The picture for this restaurant as well as the reviews (mentioning buffet or lunch) are not the Oak Room, but refer to the Oak Bar area which sits in front of the Oak Room Restaurant as one enters. We ate recently in the actual Oak Room Restaurant...delicious food from 1950 (chops, steaks) served by waiters who knew nothing about it from 2007. Two people, no bottle of wine, two courses for $195 total and we were rushed through by a Brazilian waiter to whom we kept saying ""Go Slow"", ""No Need To Rush"": our main entrees arrived one minute after our appetizers! We, at 50 years old more or less, were the youngest there by 10-20 years. The portions were so groaningly too much and so much fat and oil! A Boston Cream Pie for dessert came with melted dripping black chocolate over it..about eight ounces! And this was atop lamb chops in grease, haddock in a bed of oil. Who eats like this anymore? The food was delicious but I was glad we were there with a gift certificate as the service was indifferent and complicated by language issues, and the food was just heavy. Everything is a la carte, so in addition to haddock ($38) and lamb chops ($43) we got some mixed veg ($17)..tasty but salty as heck and swimming in grease and oily breadcrumbs. Again, not distasteful but so heavy, so much! I strongly urge patrons to eat in the Oak Bar area...light menu, more waiters, better service. The Oak Room touchingly catered to a lonely old woman while we were there: three waiters spending all their time with her talking and serving (of about 40 seats only some six were occupied the time we were there). That is its charism...not anyone under 65 or who cares about their health.
Pros: suffocating small area with non-busy waiters staring at you
Cons: fatty, heavy food which reminded you of dinners from the 1950s
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