For the local crowd, we tried a restaurant called "Strip" at Atlantic Station while down there for the movie screening.
Nice location right in the middle of Atlantic Station, has indoor and outdoor seating including an upstairs with good views. Menu is steak, seafood and sushi....all pretty traditionally prepared, no fusion stuff going on here. Though the atmosphere is modern steakhouse maybe with just a dash of fusion flare. No white tablecloths though.
I tried the prime rib, and it was oustanding. The cut and seasoning was as good as I've had locally. Baked potato was also well above average. They did almost a light twice baked kinda thing with it. Baked it well, but then loaded it and put it back in briefly with everything but the sour cream and butter on it, so everything melted nicely. Nice chrimp, good salads as well.
Service was dead on. Price was typical for intown steakhouse, everything was ala carte....figure $75 a head plus drinks for 4 courses. Sushi menu could easily run that up. We didn't try any of that this time.
Strip makes the approved list. Not sure I'd drive down there just for it since it would require me driving past the likes of Chops, but it'll be a frequent haunt when downtown I suspect.
Oh, and we asked them if they knew Tony404, and they said no, so hopefully we finally found one that he hasn't been to already.
