their game tonight.
What knocked off that last point was 2 things:
- When we ordered our steak, we asked for it cooked to a medium, but apparently they don't offer that and our waiter never bothered to mention that to us (found out when the steak came to the table)
- When something across the dining room dropped, a few of the waiters sighed very heavily and made random noises (even rolled their eyes). Not saying they shouldn't have those emotions, but it's just not something I want to see or hear when I'm eating, especially in an establishment like this.
But even with the service being as good as it was... I come to restaurants for the food, not the service.
The food: Hard 4.5/10, reaching 5 to 5.5
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't an entire disappointment, the crab/lobster cakes and the lobster bisque were great (although I do wish the bisque had more lobster, it had body, and that made up for it). Although I wouldn't recommend coming here, if you end up still going: I'd say those are two things that you DEFINITELY have to order...
Now here's why I say you shouldn't come here.
For a steak house, you'd think they know how to cook their steaks to any temp. We asked for our steak to be cooked to a medium (since my S/O prefers to not eat overly "red" meat) but the steak came out blue - medium rare. A gradient cook isn't the worst, but the fact that it was blue and the waiter had the audacity to tell us that it was "true medium rare" is crazy talk. I've been on the grill since I was 8, I know what medium rare looks like. Wish I took a picture of the actual meat rather than just having a shot of the bone, but trust me, it looked virtually identical.
When we sent it back we expected a re-fire since it was pre sliced, but they simply reheated the same steak again, so it came out tough, chewy, and over cooked this time. 3/10
Note: steak was extra salty as well, which is ironic, since the two sides we ordered with it had virtually no seasoning.
The sides? Ordered the 3 cheese Mac and the wild sautéed mushrooms.
3 cheese mac was cooked well, but had literally no flavor. 5.5/10
Wild mushrooms look good, but that's all it has. No seasoning and half of it was undercooked. Not really fun chewing into raw, under seasoned mushrooms on your anniversary dinner. 4/10