- 整體 4
- 食物 5
- 服務 4
- 氛圍 4
Ruth's Chris was our choice of Restaurant Week restaurants when we celebrated the birthday of a family member with rather unadventurous eating habits. The meal was very nice but a couple little things kept it from being a five-star experience. First and foremost the gumbo soup was absolutely delicious, the best I've had since I've lived on the East Coast. The house wine is very drinkable, we had cabernet, and the petite fillets my husband and sister have were delicious. I had a stuffed chicken and it was a bit too cheesy for me, but the crowd at Ruth Chris's tends to be big eaters so the majority probably like the cheesy stuff. The flavor was good. The mashed potatoes were just about perfect. Creamed spinach was absolutely heaven. Desserts were disappointment. They go with the trend of mushy stuff in ramekins instead of proper pies and cakes. We had ice cream and a serving was three scoops, quite large. The ice cream is average. My husband's after dinner coffee was way too smoky and bitter.
When we came in with reservations, a very young hostess greeted us and we were seated at a table in the corner of the bar. I asked if we could be seated upstairs or in one of the other rooms because I don't like eating in the bar but she insisted that that was a very good table. It wasn't, we could see the station where the waiter stand and the two flapping doors from the kitchen and the people at the bar staring at their cell phones. The waiter was very good but at each turn he tried to upsell us to a different menu item even though we said we wanted the restaurant week menu.
Again, he was a very good waiter and they actually have a bus staff, unlike most restaurants, so that was nice. The dessert, ice cream, came in a parfait cup with no plate under it and a really big spoon was served with it. This is happening everywhere. My requested teaspoon never came.
The atmosphere is lovely, but the crowd wasn't fancy at all. Certainly everyone is welcome here.