Friday night I went to Capitol Grill for my last of our menu for the season. The service there was excreable, especially in light of the fact that there’s a $20 valet parking fee. We did manage to find a place to park across the street in Circle Center mall. That said, we had to walk through a cloud of skunk to get there. The menus were huge and the Devour menus were nice. The waiter took our order and when I ask about wine, I was referred to the two most expensive glasses of wine on the menu. While they might be the best 2 glasses on the “by the glass menu”, it always irritates me that they are so unknowledgeable about their wine list in a restaurant of that caliber that I naturally assume that they are just trying to make money. The thing is I appreciate ingenuity, honesty and intrepidness. It is rather dissembling to only offer the most expensive. THEN He didn’t even take our menus, they brought bread, they didn’t take our menus, finally because we couldn’t eat our bread around these huge menus, I in a very plebeian manner propped mine on the floor. At last, the server took our order, the bread was amazing when we finally got to it.
I had a wedge salad which was only O.K., the bacon was really big chunks &; really really tough, and while it had its merit but not one of my favorites, I ordered a fillet with béarnaise and it was accompanied by green beans and mashed potatoes I’m fairly sure the mashed potatoes were instant, my fillet was great the béarnaise sauce that accompanied it was great and the green beans were OK.
Dessert the option was crème brûlée or a chocolate tort which was a cute little 2 inch chocolate mousse thing which was very good and we had coffee my bill for that Devour meal was $118 with tip it was $140 definitely not worth it wouldn’t do it again
P.S. I brought half my filet, thé béarnaise, the 1/3 of the left over instant potatoes (= about 1/8 cup - the server was disgusted that I wanted the breads and potatoes) and green beans and dinned on it last night. Thé béarnaise in 10 seconds in the microwave, turned to rubber, and I had to whip up some to compliment my steak. It was the meal that just kept on giving. .....
