Prime Only Steakhouse & Sushi Bar has named James Iadanza the Managing Director. “Beaming colors, rustic brick and steel girders expose the decadent side of the Prime Only facade. The location that saw the rise of Raleigh’s power grid now caters to a power crowd of steak lovers and their indulging friends,” stated Mr. Iadanza. The location is divvied up into two floors, with a minimalist staircase separating the second-floor private dining area and lounge from the main dining room. A separate sushi bar features a trendy crowd of young hip professionals. Decor is decidedly modern, with touches of rich wood and old world design serving as a warm balance to the stark industrial architecture.
The food at Prime Only Steakhouse & Sushi Bar is flawless, the beef is easily on par with Ruth’s Chris, Morton’s and the Palm’s. Appetizers range from soups, seafood and sashimi to smaller steak samplers that allow the more indecisive to taste the goods without investing in an entire meal. Prime Only Steakhouse & Sushi Bar is usually hopping with Raleigh A-Listers dining and couples catching a live dinner show in The New Rat Pack Lounge. “The guest list has seen everyone from good ol’ boys to the Backstreet Boys indulge in this quintessential Raleigh location,” reveled Mr. Iadanza. Prime Only Steakhouse & Sushi Bar is located at 505 West Jones Street in downtown Raleigh’s Glenwood South District. www.primeonly.com
SOURCE: CarolinaNewsWire
RALEIGH, N.C. – Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality, has announced that Bogart’s American Grill (www.bogartsamericangrill.com) has received two write-in Maggy Awards for Best Creative Sandwich and Best Ladies Lunch. The Third Annual Maggy Award competition gave the community an opportunity to vote for the “Best Of” in over 80 categories. The 2008 Maggy Award winners will be featured in the January/February issue of Cary Magazine and on CaryMagazine.com. Bogart’s American Grill, located at 510 Glenwood Avenue in downtown Raleigh, is a full service restaurant and bar that specializes in rotisserie, fresh and local ingredients, a popular martini menu and an extensive wine selection.
“We are honored to announce that Bogart’s has received two write-in Maggy Awards,” said Ogan. “We are pleased that Bogart’s has proven to be so popular with the community.”
About Bogart’s American Grill:
Bogart’s American Grill, located at 510 Glenwood Avenue in downtown Raleigh, is a full-service restaurant and bar that specializes in rotisserie, fresh and local ingredients, a popular martini menu and an extensive wine selection. Guests will enjoy the outstanding food and service, as well as a very unique atmosphere. Bogart’s offers a Sunday brunch menu from 10:30 until 2 p.m., which features live jazz music and a wide variety of breakfast items. The menu offers daily specials, as well as weekly featured items emphasizing fresh ingredients from the area. For more information, visit www.bogartsamericangrill.com.
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Two large gaslight lanterns flanking the entrance to Chop House Grille take some of the chill out of the fall night air and help you forget the restaurant is in a sprawling shopping center.The warm welcome is reinforced in the dining room and bar, where alabaster chandeliers, maple woodwork and gilt-framed harvest landscapes on textured khaki walls combine for a look that is at once polished and comfortable. If you’re lucky enough to score a table in the small back room with a fireplace, you’ll be downright cozy.
The menu appears calculated to appeal to a broad range of tastes and moods without venturing too far outside reassuringly familiar territory. At one end of the spectrum is traditional steakhouse fare: shrimp cocktail, iceberg wedge and all the usual grilled red meat suspects. At the other is a contemporary American offering whose most adventurous options include a sashimi tuna filet with pineapple-mango relish, and a Cajun mixed grill of tilapia, shrimp and andouille sausage.
A similar philosophy guides the wine selection, whose 80-plus listings (more than two dozen by the glass) are dominated by familiar labels.
Your appetizers arrive, served on stylish white plates with a “CH” logo. Fried green tomatoes, stacked in alternating layers with baby shrimp and skewered with a rosemary sprig, tower over a prosciutto-flecked puddle of honey-Dijon sauce. Fried lobster ravioli, their shells striped black with bands of squid ink-dyed pasta, nestle in a festive wreath of marinara, pesto and crumbled Gorgonzola.
A lot of planning has gone into every detail of the dining experience — the sort of planning that’s typical of an upscale chain restaurant. In fact, Chop House Grille is a chain, albeit a small one. The North Raleigh location, which opened in April, is the first in the Triangle of a Greensboro-based chain. A second is slated to open in Cary’s Stone Creek Shopping Center this weekend.
For all its planning, a restaurant is only as good as its execution. Chop House Grille succeeds on that score better than many chains, but there’s room for improvement.
Shrimp bisque, for instance, is richly satisfying, its concentrated flavor tinged with sherry. And the fried green tomato appetizer is as much fun to eat as it is to look at. But the delicate lobster filling in the fried ravioli is overwhelmed by the intense flavors on the plate, particularly a thick marinara cooked so long it borders on caramelized. And a large crab cake, packed with crabmeat and served over a toothsome butterbean ragout, would be first-rate if it weren’t burned on the bottom.
Evidently, the kitchen pays closer attention to the doneness of steaks, grilled or otherwise. A bone-in New York strip, ordered rare, comes within a whisper of that juicy, cool-centered ideal. A hefty slab of prime rib is spot on medium rare as ordered, and fork tender to boot. Same goes for tenderloin beef medallions in a gratifyingly understated Grand Marnier orange sauce.
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