- Baltimore 1101 North Calvert StreetBaltimore, MD 21202
This place is hard to find, so unless you ask, find yourself looking around for a while. I even stopped to ask a police officer for directions and he did not know where it was....umm hasn't this place been here since the begining of time?
Once you find the place you better splurge on the valet, because finding parking in this neigborhood is not easy and if you do, make sure you lock up your car real good.
This place is dark and still set in a very 1980s mob look...the decour left you asking for more with their shiny black chair sets and bronze toned decours....it screemed 80s fab from many different directions......one comment "they need and HGTV intervention" The place was mobbed (God knows why) and the wine bar area was extremely too small for all the hussle and bussle that was going on. Can we say overbooked? We waited a good hour plus to be sat. Gladly there was a real piano player accompanied by a bass guy playing soft jazz. Finally, we were sat next to the musicians....maybe a tad too close.
We ordered a shrimp cocktail appetizer, that brought us 5 robust shrimps with canned cocktail sause for a wopping $21. Next we moved on to the house specialty, the prime rib (hence the name)....that came extremely too rare (and I like rare) cold and thick.....not a good combo to have a rare cold chunk of meat the size of a 7-11 big gulp, if I may add. My partner had what appear to be a lovely steak wich she soon declared as too fatty....need I say more? The desserts were too forgettable...in fact its been a few hours and I have forgotten what we had...
Service was borderline forgetfull, since we had to ask several other waiters for things instead of our "official " waiter who became MIA for a good 45 minute spree.
Overall this place was overprize, the food was not up to par with all the talk in town about this "pretigious" steak parlor. For starter I would fire the chef and I would get a remodeling going to get rid of that low tiled ceiling....Honestly, I would not set foot here again...not even for a free dinner!
Rating = -10 and there is nothing saving it.
