Oh yeah. Now we are talking. \n\nThis place is so old-school every time I go there I feel like I should be driving an Olds Toronado and wearing a Jantzen Shirt-Jac. I want to travel back in time and show up with Angie Dickinson on my arm and smoke a fat cigar in their bar while calling the waitress \"sugar\". I walk through the front door and suddenly it's 1972.\n\nAnd yes, these are good things.\n\nThe ceilings are low, there are no windows to speak of, and the the brick arches inside recall something like a German rathskeller.\n\nAlong with more modern dishes, the menu features old delights like Osso Bucco, Liver and Onions, and Beef Wellington. At the salad bar you load up your pewter plate with julienned carrots among other things under a generic \"Salad Bar\" sign that probably came out of a Sysco catalog 30 years ago. Just behind the salad bar is the grill, steaming away under a large copper canopy. Watch and smell those delectable slabs of meat give up their aroma. An offering to the gods of polyester, Johnny Carson, and the man who reads Playboy.\n\nThe martinis are adequate, though not killer. Actually they are probably made the same way they were back when the place opened in 1965. It's only recently that \"superpremium\" ingredients have raised the standard to lofty heights.\n\nOn my most recent visit I had the grilled salmon-shrimp special which came with a couple of asparagus spears, a lemony-butter sauce, a few shrimp and steamed veggies for $21. Hey, as much as I fantasize I need to remember it's not 1972 anymore. Thanks to modern technology I know what my arteries look like. Though the flavors were good, I felt that both the salmon and the shrimp were both a little over-cooked. Overcooked shrimp are safe but rather tasteless. The sauce helped compensate, and the overall effect was satisfying.\n\nI looked longingly at my companion's prime rib, which was delivered exactly as ordered: Medium rare. The prime rib is the star of the show in a joint like this.\n\nThere are nightly specials during the week that look like good values.\n\nThough I wouldn't change a thing about the decor, they do need to look after bathroom maintenance a bit, and some background music would be nice.\n\nI plan to return regularly to soak in that 70's flavor. I need to find some white shoes and a matching belt.
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