
Based on recent experience, Grille 23 is no longer the WORST STEAKHOUSE IN BOSTON. That title now goes to Plaza III, Kansas City Steakhouse in Fanuil Hall, Boston.
I got a T-bone steak there lastnight. It was SO bad, my dog, who normally goes nuts over leftover steak, didn't even really want the thing, and kinda looked like she was feeling like shit after eating the swill. I should have known better when there were 7 people in the entire restaurant on a Wednesday night (3 of them were the staff)(the other 3 were myself, a co-working, and a client). The steak tasted like ass. In fact, it very well could have been the bowel of the cow, instead of the actual meat on its back.
So, if you're in the mood for a piece of carcass that tastes like it's been rotting in the desert for a couple of weeks, Plaza III in Boston is your place.
For more steakhouse reviews, please see below:
1. Fleming's (Rated Best)
2. Abe & Louis
3. Capitol Grille
4. Morton's
5.*****
6.*******(VARIOUS LOCAL DELI'S IN THE CITY)
7.*****
8.***
09. Burger King
10. McDonalds
11. Wendy's
12. Bitsuteki
13. Local deli
14. Smith & Wollensky's
15.***
16.*****
17.*******(VARIOUS ROACH COACHES THROUGHOUT BOSTON)
18.*****
19.***
20. Pine Street Inn Homeless Shelter
21. Medieval Manor
22. Grille 23 (Rated Second Worst as of 1/22/09 simply due to the fact that Plaza III is atrocious)
23. Plaza III (Worst in Boston - bar none)
Let's take a look at how we arrived at these findings.
Rated BEST Steakhouse in Boston, Fleming's has never once served me a bad meal. Try the Coconut Tears or Melontini for a drink. Go with the Fleming's potatoes, or Blue Cheese Mashed for a delicious side. The filet or NY Strip is a must, it has always been tender and juicy. Finish it off with the best chocolate molten lava cake and ice cream in the city. Ambiance is good, quality of people is good, service is good. Great for 20-30 somethings.
Coming in a very close SECOND, Abe & Louis offers perhaps the best "bone-in" filets in the city, and one of the most phenomenal pieces of chocolate cake you will ever have. The bar scene is good for older, wealthy, 40 somethings, trolling the bar for some slut who wants to be taken care of by a sugar daddy.
In THIRD place, Capitol Grille has good ambiance, serves up great appetizers, and a great piece of tender meat for a meal. Prices are fairly reasonable as well. The bar scene, however, is pretty weak, as its mainly filled with white trash ho's, who try and impress by dressing in cheesey Versace outfits.
FOURTH place goes to Morton's, home of the dungeon atmosphere, but best lamb chops and mint sauce in the city.
In 5th through 8th place, just walk into any local deli on any street corner in Boston, ask for the sirloin or "steak and egg", and you're bound to get a decent piece of meat (at least the quality will be much better than the following steak "houses").
Rounding the corner in 9th, 10th, and 11th place, are the three big fast food joints. For $5.25, you can get a nice piece of meat, that is guaranteed to be juicy and satisfy your hunger. Best in overall bang for your buck.
Coming in at 12 and 13, are Bitsuteki and Plaza III, respectively. Really not much to say about these places, as Bitsuteki is just a tourist trap, and so is Plaza III. The meals are so, so, atmosphere is so, so. Prices are so, so. Of note, if you are looking to pick up some drunken' buffoon, relic of the Roaring 90's stock market, look no further than the last bar stool at Plaza III. There's always bound to be some boozehound, irish trader puking all over himself at One in the Afternoon.
Smith & Wollensky's would be ranked WORST steakhouse in Boston, if Grille 23 actually burned to the ground (which it should). However, since Boston isn't that lucky, S & W comes in at 14. Located in the cheesy "Castle" in Back Bay, this is the place losers go if they want to feel like they are "royalty". Go there some night if you're interested in joining a bunch of phony old people from the suburbs, looking to see what a New York or Chicago steak might actually taste like. Or, join a skank at the bar for a drink. Just say you pulled up in a Mercedes and you're bound to get some action by the end of the night from some suburban North Shore tramp. Oh yeah, did I tell you the steaks taste like 50 Steak 'Ums pressed into a ball?
On the home stretch, we have various Roach Coach Trucks, the Pine Street Inn Homeless Shelter and Medieval Manor, respectively. Each one of these brassieries is bound to serve you a better quality meal than Boston's WORST rated Steakhouse according to WAFSBOSTON.BLOGSPOT.COM. This dubious distinction goes to...........((((DRUMROLL PLEASE))))......
Grille 23! Here is a checklist for what to expect if you make the mistake of dining at this awful shithole of a Back Bay excuse for a steakhouse:
BoTox Hen, at the bar, pecking away at her dried out piece of shit they call a Filet:

BoTox Hen, looking like her face is melting away with each sip of her cocktail, looking for wealthy man to pay for her meal:

Pretencious dickhead retail stock-broker whispering in his buddies ear that the BoTox Hen is interested in him:

Overpriced martini which tastes like watered-down urine:

Worst service in Boston (or perhaps anywhere):

Cold, stale calimari:

Caesar Salad with wilted lettuce and sized comparable to Wendy's .99 cent value meal side salad:

$15 Crab cakes the size of a U.S. Quarter:

Blue Cheese Mashed potatoes served ice cold:

All 5 steaks served drier than a Slim Jim:

One Gallon of Bernaise Sauce and 3 glasses of water to help steak down throat:

Grille 23 ranks as the WORST steakhouse in Boston, perhaps even the worst steakhouse I have ever been to in the United States. I'd like to put my fist through the cocksucker's face who keeps ranking this shithole as one of the top steakhouses in Boston (perhaps, simply, for a lack of steakhouses in Boston, this swill-hole continues to get noticed). Not only did the quality of service SUCK, but the ambiance SUCKED just as badly, as the place is filled with suburbanites on dates, college kids with their parents money, BoTox hen's looking for dates at the bar, and a bunch of dweebs that read Boston Magazine's "Best of Boston" (which, by the way, from what I understand, get's "paid off" to write good things about Boston's "Best of"). To top if off, it is, by far, the most expensive steakhouse in Boston, and by far, serves up THE SHITTIEST food. If you want a steak that tastes like it's been sitting in the freezer for over a month, and has been re-heated in the microwave multiple times, then Grille 23 is your place. Not to mention, paying $40 + for the piece of dog-carcass. I really don't know who the Executive Chef of this dump is, but he seriously needs a hell-beating for charging that much money for this steaming pile of shit.
Do yourselves a favor. If you're frugal, go to a 7/11, get a pack of Slim Jims, heat them in the microwave, let sit for 10 minutes, serve cold with Idaho Spud mashed potatoes. This would be the equivalent of a Grille 23 meal, while saving at least $100.00. If you want to impress your date, or company, with a good meal, go to Fleming's, Abe & Louis, or Capitol Grille - you won't be disappointed.
(feel free to circulate this to one person so they will avoid this travesty)WAFS