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January 05, 2006
Morton's Steakhouse
Some buddies and I decided to try Morton's Steakhouse tonight.
You'd think that for a place as expensive as this, that they'd have some fancy restroom with the ubiquitous restroom attendant and diamond-encrusted toilet paper or something! Maybe it's just me.
We chatted about relationships and munched on some warm onion bread (good, but nothing special) while waiting for our orders. L and A started off with lobster bisque, while I had a Morton's Cosmopolitan. The cosmo was really smooth and sweet - the type of drink where you hardly taste any alcohol... until it comes back to kick your ass later in the evening. Needless to say, I was having a great time by the time our entrees arrived, haha. =P
The lobster bisque looked really rich and my buddies seemed to enjoy it... but once again, didn't sound like it was anything special.
We ordered the porterhouse steak, Chicago style bone-in ribeye steak and NY strip steak which arrived on 3 plain white oval platters... the type that you would find in standard Chinese restaurants minus the dragons and such. Seriously, it was pretty strange seeing 3 huge chunks of meat on a platter without anything else on it, save a few sprigs of parsley for decoration!
We also shared a side of the au Poivre sauce (a creamy cognac and pepper sauce) for our steaks, along with Lyonnaise potatoes and creamed spinach.
The steaks were excellent in quality and perfectly cooked to specifications, as expected. I'm not a big fan of straight-up beef (the standard steaks are marinated with pepper and salt), so I found myself using the au Poivre sauce quite often. The Lyonnaise potatoes and creamed spinach were good and not as unhealthy as I feared... but like everything else, nothing extraordinary.
Being the fools manly men that we were, we forced ourselves to finish all the meat. No wimpy leftovers here, thankyouverymuch!
Figuring that we wouldn't be coming back any time soon - if ever - we decided to go all the way and top things off with dessert: a raspberry souffle and hot chocolate cake (with a wonderfully decadent melted chocolate center). Both were good, but I preferred the chocolate cake - the scoop of French vanilla ice cream made a perfect complement!
All in all, we had an enjoyable dining experience: the food was good, and the company even better. =)
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to roll myself over to my bed. ;)
Posted by stevelee at January 5, 2006 10:23 PM
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Why is it that men don't *ever* want to carry leftovers out?
Yuuum, the molten cake sounds good.
Posted by: mare at January 6, 2006 12:58 AM
Hmm, I normally have no problems carrying leftovers out if there's enough food left!
But if it's like just a few bites left (not enough for another meal), I rather nut it up and kill it. ;)
Besides, something like this wouldn't taste as good reheated, ya know?
As for the molten cake... yeah, it was gooooood!
Posted by: steve at January 6, 2006 02:39 AM
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