Staghorn Steakhouse
“it's their favorite place to have steak in NYC (and also close to my dad's office in the garment district, so it's convenient).”
“Friendly, attentive service and a very nice atmosphere made for a completely enjoyable experience!”
“I've eaten and some.of the best places in the USA and this one ranks up there.”
Staghorn Steakhouse
Takes Reservations: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$$$ Price range Above $61
6 reviews
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I don't know why I have waited so long to leave a review on Staghorn Steakhouse. I haven't been here in at least 3 years. But prior to that I had 4 visits. I believe a bad review is as equally important as a good one. However, an honest review is the most important of all. I will be brutally honest. Staghorn is not cheap. At all!! But their steaks are up there with the best in the city, I truly believe that. Food was delicious. If reviews were based solely on the food, I would give this place AT LEAST 4 stars. Unfortunately for Staghorn, they are based on several factors. If you are paying $75 for a steak, you expect the person that is taking your order and bringing your food to have personality and character to match the food. This place falls way short on that aspect. So why did I return 4 times you ask? The food. I came twice with friends and once with my girlfriend. My friends are not as "polished" as most fine dining establishments might like one to be, so I was ok with the subpar waiter service. My final time here I brought my mother in. That was the last straw! If I am coming in here and spending 200 bucks, I expect a friendly wait staff, not the ostentatious, too good to even attempt a smirk bunch they have working here. I have never been back to this place, and I never will. Your business loses many people because of the staff you hire. I hope your management doesn't train them to be this way. One person who tells several people will cause a domino effect of "bad press" that will get around. I raved to everyone about your steaks until I came in with my mom. The steak was still delicious, but easily outweighed and overshadowed by the treatment we received. There are too many great steakhouses in this city that have the wait staff to match for your establishment have waiters that act better than everyone else. There are too many people looking for work for your restaurant to keep people with a subpar performance on the payroll.
Steaks: Positively amazing. They practically brought half the cow to me on a plate. It was succulent, smoky, cooked absolutely perfectly. You can indeed expect great things from Staghorn from a steak standpoint. Big points for the restaurant itself too: elegant and well decorated; you'll feel like you're in the right place for a $30+ steak.
Why three stars? Waitstaff. I don't think I've ever seen a gaggle of unadulterated impudent snobs like this since last year's Nobel Prize ceremony… The conversation in question went something like this…
Me: A steak please.
Waiter: A salad comes with that…
Me: Oh, uhm, like, what kind of dressing you got?
Waiter: It's… dressing! You know, a balsamic! (said in THE most accusatory tone I've ever heard come from the lips of a waitstaffer)
Me: Oh, sorry…
As if I should be made to feel like a mentally challenged ape (pardon the expression) because I thought a place like this might have more than one option for salad dressing… I think this particular moment tops the list of most inappropriate conduct from a waiter I've ever been subjected to.
So, congratulations Staghorn. Your waiter's little moment of insanity cost your restaurant two stars. Next time, try not to make a concerted effort to piss people off when they're ordering your steaks at 40 dollars a pound.
I will say upfront that this is a completely biased review. It is culled from a dinner experience totally skewed by the fact that my dates were two wealthy businessmen who have been coming to Staghorn for years and years (like 25 of them), spend lots of money there, and know every single server, cook, and owner.
And no, despite how it sounds, I'm not a prostitute.
I don't have to explain myself to you!!
At the Staghorn…
Service? Could not have been better. (Guess why.)
Food? Delightful. The waiter knew the menu by heart (I never got to see it), knew exactly what foods Robert and Robert loved and would want, asked me detailed questions about my meat, seafood, and appetizer preferences and offered up some great choices.
We split two orders of grilled calamari and some of most amazing mozzarella with tomatoes I've EVER EATEN. And listen, my momma grows some damn good tomatoes–I know me some good mozzarella and tomatoes. This was wild. I couldn't stop eating it. I almost licked the plate.
Then for our mains (aside from the three bottles of white wine and one bottle of ridiculously fancy red for Bob) we had a porterhouse for two, medium rare. Mmmmm. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. MEAT. I LOVE IT. It didn't need anything else, it was just rich and buttery and delightful. The steak sauce was amazing too (though not necessary). Bob got a burger and fries and those fries were freaking delicious too.
No one had room for dessert so we all had several glasses of blueberry port, which I've never tried before but highly recommend. It was so tasty.
I have no idea how much our check came to but I know it was a lot. And thank god for wealthy friends, because it was well worth it. Definitely recommend Staghorn.
If you feel like hosting an event here – 5 stars, easily. What an awesome spot to have a holiday office party that I don't work for! They had an unlimited open bar of everything, top shelf. DJ mixing up some great crap. I danced even. For a long time. There are two different levels. They had a huge buffet spread with waiters serving you up food cafeteria style. I wasn't going to try too much food because I was already full from my own office holiday party. Guilty as charged. But I sampled a few of their menu nibbles.
Whatever style of steak was served that evening was disgusting. The guy insisted that I take a slab after I looked at how overdone and pathetic it looked sitting in a tray of water and other juices. "No, no, you will love this". No, no, trust me, I didn't. Felt bad for wasting it. I sampled the salmon: Cooked well. A little bit bland but way better than that sad steak. Their pasta? It was pretty good. It was just penne with marinara sauce but it was cooked al dente and probably the best part of the spread.
The last thing I tried food wise by the end of the night was their tiramisu. HOLY HELL. This may be up there for best tiramisu ever. I freaking love this more than most deserts. But it was incredibly rich, oozing mascarpone custard and made with real lady fingers. None of that bullshit fake wafer cookies. YUMMO. Sign me up. I ate my slice and proceeded to eat half of Finlay's. But this was after several excellently poured grey goose concoctions and several shots of Café Patron.
Overall, the best Christmas office party that I ever have been to that was not my own. But I would probably not want to eat dinner here. If you're a steakhouse and you make poor quality steak for huge amounts of money that makes people very sad.
For a steakhouse, they didn't really cook the steak very well – medium rare was medium well. Sides were boring.
Came here with my firm for lunch a couple of weeks ago and was quite pleased with how everything turned out. I ordered a shrimp cocktail for appetizer, filet mignon (lunch portion) for entree and the mango sorbet for dessert. The shrimp cocktail was really fresh, with gigantic prawns that left a crisp at the end of each bite. The filet mignon was cooked to my liking, medium rare, and possessed a nice char that I need on my steak! We also ordered several sides to share, including creamed spinach and mushroom caps, which were decent but didn't wow me. What I did love was what I ended my meal with – a mango sorbet that filled an entire half mango skin and tasted like a softened frozen mango. All in all, it was a satisfying meal and I would definitely return again.