Sunday, January 29, 2012
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar on Alabama
Eat here, especially on Sunday nights. We love their lusciously succulent and tender prime rib, which is an excellent value with their "Sunday Night Dinner Special" at $37.95 (or just $29.95 during the month-long promotion in January!) Wait until you hear what it includes: your choice of a Caesar, wedge, or house salad, any side dish on the regular menu, a 12-oz thick cut of prime rib (nice and rare, if you like it the way we do), and dessert. And everything is full sized. They serve warm, crusty whole grain bread with two different spreads, and include three dipping sauces on the side of the prime rib. We generally share one of these dinners and order an extra salad, since the portions are huge. Tonight we didn't even have room for dessert, so we took it to go. And to add to the great value, you can get an extra $25 savings toward your next visit if you complete the short online survey using the code on your receipt. So tonight, we used our previous visit's $25 savings, which meant our two glasses of wine were essentially free. You can also save 20% by buying gift cards at Costco that can be used at any time. Sunday nights are very busy here, for good reason. The restaurant is well managed, and the service is usually quite good, despite the crowds. Our food was served at the right pace and everything was hot and delicious. Sunday night at Fleming's is my favorite way to say farewell to the weekend.
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It is amazing how uneven the quality of the Fleming's experience is from location to location. We just had a very unsatisfactory meal at Fleming's in Raleigh on Saturday night, including overdone fillet, a tray of our dessert orders dropped by the waitperson, who also knocked over a water glass on our table, "auctioning" off of our first course by the waiter, who was so overbirdenedby the six plates that they towered precariously over a member of our party, extraordinarily overpriced or undergenerous wine by the glass, absolutely stingyand laughable platter of sauteed spinach and the repeated need to request refill of our water glasses. The "accompaniment" with the salmon entrees was not clearly identifiable by anyone.e at our table, this despite at least one member of our party who has a food business! If it weren't for the very pleasant demeanor of our waitperson, we would have give consideration to leaving a very paltry gratuity. All in all, a big disappointment. We will not return.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that the bread was excellent. But the portions were not what I would call huge. We had the Restaurant Week $29.99 dinners, so that would probably explain the size difference, but my comment about the spinach still stands.
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