American Steakhouse

This is some of the worst food that I’ve ever eaten, bar none. It is also outrageously expensive. The employees do not speak a word of English. However, the manager was very friendly over the phone.

So we went around noon time everything was so fresh I had the best meal I had at this place I was truly happy walking out. I will continue to spend my money here. The steak was on point salad bar was looking inviting even the rice at the hot bar was actually really good and hot my go to time is 1200

We stopped here to grab a quick meal before an appointment in Darien. I would give the entire experience a thumbs down; the food, the staff and the service were terrible. The only positive was that the restaurant seemed reasonably clean. If we hadn’t been under time constraints, I would have turned around and walked out. It is cafeteria style so you grab a tray, order your meal, slide along and pick up additional dishes and beverages, and then pay. A salad bar is included in the meal. The service was just awful and the steaks were a kind of grey color, tossed onto a plate. Presentation is clearly not a factor here. Every side option is drowned in butter – I mean, literally floating in butter – and the corn on the cob looked and tasted like it had been boiled for two days. The salad bar was also pretty bad. Everything looked sort of wilted or old. I would never go to this restaurant again.

Low budget steak place. Not the best quality but it hits the spot in an emergency. I don’t come that often. It can get busy on the weekends. Very convenient parking lot.

I love the service and the hamburger is amazing! The Ribs are to die for.

this place is not as bad as people say ing, for the price you get a very filling meal to eat this is not Morton’s Steakhouse and you shouldn’t expect the same type of food but it is a very good deal

My family took me to this place for dinner last month while I was in town and I have to say I was surprised. The food was so so good we were all talking about it still the next day. My favorite was the porterhouse steak I had, it was done to perfection just the way I like it. So I come on here to leave a review and I see all the negative reviews and I’m surprised. I don’t know how the food was before because it was my first time the other night but I was pleasently surprised with my steak. I do recommend this to families that don’t want to break their wallets. Very affordable.

This place used to be a guilty pleasure because their food was so good, but the last time I went its clear its gone so far downhill that not even the food can lure me back anymore. Food is doled out cafeteria style on trays, then you pay, then you go get salad bar and sit down. What was fun to do 10 years ago is now somewhat depressing since the dining room is so dirty. The food has become abysmal, and this used to be a place you could count on to get a solid cheap steak. If you have to feed 20 people and don’t care about food quality, go for it. If not, steer clear.

I went to the American Steakhouse for the 1^st time yesterday after passing it on Conn. Ave. hundreds of times. A good friend of mine who frequents AS invited me to go & I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
I ordered Sirloin Tips, (requested-​medium rare) with the included side order, in this case baked potato. The food was very good as the tips were tender, juicy & cooked as requested. The baked potato was also tasty as was the accompanying garlic bread.
The portion size was adequate.
What was really tasty were the potato and macaroni salads from the included buffet and the rice was also well prepared.
Note that this is a «cafeteria-​style» restaurant without much ambiance but in all fairness AS does promote the restaurant as a casual family style/​oriented place.
Also note that my companion’s order, steak tips, was not cooked to the desired level, medium-​well, he requested and the person in charge gladly and quickly rectified the problem which indicated good customer service – very important to me.
Overall AS was clean, the staff attentive, the prices fair and the food good tasting.
My only complaint & I know this sounds ridiculous is that I wish they had a brand name ketchup available instead of the one (generic?) they have available. I will definitely repeat.
P, S, believe me when I tell you, a review of a food establishment coming from me like this is rare as I am extremely conscious of the goings on in a restaurant & am quick to criticize for what I see as many restaurants simply ripping us off. Congrads AS! you won me over – not an easy task.

This place is ghetto fabulous! Big cheap steaks and a cheapo salad bar! It’s a great place if you think Sizzler’s is fancy.
No shirt? No Shoes? Come on in!

This was a very interesting experience. The place looks pretty ok from the outside
Not quite what I was expecting. Meat was sad, salad-​bar disgusting. Kids running around, staff not friendly at all.
Avoid at all cost. Got to Subway.

The only thing American about this place is that any American can afford it. I used to end up at this place with an ex-girlfriend’s family, and while I enjoyed their company, the restaurant we ate in was a dump. It’s a buffet style place, but most of the food looks like it has been sitting there for days. The lettuce had chunks of brown in it and the corn on a cob was dry as a bone almost like you would expect a corn to look if it were sitting out in the sun all day. Some of the people you see here are scary as well. I wonder if they say that about me too. :-) It’s never nice to bash a place, but when you go out and spend our hard earned money, you expect better than this every time.

Don’t let the name fool you, this place isn’t American and it isn’t a Steak House. The place is practically a cafeteria, with the main difference being the prices as much higher than you’d expect from cafeteria food, a small simple sandwich will run you over ten dollars and will likely be worse than something you can find at a Subway restaurant a block away for half the price.
While I haven’t actually seen the steak here, I passed by it and it looks like something that came out of a freezer, pre-​cooked perhaps in a warehouse hundreds of miles away. Seriously, I don’t really understand why they put the word «steak house» in the name with all things considered, sure its catchier than their previous two names Bonanza and a Family Affair but its incredibly misleading.
You’d think with their high prices, they’d at least have a decent staff, right? well, their staff is probably worse than whatever you’d find at the shadiest McDonald’s. I’d have to repeat the name of my order several times and even then they’d find some way to get something minor like the soda wrong. Not to say they don’t work hard because they put a lot into the food preparation but I feel like for the price I’m paying for my food, American Steakhouse should at least hire workers that can understand enough english to take my order.
The food itself, like something you’d find out of a cafeteria, was fairly inoffensive but nothing memorable or distinct. For the amount of money you are paying, you deserve better.
The place advertises heavily on low-​budget local cable channels such as News 12 with a theme song that seems straight out of the ‘80s and a video game caliber 3D animated mechanical bull that throws a basketball into a hoop. This commercial almost is «so bad its good» and its perhaps the only thing the location has going for it, luckily you can at least hear the theme song in all its cheesy glory on the website for the place, you’d probably enjoy it more than anything they have at the place…