Steer Steakhouse — Restaurant in West Virginia

Believe it or not, this used to be a decent place to eat.

No longer.

The only thing this place now has going for it is wonderful waitresses -- and they look like they're dead on their feet. Watching them trying to run around serving far too many tables, it's not hard to see why they're tired.

As for the food, it's dreary at best. We ordered the buffet, which was an expensive mistake. The meats were old and dry and tough; and looked like they had been sitting out for hours. Same for the vegetables, what few there were. Corn, green beans, boiled potatoes -- YUCK!

The desserts were even worse. It looked like somebody just baked a bunch of white cake mixes, and then tried to disguise the fact by slathering different colored icings -- green, blue, whatever -- on top of the pieces. There weren't any pies except in the sugar free section, and the few cookies that were out were obviously store-bought. (Apparently they are under the delusion that somebody might want to steal one of these alternatives; a sign is prominently displayed telling customer that these desserts are meant to be eaten in the restaurant and if you want to take one with you it will cost $1.99.) Seriously???

We asked about the poor selection and were told that they just baked what "she" told them to, whoever "she" is.

I hope "she" reads this review and the others posted here, and makes some...

The staff were all sweet... but the FOOD! The first thing I noticed on the buffet was steak, well what I thought was steak. It was pork chops. Black on top and grey on bottom. Looked like the pig passed, went through rigamortis, decayed, then got cooked. Bit into that badboy thinking "Looks ain't everything." Oh heavens to Betsy, they tasted like flavorless gum, very chewy. The Mac and cheese tasted like kid cuisine, well I shouldn't insult kid cuisine like that. The fried chicken upon 1st bite was decent, then with each bite our mouths filled with vegetable oil. Don't get me started on the dessert. Oh ok, I'm starting, the banana pie tasted the way that my pawpaw's denture glue smells, the cookies were almost identical in flavor to prison cookies, not as good though, and the cakes, tasted like nothing except maybe a dabble of confectioners sugar. My husband and I laughed the whole way home about the food taste. We barely ate anything off our plates and our 2 year old wouldn't even eat it. Can't blame her though. I feel like my stomach is brewing up a bad storm already....

Decent service...well that's it for positive points. The food was horrid. We got the buffet, it had very little selection to offer. We started with a salad that consisted of partially wilted lettuce, old tomato quarters (they were literally cut into quarters, huge chunks), canned black olives, cheap nasty cheese, and old cucumbers. This was followed by dry chicken, frozen (and not very good) lasagna, hard dense rolls, over salted green beans, under cooked corn, dense flavorless potatoes, macaroni that makes generic easy mac sound good, overly sweet pasta salad, and steak that was dried out and tough cuts of the cheapest meat you can find. (We tried to find something we could enjoy and failed.) The restaurant floor was dirty and my wife had to swat fruit flies from her food several times. She tried to at least find desert she could enjoy only to discover the chocolate ice cream despenser was broken. For the $33 you would spend here to be disappointed, go about a mile down the road and do 2 for $20 at Applebee's and use the remaining money to buy a few drinks...