I love your positive approach to discovering new foods and introducing new places, treats and concepts. I look forward to reading your blog (you and Pioneer Woman) but what a disappointing post. BUT, sorry Kansas City….probably not going back on purpose. Perhaps my next trip will just be to have dessert and some coffee in the fantastic mugs they have. But I will note that a co-worker says Hereford House chocolate cake is among the best on the planet (and her husband can’t get enough of their stuffed mushrooms!) And I should mention that my husband loves their steak soup! So if you end up there, perhaps those are two solid orders (along with the onion rings) that could make for an enjoyable dinner. Nothing seemed to work together.īeing restrained, we decided to pass on dessert. That would have been fine if there had been any other flavor added besides some sour cream…and little at that. The filling had large chunks of potato instead of being more blended. The price is comparable.Įven my twice baked potato was sub-par. If you want a great ribeye, go to Houston’s or try out Pot Pie. The bone-in ribeyes from HyVee that I grilled this weekend had more flavor, in fact.
And wasn’t just the seasonings, the meat was not as flavorful as anticipated. It sounded great when I read the menu, but the topping did little to enhance the flavor. Perhaps it was washed away by the river of butter and onions flowing across the top. I’m not big on spicy food, but there wasn’t much depth to whatever seasoning mixture was added.
The spices definitely didn’t follow the traditional “blackened” route. My blackened ribeye was overcooked – nearly losing much of the pink in some spots when I had ordered medium rare. And I really can’t pinpoint whether it’s the quality, the flavor of their grill or the lack of seasonings, but something is definitely missing. I would take a filet at Longhorn, Outback, or Trezo Mare over this. The filet was fine (nicely sized in fact), but it wasn’t really even “good” in my opinion. But once again, I encountered a boring, oddly seasoned piece of meat.
I felt good about our steak selections: the filet and a blackened ribeye. It was lovely – already dressed with a nice vinaigrette and topped with thin potato sticks, tomato and french fried onions. My mother-in-law had the spring greens salad. For a steakhouse salad, this was disaster. What happened to the pretty slices of onion and the shredded cheese?!?! The blue cheese crumbles were a nice touch, but the blue cheese dressing was rather bland. This salad had wimpy lettuce, some weenie croutons (seriously smaller and harder than my pinky fingernail) and a few tomatoes and cucumber. For some reason, I remembered having been to the Hereford House in Independence a long time ago and our house salads came beautifully topped and along with a caddy carrying three kinds of dressing to taste and choose at your pleasure. While I know it’s not the place to really set your hopes high, I was most disappointed in my salad. I expected the bed of mustard sauce to be a nice touch, but it was a little distracting and didn’t really work with the seafood flavor. It seemed overly seasoned and heavy on the filling. For me, the flavor just wasn’t quite right. There seeemd to be a good amount of crab in them, but instead of being lumped together it was thinly spread through a lot of bread crumbs and filler. We also ordered crab cakes since I like to sample a few appetizers when writing about a place. Unfortunately the euphoria stopped there. These babies were solid! Served with a little ketchup and ranch and I was really enjoying my “cheat” portion of the dinner. And the batter was crispy but still soft and moist. Nicely cut, thick onions where fully cooked but not grease-laden. We were off to a great start with some killer onion rings. I was actually up on the idea! It would give me a fresh look at a place that continues to be a KC staple and perhaps I had just had bad luck dining there.
This week, Hereford House was my mother-in-law’s pick for dinner after running some errands in Zona Rosa. But each time, I left thinking it wasn’t all that people had told me.Įven though it’s not on my list of places to go, I do end up there sometimes for group dinners or a friend’s birthday. After all, so many people will direct you to their nearest location if you ask where to get a good steak. It seems even in college, before I lived here, we would eat at Hereford House during a weekend trip, and I recall going several times in the first year after moving to KC. So it’s always caused me some consternation that I just can’t get excited about KC’s hometown steakhouse Hereford House. I’m such a big fan of Kansas City and really want to support my town and it’s homegrown businesses.
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