Overpriced Outback with lousy service for money spent!!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
My FIANCE' AND I went to the Met for my birthday.. He made reservations and I was so excited. We dressed up(which is not the normal, from what I could see), got there an hour early of our reservation on that Friday night. We checked in, told the servers that it was my birthday and promptly went to the bar for a much needed libation. The drink was a Lemon Drop and exquisitely made. Then we got seated. Next to the waiter's station and at a small, unromantic booth. We ordered Chateau Breaund and wait for the steak.. The appetizer was basically thrown at our table. We were not offered to take our coats, although we noticed the table next to us was offered that service. When the chateau was ready to bring to the table, my partner had gone to the restroom.. Here is where it went way too haywire to describe. The maitre'd forcibly asked me if he could "get on with the show, as it wasnt much of one(i was a woman seated in a five star restaurant being treated as a nuisance was my feeling at that moment. so much for feeling special on my birthday..felt like a low class citizen and it hurt). I have never been treated so brashly, even in the 2 star restaurants we sometimes go to. I feel like they are an overpriced, snobby OUTBACK steakhouse.. as a matter of fact the steak is better at Outback and you feel like you got good service. We will not go back to "THE MET" as we feel that everyone deserves to be treated the same unless they are going to discount the bill for lack of service and quality. By the way the second lemon drop drink looked as though someone had licked the sugar off the rim and the steak was overcooked and crusty and the sauce that the maitre'd made was overwrought with mustard and not good at all. Probably due to the fact that he "didn't think it was that much of a show"!! Save your money and get a nice motel room after dinner at Outback or 13 coins--you will feel special and save some dough.
Pros: Big steaks
Cons: service, parking, price, attitudes, condescending waitstaff