Ken's Steak House — Restaurant in Framingham

They serve bottled dressing and say the dressing is fresh. The red sauce is so nasty and taste burnt with a bunch of oregano. The steak is okay but has huge pieces of fat and it is a sirloin. I have never seen fat on a sirloin. The salad is shaved onions, 2 small tomatoes, and iceberg chunks. Yuck! You only get a steak with a salad and there is “no substitutions” for the salad. The portions were not generous and the menu was overpriced. Go to Walmart and get the dressing. Trust me you will make a better salad and steak at home. Stay away!! Also, the burgers were raw for the kids. Raw. And back to the red sauce we asked the waitress to taste it first for the kids since she suggested we not get the cheaper pasta with the red sauce for one of the kids. Well, we did not like the sauce. So we got a second order of chicken parm. The chicken parm was more expensive so she was pleased. The chicken parm was covered in the nasty “red sauce. She was only trying to increase our bill. She did not care about her customers. She should have suggested the Mac and cheese seeing how the kids did not like the red sauce. Needless to say, the kids are nothing and we’re starving when we left. The biggest waste of money ever. If you see your table had not eaten anything ask how everything is going. They were more concerned if we were going to eat the kids French fries than of the kids were okay. We tipped the waitress $28 for our food which was not deserved and was at the 20%. Scam artists. That is stealing from your table when you suggest the most or close to the most expensive item on the menu to increase the tip. Especially when they just said they did not like the red sauce. All she had to do was say the red sauce comes on the chicken marinara but she saw dollar signs. To make matters worse she acted like the chicken marinara came with a completely different sauce. And at the end I said the kids did not like the sauce and asked why she did not tell us about the red sauce coming in the chicken marinara she said “I did not know.” She did not know her own menu? The menu is 2 pages!!! I would have tipped her a lot less had I signed the check. She also hovered over the table and watched us write the tip in. Bad. Bad. Bad. Stay away!!! Terrible food. ...

An Expensive Disappointment :-( Visit: March 1st, 2014 OpenTable reservation 5:30 p.m. Server: Igor Cost: 1 appetizer, 2 entrees, 2 cocktails, 2 wines - $104.43 PJ Rating: 2 of 5 – we won’t go back. Starter: Calamari – The menu says, “Served with marinara sauce” for $9.95. Our server came back to the table and asked if we’d like the “Calamari Special” with feta and something else. We declined – wanting to sample the regular menu-listed item. I should have kept a menu. What we got was a bowl of over-breaded fried calamari with tomatoes and peppers…and no marinara sauce. I should have asked, but I thought maybe I’d read it wrong. Oh well. It was dry, doughy, and as PajamaGal said, “flavorless”. The menu price is $9.95 – we were charged $9.00?

Salads: Dinner Salad & Caesar Salad – Both of our entrees included salad, PajamaGal chose the house dinner salad with Italian dressing; I chose the Caesar. Our server had asked if I wanted anchovies so what I got was a bowl of wilted, chopped romaine tossed with “Ken’s Caesar” dressing and 3 anchovies thrown on top. For a place whose name is synonymous with “Salad” one might think the salads would be at least better than average – they weren’t. Entrées: P-Gal had the 12 oz. Prime Rib (Menu-$23.00, charged-$25.95) with a baked potato and squash. I had “Center Cut Filet Mignon* (10oz)” – with baked potato and carrots. (Menu price-$28.95, charged-$29.95) The Prime Rib looked beautiful – but it was very chewy and flavor was just o.k. My 10 oz. filet couldn’t have been more than 8 oz., and had the texture of a sirloin. It was served dry – no herbed butter or steak sauce of any kind. I didn’t ask, and none was offered. Both the carrots and the squash were overcooked and way over-sugared. The baked potatoes were foil-wrapped and overcooked with soggy skins. Reminded me of leftovers. And they’d been opened by cutting through the foil. For being THE Ken’s Steakhouse, we expected more. We’ve had better meals at Golden Coral and spent a lot less than $100. I think they are riding on their past reputation and have grown lazy and mediocre. If Longhorn’s is a 10, Ken’s is a 5. (and what’s up with charging prices different from...

We've come here occasionally, maybe every 3-4 months for dinner on a Saturday night. It's generally been ok. Is it Capital Grille? No but it's also not even is the same realm as Capital Grille in pricing. In general you can get a cocktail or two, a salad, meal with side and walk out spending 75-85 for dinner for two. The steak will be cooked to the right temperature nothing else will be more than just adequate. My issue last night was the service. I ordered a second drink. Because of where we sat, I could see the drink sitting there at the bar for a good ten minutes. Eventually it got brought over to me and put on the wrong side of me so after she left I went to move it so I could eat my dinner. The glass was so sweaty from sitting there I dropped it. It went all over the table but really made no other mess besides that. Eventually she comes back and notices the drink spilled and asked me if I wanted another one. Since we were almost done with dinner I said no knowing how long the first one took. The bill came and she charged me the 10 bucks for the drink. I mean come on? Yes I spilled the drink and that's my fault but this is supposed to be a halfway decent restaurant not a college bar....a nice gesture would have been to just quietly remove the drink that you could see I didn't drink any of. That's fine though...you have very few customers Kens and you just lost a regular and the waitress who didn't remove the drink also was tipped on the bill minus the drink so I guess in the end...good thing you kept that 10 bucks. You need it far more than me. Anyone remember the final days of Hilltop Steakhouse? I wonder if Kens...