Ruby Tuesday

Oy. Another "meh" experience. A Sunday night family dinner + a child that didn't stop talking for one second + a day having spent painting the face a hundreds of screaming little kids = NOT a happy camper when food is bad. For starters, there is a table tent right on the table stating that if the waiter fails to offer you the fondue prior to bringing your drinks, you get it free. When that happened, the waiter explained to me that he did offer the appetizer. I asked everyone at the table whether or not he did and they said they didn't remember him offering it, but we let it slide.

Fast forward 10 minutes later, he brings the fondue appetizer anyway. WTF? But still a nice gesture, I suppose. The appetizers we ordered (sampler and guacamole) were as expected. The guac was exceptionally fresh, so yay! As were the obviously house-made tortilla chips. Then there was the main course. I got their highly-promoted seafood trio: Shrimp skewer, crab cake and lobster tail. All grilled. Well....it left something to be desired. First, the plate is WAY too big. Half of it was empty making it look like something was missing. Fail. Then, there was ONE skewer with four small shrimps and ONE crab cake that was the size of half of a regular sized one. And the BIG FAIL was the lobster tail (unintentional rhyme insert) It was WAY over salted! GOOD LAWD! How you gonna screw up a lobster tail. It practically cooks itself! Over salting such a beautiful food is insult to the entire species. They're all ashamed of you Ruby Tuesday. ALL OF YOU.

Rolled in late at night and my girldfriend and I decided to hit up the hotel bar instead of venturing downtown..

The salad bar here is pretty extensive.. although, clearly sitting around all day.
The shrimp fondue was ok.. a little thick and too tangy I thought though.
The asiago steak was pretty good.
I had the chicken trio which was good too..

If you order a Caesar they dont know what you're talking about.. or should I say abOOt ;)   I think they put cocktail sauce in the tomato juice to pretend it was Clamato.. kinda wierd but ok... suggestion by bartender for another vodka drink was electric koolaid and it was bright blue but pretty bland.

It has a great make-your-own salad bar, which made it THE place to go for this Jewess on Passover!  The veggie trio was especially perfect, where you can pick three vegetable sides and do the salad bar too for $10.50.

Buuut the food just isn't great.  The zucchini was the highlight of my veggie trio, the broccoli was okay but needed salt, and the spaghetti squash was all right but needed salt and pepper.  Just not the coarse ground pepper they put on your table!  Wow! A couple of turns of that sucker and I was having pepper for dinner.  At least it's not chametz!

My mom said her avocado grilled chicken sandwich was bland.  The best part of the meal? Apparently the mac and cheese, though I'll have to go back after Passover ends in the diaspora to try it sometime.

Our waiter was friendly too, although he didn't quite know how to deal with our Yelp check-in deal of a free dessert.  Poor guy!