"Went there last night with a friend to celebrate her new job. We both had the 16 oz. ribeyes, which were excellent. She had the stuffed mushrooms and I had the sweet potato casserole and lyonnaise potatoes. My friend loved her mushrooms and the sweet potato casserole was to die for! In the past, I had always ordered the lyonnaise potatoes the potatoes were sliced and fried with onions. The used to be awesome. I say “used to be” because now they’re made with fingerling potatoes instead of sliced potatoes. Word of advice: If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it! Those fingerling potatoes looked so sad and were so dry, I will never order them again. What a disappointment. After the meal, since we were celebrating my friend’s new job, I figured they’d take our dessert orders and then bring her dessert on a plate with “congratulations” written in chocolate on the plate. Nope. Instead they brought out a plate with “congratulations” written in chocolate and on the plate was a small bowl of vanilla ice cream and a pathetic little round pumpkin cheesecake. My friend doesn’t like pumpkin so she asked if I wanted it since I like pumpkin and how can you go wrong with pumpkin cheesecake, right? Wrong. It was the worst pumpkin cheesecake ever. I couldn’t even eat it and I’ll eat just about anything sweet. THEN the waiter came with the dessert menus. What? As I said before, take her dessert order first and let her order whatever dessert she likes and then bring it out with “congratulations” on the plate. As for me, I got the creme brulee and it was awesome. All in all, we had a great time and most of the food was what I have come to expect from Ruth’s Chris. But please bring back the “old” lyonnaise potatoes. Oh, yeah, and please throw away all those mini pumpkin cheesecakes. The Ruth’s Chris I’ve come to know and love is better than that. Thanks for listening."
