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🤢 2/5 - It pains me to write this review of a restaurant I have
By 👻 @David E., 10/16/2023 3:00 am
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It pains me to write this review of a restaurant I have enjoyed for many (20+) years. The Prime Rib was always my go-to place for truly excellent, dry-aged, prime rib, in a wonderfully clubby environment. The environment there now is still great with attentive wait staff in an elegant surrounding. I've generally eaten here 3-4 times per year, so I've got 60-80 meals of experience. The issue has become the outrageous pricing increases over the past year or so, and reduction in the quality of meat used for the prime rib. On a recent dinner (about 6 weeks ago), a fellow wine connoisseur and I ordered our usual: Caesar Salads, bone in prime rib, potatoes au gratin (need two orders as they are tiny), and ice cream sundaes. The bone in prime rib is now $154 a la carte! We asked what the cost would be first because it was listed as MP so we knew that going in, but considering the regular (smaller boneless cut) was $77 I was still hoping it would be worth it. It was not. Something different is going on with the beef quality as it did not have any aged flavor at all and didn't seem to be USDA Prime grade either. I don't care if they show me a label that says Prime, the quality has definitely declined, and I bet they know it. The only beef I eat at home is aged prime that I get flown in from one of the top artisanal butchers in the country. It was a piece of rather firm roast beef masquerading as prime rib. I didn't complain because I wasn't looking for some sort of comp, and I wanted to think about it before I made a review. Having seen another reviewer also note the lack of any reasonableness with regard to recent price hikes I thought it was time to contribute my opinion in hopes this can be corrected. I was in Manhattan recently and checked the cost of similarly sized bone in prime rib at some of the best places and they are not close to what the DC Prime Rib is charging. Also, the Caesar salad and sundae are also priced at $25 each which seems out of touch with reality. None of these dishes were produced by a world renowned chef. With corkage fees (not bottles off their list), and tax and tip, my total for just me was $375. I don't regularly like to spend that on a meal unless it's prepared by a very talented chef that probably has a Michelin star, or the key ingredients are just very rare and expensive. None of that was in play here. There is a difference between being able to afford something and realizing you're being taken advantage of, and that's where I am with the Prime Rib at this point. There is a complete disconnect in terms of food pricing and the quality of that food. As I said, the overall ambience remains great, but for now the Prime Rib is not in my DC restaurant rotation.
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