What do you order at Morton's???
 

Okay guys and gals, spill it... What do you order at Morton's??? Please tell us everything from drinks to appetizers to main course to side dishes to desserts. Am I missing anything? ;)

I always get the same thing each time and I'm wondering if I'm missing out! I'll be there this weekend and maybe will venture and try new things based on the opinions offered here. *gasp - me? try new things???* :D

Anyway, here's my "regular" order:
Steak: Ribeye (Rare to Medium Rare)
Side: Asparagus and Hollandaise sauce

That's it. I don't know if I'm just a light weight, but I never have room for appetizers or dessert...although I'd love to try some! PLEASE POST YOUR FAVORITES, REGULARS AND RECOMMENDATIONS HERE! TIA! ^

Mortons does a great peppercorn sauce, and the blue cheese salad is good. For sides I like the creamed spinach a lot.

Each mortons has a wine list that is customized to their location, they have some shared wines, but the market dictates what wines are on the list. The Reston VA Morton's has more high end wines than the one in Phoenix for example.

Most morton's have pretty consistant quality.

Yummy!
Lobster Bisque
Blue Cheese salad
Double Cut Filet Mignon, Sauce Béarnaise (bleeding please)
Lyonnaise Potatoes
Souffle (Chocolate, Raspberry, Grand Marnier and Lemon

The wild mushrooms are also good.

Shrimp Cocktail or Oysters
Chopped Salad to split if my GF wants it
Porterhouse (if I am hungry) or Cajun Rib Eye - Med Rare
Sauteed Fresh Spinach & Mushrooms
Mashed Potatoes
Chocolate Souffle

Grey Goose and Soda to warm up
Cabernet with Dinner

Morton's happens to be one of my favorite places to go for a Steak. I've been going to the Costa Mesa location for many years.

My favorites are:

Appetizers:
Lump Crab Meat
Scallops (wrapped in bacon)
Lobster Bisque

Salad:
Beefsteak Tomato

Main:
Cajun Ribeye (medium rare)
Double Filet (rare)

Sides:
Grilled Asparagus
Garlic Mashed Potato
Onions
Mushrooms

Dessert:
Rasberry Souffle
Cheesecake

My Morton's has a good wine list, but I still always bring my own, because I have even better stuff ;)

I don't drink, so I just order a Coke or a sparkling water.

For appetizer, I order the jumbo lump crabmeat or the Cesar Salad.

For main course, I go for the NY Strip or the Ribeye.

For sides I go for the creamed spinach and the hashbrowns.

For dessert, the Godiva Chocolate Cake.

Then I get rolled out of the restaurant.

ask for crabcake or their special shrimp for apptzr instead of the main meal
beefsteak tomato for salad
cajun ribeye medium
garlic mashed potatoes
sauted wild mushrooms
good california cab
godiva choc desert soufl. -- must be ordered at the middle of the meal takes at least 20 min. to prepare

Caesar Salad
Porterhouse (if hungry) or NY Strip - Medium Rare
Hash Browns
Creamed Spinach
Bottle of Italian Red Wine
No room for dessert!

This is what I order also, except I replace the filet with a ribeye.

M8

I order a few cigars to get the discussion started on planning for a better meal in Buenos Aires. ;)

I'm a filet fellow.

I prefer the cigars after dinner. I bring my own. I prefer the Padrón Anniversary series, either the '64 or the '26, natural or maduro. As for the Habanos, I keep a stash of Partagas Series D No.4 ^

M8

I couldn't find Morton's locations outside of the United States on their website. Any suggestions?

They have a location in Hong Kong (in the Sheraton) and in Singapore (in the Oriental). Not sure abotu any others.

http://www.mortons.com/website/index.html

Look at the pulldown menu, i.e., Singapore, where I have dined a couple of times.

M8

Thanks a lot, gents. ^

No offense to anyone who has done it but...why would you eat a steak in Singapore or Hong Kong? I would think that those two places would have great food for everyone that a steak wouldn't matter.

I try to explain: It's different! It's exotic! :) It makes for a change from the usual cow stomach soups and hotpots featuring everything moving, although I enjoy those a lot. A friend of mine is doing a thriving business in HK with his sports themed American/Brit grub restaurants and most customers are HK or mainland Chinese.

My first trip to Hong Kong back in 2001 coincided with a plan on my part to eat innevery single Morton's. I did eat there one night and found it to be as good as the U.S. Morton's. That said, it was substantially more expensive as all the ingredients had to be flown-in from the States. It is located on the 4th Floor of the Sheraton, so it does not offer a particularly nice view of the skyline, even though it faces in the proper direction.

Well, I guess everything is novel to those who it is different to.

Business clients. It is also considered a trendy place by the local business elite in Singapore and Hong Kong.

M8

I'll second that. Also, for us non-Americans good prime steak is often hard to find and prohibitingly expensive. On my usual turfs in Asia and Europe I can get anything from oysters to steamed silkworms, but a delicious medium rare steak with good sides is the one exception.

That's because all beef is usually imported to Asia. And they typically come from the US or Canada.

Hey, back on topic people! ;) C'mon, need more food selections please! Only 2 more days until dinner! :D

So can someone describe this Godiva Cake that I keep hearing about? Is it a souffle?

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Tomato salad with blue cheese
Filet, butterflied, medium
hash browned potatoes

Yes. An oven baked chocolate cake filled with molten chocolate. IF you have any room left after the steak it is an absolutely amazing way to end dinner.

Love the Godiva cake more than I like the steaks actually. Best story about the cake was I was in DC for a training that was mostly being attended by the higher up partners of our firm. I was definitly low man on the totem pole. We were walking back to our hotel after a ridiculously expensive dinner. I spot the Morton's and comment that I love the cake. Partner responds "Let's go get some then!" Walk in and restaurant was packed. Partner asks to be seated just for cake. Host says he can't seat us just for dessert. Partner mentions we will be drinking $1,000 bottle of port with said cake. We got a table pretty quickly! :D

Mortons a great Steakhouse


Single Malt Scotch
Crab Cocktail
Ribeye Med Rare
Bottle Of a good Red Wine
Creamed Spinach
Garlic Mashed Pot.
Mushrooms
Apple PIe with Cheese
and a good cigar.
And as the OP stated someone to roll me out of the place.
Need to check out the Godiva Cake. :p

That's a great story! :) My boss made me work late one night and then offered to buy dinner "downstairs" -- at Morton's. I'd never had dinner there, just drinks, so he had them go through the whole spiel with the steaks for me. It was great compensation for a tough evening revising spreadsheets. Too bad I didn't have to work late that often!

And yeah...that cake was so to die for! My boss told me specifically to save room for it...just heavenly (the cake, not the boss)!

Okay, so I ended up ordering my usual (bone in ribeye - rare/medium rare and asparagus), but we did try some new things as well. My hubby had the double filet with the au poive peppercorn sauce...great flavor, and we ordered the hashbrowns as well. I was not that impressed with the hashbrowns...IMO, I think the greesy ones at Denny's and IHOP are better!

And we did save room for the Godiva cake. It was AMAZING, but also small...I was expecting it to be the size of the souffles, but it was much smaller. I recommend each person ordering their own!

The last time we ordered the creamed spinach it was so heavily laced with nutmeg I couldn't eat it. There was no mistaking the flavor/odor. NUTMEG in the spinach? Yuck.

Bombay Saphire Martini
Crab Cocktail
Ceasar Salad
Biggest Filet Med Rare - NO CHAR
Bottle CA Cabernet (Silver Oak or Opus One)
Asparagus with Bernaise
Garlic Mashed Pot.

Decaf Coffee
Snifter of Grand Marnier Centenaire


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

Nothing, 'cause I won't set foot in the place. With all of the great steakhouses in NYC, why settle for an overpriced, average quality chain like Morton's or Ruth's Chris? I'll never understand why folks go there when they could go to Spark's, or Keen's, or Peter Luger's which are all SO much better. And I find that when I travel away from NYC, there are always better local steakhouses than the chains.

Amstel Light
Oysters
Split salad with wife
New York Steak MR- to R+, unless they have the KC strip
Asparagus or Brocolli
Good Red wine (Although I think that Mortons is one of the worst restaurants at marking up their wine. Do they think that we never buy wine at the retail level. Some of their wines are marked up 3 to 4 times!)
Oban on the rocks

Name one in Orange County, CA and I'll be your best friend!

The position of dchristiva's best friend is already taken, but thanks for the offer. Nevertheless, I'll name you TWO:

1. La Cave - 1695 Irvine Ave. in Costa Mesa. Great food and service.

2. Agora Churrascaria - 1831 Main St. in Irvine. A unique experience that surpasses the chains by miles.

Best of luck to you!

I will agree that the experience is unique. However, the beef can not hold a candle to Mortons.

You are steering people wrong here. Your opinion is really not valid many places outside of some major beef cities (e.g. Manhattan, Chicago, Dallas). There are some good local steakhouses to be found across the country. However, in most cases a Morton's steak is as good, if not better. This is not even mentioning the overall experience. FWIW, I enjoy Ruth's Chris too!

I'm unclear how you know whether my opinion is valid. To each his own, but I'm quite confident in my recommendations, given my travel experience. I can name good steakhouses in Orange Co., South Florida, and off-the-beaten path markets just as easily as I can in NYC, Chicago or Dallas. Yes, I've been to THAT many. I consider eating steak to be a personal passion, and I never pass up the opportunity. I'm not steering people wrong. I'm enlightening them. Don't settle for a chain when you could have a really good steak, service and atmosphere at an independent establishment.

So...any of you who love great steak and Godiva cake that are planning your holiday shopping might want to check this out:

http://www.mortons.com/website/index.html

Buy impressive gift cards for clients/partners/colleagues...and get something for yourself also...

^ Great deal! Thanks for the heads up! Santa Claus is coming to town...!