I received a lot of emails regarding a new steakhouse on the Upper West Side, so when our diet food wasn’t delivered Monday due to the storm, there was no better excuse then to check it out.
Meat Me French Steak House & Sushi Bar is located on Amsterdam Ave between 95th and 96th Street. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s located two blocks from Talia’s Steakhouse (to use that term loosely) and three blocks from Mike’s Pizza. Talia’s should brace themselves.
Simply put, the food was great. The menu was La Marais style, with pricing maybe 10% less. There is a full bar, but as they did not yet obtain their liquor license, we simply salivated looking at it. There is no BYOB as the license is pending. The place is well renovated French style, with open air seating (the front wall opens). Nice breeze, but the usual mix of bums and drunks walking to and from the projects.
Appetizers were incredible. I’m a sucker for appies, and finding duck and merquez is rare. Their combo plate was huge and hard to find in a kosher restaurant.
The mains were great. We had more duck, a rib steak and a pepper corn fillet, which was done perfectly. The sides were a little lame, but frizzled onions on your plate is all you really need in life.
The desserts were the same as every kosher steakhouse- crème caramel, sorbet, an exploding cake, blah blah. Maybe one day someone will invent something new.
The bread was so so, though the spread matched Abigael’s.
The service stunk. I received better service gassing up my car before the storm. While they were only open for a week so you can’t judge them, the issue was more with the waiter. The waitress and bus staff were great, but this waiter forgot our drinks, brought our sides (the ones he remembered) before our appies, and told us they were out of the wrong items (duck) and didn’t know what else we can order. Message to owner- send him to the unemployment line now.
To top of the night, they offer a 10% coupon on their take out menus, yet also good for sit-downs (which the waiter forgot to discount even though I handed it to him) and they accept Kosher Advantage.
Meat Me
726 Amsterdam Ave
New york, NY 10025
212-678-7000
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