East Alabama Living Winter 2020

thousand island dressings are made in house.
Big Mike’s sister-in-law has a bakery in
Birmingham and makes desserts for all of
the steakhouses. Cakes include chocolate,
caramel, red velvet and Oreo cookie cake. The
bread pudding is made in house daily. When
the bread pudding is ordered, a square is deep
fried and served with ice cream and homemade
caramel sauce.
When we decided to dine at the steakhouse,
we knew we wanted to dine on the
covered porch. We arrived shortly after 4 p.m.
for an early dinner.
After we were seated, we settled on the
crab cakes for an appetizer. We shared an
order, which was plenty. Two crispy fried crab
cakes were served on lettuce with a drizzle of
remoulade sauce.
We were interested in trying the fresh catch
as well as a steak. The fish for the evening was
grouper, which is one of our favorites.
The grouper piccata was offered fried or
grilled. Our server recommended ordering it
fried. It came on a twice baked potato casserole
topped with fried capers and lemon
beurre blanc sauce. The grouper was excellent,
and we would order it again.
For a steak, we tried the filet mignon
wrapped in applewood bacon and topped
with garlic herb butter. The tall steak looked
picture perfect and was cooked as ordered.
The entrees came with a salad, bread and
choice of potato.
Although the desserts sounded tempting,
we were too full on this occasion.
The large menu offers a variety of appetizers,
salads and soups, sandwiches, seafood, a
selection of steaks and other entrees.
In addition to filet mignon, other steaks
featured include 24 oz. and 16 oz. ribeye
steaks and a strip steak. Steaks are topped
with garlic herb butter, but upscale toppings
can be added, including lump crabmeat with
Béarnaise and asparagus.
For a lighter meal, a po boy sandwich,
burger and chicken sandwich are available.
Main dish salads include tiger shrimp,
chicken cobb and a build your own salad with
choice lettuces and toppings, such as crab
cake, tuna steak, etc.
If you are interested in small plates, check
out the appetizers. These feature crab claws,
smoked tuna dip, fried mushrooms, tiger
shrimp and an oyster menu.
A children’s menu is available with a
cheeseburger, chicken tenders, fried shrimp
and kabobs served with fries.
Suzanne Sherling is the front of the house
manager and has been working at the Auburn
restaurant since March. Soon afterwards, they
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