Please. You must have been buzzed.
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Went to Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse for lunch today, and it remains the most overrated restaurant in the city. We had a medium-sized party, and they screwed up various orders, forgot drinks, etc. (typical for that establishment).
I had a bowl of Gumbo, the 16 oz. Cast Iron NY Strip, a cafe au lait and some cafe au lait ice cream.
Our waiter had a phony English accent by way of Des Moines or Dubuque, It was over the top. My gumbo was reasonably good, but there was one piece of mystery meat that no one at my table could identify. It kind of looked like a burned piece of shrimp, but the inside meat was orange and stringy. I tried a tiny piece, but I also couldn't identify it (possibly turtle????) so I just left it at the bottom of my bowl. I ordered my steak "pink" because they routinely screw up the temperature when you order via traditional calls (rare, medium-rare, medium-well, etc.) figuring I'd get something between medium and medium rare at worst. Wrong! It was "brown" and the edges had been burned to a crisp rendering that delicious steak fat worthless. Nothing like having a high expectation for a steak and it ends up tasting like leather. Fortunately, a couple of guys ordered their mashed sweet potatoes and creamed mashed potatoes, both of which made for much better eating than the steak did.
My cafe au lait was good albeit a bit watery, and the cafe au lait ice cream (du jour) was the best thing I had.
IMHO, Dickie Brennan's is fortunate that I give them 2 stars (out of 5) witha price at about 4.5. Can I reiterate? OVERRATED This continues the +/- 50% visits being horrible or having major flaws.
TPS
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Went to Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse for lunch today, and it remains the most overrated restaurant in the city. We had a medium-sized party, and they screwed up various orders, forgot drinks, etc. (typical for that establishment).
I had a bowl of Gumbo, the 16 oz. Cast Iron NY Strip, a cafe au lait and some cafe au lait ice cream.
Our waiter had a phony English accent by way of Des Moines or Dubuque, It was over the top. My gumbo was reasonably good, but there was one piece of mystery meat that no one at my table could identify. It kind of looked like a burned piece of shrimp, but the inside meat was orange and stringy. I tried a tiny piece, but I also couldn't identify it (possibly turtle????) so I just left it at the bottom of my bowl. I ordered my steak "pink" because they routinely screw up the temperature when you order via traditional calls (rare, medium-rare, medium-well, etc.) figuring I'd get something between medium and medium rare at worst. Wrong! It was "brown" and the edges had been burned to a crisp rendering that delicious steak fat worthless. Nothing like having a high expectation for a steak and it ends up tasting like leather. Fortunately, a couple of guys ordered their mashed sweet potatoes and creamed mashed potatoes, both of which made for much better eating than the steak did.
My cafe au lait was good albeit a bit watery, and the cafe au lait ice cream (du jour) was the best thing I had.
IMHO, Dickie Brennan's is fortunate that I give them 2 stars (out of 5) witha price at about 4.5. Can I reiterate? OVERRATED This continues the +/- 50% visits being horrible or having major flaws.
TPS