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My husband and I went to Fleming's for an anniversary dinner. I made the hostess aware of this occasion when making the reservations, and our server was aware of this since he asked how long we had been married. I mention this because, even knowing this was a romantic occasion, we were seated in a booth next to the kitchen (and apparently the area where they noisily polish the silverware) and along the walkway in and out of the kitchen and to the restrooms. It was extremely noisy. So much so, that we wound up sending texts to each other during the meal because we couldn't hear what the other person was saying. So, I've complained about the seating, now on to the food.
My husband had the shrimp cocktail. It was standard cold, shelled shrimp with cocktail sauce, just plated nicely instead of being served in a martini glass. I had the Cajun Barbecue Shrimp. I thought this was well done, though I wouldn't call the flavor barbecue. Our salads were standard fare, he had the wedge salad and I had the caesar. There was a bit of an odd aftertaste to the caesar dressing. It was a very fresh, green flavor, almost like cilantro. It was strange since you don't expect that flavor in what is usually a mellow dressing.
For our main course we each had the filet. His was 12 oz, mine was 6 oz lite filet. He had his prepared medium-well Oscar style. Mine was medium-well with a medeira sauce. My filet came with Flemings potatoes which are essentially au gratin potatoes. What I could taste of them were pretty good, but they were so overcooked I couldn't cut through the cheese topping.
Our steaks weren't properly prepared, but were edible. We both asked for medium-well. Mine was closer to medium, but acceptable and his, though larger, somehow was cooked more thoroughly at well done. He said his was tough thanks to being overcooked.
We had the roasted garlic mashed potatoes, which weren't spectacular and had the consistency of instant potatoes. We also had the creamed corn. It tasted good, but the corn was overcooked and slightly mushy. It would have been nice if there were a little crunch to the kernels. It was almost like they used canned corn.
The best part of the meal was the chocolate lava cake at the end. I do have to say our server was very attentive even though he seemed to be covering quite a few tables that evening.
I think one of the bigger disappointments was that knowing it was our anniversary, we weren't "gifted" with desert. This tends to be something that all the other similar restaurants in the area do, but apparently not Flemings.
While I certainly don't expect a free desert, I can't seem to understand why I was even asked if we were celebrating a special event if we weren't going to be shown any special treatment. At the least they could have given us a table in a quieter corner.
I'm sorry to say I wouldn't recommend Fleming's to anyone else with so many other steak restaurants in the area that provide more intimate settings, and better prepared food.
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