C. Ellet's Steakhouse

A Cut Above: A Steakhouse with Macaroni and Cheese that Steals the Show! Rating: ★★★★★ This unexpected star on their menu - macaroni and cheese! From the moment I took my first bite, I knew I was in for a treat. The portion was generous, with enough to share or enjoy as a main course. The service at this steakhouse was also exceptional. The staff Cater and Noah were friendly, attentive, and knowledgeable, taking the time to ensure that all my needs were met. I enjoy hand crafted drinks and they delivered with PERFECTION! This was my second time visiting and both times Carter and Noah made my experience a pleasure.

I would say if I was rating only the food, it's a C+. I have had far better steaks for cheaper and larger cuts. The shareable side dishes were tiny, the duck fat fingerling potatoes were not cooked all the way (hard and flavorless), the green beans were a meager serving for the price, and the garlic confit to add to my steak was unroasted/undercooked garlic in oil. My steak was tough but medium rare and desperately needed some kind of flavor. How? The stars of the show... Good cocktails and great service. Our waitress was adorable and attentive. I don't send food back. If this is what you send out from the back of the house you should take pride in it. Fudge cake was delicious and definitely shareable. $200+ tab for a meal I could cook better at home for $70 for two people. Come here if you need to, but for the price and the size of the meal, probably won't be back. Food looks good but doesn't taste great. Reservations, however, were easy.

First of all, this place is all about location! C. Ellet's is located in the Battery steps away from the home of the Atlanta Braves. If location is what you want then this is a great spot. On the other hand, if you are going to C. Ellet's for good food and good drinks then this isn't the spot! The food was not up to par. We ordered fried oysters for the appetizer and received fried shrimp instead. No worries. Our waitress fixed the issue and we got to keep the shrimp. Well, C. Ellet's could have kept both of them. The batter was extremely salty. Someone's hand was heavy on the salt. We also ordered cocktails with our meal and they were the worst. The Nightingale needs to be reworked because it tastes like mom's home-made cough remedy. I also had a Long Island which is one of the simplest drinks to make. Well, my Long Island was more like seltzer water with a little coloring. Unacceptable for a high end establishment. The night progressed with steaks (Delmonico & NY Strip) as well as mac & cheese with green beans. The steak was bland and lacked any flavor whatsoever. Some of the salt from the batter should have been used on the steaks. The mac & cheese was tasty but more like soup, cheese and macaroni. That's how watery/buttery the concoction was. For a date night, all we enjoyed was each other's company and the atmosphere. The decor is classy in most of the location and a little tacky here and there. The bathroom wall paper with such beautiful tile below is tacky. A photo of a baseball player at each booth is tacky. We know that we are near the Braves Stadium so we don't need pictures of them in the booth. Also bottles of wine spread across the top of the booth ledge is once again "Tacky"! The atmosphere on a Saturday is awesome but the food and drinks need to be worked on. Before I end this we had a great hostess that glowed with great energy! Ashley you are awesome! Keep the great vibrations with you at all times!

It is impossible for me to emphasize enough how much I loved this place. I took my ex for brunch on the 21st of December, where they played live jazz music for the holidays. The environment is at once very intimate yet very open, very clean. Our server was a man named Miller, who was most attentive (he even allowed me to try one of the wines I was considering, before I'd committed to buying it, something I'd never had offered before). I had the pinot bianco, she had the Mighty Mo. Everything was just so good, I must've paid $265, but after 6 oysters, pasta, waygu steak, blackened grouper, and drinks and dessert, every morsel of food, every drop of drinks, all the service at atmosphere was 100% worth it and I would go again, no questions asked.

I made reservations for lunch to celebrate my sister’s birthday. The restaurant aesthetics is top tier. Walking in seeing the beautiful decor, comfy and stylish seating, we had very high expectations about the food. And that’s when the disappointment started. We ordered char-boiled oysters for an appetizer. The presentation was poor and the taste was just ok. Our nice waitress Whitney, did offer to take them back however, I truly don’t like to send food back and didn’t expect to at a restaurant of this caliber. Main course, waygu bavette, macaroni and cheese and asparagus. At a steakhouse, the steak should be the star. The steak was barely palatable with little flavor. The macaroni and cheese was soupy. That was sent back but came back the same way cheese soup with noodles. The hollandaise on the asparagus was bland and the asparagus weren’t cooked properly. We did get the bourbon butter cake for dessert and that was the only thing we finished. We were both disappointed when we left the restaurant and still hungry $200 later.