PJ Clarke's on 3rd Ave. Manhattan Restaurant Review

If you want to eat in the company of beer bloated suits and impossibly boring stereo typically midtown fake blondes then THIS is your place!!! YEEEAHHHHH!!! I walked into this place with some friends that I don't really hang out with enough with the understanding that the burgers were great. We went here because the Tapas place we originally went to was fully booked. So I followed like the sheep that I am in situations like this and relished in the fact that at least I liked the people I was with. As for the clientelle, I looked like a goth worshipper only because I was wearing all black and I didn't have that glassy look in my eye(as most of the girls here did). Embarrassingly enough, a woman spoke up and told us it was safe to hang our jacket on any random hook in the bar because in "all the years I've been coming here nothing's ever been stolen". gross admission. she was gross. for real. on to the food.

We were told 20-25 minutes and waited about an hour so when the appetizers that my friend so thoughtfully ordered for our table arrived it was like feeding the starved. the oystery/clam and shrimp platter was great. all fresh. the ice berg salad great. french fries, good. but the real deterrent in this meal was the entree course. 4 of us ordered the Hangar steak medium rare. all of them came raw. remember, I have extensive experience in comfort foods so i KNOW how these steaks should be cooked. after we piled all of our raw meat and asked them to throw some more heat on them I was already past disgusted but i didn't tell my friend who had offered to pay for my $24 steak (not worth it unless you think "gross" is worth $24). I heavy handedly divvied up the steaks back onto their plates favoring their appetites rather than my pinched one. in fact, when my friends (who were well liquored by this time) weren't looking, I shoved the 2 pieces I had left under my mashed potatoes.

I did, however, have a nice dessert there. The Apple Cobbler with cinnamon ice cream (yum!) was great. the ice cream was definitely the highlight of the meal. If I hadn't been there with my friends this would have been an unbearable experience for this Williamsburg fish out of water.