1 /5 Jules Brooks: Should have known better than to come here when they had so many open reservations on a show night at the coliseum, that was the first red flag I missed.
I ordered the Thursday night special, the Cesar salad with 8oz filet, whipped potatoes, asparagus, and lobster. The price was good but the food was awful.
The soup of the day, offered as an option in place of the salad, was chicken gumbo. No sane person is having a bowl of chicken gumbo before a steak dinner.
The Cesar salad was utterly bland, the dressing was watery without a trace of garlic or seasoning. The lettuce was anemic, pale yellow instead of green, and they included the stump of the lettuce on the plate. The peameal bacon bits were cold and mushy, pale little ribbons with no hint they had ever been crisp. The only flavour the dish had at all was from the lemon wedge I squeezed over it.
The steak was ordered mid-rare but arrived Pittsburg rare, black on the outside and raw in the centre. It’s beyond disappointing that a restaurant billing itself as a high end steak house can’t nail a mid-rare filet of beef every time. Especially bad when you consider this is a weekly special that they presumably cook in significant quantities.
The whipped potatoes were bland and forgettable. The asparagus was peculiar, the flavours inconsistent from one end of the stock to the other. It had no visible seasoning but tasted as though it had been in contact with both seafood and Tabasco sauce in places. The only rational explanation I can come to is that it wasn’t cooked in a clean pan.
On top of all of that my entree arrived a full 20 minutes after the entree of the friend I was dining with. This is especially confusing because nothing in my meal would have even taken 20 minutes to prepare.
Overall it was a solid one star meal and a waste of $150
