The Pointe

Always a good experience at The Pointe. There is a good amount of choices on the menu. Service is always great. We had John who was delightful. Usually have a waitress who has been working there for years. I forget her name, but she is equally as pleasant. Steaks were delicious. Love the filet or sirloin served Oscar style. Will be coming back.

I stopped by here this past weekend as part of a party of 17 people for a bachelors party. We had made our reservations well in advance and when we arrived a semi private room was set up for us which was nice. Other than this small side room I didn’t get to see too much of the restaurant though which was fine by me.
Almost immediately after all of our party was seated the waitresses came out to take our drink orders. They didn’t have drink menus and when asked what they had the answer was a curt «full bar». With that information, the guy next to me tried to order a mojito but was told he couldn’t. Eventually about 20 minutes after being seated the drinks finally came out (almost everyone in our large party ordered drinks so this was fine) and the waitresses were ready to take our order. However there was the simple problem that none of us had menus yet. Finally after that issue was solved I ended up ordering a Caesar salad to start with a ribeye cooked medium for my entrée with a side of garlic mashed potatoes. Due to the large size of our party the food came out at irregular intervals. As a matter of a fact I am pretty sure the other side of the table had their salads for a full 5 minutes before our side got anything. In any case the Caesar salad was absolutely huge and seemed to consist of a full head of Romaine cut in half. So in that respect it was almost like eating a wedge salad where we had to cut the lettuce itself. Normally this isn’t a problem but the «bowls» the lettuce was served in proved to be pretty unstable and many people were having issues with the bowls tipping, myself included. Once I finally got my salad cut it ended up being pretty good as there was ample amounts of cheese and the dressing had a nice flavor as well. After we had all finished our salads the entrees came out pretty quickly. My bone in ribeye was actually a pretty nice cut of meat. The problem with it was that I would call the temperature on the meat that I had a pittsburgh rare which is not too close to the medium I ordered. Also while the meat itself had a good flavor, I am not so sure that the steak was seasoned except for near the bone. So while the steak looked impressive it actually ended up being disappointing, especially for the price. Finally the garlic mashed potatoes were pretty good. They were creamy and had a slight garlic flavor to them which I enjoyed.
The bottom line for me is that i probably wouldn’t head back here again in the future on my own accord. For being a fancy steakhouse, my steak just wasn’t that good and other simple items like the plates just seemed to be off. However, I do realize that we were a large party and that makes things difficult and so maybe my experience would have been better otherwise.