The Back Door

The Backdoor had advertised within its menu, they were offering what was called, The Valentines Day Dinner Special, for $34.99. This was to include your choice of a rib eye steak or filet mignon, french fries or baked potato and dinner salad. We placed our order for a well done rib eye steak, a medium filet mignon, with baked potato's and the blooming onion. Beverages of choice was lemonade and coffee.

The beverages arrived first with the dinner salad, shortly thereafter. I couldn't help but to note, how dirty the coffee cup was and requested another. The server returned with a new clean cup, but almost forgot to remove the dirty one, until I reminded him.

The blooming onion arrived and it was found to have been overly cooked and overpowering with chili powder. The wife only had a single piece while I, ate at least half. Now if you know me, then you'll also know that I just love hot and spicy foods. But this was way beyond spicy, to the point of almost being gross.

Once the dinner salads were finished, our steaks arrived. The rib eye was thin reminding me of a ham breakfast steak, and it appeared to have been medium rather then well done. The filet mignon had one of them little wooden signs pressed into it, stating it was well done.

It was at this point, where I was about ready to call over the manager and complain about our order. But just to prevent a scene from taking place within a room full of people, I just kept this to myself and bit my tongue.

It was noted that after a patron got up to leave, the table would be cleaned but the floor remained mostly, unkempt.

And now, lets see what that ole scale of 1 to 5 has to say. Cleanliness 2, service 3, food quality and taste 3, food value, 2. Something kept bothering me about the taste. It was almost as if, we had eaten the same meal before, but at a different locations. Did some checking and found that the Western Sizzlin, Fred's Fish And Steak, Tres Rios, The Friendship Inn along with the Backdoor, are owned and operated by the same people. Hence, the same taste but at several different locations. Did not someone once say, that being different is the spice of life? If so, then why cookie cut the same meal, at different locations? Now if you might, take a peek at the short video before reading on?

After the meal was over and done with, our server brought the bill over. Without paying much attention, I just offered my card and shortly thereafter, we got up to leave. It wasn't until we had arrived back home, that I then took a closer look at our billing for that evenings meal. We had been charged for baked potato's that was to have been included within The Valentines Day Dinner Special!



Just a added note here? For the overall best value in dinning out, I'd suggest hitting up the Western Sizzler. Its a buffet with all the steaks tasting the same, at the above listed locations, but at a much more reasonable price.

NOTE: I'm gonna try uploading the video, directly to this, your Altus site. Will it work?


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