Final Cut - Hollywood Casino

I love steak, but secret confession: I usually don’t eat steak out, thinking that other dishes sound so much more interesting and are a better test of a chef’s skill. However, we went to the Final Cut Steakhouse at the Hollywood Casino on a recent Friday night and I was pretty much blown away. They are running a promotion currently called Friday’s Feature and the word feature doesn’t do it justice. Before I describe this fabulous feature, a word about the Hollywood Casino. You have to (get to?) walk through the casino to the restaurant, which faces the Kansas Speedway. Once inside the restaurant, you totally lose the casino – it’s just not there anymore. The restaurant feels like a classy steakhouse – which, believe me, it is. A cozy bar is the entrance and there are true Hollywood artifacts sprinkled throughout the place – from Dorothy’s blue pinafore to Celine Dion’s dress to a James Bond tuxedo – not that all the artifacts are clothing as th...