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Morton's Steakhouse
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- Hours:
Mon-Thu. 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Fri-Sat. 5:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
- Attire:
- Dressy
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Garage
- Price Range:
-
$$$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
8 reviews for Morton's Steakhouse
We first dined at the L.A. location during our battle of the steakhouses: Ruth's Chris v. Morton's v. the Palm. She might prefer Ruth's Chris, but for me, Morton's wins the battle. The $99 steak and seafood for two set meal is a great savings, and gives you just enough food to feel completely satiated instead of disgustingly full like you would feel if you were to order a similar meal without the deal.
The White Plains location is pretty much standard for the rest of the chain, and has convenient parking in the Fortunoff garage. Service here was attentive, and they made me a mean mojito.
The filet is a little crustier than Ruth's, and was nicely charred and seasoned. It had a good tension between the charred crust and tender center. The onion bread is a nice departure from the normal steakhouse sourdough, though it seems to shatter into a zillion crumbs upon slicing. Other sides and desserts are solid, but Morton's is of course known for its steak.
Dear Morton's Steakhouse-
A few chics from CT are coming to your restaurant to blow some cash and imbibe on some drinks since Gaga cancelled her shows on us; the least you can do is seat us at our reserved time and give us good food. I mean really, we weren't asking much.
First, the reason people make reservations is so that when we are hungry, we can get seated and eat, not wait an addition twenty minutes. Not cool, not at all. Second, don't give us a menu while we wait as if you are trying to rush us, I understand fully that it is a Saturday night but if you are trying to push us in and out because you're backed up, your system sucks and you need better staff. Just sayin'. Now onto the rest of the night. We finally get seated, we'll take a Cosmo and a cherry bomb. Wait, you have no red bull for a cherry bomb... on a Saturday night? Fail. Okay switch that out for a French martini.
As we peruse the menu and wait for our drinks the waiter comes over with a presentation cart to show us the offerings for the night: Bone in filet, fresh 1-3lb lobsters, rib-eyes, swordfish, salmon, strips, etc. We decide on a strips and fillets with sides of lyonasie potato, baked potato and creamed spinach. Our drinks finally arrive: and my very RED cosmo was just that... WRONG. I classic martini made famous by New Yorkers and screwed up right here in NY.... nice. My BFF tasted her French and that too was off. Oh well, no use crying over bad drinks... we already cried over Gaga.
The waiter brings out an onion loaf for us which was okay because we were starving but as we munched on it we realized that it had a slight taste of "musty dish towel". Yep, I don't think that was part of the recipe. Our food arrives, and the steak that I order medium rare appears, at first cut to be medium well but when I cut into the middle it's cooked properly. The strip that was ordered medium well, was actually undercooked, absolutely, moo-ing potential. Awesome. The sides were all wrong. The creamed spinach had entirely too much nutmeg for me. Actually, it had entirely too much nutmeg for the Christmas season. It was way too overpowering. The lyonaise potatoes were dry and diner-esque and the baked potato was huge, yes but lacking any sort of flavor or resemblance of life. Underwhelming to say the least..
So as to save room for dessert and see if could possibly be this places saving grace we order the creme brulee and the dutch chocolate mouse. The desserts were excellent but should not have been the highlight of this steakhouse.
So, $400 later (including tip) I'm going to pass, because even though it was a fab night out, there was nothing fab about you, Morton's. Even the CT location does it better.
I reserved a table at Morton's for Lana's Birthday. She was pleased with the dinner but said she would not go back because she simply doesn't believe that any restaurant meal is worth more than two hundred dollars for the two of us -- and that was Morton's three-course special with one bottle of low-priced wine and dessert.
I was not pleased. The food, while fundamentally well-prepared, was consistently oversauced. Lana's crab cakes were not good but I felt that was a consequence of the east-coast, mattress-stuffing crab meat, not the preparation. My complaint was the service. The service was appalling. Not because of what our waitress did but because of what management apparently expected her to do.
We explained that we had not been to a Morton's before but had decided to try its advertised three-course special. Nevertheless, we were offered menus. That was OK; we perused the menus but, when our waitress returned, we informed her that both of us wanted the special. We also ordered a bottle of wine. She took our order and left. We assumed our dinners were being prepared.
A few minutes later, our waitress reappeared with a large cart loaded with steaks and sides and launched into a sales presentation. I was shocked and offended. Prior to Morton's, I could not have imagined that an expensive restaurant -- or a cheap one, for that matter -- would take issue with a customer's order.
Lana took the show in stride and informed me that we were supposed to enjoy it. She probably was correct; she usually is correct about such things, however bizarre.
However, this was more than bizarre. It was rude. It was crude. It was gauche. It was not quite bait and switch because there was no suggestion that the special was not available or that it was no good; but it was a presumptious and insulting attempt to kill the sale and upsell the suckers who obviously were prepared to drop a couple of hundred dollars in the place and might be persuaded to drop still more.
The burlesque was repeated, for dessert.
In sum, Lana and I agree that we will never return to Morton's. Lana cannot justify the price. I will not tolerate "service" that I cannot distinguish from contempt.
See also our review of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area.
Mortons is by far my favorite steakhouse. the 99$ steak and seafood for 2 is a fantastic deal. You get a salad, steak, seafood, side, and desert. I've been 6-8 times and every time I've been everything was perfect. I've had the bacon wrapped scallops, crab cakes, shrimp alexander, filet mignon, blue cheese steak, Cajun ribeye and one other steak. The salads are always amazing. My favorite is the beef steak tomato with blue cheese and onion. They serve the most fantastic bread as well. My favorite desert is the key lime pie, but the Crème brûlée is also good. The sauces and sides are fab as well, Bernaise and Hollandaise sauce, amazing asparagus, mac n cheese. Gosh I miss the days of going to Mortons!
This place has great food and have never been disappointed after eating there at least 6-7 times. They always have a great steaks cooked right and there sides are good portions as well as there appetizers. Even though it is a chain, i havent found a better steakhouse in Westchester yet.
Went to this "chain restaurant" one Saturday night when my brother was in town. We found out that if you want to sit in the dining room on a Saturday evening you will want to make reservations. However, we instead sat at the bar and had a nice low key dinner. The wait staff was polite and friendly just as you would expect from a restaurant of this style. This was perfect for me since I enjoy good food but do not like fancy "stuffy" restaurants. Also it just happened to be my brothers birthday and when the waitress found out she delivered a delicious piece of cheesecake. Therefore enjoy a great meal but my advice would be just skip the dining room and sit at the bar (also if it happens to be your birthday just make sure the wait staff knows).
ps. The bread is soft, airy, sweet and just all round excellent.
Low key, excellent decor and Sinatra in the background. Excellent steaks and a molten chocolate cake dessert that is out of this world. It is pricey but if you are headed there you know this already. The convenience of the location in White Plains earns extra points from me also.
Surprised Im giving a chain steakhouse 5 stars, but after trying some of the local competition, Mortons is the most consistently good. I can skip their presentation speech of pointing out all of the cuts of meat or vegetables from a big rolling tray, but i guess its also part of the charm and works for big groups/etc. The hot loaf of bread is addicting, the iceberg wedge salad is excellent, as well as the crab cakes. For steak i've mostly had the filet mignon which is always cooked just as ordered. The sides are all standard but very good and generous portions for sharing. Good martinis/wines and dessert selection. I would definitely pick this over BLT steak or Ruth Chris.
