1700 Degrees Steakhouse — Restaurant in Harrisburg

Everyone knows 1700 Degrees is an awesome restaurant, but I wanted to let people know that it is also a spectacular venue to hold a private affair! I recently held my son’s wedding rehearsal dinner (24 guests) in one of their private dining rooms. I will try to be brief, but there are not enough words to describe my wonderful experience! From the beginning, Najib helped me with all aspects of the event - which private room would accommodate my music video, the menu selection, where to have the cocktail hour, table placements. . . you name it! He was wonderful to work with thru the entire process. Nancy met me the morning of the dinner and helped me bring in my flowers, decorations, favors, etc. so that everything would be at the location when I came before the event to decorate. To my delight, when I got there to decorate, our servers for the night, Peggy and Heather, had the private room and the reserved cocktail area in the lobby already decorated! Centerpieces, candles, flowers, lighted garland, place cards, welcome board, favors displayed on a table. . . both areas looked gorgeous. They gave excellent service the entire night, with many guests remarking to me the next day how great the service was! Thanks again, Peggy and Heather, for everything! The guests were able to choose from a fish, chicken or meat entrée and everyone said their meal was delicious! Compliments to the chef! Who, by the way, made a gluten free version of the grouper entrée to accommodate the bride. Everyone involved with the restaurant and the Hilton went over and beyond to make my event so special. I will be forever grateful! Thanks to everyone! Georgia Liddell P.S. Another example of people bending over backwards for me, 30 minutes before the guests were to arrive, I was trying to do a trial run of my rehearsal dinner video and couldn’t get my computer to work with the TV. . . PANIC! Peggy went to get help and in 1 minute, 3 men where beside me, along with an IT person on the phone, and with everyone’s help, they were able to change the settings on my computer and fixed the problem in just a few minutes....

I want to start out saying that the steak was immaculate and our server was great and very welcoming. That said, there are a number of areas that could be improved.

First is the menu. The iPad for a menu is a weird move and it could work, but the interface is strange and visually a bit tacky. It's also strange that you're given a digital device as a menu, but still have to read your order to the server. Why not just print a menu? On top of that, the photos are also not exactly representative of the food you receive...

By that, I mean presentation. It was sorely lacking. If you're going to have pictures in a menu, the dish should come out looking like the pictures. Nothing that we received was plated in a way I would expect from a restaurant of this caliber.

On top of that, one of our sides, the sweet potatoes, came out totally undercooked and it was obvious. You couldn't get a fork into most of them. And, again with the presentation, they looked like they'd been simply dropped into the bowl.

And lastly, while the flavor was great, there were precisely three small pieces of lobster meat in our lobster and broccoli mac and cheese. And it also looked like it had just been plopped into the serving bowl. If the lobster is too expensive, raise the price. Don't skimp on the good stuff.

Again, the service was great and the steak was absolutely perfect in every way. I would definitely be willing to give them a second chance, but speaking from our lone experience, I can't give more than 3...

This is a tremendous restaurant that stands on its own with other great steakhouses of Philly, New York, and Chicago. Don't let the fact that it is on the ground floor of a hotel make you think it is a "Hotel Steakhouse". the electronic menus are the the only indication that they are not a 100 year old institution but if you really don't know what you want the electronic menus give you a great overview of the menu and the selection. Not that you need the menu because our server was easily one of the top 5 servers I have had anywhere in the world. He was informative without being pushy, enlightening without being dramatic, he was overly service oriented with out coming across as being "tip oriented" self serving. He mention that he had been a server for 29 years and that experience came through. The atmosphere was updated modern classic steakhouse, with wide boths, comfortable seats, large tables for all of the dishes place settings. The resterant is perfect for a business diner, as was my purpose or a romantic dinner for 2. The food... The food was the star of the shop. The steaks were unapologetically the star of the show. I have been here multiple times and had the halibut and the salmon in the past but I continue to be thrilled each time I get a steak. Mine was cooked perfect and the sides were all excellent. I would recommend this resterant to anyone who really wants to enjoy an...