The Smithy - Stepney

1st time visit today and I’ll be back time and time again! Fabulous old school Steakhoise! Steaks cooked to perfection. Best baked potato, fluffy, fresh and hot hot hot!! And they have a salad bar. Exceeded all expectations. Simply the best in the Fairfield and New Haven counties. Bravo!!

We dine there often, for a reason.It's consistantly great! Always a home run.Among the very few establishments you can count on to impress every time.Rated very high among my Top Ten.

We decided to try The Smithy for our anniversary dinner out. It has kind of an up to date 70’s steakhouse vibe. It’s one of a dying breed that still has the old school salad bar that’s included with your meal. It had a nice steakhouse menu with a nice variety of selections. I got the French onion soup starter. The flavor was good, but I don’t think the cheese was Gruyère that is what’s supposed to be used, I’m pretty sure it was mozzarella. For our Entrees I had the porterhouse and my wife had the filet. Both were cooked perfectly to perfection to a nice medium rare. Both came with a baked potato that was cooked perfectly as well. The only knock I have on the potato is the up-charge for the bacon and chives of $2 each. Especially when you can get bacon bits included with the salad bar and the amount of chives were negligible. We decided to have the brownie sundae for dessert and that was a nice throwback too. The waiter said they had a good cappuccino so we gave those a try with the dessert. We were kind of disappointed with those as well as they were basically instant coffee with some cream and topped with whipped cream, not a cappuccino. Overall the food was very good. Our waiter was very helpful, personable and friendly as well so that was nice.This was a very nice steakhouse with great food. It has a few areas that could be improved on a little bit, but the good far outweighs any negatives (I won’t say bads here).I would happily go back again.

Best surf and turf ever! Worth every penny. Cheesecake and lemon cake were spectacular! Dietary restrictions: They were able to accommodate me being non-dairy.

My wife and I went to The Smithy last night for dinner, as we have many times in the past. We've always enjoyed ourselves there and had great meals and service. I would tell all my friends to go there. Last nights experience was the worst. The food took over an hour to be brought to our table. The waitress did apologize and said the kitchen was backed up. We understood as these things sometimes happen. However, when we did finally get our meals, they were below average at best. My wife's salmon was inedible. It was completely dry . She returned after a couple of bites. Waitress offered to get her another, but we didn't want to wait another hour. I had a Gorgonzola burger, one of their specials. I ate it, but it was pretty much flavorless with no hint of gorgonzola at all. The Waitress said she told the owner about our complaints. He never came over to address them. We left after paying full price for our meals. One of which wasn't eaten. Very disappointing because, as I said, we've always had good meals there in the past. Will now thinks twice about going back.