I've heard really great recommendations about Bones and tried hard to like it.

Appetizer

• Grilled Octopus: We all love octopus in general but this dish fell flat. It was lackluster. Boring. We couldn't taste that it was grilled at all. Even the lemon didn't help to brighten the dish.
• Wagyu Carpaccio: The meat does melt in your mouth. The point of this dish is to highlight the wagyu which it seemed to do.

Salad & Soup Lobster Bisque: my friend said it was way too salty. She couldn't finish it. Bones Salad: I was disappointed by this salad. Bibb lettuce is delicious and goes from crunchy to flat pretty quickly. About half of my lettuce was already flat. The salad was definitely light enough to have before a meal though.

Entrees Dry-aged bone-in ribeye: the 3 of us all wanted different temperatures: rare, medium rare, and medium. The waiter specifically told us that they tended to cook their steaks on the rarer side of that so assume the temperature is one step down. Based on that information, we all bumped our meat temperatures up one level. Well our meat comes out and they're all cooked exactly to the temperature that we ordered rather than what we actually wanted. We shouldn't have listened to the waiter at all. My friend got her steak herb crusted but it was ridiculously salty. I got my charred which was an excellent suggestion by the waiter this time.

Sides

• Hashbrowns: this came HIGHLY recommended but it was such a let down. We didn't understand the hype about out. WaHo makes better hashbrowns.
• Broccoli - nothing phenomenal about this. Just basic broccoli which we were fine with.
• Mac N Cheese - I was disappointed by the quantity? I felt like we got shafted because half of our bowl was empty. Our also had about 2 small slices of bacon. It really just tasted like Penne tossed in a bit of cream sauce.

Cocktails

• The Weekend & The Manhattan: both were very good and refreshing. The drinks came out super quick.

Service

• The wait staff is incredibly attentive. Our waters never reached the half way mark before they were refilled. They weren't super friendly which is weird for the South but I guess they were all strictly business.
• The food pacing was just a tad to quick for us. I would've loved just 2 or 3 minutes between each course. I literally was chewing on my last piece of lettuce then my entree appeared. My friend was still halfway through her salad at that point too.

Cost: Our meal came out to around $450 for the 3 of us total.

Overall: Bones was just Ok. Nothing spectacular besides the price. There are other Steakhouses in Atlanta where the food has more flavor and the environment is a bit less stuffy.