It's Gracie's birthday! I announced that we are going to Ruth Chris for her early birthday dinner, and we both excitedly look forward to the BIG day. Reservations made at 7pm but we were delayed by Gracie's shoes disaster and reached at 8pm instead. They were nice to keep the table for us, its not too crowded on a Friday night and we had a small cosy corner to ourselves.
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| Complimentary Bread and salted whipped butter (It comes warm!) |
After placing our orders, complimentary bread was served, the first mouth gives no surprise, however after a few more mouths, pairing with whipped butter , it actually became more and more enjoyable. We unanimously said "YES!" when asked if we wanted a 2nd serving. Carbo monsters indeed.
For appeitizers, we ordered Ruth's Chop Salad, Lobster bisque and Sizzling Blue Crab Cakes. Mains, we shared a 450g Ribeye (medium rare), recommended by our server.
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| Lobster Bisque |
Lobster bisque has a nice prawny flavour with a creamy texture, different from the usual lobster bisque thats more soupy. It comes with fresh springy small chunks of lobster meat in it. Soup is enjoyable but no WOW effect, I prefer my lobster bisque to be more soupy and bursting with prawn flavour and a dash of cognac... hmmmmm!
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| Ruth's Chopped Salad |
Ruth's chopped salad comes with Julienne iceberg lettuce, baby spinach and radicchio are tossed with red onions, mushrooms, green olives, bacon, eggs, hearts of palm, croutons, bleu cheese, lemon basil dressing, all chopped up and then topped with crispy onions. It an easy to eat salad cos its all chopped up so no need to mix it yourself, enjoyable and extra bliss when there's bleu cheese in that mouthful you take.
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| Sizzling Blue Crab Cakes |
Sizzling crab cakes was amazing! It came sizzling hot and drizzled in lemon butter, perfect snack for those who likes crabs but do not wanna dabble with the shells. Although the crab cakes have robust flavours and happiness with every bite, it does not overpower and makes it easy for us to finish a piece each comfortably. I guess the lemon butter helps in giving it extra depth and a tinge of freshness.
Here comes the star of the night!! Our big juicy chunk of medium rare ribeye steak. It's absolute enjoyment of the 5 senses, we could smell the aroma, hear the sizzling sound, feel the goodness of the meat.. Super yummy! Did I mention it comes with sizzling butter on a 260 degrees sizzling hot white plate? We were sharing the meat so they gave us a hot white plate each, coated with butter. We almost wanted to clap in joy when we saw that, the world is just us and steak.
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| Steak Fries |
Yes, there's no typo.. This IS steak fries, not wedges. It comes tossed with fresh rosemary, roasted garlic and sun-dried tomatoes. I can't detect the rosemary taste and the fries are too dry for my liking and I did not finish my share.
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| Complimentary Chocolate Sin cake for Gracie |
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| Warm apple crumb tart |
By dessert time, we were quite filled but decided to try their warm apple tart, hoping that the apples can help to refresh our tastebuds. Apples are baked in a flaky pastry topped with vanilla bean ice cream. Portions are big so we had to struggle through half of it before giving up. I find it a tad too sweet for my liking.
There's a nice complimentary chocolate espresso cake for Gracie. The coffee taste in the cake is quite strong, intially it tasted interesting but after a few mouthfuls, it reminds us of the old school coffee bean grinding machine.
We left Ruth Chris feeling pampered and content, with a happy stomach and a wide smile on our faces. Throughout the dinner we can't help but notice the similar menu that Mortons has. I'll say both places are on par for the great steaks they have but Mortons scored better for their appetitizers and desserts.
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