Mark .Allseits
I stopped at Lindey's on Monday for lunch. I will say, their lunch menu is very reasonably priced but I was there for one thing and one thing only - the Lindey's Special Sirloin. The meals are served family style, and I was dining solo, but I wanted to see what the "special" sirloin was all about for $42.95. I placed my order for the Lindey's Special Sirloin, ordered medium rare, which the menu card on their tables accurately describes as a warm red center. The meal started with a typical steakhouse salad. The meal was then came the steak which the server brought table side and sliced open in front of me. Immediately upon cutting the steak open, I noticed the steak was very rare, and appeared at best blue. I am not much of a complainer and enjoy a rare steak, however, when I cut into the steak for my first bite the center of the steak was still cold to the touch. After waiting for a server to come by and check on my meal, which never happened, I brought the steak back to the server station and expressed the center of the steak was still cold to the touch. All of the servers looked at me as if I was stupid. Again, I have no problem with a rare steak, but this was cold in the center as if it were grilled straight from the fridge without resting up to room temp. I will give Lindey's this, the sirloin is thick and sizable. However, for a steak that thick it must be brought to room temp before cooking, which mine clearly was not. Perhaps then steak was pulled from the fridge and not rested because I ordered a dinner steak during their lunch menu, which predominantly features burgers, steak sandwiches, etc. An error in cooking the steak, no big deal. I have had worse. What upset me most was the restaurants solution was to take my sirloin that was cut in half table-side and broil the hell out of it. A complete waste of over $40. As others have mentioned as well, the steak is as bland as can be. They offer some sort of garlic powder seasoning at each table, but no flavor has penetrated the steak whatsoever by tossing that on top of each bite. I may be back to try the incredibly affordable lunch menu. The burgers at the tables around me looked quite good. The potatoes were also delicious I, however, will not be returning for their claim to fame, sirloin. Management should have handled the situation better, re-fired a steak to medium rare, and taken care of the customer instead of turning my $40 sirloin into a lump of charcoal.
