DC Restaurant Review: BLT Steak

No it isnt a steak sandwhich with bacon, which would be awesome, BLT Steak is the newest steakhouse in DC. Steakhouse dot the DC landscape like lobbyist, they are all over and when they offer the same service some are just plain superior to others. What makes a great steakhouse? Anytime you spend $30 on anything it better be damn near perfect. First is the steak, a couple of choice cuts with excellent marbling to make the steak melt in you mouth. It should be grilled to a nice pink and the it should be crusty on the outside. It should tasty awesome on it's own, sauce, onions, mushrooms, peppers all that are used to cover up bad steaks. BLT not only had a tarragon butter ala french bistro but their steaks came with a sauce. Seeing this makes me skepitcal of the meat...BLT's filet was decent but I wasnt overwhelmed, I didnt stop and give thanks to Buddha...it was ordinary...and if you are going out for steak ordinary doesnt cut it...oh and by the way $42 for a filet...what the fuck..DC isn't worth that cost.

The meal started with great pate and crusty toasted bread. I could have ate this all night. It was freshly made and good. Then came the pop overs...I have had fresh pop overs and when you have those the steam and doughiness smacks you in the face and you want to scarf down ten of them. These popovers were not fesh, hard and sad.

Other starters were potato skins and a tuna tartar...the best potato skins have potato in them these were more like the bag of fake TGI Fridays potato skins. They were hard and the cheese was globby and you could barely taste the sour cream. It was cardboard. the tuna tartar wasn't bad, chopped into cubs it was blended with some wasabi, maybe a bit much and some potato waffles. It was a large portion as well.

our steak sides were creamed spinich, green beans, onion rings and blue cheese tater tots. The creamed spinich was fine, normal steak house fare, the green beans were poached with a little butter...they were crisp. The onion rings were like all other onion rings and frankly more greasy. The blue cheese taster toots shuld hav been called deep fried blue cheese chunks with that description you can tell that this was not so good as well.

We didnt have dessert we wanted out.

As for service, it was laughable...we had reservations and they didnt hold them...our server didnt show up for ten minutes...they got our drink order wrong, after serving our apps and main courses our waiter never came by...

BLT Steak needs help, I know it is a chain in NY and it is all flashy and sleek but get the basic right before you move forward.