14:21 concerning this show big time. We, show after show after show we have been putting off reviewing the last restaurant we went to and I believe you can't even remember the name of the place by now? It was uh 55 on 50 it was the steak lounge Well, you got that part right. It was 50 on fifth? 5A5. Ah see I was pretty close! 5A5 All right we can review that real quick if you want I think we got to get out of the way. We promised, about two weeks ago that we were going to review it on our next show and then nothing came of it and then we forgot about it! And as I was putting some clips together that we had forgotten...and I had forgotten the name of the place myself! And I realized we probably don't even remember what we ate
15:12 No, no wait a minute. I do remember because the waitress was hot... Well not really hot but she was... We forgot her name already it was Wendy or something How relevant is it? Here's what here's what I remember first of all nice ambiance the place turns into club apparently around 10 o'clock This used to be there previously known as Freeson and I guess they went through two changes and now it took a steak lounge as they call it in my son Rebuked me for even going to a place that would have such a trendy bogus concept It's kind of like the Supper Club but not without the lame entertainment at least the Supper Club in San Francisco and Yeah, it was alright. You know, the seating was nice. The ambiance was nice I like kind of the Contemporary look and feel of it with no walls of flames everywhere
16:05 Although it was kind of, you know what? It reminded me a bit the inside of a luxury yacht. Yeah it had that kind of cheesy quality Now I'm thinking back on it now didn't like it Well, let me... What started off as something we didn't like. First of all I remember the first waiter who sat us down he looked at us with his head cocked and i remember saying to you Oh yeah you were belly aching about that incessantly Yeah I don't like the way they look I don't like people standing infront of me with their head cocked He had kind of a menacing look And then he convinced us to have these shooters
16:51 And this was like a... It's not a shooter of alcohol, it is a shooter of gunk. Flavor! Flavor shooters and we opted for the caviar shooter which was 15 bucks a shot And if I could find three caviar eggs in there... It wasn't worth it. No, and the gunk wouldn't come out of the shot glass. Yeah it was terrible. It was just a bad joke. Bad joke on us haha! And uh...I remember we both had meat Yes, you had the buffalo filet. Oh yeah which was good I did like it. It wasn't stellar but it was okay. I questioned whether it was buffalo and then I had one of their, this is the best thing in the world a filet mignon on the bone Yeah you were not too happy about it I don't think Well then I realized that what I really disappointed with was that it was served with supposedly a bearnaise sauce
17:54 Well, I didn't think about it at the time to grouse about it at the moment. So I wasn't sitting there complaining to you but more I thought about and then later was this wasn't a bearnaise sauce by any stretch of imagination! If it was, it was broken. A bearnaise sauce should be like thick mayonnaise It's like richer than rich hollandaises is what amounts essentially... Kinda like snot Well, no. It's a little tastier. It's an egg, yolk butter, some shallot juice and some chervil and some other flavoring. And it was just runny! I mean, Bearnaise is not supposed to be like, you know...
18:43 whiskey it's not supposed to be running all over the place. It was ridiculous, it stunk and then they had you know then I had through a couple pieces of tarragon on top of the whole thing I guess didn't accentuate that flavor just there was something we liked very much. It was the fries we kind of liked it was the truffle fries. The meal overall and kinda greasy by the way but tasty Overall I think it was overpriced Because we had a bottle of wine to go with that. I think the bottle was, if I recall correctly $39 or 49 dollars which is on the lower end of the scale by our standards. It's around 50 bucks yeah. A little bit on the lower end and probably somewhere in the 50-70 range typically. Do you remember what it was?
19:28 I remember the wine, but not the price. uh... just two thousand five cabernet which is quite tasty yeah it was good and then of course the the let down at the end of the dinner was um... excuse me i really got a sense that you said to start this show next any complaint about my using a fork improperly yes i did notice i didn't say anything to when you again took your for clicker savage and jabbed into your meat on the bone holding it with your entire meeting needy fist
20:05 I didn't say anything about that. No, you're too busy belching! Yeah They didn't have a cappuccino machine which was weird You complained bitterly about this Our waitress...I think it was Wendy She said well you know I can only offer you regular coffee and then one of the owners came over or someone who said he was one of the owners Steve And I said, hey you know this place is alright. Except for your shooters were a jip! We actually told them they were a jip and they said what about the cappuccino machine? It's like well it cost $3000 and we really can't afford it right now. Oh wow...I feel kind of bad
20:46 Because they had just opened this was... They could afford all those flat panels and all the art, and the rest of it. And you can lease the machine! They had just done a soft launch which I also hate. Oh yeah? What does that mean? It's like a Silicon Valley thing or used to be a Silicon Alley thing in fact Yeah we're gonna be soft launching the website which means its shit and full bugs and doesn't fucking work So we're gonna just put it up there because we can't replicate our production environment from the live environment. We're gonna soft launch, that's what that means and so they just soft launch anyway was it was about it was expensive It was I think Close to $200 Yeah, it's too high yeah, I agree so anyway That's our restaurant review a 5a
21:40 And your first oh and they also have it's one of these places that has all these trendy bogus Beefs why yada? Why Zadda there's a bunch of these yeah, some folks only wonderful Kobe clones of some sort you know grown in Montana Hills and you know the beafer fed cognac and aperitifs and whatever right and this Ridiculous. Okay, so We're not going back. The no agenda recommendation is don't go there, it's not worth it and I wouldn't mind before our show was over giving a quick book review of the new Dan Brown novel which I finished on the way but let's do some clips John because you sent me a couple