Pinch hitting for Cole on a post 12 days after he hosted a second trip to Morton’s in two months sets a new standard for poor performance. I am not sure what punishment could possibly suit this disgrace. For the next six months he is only allowed to order petite filet charred to a crisp? Or perhaps, he is allowed to come to dinner but is only permitted to smell the grade A meat of others?

The Mortons at 65 East Wacker boasts a fully remodeled interior and claims to be new and improved. It is essentially the exact same it was when we last visited except everything is now clad in gloss black and mirror panels. Basically Las Vegas circa 1992. The drinks were flowing early on due to a website transgression of my own and Mr. Glick. I will still contend I wrote a lengthy post in time that was swallowed by the google machine. Ole Daddy Gimms got to the bar early so that in the event his very pregnant wife called with news of an imminent birth he would at least have time for a couple Obans beforehand.

The waiter started off with a good start by acknowledging our steak eating prowess and use of the interwebs to document said prowess. In my opinion that was the extent of his respectable service and shifted it right into neutral for the rest of the meal.

Starters, soups, and salads were exactly the same as last month. Middle of the road at best and nothing of significance. I decided to go the cajun ribeye route since I had heard so much banter about this over the past couple visits. I requested they cook my steak to a perfect medium rare first to seal in the goodness, then lightly dust it with the cajun seasoning. Instead they decided to take my steak out in a tornado of cajun seasoning, leave it there for a couple hours, then run it over with a cajun tank and grill it. My sodium levels have started to come back to normal. Mortons should consider reworking this because the flavor is tremendous but the salt is just over whelming. Desserts were the same as up the street a month prior. No after dinner drinks for this guy, early morning work called.

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