My Heart Hates Me

For the BC Day long weekend I went down to Seattle with Glo, the boys, Kevin and his girl friend. I'm not much of a shopper so I really had no business there, but I was looking forward to going for two reasons: Steak and Butter.

You read correctly, that's steak AND butter. I'm referring to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Norm told me about them and their menu which included steaks that were butter soaked. Being in Seattle I obviously had to try it out.

On Sunday (08/03/08) we left early in the morning, and went past the border after just over an hour of waiting which wasn't too bad. We made a stop at Wal-Mart and then at the Premium Outlets for some minor shopping. We got to the Paramount Hotel in downtown Seattle at around 1PM and noted that Ruth's Chris was right across the street. After some downtown shopping and visiting Pike Place Market we made our way back to the hotel to drop our things off before eating.

On the elevator down I was talking about the buttered steak and a lady in the elevator instantly knew we were going to Ruth's Chris. She said she ordered her steak without the butter. Why would you do such a horrible thing?

Upon entering Ruth's Chris we immediately observed that this restaurant was on the high end of the scale. We were shown to our seats by the hostess where we were greeted by Dee our waiter. I usually don't remember waiters, but Dee was an exceptional waiter, I'm going to say he's the best waiter I've ever had. He looked a lot like Michael Clarke Duncan, but no one seemed to know who I was talking about.

Dee offered us a variety of bottled waters, but after a moment of awkward silence he said that they also had Seattle's finest ice water (tap water), we answered with a communal "We'll take that." Cheap skate asian kids.

Me and Glo ordered the porterhouse which was slices of different steaks (filet, ribeye, and New York). The entree came in a piping hot plate, we were told that the kitchen generally under cooks the steaks because the plates are so hot. And of course the steaks sat in a pool of melted butter. My heart hates me.

The steak itself was good, not great, I've had better steaks. Was it worth the $40+ that we each paid, I would say no. But Dee was very pleasant, so for anyone with money to burn and can take butter drenched steaks go to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.