Del Friscos

Haha! Dan)

I have to say your experience mirrored both of my last 2 visits over the past 3 years and my reactions were almost exactly the same! Friendly service, albeit a hiccup or two (with order taking and take-home service,) same reaction to the decor, but like Dan it reminds me of the old Embassy Supper Club kinda thing, but the steak! Oh, the steak. Chateaubriand is what I always order too and I the fillet is not necessarily my first go-to anytime. There's just something about it when it is prepared almost whole muscle like that. Redistribution of juice, perhaps?

Was the owner in attendance? She is a card and truly lights up the whole experience everytime...

Haha! Dan)

I have to say your experience mirrored both of my last 2 visits over the past 3 years and my reactions were almost exactly the same! Friendly service, albeit a hiccup or two (with order taking and take-home service,) same reaction to the decor, but like Dan it reminds me of the old Embassy Supper Club kinda thing, but the steak! Oh, the steak. Chateaubriand is what I always order too and I the fillet is not necessarily my first go-to anytime. There's just something about it when it is prepared almost whole muscle like that. Redistribution of juice, perhaps?

Was the owner in attendance? She is a card and truly lights up the whole experience everytime...

Yeah, the owner is a riot.....you better be ready for crude, she can make a sailor blush!

Was she the shorter old lady? I believed she was working the night I had went too.

I am ashamed to say that we had never eaten there until last year. We always select an expensive meal for my husband's birthday (expensive for us). (Miss New Orleans House for that meal.) Anyway, wonderful. The whole experience. Loved the dated interior. I miss that about the Louisville restaurants. I love upscale, disheveled, neighborhood bar, whatever, but I miss the 50's look. When we were in Maine a couple of years ago, the restaurants were 'dated' - I loved that. (Food matched the decor. We are so fortunate here.)
We will go back to Del Friscos. Sorry but it might only be once a year. Of all the steak places we have tried - Mortons was the worst and most of it had to do with the disinterested server. No, we haven't been to Rubys. Locally, we don't order steaks out. We cook them on the grill. We order other things we when go out to eat. Food we don't fix at home. Maybe the quality of the steak isn't the same, but the fixins are fairly easy to purchase and prepare.
But when it comes to other meals, ethnic meals, I let someone else do the work. Plus Louisville was a steak town for years and has since progressed.
Miss Melrose Inn, Chicken Trail Inn (was that the name of it?). It was very nice as a grade school kid to be able to have a filet. That was the place we went to after church quite often. Miss the Luau Room. Miss the Frischs and Ranch Houses that were near my house. The Blue Boars. The OLD HOUSE. Miss the Old House. I would ride the bus down on Saturdays (then it was called Air Base route:-), go to the downtown library, then the Old House and have the Garibaldi salad. Or the filet. This was when I was in high school. I still have one of their menus. Miss it.