This Week's Restaurant Review

By Sam L. Smithers
Chief Restaurant Reviewer

This week we took off for the cosmopolitan city of Miami for what is reputed to be the city's finest steakhouse, Montana Mike's. If my steak was any indication, this is the finest. I had a 16 ounce Ribeye that was just delicious and I also ordered the onion rings.
The steak came with a nice salad and a huge home baked roll. For $17.95 this was a good value.
My dinner companion ordered Chicken Strips Salad which she said was excellent. It came with a dinner roll and was only $6.75.
Service was pretty bad. Our teenybopper server was slow to get our meal served, never could pour ice tea with ice, and in the middle of our meal plopped down the bill in a leather case, standing up as in a military pose. The steak sauce we had requested at the beginning never appeared. Why doesn't someone take these servers aside and train them?
But if you want a great steak at a reasonable price, the drive to Miami and Montana Mike's is well worth it.