As soon as you walk in to Sparks Steak House Sparks Steak House, you’ll notice that they’re very old school. It’s a boys club here, where men out number women 4 to 1, every staff member is male, and there is a wall full of cigars. The feel is very, old mob movie-like and there is a huge crowd by the bar. Don’t get excited ladies, these are mostly fat old men. The place is loud too; you might as well be in Chinatown. I don’t know why people “business dine” here.
While we ate the average rolls, we looked over the menu (thank you for large print) where nothing sounded interesting. There was no T-bone, no aged steaks, no rib-eye, hanger, or porter house….only Filet Mignon and Sirloin Steak were named by cut. The rest was stuff like Sliced Steak (2 of those), Beef Scallopini, and Medallions of Beef. Where’s the Steak House menu? What’s going on?
The food list was short but they have one of the longest wine and liquor lists I’ve seen. We chose a bottle of Rioja (Marques de Murietta Castillo Ygay2000 Gran Reserva) which everyone liked. It’s a sweet and light red, good for our light weight group.
The salads were giant, but all the pieces were way bigger than bite size and having your customers eat your salad with a fork and knife is not a good sign.
Lon ordered a crab and scallop appetizer, just simply broiled with butter, but it was really really good. This was the winner of the night. The seafood was fresh and cooked perfectly tender so that it melted in your mouth with the butter. MMM….
We were a party of seven: 3 people ended up with Sirloin. Here’s Lon’s, cooked correctly (he requested rare), well seasoned, but just not very good meat. It was quite tendonous, which was exacerbated by the dull steak knives.
I really didn’t think anything looked interesting so I opted for the Extra Thick Veal Chop. It tasted like extra tendonous pork. The knives were really driving me nuts. I was having such a hard time cutting and my fingers started hurting because I was gripping so hard, so I just gave up and only ate about 1/3 of it.
I ate some of Lon’s steak and one of my mom’s Lamb Chops, thick and juicy, meat quality just above average. They were cooked as asked and seasoned well.
We shared the sides of asparagus (just blanched), spinach (also blanched), and Hash Brown Potatoes (more accurately home fries). The vegetables were very plain but cooked correctly. The potatoes were nicely crisped, although kind of ugly.
Dessert was better than expected. Lon loved the pecan pie and we all enjoyed the coffee. A big pot is placed on the table so you can refill yourself.
Overall, the food kind of sucks, service is average (but slow on water refills), plates are from your grandmother’s attic (yea, even she doesn’t use them anymore), and it’s dang expensive!
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Sirloin is a highly over-rated cut of meat. I’d rather eat hangar or skirt steak.
Wow, what a lovely meal you had!! But I don’t think that I could eat all of that!
We had the opposite experience at York Grill this week. Delicious, great service and a really good warm Romaine salad (a take off on Caesar).
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Bill G – def try York Grill then, they’re known for their hangar steak. 6 of the 9 people at our table got it and all loved, it’s marinated in an Asian style sauce. Of course I didn’t have it, but everyone else pretty much cleaned their plates.
GlenStef, are you asking how often we post? If so, we try to do it twice per day except for once on Sundays. Occasionally, this does not happen do to technical difficulties or something…