Birhday Surprise!

Sunday is hubby's birthday and I had this $25 gift certificate I got at http://www.restaurant.com/ for only $3 so I decided to treat him to dinner. It was a surprise, I told him I had to pick up some stuff from someone on http://www.freecycle.org/ and I wanted him to go with me.


The gift certificate was to Eli's Steakhouse in Plainfield, CT. It used to be a run down pizza place and switched over a year or so ago. We had never been there since it had turned over so I was surprised when I walked in and saw how nice it looked. We had a great waitress, Nicole but the rest of the employees seemed to be riled up about something. I ordered a White Pizza with Grilled Chicken and Pineapple and a side salad while my husband had a NY Strip with mashed potatoes and veg du jour.

Our salads and complimentary bread came out first. The bread looked like a bread bowl and was very thick and bland. The side salad which cost $2.50 came with about a half a cup of ripped up iceberg lettuce, 2 small cherry tomatoes cut in half, a thin slice of red onion and a touch of shredded red cabbage on top. No cucumber, no croutons, and no cheese. Our food came in a timely manor, but Owen's $21 steak was rare when it was supposed to be medium-well. The veg du jour happened to be about a cup and a half of sliced carrots with one green bean sticking out he top. There was no seasoning to them what so ever. It was as if they sliced a few carrots and boiled them. The potatoes were a red mashed potato with some of the skin still in them. These were the only thing that was seasoned and they were overly seasoned and the gravy tasted like flour.

Then, there was my Specialty $11 small white pizza. Usually, when you order a white pizza the sauce is made up of some specially seasoned ricotta cheese and a few places I have been to even add a tiny bit of an alfredo-like sauce with it. But, this white pizza was just alot of plain ricotta. There was a decent amount of chicken on the pizza but it too had no seasoning and was very bland. The pineapple chunks were very large and made a slimy mess of the pizza. Needless to say we did not enjoy our meal. I will probably be heating up that meatloaf from last night in a little while.

http://www.elissteakhouse.com/