Ruth’s Chris Steak House

Best steak ever also try the 500 degree butter with garlic on your bread. you have to ask for it. Service is wondrrful and let them know if it’s a special occasion and it’ll be a special event

Thank you RuthsChris in Venice Florida for a amazing anniversary dinner last night. Chris and Jack and staff was amazing. Even had a anniversary card for us. Just awesome. Thank you once again for a amazing experience!

Anyone with any knowledge of good food would not waste their time or money on this unbelievably pretentious establishment. I am a former restaurant professional from New York city and consider myself a good judge of well-​prepared food. I was utterly appalled at the overpriced menu, the underwhelming presentation and the tastelessness of the food. For example, what was considered family style «sides,» what arrived was a paltry amount of maybe 20 pieces of low grade mushrooms… I don’t know whose family this would feed, but certainly not mine! The mushrooms had no taste and obviously had not been cooked in a meat stock or butter or something that would have imparted some flavor! I could go on and on but please just trust that this is a restaurant that needs a visit from Gordon Ramsay.

Don’t waste your time here. Go down the
street to Flemings. You’ll be much happier with the service and the steaks. I don’t know what has happened at this location but they use to have excellent wait staff and delicious steaks. Unfortunately, both of those things have gone way south and this Ruth Chris isn’t even close to the one I remember going to just a few years ago that had excellent service and perfectly prepared steaks. It’s like an Applebee’s now. Sad but true …

This is our second visit to this location in Sarasota. We were greeted at the door by the hostess who informed us that there was a wait to get into the bar for Happy Hour. She said that there were three parties ahead of us ! So went on a waiting list. I asked her how long the wait would be and she said she couldn’t tell us. We then went in to the bar and grabbed our drinks then came out to stand in the lobby. We met 4 people in a party who said they had been waiting 45 minutes and were finally being seated. Had we known We wouldn’t have came in. The ironic thing was that the dining room was basically empty with plenty of seating available. We felt like second class citizens. The food was excellent, but the service was second rate and disappointing, we will not be going to another Ruth Chris, but will go to Flemings where they seat people in the dining area when needed for overflow. Shame on you Ruth Chris your service and treatment of customers should be changed, Happy Hour doesn’t mean second class customer treatment does it?

Great steaks and seafood with outstanding service. We settled on the Ruth’s Classic which includes a salad, entrée, and desert for $ 55.
We started off with the Chop Salad. For an entrée my wife had the Wild Alaskan salmon with Thai chili sauce, and her side dish was grilled corn. She couldn’t eat it all.
I had a medium rare 16oz. Ribeye smothered in butter, along with creamed spinach. Everything was piping hot and cooked to perfection. A very good steak.
For desert we both had the Strawberry Shortcake and chocolate pecan truffles.
A very pleasant evening.

This is really a SPECIAL place for SPECIAL occasions. Not only is the food superb, service as good as it gets, but they make YOU feel Special, and how wonderful is that? Janelle was our waitress and Philip her assistant. Both could not have been more attentive without being obtrusive. The meal was out of this world. This is THE place to go to for a special occasion, I highly recommend it!!!

What a great way to spend an Anniversary. The steaks were cooked to perfection, side dishes very tasty and service excellent

The steak is really good especially since his serve to you on a sizzling platter of butter. The side items are really good too… Mostly Southern comfort food. The prices not so much. Pretty expensive for good steak and southern food.

What has recently happened to Ruth’s Chris? We have had dozens of meals (all steaks) at Ruth’s in Sarasota and other cities. In over twenty years we have never experienced a tough steak; until recently that is. We have returned twice in the past six weeks with the same friends and on both occasions have had steaks, both rib eyes and NYstrips which have been tough (to the point of difficult to cut with a steak knife). Neither of us are inclined to return meals and we both suffered through half of the steaks and ‘took the remainder home’ and threw them in the garbage. They have got to be getting their steaks from a new distributor because this is too much of a coincidence that the last six steaks were under par even for an inexpensive restaurant at one third the price of Ruth’s Chris. Too bad! What was once our favorite steak by far has become mediocre at best and carries with it a very high price tag. Goodbye Ruth’s Chris.

Went there last week with 2 friends. Had the filet. If this was supposed to be a prime graded piece of meat,
they are blowing smoke. A lonely piece of bread was also placed on the table. Hardly enough for one more or less 3. Price wise, too expensive for the experience U get eating there. Overall not great.

I’ve been coming to this Ruth’s Chris forever.
It’s a family affair. Whenever I am visiting my parents, we try to get to Ruth’s for a night. We usually request Steve as our server, since he is the best. =D
What I like about Ruth’s is that you know you are getting quality food every time. Here’s a breakdown of the last meal we ordered:
Steak Filet, medium rare. A Melt-​in-​your mouth cut of beef. Can’t go wrong.
Stuffed chicken breasts. Extremely tasty.
Scallops — Served just right, and there are enough to make a meal here. (I usually order the steak — like a strip, for example — but I thought I would be different today).
My brother ordered the potato au gratin, which he swears by. I usually get mushrooms as my side dish, which are always good. Can’t go wrong with the salads either.
Wine selection is massive. (We got the Seghesio red zin, roughly 57 bucks).
That brings me to the price. Everything here is pricey, but that is just how it is. Don’t let the fact that Ruth’s is a chain throw you off. Obviously nobody is going to come here every night, but for special occasion dinners, you can’t go wrong.
Bonus points for letting my dad come in on his birthday dressed in a full Scottish kilt.

Pricey but excellent food. Our steaks were perfect! When ordering, know that side dishes are suitable for two people to share. Service exceptional from hostess to waiter.

We were there Saturday night, with month long reservations, with a wedding party of 16. We arrived at 6:20 and had to wait an hour for salads. It was another hour before our dinner arrived. Of the 14 adult entrees, 5 went back to the kitchen for temperature errors. Of the 5, 2 went back again. One of the children’s entrees went back as well. One guest was charged for a drink she didn’t receive until right before we left after complaining about setting it on her bar tab. This was my first experience at this restaurant. After this experience I won’t go back. I felt horrible for the Bride and Groom who paid for this mess and whose day was ruined by the kitchen’s incompetence. What should have been fun, delicious and worry free was anything but.

This staff did an outstanding job on a very busy, height of tourist season, evening! Our meal was perfect. I would return for the best shrimp cocktail since dining in New Orleans! A very special experience for our Anniversary! The rose petals on the table for dessert still makes me smile!

I took my date here, definitely a night to remember, the food was promptly and professionally taken care of for us. We ordered a classic set and was able to share that with my significant other and believe me, I was struggling to finish my portion of it. They are very generous with the portions. I would recommend this place regardless if you dress fancy or casual. But hopefully fancy as it’ll make you feel top class. My date and I dressed formally and we felt very much in place even though there were other customers that did not wear formal wear, our waitress commented on our outfits and said she wishes more people would dress up and we wished so as well. I did read onto the other reviews prior to going but went on a recommendation. So go with a open mind. Everyone’s experience isn’t the same.

Five of us went to dinner on New Year’s Day. We have never been there before and we’re looking forward to it. Paid $ 300 without drinks. For this price, two of our meals were cooked wrong. I ordered a medium well and it arrived rare. Sent it back and it came back shriveled and well done. A $ 10 steak from Applebee’s would have been better. The colored carrots looked unappetizing and tasted that way. The ceaser salad, the creamed spinach, and turtle cheesecake was mediocre. Since two meals out of five were wrong, they upgraded our deserts, Two of us had upgraded cheesecake desserts and they were mediocre as well.
One table next to us had to send their steak back as well. The wait staff were apologizing to us and two other tables by us. Unbelievable!
Given the prices one would expect a very high quality meal, not so. On a scale of 1 — 10 it is a 2. Don’t know how they stay in business. Obviously riding on a false reputation. We’ll never go back as there are way too many other good quality places to go.

If you like butter then this is the place for you. I had the filet mignon (béarnaise sauce was excellent) and my husband had the porterhouse, both were medium rare as requested. Unfortunately, the butter overpowered the taste of the meat. The presentation of the dishes were less than subpar and unappetizing. Typically, before a plate is served to a customer, it is wiped clean around the edges of a plate. There were actually smudged fingerprints of food on our plates. Nothing pretty about any plate served to us and for a $ 200 dinner for two people we expected much more. Taste and presentation were very disappointing. Service was prompt and friendly.
Sorry to say we will not be back.

Only come here on special occasions because it is so pricey. I just went here on my three year anniversary with my boyfriend and got this sense of attitude from the staff that because we are young that we’re inferior.
My boyfriend is 21 and I’m 19, we’ve been told we look very young but no one should give off that kind of an attitude.
Food was great though! Our unusually close table neighbors were very friendly.
food is always great and always have plenty for leftovers. My favorite dessert is the molten lava cake!
I always see girls, and grown «women» in booty shorts and bare feet on the booth seat, I guess no one believes in a classy restaurant anymore. Are they allowed to set a dress code? I think they should.

Consistently good steaks, sides and service. I usually get the filet, but after trying a bite of someone’s ribeye, I may have to diverge and go for the fattier, tasty cut. Ruth’s Chris restaurants serve their steaks on a sizzling buttery hot dish and if you cut your steak and it falls cut side down, it will cook your steak to almost well done, so be sure to keep your steak upright. Their sides are pretty much what you would expect and taste fantastic. Creamed spinach is my favorite; it’s not too creamy/​fatty with the perfect ratio of spinach to cream. The harvest salad and dressing were impressive. Of the desserts, the flourless chocolate cake, which is no longer on the menu but sometimes available is melt in your mouth, rich, decadent and delicious. Crème brûlée would be second choice then chocolate explosion.
Lastly, I just discovered their happy hour menu too, which offers $ 7 items. The staff is extremely professional, food is prepared perfectly, restaurant is clean: all the makings of a perfect dining experience.