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Dec 29, 2007 by Bill from Kansas City
Overall Rating: 9
Food:[9] • Service:[7] • Atmosphere:[10]

• Great entertaining atmosphere with excellent food!
• Need heaters outside while you wait for valet to get your car.

“I travel and entertain clients through out the US. This place has to be the best one stop establishment to entertain that I have ever experienced. We started with drinks at the bar and indulged in a little hockey on one of the big screens. We went to the dining room to find our table set up for an excellent dining experience. The absolute shrimp cocktail, calamari and Ahi tuna appetizer platter was a nice combination for our party of 10. A couple of the guys ordered excellent Australian lobster tails. The 20oz cowboy ribeye with fried onion rings was great and cooked exactly as ordered. I've had as good a steak in other restaurants, but I would come back for the six cheese scalloped potatoes! They were outstanding! Next trip Ill have to try the steak Oscar. My partner could not stop raving about it the rest of the night. We split a maker's mark bread pudding and a 7 layer chocolate cake for dessert and went to the cigar room for stogies and after dinner cocktails. A couple of the guys played pool while we relaxed in the cigar room. Being so close to the airport and our hotel, it was easy to choose this restaurant to entertain. We will definitely be back! .”

Aug 19, 2006 by John from Bedford
Overall Rating: 1
Food:[2] • Service:[5] • Atmosphere:[7]

• Tomato & Mozzarella Salad.
• Price, Food Quality, Jerk Bouncer.

“Nice looking place and obviously very popular with the credit card collections crowd. But the food was terrible and outrageously priced! The Jim Bean Rib Eye tasted like it was soaked in paint thinner, not whisky. Although cooked well, it was no where near the 14 oz size advertised. The Six cheese potatoes were covered in some spice that was so overpowering you could not taste the cheese or potatoes. They might as well have come from a box and been made with Velveeta. The wedge salad was just a wedge of ice burg lettuce with trace amounts of blue cheese dressing. No walnuts, no blue cheese crumbles. The shrimp, although not small, were far from the prawns we expected. The bacon wrapped shrimp came covered in a sauce that made them taste like burning electronics smell. The spice on the mushrooms was so heavy that it overpowered the flavor of the mushrooms. They might as well have been flavored Styrofoam. The wait staff was good, but the bouncer that wanted to charge me $5 to use the restroom can kiss my butt. After I raised a stink he said "I am sorry I did not recognize you from the restaurant" Yeah Right Jerk. The two positive notes, the beer was excellent ($6.00 a glass!!!) and the Tomato and mozzarella salad was pretty good. All in all, I left there feeling as though I had been ripped off. I had a golden corral quality dinner for an astronomical price. I will never be back and I will advise all those I know to avoid this restaurant. The food at the Boston market up the street is far better!”

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Mar 19, 2006 by Andrea from Flower Mound, TX
Overall Rating: 10
Food:[10] • Service:[10] • Atmosphere:[10]

• Loved the food especially the steak!
• Not a place for small children.

“The food was delicious. I had the steak that had been marinated for 96 hours! My daughter had the Atlantic Salmon which was the best I had ever tasted. We came for a company dinner with a set menu of the Salmon or the Steak. The service was excellent. The private room we used was perfect.”