john howie steak

four dinners all horrible.dinnertonight for four. rack of lamb, salmon, medallions with bernaise and a filet mignon. the first three were about 2-3 stars out of ten. they were extremely salty, the rack of lamb was suppose to be medium and was well done. worst meal ever, and they are so pretentious. will never return there...save your money...

for a gooddinneror lunch, i recently celebrate my birthdaydinnerhere and as always i enjoyed everything, the steak is amazing, i also tried the best cuba libre i ever had and the desserts are for die, one of the best nights started here❤️

great food, horrible service.

first of all, i'm convinced this place is a little racist. the back corner had 5 tables. every table in that corner had mainland asians sitting at it. there were no other asians at other tables in the restaurant.

the maître d was by far the highlight of the night. his whole demeanor was negative and ruined the whole night for me. he was very rude, terse, and pushy. he kept emphasizing that the filet and salmon didn't come with any sides and kept trying to push us to order more when we didn't want more because we had a late lunch. i almost stopped him and yelled "i know how to read a menu" but refrained and decided to be the better person. when we told him that we would be sharing a bowl of chowder he kept asking how we were going to share that and i felt pressured to order two. i don't know if he thought we couldn't afford the place or decided to treat us horribly because we weren't ordering that much but either way, it wasn't appropriate.

after we were served, nobody else came by our table and asked how the food was. the bus boy eventually came by the table and asked if we would like the dessert menu but by then we were ready to get out so we just paid the check and left.
horrible experience. i was actually looking forward to ourdinnerhere because my boyfriend comes here for lunch all of the time and he only had good things to say but after this experience neither of us will be patrons of john howie again.

will not go back. this was adinnerto celebrate my grandson's birthday and the bill was over $900.00, we did not have adinnerworth the money and unless you order steak, don't expect your food to be hot. i did not want steak and ordered the grilled cheese sandwich and my son in law and grandson ordered the hamburger. my sandwich and soup were cold and i was not able to eat it. my grandson's bun was burnt and the food was also cold. we also had too wait over 45 minutes to receive the appetizers then another 45 minutes for the salad and another 45 minutes for the main course for a total of 2 hours and 25 minutes waiting for food, which to me is too long. the waiter we had did a very good job but everything else was a disappointment.

tempura fried bacon, where have you been all my life?. my husband and i went for a celebratory night out last night at john howie. it was a splurge, but i wanted to thank him for his years of support while i finished my degree. our booth was large but nice and cozy. our waiter, mason, treated us very well throughout the meal - making sure we didn't have any food allergies and asking if we were celebrating anything.

we started with the tempura fried kurobota bacon with maple sambal ponzu and it was mind blowing and life changing. we had the table-side caesar salad, which was the best caesar salad either of us had ever had.
their drink menu is impressive - pages and pages of liquor and wine chices. i settled on a dirty vodka martini made with local dry fly vodka with my appetizer, and withdinnera glass of john howie merlot.

for our entrees we both had ribeyes. my husband had the 42 day dry aged 16 oz ribeye, and had it oscar style with bernaise, crab, and asparagus. i had the 28 day dry aged 16 oz ribeye with the foie gras butter. the steaks were good, but weren't the best part of the meal. next time were are going to go for the wagyu steaks. for sides we had the 5 cheese twice baked potato, which was amazing, and the creamed spinach, which was disappointing. fortunately, our excellent waiter noticed our disappointment with it, appologized, and we were not charged for it. that is what i call good service! since we were celebrating we were also comped our dessert - a perfect and substantial creme brulee. mine was accompanied by a glass of grand marnier - served in a perfectly large snifter - and my husband had his coffee. french press of course - with a towering assortment of cubed sugars. also served in a preheated mug. perfect touch.
in all our meal was $248 - we had a $60 of groupon, which brought the total to $188, with tip a total of $240 for the two of us. definitely a splurge, but for a 2.5 hour relaxingdinnerand amazing service it was a worthwhile experience.

overrated and underserved. we haddinnerthis week at john howie steak and we were really disappointed. the calamari appetizer was greasy and overpriced but the real issue was that it took over 45 minutes to bring our entrees. terrible and the waiter apologizing every 10 minutes didn't really help. is the kitchen that inefficient or did they lose our order? we'll never know. we watched other people be seated, order and leave before we ever saw ourdinnerwhich was only passable. i couldn't even finish my chicken- i was beyond hungry at that point and just wanted to go home. they offered free dessert but it was too little to late . eventually they compt'd us the appetizer but we won't be back; its too much money to risk being treated that way again.

horrible experience!!. complete dissapointment!! we went to jh for my husbands 35th birthday, total of 5 people! we got sat at our table and this is when the nightmare started!! i could probably write 5 pages of negative but instead i will give you the quick version. we waited 20 minutes before our server even acknowledged us at the table, another 15 minutes before she took our drink order, about 25 minutes before she brought back our drinks and tried to walk away without even asking us if we wanted apps ordinnerfor that matter....i hope they didn't have an yummy specials because we never heard them...i had to get snotty with her just so she would take our order. she never brought out the table side ceasar salad...we waited another 40 minutes from apps to dinner...without a refill on a soda and i again had to flag her down to order more cocktails!! we had to flag another person down for horseradish sauce and to possiblly turn the air conditioning down!! i finally made a comment to one of the table captains and thats when the sudo ass kissing started. the server never apologized for the horrible service, the table captain took off a round of drinks and dessert off our bill. he then proceeded to give us a "coupon" for free salad the next time we came in. we won't be back for the next time!! we only went to bellevue for this experience, we live in seattle. next time we will take our $500 dollardinnerto canlis or el gaucho...we know we will always get amazing service there!!

the servers name is deborah, the table captain is matt. perhaps if you go to jh fordinnermake sure you don't sit in deborahs section.

amazing happy hour food deals!. i recently stopped in at john howie's bar for happy hour with some friends and might have found my new fav on the eastside. the discount price appetizers on the happy hour menu are amazing to say the least. we tried tempura king crab & asparagus, tempura fried kurobuta bacon, bacon cheeseburger, and spicy habenero butter shrimp shared amongst the four of us. the bacon and king crab are worth the price of admission alone! i'm looking forward to going back for steakdinnervery soon.

average overall. this an upscale steakhouse in the bravern complex in bellevue that stll can get better. i took my wife here for her 60th birthdaydinnerand she very much enjoyed herself as did i and we'd probably come back some time.

the ambience is typical steakhouse and done tastefully and we had a nice window table with a great view of i-405 and 112th ave. ne. so don't go there for the view!

the food was very good expecially the steaks we had. my wife had the combination plate of wagyu and real japamese kobe beef. she had never had this before and contunually raved about how good it was, as was my wagyu filet. the table side ceasar salad was pretty average for a restaurant of this caliber and it had too much mustard in the dressing for our taste. the morel mushrooms and english peas we had as a side dish were very good. we brought our own bottle of wine and they charge a $25 corkage fee, which is pretty typical of an expenside restaurant. the bananas foster at the end of the meal was also quite good, but certainly not the best we've ever had. the service was also very good!

bottom line: if you want excellent kobe beef this place is a good choice, but if it's regular prime beef you're after we would suggest the el gaucho in bellevue is the better choice. it has better service, better ceasar salad and the steaks are also wonderful and the food is presented in a better manner. for either restaurant bring money and lots of it becasue you're probably going to drop around $200 plus for just two people for dinner.

if you're looking for a quick steak, this is not the place for you. but if you have the time and money o spare, this is a great place to have a nice, leisurelydinnerfrom appetizers through dessert. the selections are plentiful and the service is just attentive enough without hovering.

not worth it.... well, the wife and i went back to this restaurant after not being happy with things the first time, we wanted to give them a second chance... so this is an updated review.

again.....the ambience was great, wait staff knowledgeable and friendly, but that is really where it stopped for us.

a lesson from the first time around, order your steaks with less seasoning if you don't want it to taste overly salty, we did this and the steaks were brought out as ordered and were very good.

now onto the not so good...

we ordered the mac and cheese and asparagus on this side. the mac and cheese had a great flavor, would have been amazing if it were hot! asparagus, the same way, not hot!

ordered the table-side caesar, we talked with the person making it about how we really loved anchovies in the salad, we ate the salad and noticed not a single anchovy to be found...

so, disappointed yet again. we aren't food snobs, but i know what a good meal is, and at best this meal was decent. for the money we spent it should be phenomenal, how do you spend $200 for a meal and not get your food hot? it's inexcusable and there are better places to eat if you are going to drop that kind of money.

sorry john, we really wanted this to be great the second time through and it was just average.

i will say going for lunch or happy hour, the burgers are excellent, but i won't be ordering a steak or a fulldinneragain...

disappointing. the service was spotty--our waiter appeared to be overburdened by the number of tables he had, which is inexcusable considering the price tag. the food was very tasty and the wine list excellent, but i have certainly had much better meals for less money--at $200 fordinnerfor two i expect extraordinary.

i have been to john howie steak 4 times already and each time the foods been great. the cheese steak sandwich and blt are favorites for lunch and love the deviled eggs too! fordinnerthe steaks are amazing and the seafood is fresh and prepared perfectly. you really can't go wrong with anything you order. love it!

good....but soooo sloooow. i went there last night fordinnerwith three of my family members. we were greeted quickly but our drinks took about 10-15 minutes to arrive. we had appetizers (the oysters are great, skip the gnocci), salads (the ceasar salad is amazing as was their arugula salad on the fresh sheet), and finally steak for dinner. i had the american waygu new york which was pretty good. however, i did prefer the 28 day aged filet that my brother ordered. our steak arrive at 9:25pm, which was roughly two hours into the meal. we all enjoyed the meal, but were not planning on a three hour meal. usually i dont mind long dinners, but the amount of time between courses was very noticeable.

kudos to chef john howie for the new restaurant. i think it will be a big hit, but i would wait to go there again until they have some of the kinks and timing issues worked out.

sublime. just back from my firstdinnerat john howie steak. where to start? very lovely service from mary ann, beautiful dining room. the food- starting with the bread basket- the not-so-humble basket of house made goodness. flatbread, a pretzel-like stick, and a cheesy roll, along with some amazing butter. de-lish-us! next up, gnocchi with mushrooms, dungeness crab and truffle oil- worthy of standing on its own as an entree, but a starter nonetheless. i had to stop myself after just a few bites. next up, a very generous wild greens salad, with just the right amount of dressing. but then, the entrees- my date and i each went with filets, 3 total: nebraska aged and american wagyu for me and japanese wagyu for him. perfect for comparing- and each brought something to the party- the wagyu beef from japan was by far the the richest, most tender meat, but for me, the american wagyu was the perfect balance of flavors. sauces were unecessary- but we loved the peppercorn. sides included some roasted corn with chipotle chili, and more wild mushrooms. we took our dessert to go, and we're happy on a sunday evening with very good meyer lemon tart. all in all, john howie steak exceeded my expectations- leaving el gaucho and daniels behind. the quality and value were exactly what i was looking for in a steak house experience!