Teri’s 3-star review:
Black Angus Steakhouse - where middle class Americans go out for a nice and hearty dinner. For years, I've seen the commercials of the cowboy leaning over his campfire but have never seen a Black Angus in my area.
The BF and I find a coupon in our Sunday paper advertising the specials of our local Black Angus and the both of us are a bit curious. Sure, it sounds like a good deal, why not?
Arriving there on a Sunday evening, I'm wondering if we should have called for reservations. It was a half hour wait, so we headed over to the nearby Best Buy to have a looksie. (We asked if they could call us when our table was ready. The hostess took our number down, but we actually came back before it was ready.) We noted families leaving with to go boxes, a good thing in terms of quantity.
We came for their four course special dinner for two, starting at $20 a person. For your first course, you can choose from ANY of their appetizers to share, and I do mean ANY! For course #2, it's either soup or salad. Your main entree makes up course #3 and a dessert to share closes our for course #4. And they also start you off with warm brown bread and butter too!
First course: We shared the Sampler Platter ($12.99) which comes with just about everything - "shrimp cocktail with chef-made atomic horseradish cocktail sauce, crispy garlic-pepper zucchini, loaded Idaho potato skins and buffalo chicken tenders". The cucumber dipping sauce for the zucchini was so good! Yum! And for some reason, I was just loving the potato skins with the bacon bits, sour cream and cheese. It was grub!
Second course: I had the Fresh Garden Salad ($2.99) and the BF had the Steak Soup ($2.99). The salad was pretty basic, but soup had chunks of steak in it. The BF was digging it.
Third course: You can choose from a variety of beef, chicken and fish. It comes with fresh vegetables and a side of either mashed potatoes, baked potato, french fries, or rice pilaf. I chose the 6 oz. Filet Mignon, Center-Cut ($26) with a baked potato. The meat was cooked exactly how I liked it - very rare. However, it lacked taste. The BF chose the 9 oz. Top Sirloin, Center-Cut ($22) with a baked potato as well. It arrived exactly how he wanted it - medium rare, but it also lacked flavor. The potatoes are huge though and they are loaded with butter, sour cream and chives.
Fourth course: Choose ANY of their desserts to share! We chose the Shortbread Apple Cobbler ($4.99). It's more like a cookie on top and a cookie on the bottom with some oats sprinkled on top of the apples and ice cream. The apples and ice cream with oats were good, but I don't think it's fair to call it a cobbler though.
Overall, the meal was okay for the price. We had leftovers from our appetizer, entree and the bread. The meat itself was below average because it lacked taste. But the quantity you get here can't be beat! Service was pretty good in the beginning, but slacked off in the end. Our waitress was pretty friendly and smiley. It seems that the waitstaff are assigned their own section, so no other servers come by to help out. When your section is busy, your waiter or waitress is busy too, but you can see other waitstaff loitering around not doing anything. It took awhile to get extra sauce, a to go box, etc. (We were never offered fresh pepper, although I saw the pepper mills at the service stations.) In the end, you're not getting quality meat here, even if it's called a steakhouse. But you do get a decent amount of food though.
They also offer a happy hour, 5 pm to 7 pm (I think). They offer half off well drinks, appetizers, and some of their specialty drinks.
(And yes, I posted pics of our meal in the business profile section!)