As you walk in you are greeted by a big bowl of jelly beans with an ice cream scoop in it. Sure, it's really gross to eat community food that's just sitting out like that and even grosser to think about how many slobbering fools stuff themselves full of steak and bound down the stairs toward to door, licking their fingers in delight only to see an enticing bowl of jelly beans that they proceed to dig their hands directly into. Actually, Del Frisco's is pretty pretentious so that probably doesn't happen very often. Either way though, skip the jelly beans.
The appetizer we ordered turned out to be two pieces of shrimp for each person (there were 10 of us) and about 2/3 of a crab cake per person. Sharing is caring, but I was really hungry so my friend and I made sure we each had our own full crab cake. The shrimp were good as they tasted like shrimp. I like shrimp, but I'm never really wowed by shrimp. The few times that I have been it's due to the sauce they come in so the shrimp doesn't really deserve the credit. The crab cakes were very good. I don't pretend to know what good crab cakes taste like, but I do know I liked these crab cakes a lot. They didn't taste processed at all as if the crab we were eating wasn't even close to being demoralized into the kind of crab you get in a California roll.
The main course followed and apparently we ordered a ton of side dishes. The meat I ordered, the bone-in filet, came on a large, extremely hot plate and looked very lonely, but luckily there were 4 servers circling our table spooning out the side dishes. Green beans, asparagus, creamed spinach, cauliflower covered in cheese, and something else that was white and possibly had mushrooms (this is what happens when I wait a couple days to write about this stuff) were put on my plate and made my steak far less lonely. A lot of people might not care that their steak is lonely but I want my food to be happy up until it's entering my mouth. When I have lobster at home, it's not uncommon for me to spend some quality time hanging out with the lobster. Watching tv, reading a book, sometimes some video games. I just imagine that when lobsters hang out in lobster heaven and talk about their last moments of life, most of them will say; "I was trapped in this cold dark box. Every so often someone opened the side and grabbed something out of it. A light would go on when this happened and I could see other things in the box with me but that light would go back out too fast for me to figure out what they were. It was pretty lame. Then for a capper I get dropped head first into boiling water." While, the lobsters that I eat will get to say "Dood, I watched this tv show with dogs chasing their tails and birds flying into sliding glass doors, then I played guitar hero and totally smoked this guy. I guess he did get me back by dropping me into a boiling pot, but still, it was pretty awesome."
The steak was delicious. Bone-in filet is super good. I also tried the bone-in ribeye but I prefer the filet. The side dishes were good too, but this meal was all about the steak. I ended up eating all of my filet and a big chunk of my friend's rib eye (it wasn't that he couldn't finish his, but rather that he was given a huge extra piece by another friend who only wanted a small steak but had a much larger portion ordered for him behind his back).
Dessert was creme brulee. I also tasted their jack daniels infused bread pudding and chocolate tart but prefer the creme brulee.
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
crab cake
assorted side dishes
bone-in filet
creme brulee
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