Council Oak Steaks & Seafood — Restaurant in Rockford Township

We love to try new foods & tastes, so hubby made reservations here for my birthday. We were greeted warmly by staff and the seating is quaint and elegant. Homemade rolls were brought to the table hot & fresh. We started with sharing appetizers, crab cakes and lobster bisque. The soup was delicious! Maybe the best lobster bisque I've ever had! The crab cakes, not to our liking. They had an off taste we couldn't put our finger on & sort of fishy. Our entree's were served promptly. I ordered a Filet steak medium, hubby ordered the grilled apple pork chop. The steak was so salty & dry, I only took one bite. It looked to be cooked to perfection, but I couldn't get past the amount of salt it was seared with. I took it to go. Hubbys pork chop was amazing! Huge portion, cooked perfectly with apple garnish. We also ordered a side of the asparagus & augratin potatoes. The potatoes were delicious, asparagus could have been cooked a bit longer, they were thick and tough. The highlight of this restaurant is the service. They are very attentive and accommodating. Top notch! We give service 5 stars! The food is high end pricing, so we expected perfection. Overall we give them a 3.6 due to the food not meeting our...

My boyfriend took me here for an amazing Valentine’s dinner (a couple days after the actual day). The restaurant is gorgeous, and we were given a lovely booth with great views of the fireplace and open kitchen. The waitress was very nice and helped any questions we had about the menu. I ordered an 8oz filet mignon and herbed french fries. My boyfriend ordered the cioppino and campanelle mac & cheese. My filet was delicious and perfectly cooked and the fries had a great herb flavor. I had some and the cioppino and it was the best broth I’ve ever tasted! For dessert we split a warm chocolate cake (asked for ice cream on the side). I love the actual “cake” part of chocolate cake so I was a bit surprised that the entire middle of the cake was more of a pudding texture with raspberries inside of it. I wish they would have been more specific about that on the menu. Overall it was a fantastic experience and I hope to be back for another...

So, for having a $75 steak, I definitely expected better. I thought it was going to be like, melt in your mouth kind of steak. I'd rather have Texas Roadhouse. And my last bite I took tasted literally like a dead carcass. I told my husband that and he asked me how I know what a dead carcass tastes like but I am in the medical field and I told him it tasted like the smell of a morgue. It definitely turned me off of aged meat and fancy steakhouses for good. I can say the duck fat hash brown, whipped potatoes, and rolls were delicious. The creme brulee was terrible- not very sweet and very "egg-y." The lobster bisque was a little plain tasting and my husband said the French onion was "ok" but nothing spectacular. Oh and the tomatoes they serve and raspberries with the creme brulee tasted like they infused it with something... not sure what... but terrible decision....