Royal 35 Steakhouse — Restaurant in New York

GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME!!! BRAVO!!!

Where to begin? From the intimacy of every table and booth with classic Gotham-styled haute culinary decor, still contemporary, modern & fresh. Perfectly complimenting and accentuating jazzy-lounge music overhead to enhance your dining experience at a properly soft volume... The wait staff, charming, informative, and excellently attentive to serve and provide to keep you focused on your meal and company. And, while all this may elevate the dining experience, in the end, of course, it's all about the food... and now we catapult to light speed!

PERFECTION. Plain and simply. • The Organic Seasonal Greens with Fresh Cherry Tomatoes - is enlivened with mouth-watering vinaigrette to get your juices flowing.

• The French Onion Soup - is exceptional. Served properly piping hot. Effervescent, which only enhances every tastebud baptized in deliciousness, and, still, landing lightly before the entree arrives.

• The Filet Mignon - melts in your mouth, full in flavour, prepared absolutely flawlessly! No garnish at all is needed - not a single grain of salt or dust of peppercorn - nothing, whatsoever ...and yet it's served with a housemade signature stake sauce alongside. It's a steakhouse, so, okay... while I favour dijon mustard typically - IF I even choose to apply any garnish on a steak of this caliber ...but, you know what? -The Royal 35 knows how to prepare a deliciously perfectly complimenting steak sauce, too. Wow! ...though I only gave one flavour sampling of it, it was divine.

• The Pappardelle Pasta Bolognese - propelled me to my childhood, at my Florentine grandmother's table (rest her soul), in her then home in Nice, loaded with all the tenderness, love, and devotion the quality ingredients of herbs, tomatoes, and meats; the know-how to create such handmade pasta to an adoring grandchild who could never get enough of any of her provincial cooking. Exquisite.

• The Cappuccino - is worth coming to this restaurant to enjoy an extraordinary coffee experience alone. The frothed milk is a dessert in itself.

• The New York Cheesecake - is an absolute marvel! The hands down, most genuine example of any Cheesecake touting "New York" to it. Here is where Gotham authenticity continues to live on in tradition. (Without exaggeration: for all the hype around "Junior's" it's all been lost in the tourist-trap commercialization. They have NOTHING even remotely close to what is served at the Royal 35)

• Raspberry & Lemon Sorbets (not pictured, sorry) - consistent with everything else, effervescent, light, subtle, not at all overdone in any way, also made in-house, like everything else. Typically a bigger fan of Raspberry, the Lemon stole my heart.

• My well-used water glass never saw its bottom.

• The dry-age meat spectator glass fridge in the back, to see what's coming and how well things are attended to, is a nice touch.

• The decor and ambiance is a well curated, muted, sexy, and intimate classic style.

I would hope anyone else's experience to be as wonderful as mine. Highly...

So I want to start out and say that the hostess was one of the best staff members there. She started the night off great with such a warm welcome. I loved the fact that she paid attention to the notes on open table about this being my family’s first time visiting New York. I was trying to take my family out to an amazing steakhouse for Christmas instead we were rushed through our entire service and didn’t even get to enjoy a happy joyful experience. The server was the complete and utter worst! There wasn’t many people on the building for him to be acting the way he acted. Let’s start with his opening to the table (What would you like to order. No greeting, he didn’t discuss any specials. Just kept rushing us to order (mind you once again it was our first time there would have loved for someone to give our table the attention the other server gave the 7/8 top that was sat next to us). The server just did not want to be there and it showed by the lack of service that he gave us. Every time we needed a drink or anything for our table we had yo ask another server or wait staff that were actually walking around the restaurant ( our server was nowhere in site our entire meal). We didn’t even know his name because he never took the time to even say it. The manager made a quick stop to our table, but he was in more of a hurry to go sit back at the front that he didn’t even take the time to listen to me try and tell him about the horrible experience me and my family were having. Multiple time did I want to just leave but my family were all bitting there tongues and. Wanted to be nice about it. Then to top the cake off was the server that was complete trash auto grafting my table 20% which he did because I told him his service was poor. I would put one star but the hostess saved them from just the one star! Steak was extremely charred and had a very riff exterior. Other than that the food was ok but not the best. I honestly wouldn’t return just because the service was really really lacking and there was no experience made in the facility. It definitely will be remembered as a...

I've been here twice, the first time was when it had first opened and the second time was 3 weeks ago. The difference between both times is staggering in terms of food and the service. I ordered a glass of merlot from the wine by the glass section of the menu and ordered the porter house for two medium rare. What I immediately noticed that I've never experienced anywhere else was that instead of the waiter pouring my glass of wine at my table (as is the norm), he instead took my glass and walked out of the room with it. After a few minutes he came back with my wine glass half way filled with the wine in it that I ordered presumably. However after taking only a few sips of it, my eyes started feeling very heavy and I felt very buzzed and hot which is ridiculous to happen from only a few sips of wine. Maybe if I drank an entire bottle but not from a few sips, which made me conclude that the wine they pour is probably a much, much cheaper wine than the one listed on the menu, and the reason they don't pour the wine at your table and instead pour it in another room is so that you don't see the bottle and realize, hey that's not the wine I ordered-because why wouldn't you just pour it at the customers' table? are they hiding something? Now onto the "meat" of the matter (pun intended). I ordered a porter house medium rare for two. What I actually got was cooked rare and not only that, parts of the meat were actually almost freezer cold. I told the server to send it back and cook it a little more and instead he brought it back to me this time cooked well done. So it went from one end of the spectrum to the other. I ended up eating 3 small pieces, took home the rest and then just threw it all in the garbage. What a disappointment. When you're paying $100 person, you deserve more. To me this meal wasn't worth $10 and because of that, I won't be back...