Club Car Restaurant

I am going based on my experience a lone on this one, since my girlfriend was not apart of this outing. It was a business dinner, and we were in a large group. Some did not care about there meal, and some enjoyed it. As far as me? I was a fan. From the start the place was very fancy looking, and the ambience was great. The bread and butter (well toated butter bread) was nice and crunchy and very buttery; cant ever be mad at that.

I had 2 cucumber basil Gimlet that did the trick, an appetizer and an entree. Portions are very big for a fine dining spot, so dessert was out of the question. I ordered the escargot, which were tasty, garlicky and buttery, and the Pork Loing wrapped in Bacon. It was topped with Foie gras, and served with truffle mash and asparagus. Very  hearty and manly dish there if I should say... haha. I also ordered a side of mushrooms. I cannot complain on how pricey it all was, since it was taken care of, which I really really appreciated. Had an excellent time with the entire team that we went out with, and hopefully we will repeat this another time.

My husband and I had an early reservation (630pm) at Club Car on a Saturday night. We had a decent experience, but thought it was a little overpriced.

We were greeted by a very friendly hostess. The room is beautiful, and I kept thinking it would be a nice space for a private event.

They gave us some yummy garlic bread to start, and we also ordered some cocktails. My husband had a whiskey cocktail from the menu that he really liked.  For an appetizer, my husband had oysters, which he enjoyed, and I had the stuffed clams which were ok. I didn't realize how much sausage there was going to be in the stuffed clams and there was too much fennel for my taste. For entrees, my husband had the duck which he thought was very salty, and I had the whole wheat pasta with shrimp and veggies which was good. We split the Caribbean sundae for dessert and it was huge- it could have fed 4 people!

In general the restaurant has a NYC vibe to it. The noise level was fine, there was nice music in the background. The tables along the perimeter are really packed in tight together, so you may have the unfortunate experience (as we did) of having to basically share a meal with one if the many super rich, plastic surgery-riddled "real housewives of westchester county" types who eat here en masse. There were several people within earshot of my table that I literally wanted to punch. Of course, the clientele isn't the restaurant's fault, but thought someone would want to know what to expect.

We thought the service was just fine and very friendly.

We liked this place well enough, but maybe not enough to go back a second time. If we are going to spend that much money again, we want to be really "wowed" by the food, and the Club Car was just "good."

I've just returned from lunch with my husband and enjoyed our meal but the prices are very high and the regular menu leans to dinner courses.  If you want something on the lighter side you must go with the prix fixe at $29.  There were about 4 appetizer and a soup option for the first course and a good amount of choices for the second course.  The third course is their full dessert menu handed to you after you are done with your entree.  Dessert is not listed on the prix fix menu.

For starts we shared the Caesar salad with bay scallops which sounds odd but it said crispy so I wanted to try it.  They were lightly breaded and far from crispy and I smelled them when the plate was sat in front of me.  Not the best start.  Let me go back, I ordered a glass of Reisling and while the stemware was huge the water brought it over in a very small carafe and poured it in the glass.  The wine portion was the only part of the meal that was less than satisfying.  A small basket of long cuts of bread slathered in oil and garlic were good.  

OK so back to our appetizers.  The Caesar salad had a nice parmasean crip so inspite of the scallops it was good.  My husband had a fried peanut encrusted calamari dish that was Asian inspired and very good.  It came with a peanut dipping sauce the was so good I dipped my scallops in it.  

For lunch my husband had the duck and orzo.  Duck was very flavorful although cooked well done.  He was not asked how he wanted the meat cooked.  It almost bordered overcooked but it was saved probably by a few minutes.  The orzo had a declicious flavor.  I ordered the lobster on a broiche bun which said it was a 1/14 lb lobster.  There was very little meat in the roll and being a broiche bun it overpowered the lobster which was flavorless.  It had a bit of mayo and way to many sliced celery.  I peeled off the bun and at the salad and still hadn't much flavor.  The fries were well cooked.  For dessert I had the Tirimasu martini and it was really decadent and a very big serving.  

Overall, if money is not an object and you live in the area I would recommend it but we live in Yonkers and given the prices I'd rather eat at X2O.  Sorry but this is my review so I have to call it as I see it.