Sooooooo, I've now come her twice before posting this and I ready to head back here again. This place is a hidden gem. I heard a little buzz about this steak house and was skeptical but thought what the heck. So glad I did because it's great. So reasonably priced, good service and delectable dishes. You need to make a reservation, they are a small staff and do not fill the restaurant and do not take walk ins if reservations are full. They actually just stop excepting people so they don't over extend themselves. I watched them turn numerous people away. Love that they focus on what they know they can handle.
First visit, my husband and I shared the Escargot, mushroom appetizers and twin lobster tails and ribeye dinners. Meals are served with bread and a large fresh salad, a starch and veggie. The apps lacked a little salt and escargot had a little too much garlic that was not cooked down enough but still edible. If they sautéed or roast the garlic a little longer it would get the savory garlicky butter flavor a bit better but it also needed salt. Toast points would set this off. The mushrooms were fantastic, again it just needed a little salt. Salads were large, crisp and super cold on chilled plates (my fav) and the house balsamic vinaigrette is phenomenal. We decided to skip the starch and just had sautéed veggies and our entrees were so delightful. Perfectly cooked and well seasoned ribeye and the twin lobster tails were perfect! Both entrees were Juicy, moist and full of flavor. Service is good and personable . It's a small staff and they serve as a team. The restaurant itself is dated and could use tweaking but did not affect our experience. Visit #1 for 2 people with premium cocktails under $150 with a very good tip! Solid score.
Visit #2 just a couple weeks later... this time with friends we got escargot and mushrooms again but added lobster bisque and shrimp cocktail. Delicious! Mushrooms were great, shrimp cocktail were fresh and snappy. The housemade cocktail sauce is good just heavy on the horseradish. The lobster bisque was fantastic and had tons of chunky bits of lobster. I tried the escargot again because it's one of my favorite dishes and I wanted to see if they were just off on the previous visit. It's definitely a preparation flaw. There is just too much garlic and Is just too raw and salt is still lacking. It would be a super easy fix and pleas, please, please add toast points to sop it all up! We all had twin lobster tails and got different starches to share. Fantastic Again!!!! Perfectly cooked tails. Delicious, juicy succulent tails. Garlic mash- yum! Rice pilaf- yum! Backed potatoe- yum! Salads were fresh, crisp and cold. We shared desserts and got a bananas foster and a campfire s'more. This was the worst part of the meal but still pretty good. Bananas foster is not table side prep but bananas were brûléed/candied and was the star of the dish. The s'mores were not really s'mores but were tasty nonetheless. The marshmallows were charred perfectly. I personally would forego dessert for another lobster tail, lol. We also had a couple rounds of martinis so I forgot to take more pictures past the appetizer course they were a little busier on this night so service was slower but still good.
Visit #2 - 4 people under $350 with appetizers, entrées, two rounds of premium martinis and 2 shared desserts.
Great job Sun Valley Steakhouse! I will be visiting again soon to try some different dishes. Excellent food, very reasonable price, good service with decent ambiance. This is a solid, solid spot and I am loving it! read more