Don't GOOOOOOO! It's been around forever. Well, as long as I can remember, and that's a long time, but I've never really been tempted to go there. It's never been that impressive from the outside. Just and average family restaurant type thing. Well, today I was searching for some place new and interesting to eat around here, and came on their website. Wow, it looked delicious. High priced, but hey, it's a steak joint, and I really don't mind paying a high price for good food.
Well...
I'm not usually too hard on restaurants, but I have to say I was completely under-whelmed for the most part, and in some cases completely disgusted. First of all, it's cafeteria style, okay, well the salad bar and hot side's bar is all you can eat, and they bring your steak and potato choice out to your table. The food bars were not at all impressive, just average, but what's worse, the food in general wasn't very good. I will admit that my steak was buttery soft, and good, but my hubby's was tough and sinewy (New York Strip should be one of the best cuts). The corn bread was very good, but that's the only two things I liked. I had steak fries and while they were nice and thick, the edges were rock hard, the vegetable medley from the hot bar was tasteless, and the carrots were rock hard.
I've never not went back to a buffet line at least once, and I've never turned a blind eye to a free desert even if it is only soft-serve ice cream, but I did this time, and left a good portion of my first serving on the plate.
Do yourself a favor... skip Mattson's Steak House at 81st and Cicero in Burbank, IL
What WD Missed
2 years ago
