STK
On November 22nd, I had to head up to St. Augustine for unfortunate reasons that were previously brought up here in comments. My mother’s husband had been moved into the hospice center after falling and breaking a bone or two and cutting his head. My mother was a wreck, as she has been throughout this entire process since May but now it was much more real to her. As I left work at 2:45PM, it meant I was driving by Disney Springs around 5:45/6PM on my way up to St. Augustine. I needed food as I barely ate a lunch so perfect time to stop by and get something! We had cancelled STK during our November Wine & Dine trip so I figured it was a good choice for a solo meal for me as I had my TIW with me (since it pretty much lives in my wallet) I was able to get a reservation off of OpenTable while I was driving up.
Sarasota is the bane of my existence
I parked off in the parking garage and headed to STK for my dinner. I was a little early but that wasn’t a problem and I was sat at a two top next to a large booth and another two top. I initially was annoyed. I sat for 10 minutes without a single greeting or someone visiting my table. I was not happy. I think the table next to me thought I was strange when I voiced a question about it thinking we may have the same server and wanted to know if they had issues with her. Turns out our server was different and two people out there in the world think I’m strange. Not the first and won’t be the last! (I was also aware that this dinner was going to be my last ‘me’ moment for the next few days)
When my server arrived, I placed my entire order.
I also did something nice for myself and ordered a $45 glass of Dom Perignon. What I didn’t like was that they didn’t pour the glass in front of you.
Dom Perignon
The bread was topped in blue cheese butter and had a chive oil to dip it in. Being a blue cheese hater, I was creative on how to try the bread and avoid the blue cheese! I took a piece and turned it upside down and picked around! (I realize I’m a child sometimes) The bread with the chive oil was really good!
Bread w/ Blue Cheese Butter & Chive Oil
I ordered a side of the parmesan truffle fries with my steak. They came out a bit different than I was expecting as they were huge fries! I had to wait for them to cool down some before I enjoyed it. I was very happy!
Parmesan Truffle Fries
For my main, I went with a filet. I mean you can’t go to STK for the first time and not order steak when you are a red meat eater! The filet was really tender and I was really happy with their bearnaise!
6 Oz Filet w/ Bearnaise Sauce
After dinner, I stopped by the new pastry shop before leaving to get a couple nice things for my mother and I to eat despite knowing we would spend most of the next few days at hospice.
And that’s the end of Fall 2016 Disney for Dis_Yoda! In a month, I’ll be posting my trip report for
Disneyland! This Disneyland trip will be a bit different as we are doing some things outside of the park such as the Warner Brothers Studio Tour, Universal Hollywood VIP tour, Steakhouse 55 Tea Party, and some other fun things!
Link for that is here:
http://disboards.com/threads/that’s...ks-january-2017-rebel-challenge-more.3565065/