Baltimore Restaurant Review: Ruth Chris's Pikesville

It was my mom's birthday and the family went out to celebrate. We always go out to celebrate. I think thats why I lik eeating out. It reminds me of celebration.

As we left my mom asked, whats the best steak. You know what I dont know. Sometimes I miss my mom's hockey puck steak and steamed rice. The double porterhouse at Bobby Van's is excellent but in the realm of basic steak houses Ruth's Chris's steak is pretty damn good. I guess you can say that anything you slather butter on is good.

The meal, lobster bisque, crab stuffed shrooms, the chop salad, and the cowboy rib eye, also present were the petite filet, and prime rib. There is no kids menu at this joint unlike the Capitol Grille that will fry up 4-5 massive chicken breasts and call them chicken fingers. The little one had the stuffed chicken which was good.

The crab bisque had good chunky lobster and the broth was tasty. I have this imaginery image in my head of the world's greatest bisque Im not sure where i had it. The broth was mediocre. Overall average bisque.

Stuffed mushrooms- the report from BroswerMetric...it was just OK. The cheese on top didnt compliment the overall dish. So i that was a miss.

The chop salad, iceberg, radishes, blue cheese, onions, fried onions, mushrooms, bluecheese dressing, man this salad was awesome. It combines everything so that you get veen distribution of slad goodness. I just found this salad about three years ago and it is by far the greatest salad ever. i use to love fresh cesear but that pales in comparison to this salad.

The steak...OK these are the best steaks in the steak house genre except Bob Van's double porterhouse. They have good cuts and they are cooked with butter, so they basically ruled.

While we were eating Dr. P came in. I had to say to him. He's a good guy. I need to get him $50 Million, $50 million cheese and crackers.

Dominate dinner conversation were '07 and '08 vacations, espagne and hawa'ii. Big Island is the only place to go and we have to go see the Guernica.

Ruth's Chris is a decent steak with some good sides.