black & blue steak and crab

the service was excellent, thesteakwas amazing! i loved the atmosphere too. i will return

good place with a few quirks. ok...yes it is pricey. yes it is loud...very loud at times. yes it is in a retail strip. but the food is good as is the wine selection.steakwas cooked perfectly and the service was good. great place to go for a night out with others when the noise factor is not an issue.
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very nice ambience.
classy and chic.
wide variety of wine options.
appetizers fairly ok. salads very fresh.
thesteakwas very good. cooked to the appropriate level.
the waiters interrupted a little bit more than expected. like every 4-5 minutes there’s someone asking you if everything is good. it’s a nice gesture, but too much.

our 45 anniversay. we have celebrated our anniversary at black and blue since they opened.we have had wonderful experiences and a couple not so good .each year we try to go somewhere else but always decide this place .have we waited beyond our reservation time "yes"have the ladies at the front end appeared somewhat ditsy "yes"has the service been excellent yes. has the food been excellent yes?..do we feel our overall experience is great yes.just celebrated our 45th anniversary there .left very happy stuffed with the beststeak.was it pricey yes but i've gone to other places where i can't say anything good about them and payed a lot of money will we go back next year yes look forward to a happy experience .thanks banab for making our anniversary a successful evening

good food, some pricey surprises.. i went today with two friends, and we spent over $250 - yikes! we had appetizers, steaks, drinks and dessert. the calamari appetizer was wonderful - and i don't even like calamari. my sirloinsteakwas done right and tender, and the cheese sauce was great. we tried different sides, most of which were tasty, except for the asparagus, which was a bit underdone. the desserts were also high quality, and the coffee as well. i can't complain about the food at all! the wait staff was friendly and helpful, willing to accomodate and knowledgeable about the menu. my biggest complaint is the price for some of the items. there were 'addons' - one of which was crab legs for $18 a pop...you read that right. i was expecting a snow crab for that price; what we got was one crab leg. for $18. that's rather criminal. prices in general were a bit steep, but for the most part within high endsteakhouses. still...$18 for a crab leg? several of the 'addons' were equally small in portions while large in price. so...overall, great food - just be careful what you order.

meeehhhhhhh.... i travel for work and usually avoidsteakhouses and this place is a shining example of why. bad service and i could buy asteakat wegmans and cook it better at home. way over priced for the crap cuts of meat.

good service, great staff, and the beststeakin town!

don't do it. had multiple bad visits, bad food and over-priced (mainly because of poor food quality).steakwas overlooked and full of gristle, really!!! if you want a good steak, go to max's in brighton on rt. 31. avoid black and blue.

on a side note, we ate recently at a sister restaurant to b&b called trata in the old armory building on culver. this was much better and i recommend this one. surprising given our experiences at black and blue.

beststeakin rochester. i've been coming to black & blue every six months for four years now with my family for "steak night." i've had a lot ofsteakat a lot of restaurants and i believe that this is the best in rochester. every server there is extremely knowledgeable about various cuts of meat and will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have or just describe what your options are. having tried all of thesteakon the menu and almost every side, i strongly recommend the wet-aged new york strip special if they're offering it when you're there, or the sirloin if they're not, but nothing you order will be bad. it is expensive, but the atmosphere is nice and makes a good dinner for a special night out.

not the best beef.. you sit down at black & blue, ready to pay top price for the highest qualitysteakcooked just how you like it. but what black & blue doesn't tell you is that they're serving you usda choice beef (according to their executive chef). this falls in the middle of the grading system (prime, choice, select) and is the same grade used at chains such as outback and longhorn.

top steakhouses like peter luger in new york and even some chains like morton's and ruth's chris use only usda prime cuts of beef.

actually, among three top rochester area steakhouses - black & blue, prime steakhouse and max chophouse - only prime offers usda prime steaks every day - a 10 ounce filet and a 16 ounce strip. max chophouse offers usda prime occasionally, but it varies from week to week, so you won't know unless you call ahead that day.

hopefully black & blue will someday step up to the big leagues and offer rochesterians the best beef available.

mmmmmm.... we have been fans of b&b since they opened. we only ever had one issue and it was immediately fixed. it's on the pricey side, yes, but as far as i am concerned - worth every penny. the staff is great and it's simply delicious! it never ceases to amaze me that mysteakis cooked perfectly every time, (on the rarer side of medium rare), and because of the dishes they serve it on, it stays hot the whole time you're eating it, yet never gets overcooked. crazy but wonderful phenomenon. and don't even get me started on the oysters! oh my! first of all, kind of hard to find in rochester, let alone a selection! they almost always have 4 different kinds (2 west coast, 2 east coast) - i prefer the east coast myself!

beef tenderloin carpaccio. i have to think that any other carpaccio i order in the future will have a hard time living up to the bar that this one set for me. it was served with a parmesan tuille and a salad of microgreens and shallots with a light vinaigrette. the beef alone was good, but when i put the three together it was like a party in my mouth. the salty, nutty parmesan balanced so well with the slightly acidic vinaigrette and the mellow beef. this was probably one of the best appetizers i've had anywhere, and i am making myself hungry again just writing this.


-----24 oct, 2011-----

delicious and pricey. my husband and i went here for our first anniversary this past weekend and loved it. the modern decor is visually arresting. we sat at the bar and had a drink so we could take it all in before we ha our dinner. they have an extensive wine list, but i am always disappointed when locally owned restaurants don't have local wines on the menu.

my husband had oysters for his appetizer and they came with the cutest miniature bottle of tabasco sauce - just 1/8 of an ounce. i had the beef tenderloin carpaccio, which was something new for me, and i have to think that any other carpaccio i order in the future will have a hard time living up to the bar that this one set for me. it was served with a parmesan tuille and a salad of microgreens and shallots with a light vinaigrette. the beef alone was good, but when i put the three together it was like a party in my mouth. the salty, nutty parmesan balanced so well with the slightly acidic vinaigrette and the mellow beef. it was probably one of the best appetizers i've had anywhere, and i am making myself hungry again just writing this.

we both hadsteakwith crab for dinner. at a restaurant known for both we pretty much had to. the steaks are served sizzling-hot on individual metal pans garnished with a sprig of fresh rosemary and come with your choice of sauce. it was a nice presentation, but my husband and i both found that the rosemary overpowered the delicate crab, and the sizzling dish is probably what contributed to my filet (which i ordered medium) being nearly well done. those problems aside, thesteakwas fantastic. my husband's horseradish cream sauce was fantastic (what could be a more classic combination than horseradish and beef?) but the brown truffle butter on mysteakwas so subtly flavored that it was lost in the house rub on the steak. the asparagus that accompanied my husband's meal was nicely-charred, but nothing to write home about. my orzo mac n cheese, on the other hand, was nothing short of divine. the crunchy panko topping provided a nice textural balance to the creamy, cheesy orzo. i was amazed at the huge portion, but then again, that meant that i got to take half of it home with me.

since my husband had told the hostess about our anniversary when he made the reservations our waitress brought us a complimentary chocolate torte that was just out of this world. i am glad that we split it, though, because it was so rich the neither of us would have been able to finish it alone.

our entire meal including a $20 bar bill and the tip came to around $145 so this is not a restaurant we will be visiting often, but i can't wait for our second anniversary because we definitely plan to go back!

black indeed. my husband and i thought hard about where we wanted to go to celebrate our 20th anniversary and we settled on going to black & blue for the first time. when we got there, we were impressed with the decor. the atmosphere was loud and curiously lacking of music but lively.

we loved the menu -- so many good things to appeal to both of us. after we ordered, our server bought us small glasses of sparkling wine to celebrate our anniversary -- a nice touch.

the salads (his caesar, mine a green salad)were larger than we'd expect in a fine dining place, but generally nice. i liked the cornbread croutons on mine.

the red meat, which they are known for, is what disappointed us. our server had said that with their 1700-degree oven and signature rub, the exterior would be caramelized, but we could order it without it. we reasoned that a "signature" rub at asteakplace would be good. it wasn't. to our taste, the meat wasn't caramelized -- it was burnt. the inside of our meats were cooked properly but the burnt taste overwhelmed the flavor of the meat and the rub (which supposedly had rosemary on it).the meats come with a sauce, served on the side. i chose bearnaise - i can't say i got a good taste of it because that, too, was overwhelmed by the char on the meat. i had grilled broccolini with mine -- again, the charred grilled flavor just added to the overall burnt experience. i also ordered garlic mashed potatoes (my husband asked for blue cheese mashed potatoes which came with another dish, and they accommodated his request). both of us found the flavors to be very mild -- it was hard for me discern garlic and hard for him to discern blue cheese. and the texture was dry rather than creamy.

i had 1/2 pound of crab with mine -- which was half of a crab leg. the crab leg did not arrive with the rest of my meal, which was a disappointment. when it did arrive, it was pre-cracked, but all by itself on a plate -- no butter, fork for getting the meat out, or cracker. a few minutes later, a server arrived with the cracker. i managed to get the meat out (using my napkin to protect my hand from the heat of the shell). it was succulent and delicious. it's the one thing that could get me to return.

we did not order dessert (we walked to the coldstone creamery a few doors down). they gave us a couple of chocolate truffles at the end, which were good.

for well over $100 for the meal, i expected better. i probably won't return.

beststeakin town!!. if you want a fantastic steak, this is the place to go!! however, be prepared to pay for it! it's expensive, but worth it if you can afford it. the ambiance is excellent. great place to take someone special on a date!! be sure to make a reservation! they could do a little better with their wine list though.

out of place. the best thing in this joint was the greeter, a young lady who appeared to be creole and had an exotic beauty that took command of the room. she definitely got the young single guys in our group to forget about how much they spent. however that is where it stopped. whomever chose the location for the black and blue steakhouse needs to be beaten black and blue. classysteakrestaurants (or those aspiring to be) shouldn't be located in a retail strip center. our group was dressed casually following a long flight day. the ambiance of this place is more suited to sharp casual.

the food was ok, but not spectacular and way overpriced for what you got.