Wednesday, February 26, 2014

RANT - John's Grill

This place, along with The Tadich Grill, and House of Prime Rib, represents the type of restaurant mostly frequented by out of towners, and (rightly) avoided by locals.

It's a tired place, made 'famous' by Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. According to the restaurant's blurb, it's a favorite place of "local and national celebrities", although the pictures of those "celebrities" on the walls all look like they're of people who were at best small timers and only back in the day (and that 'day' looks like it was sometime in the fifties).

The menu too is tired, consisting of the dull steak and seafood staples that're done so much better by the more happening steak places in town or the many seafood specialty places around.

My Caesar Salad and Rib Eye Steak (I said the menu was tired) were underwhelming and made only palatable by my hosts, a large party of business associates from out of town and out of the country.

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