Chop Steakhouse & Bar

We had lunch here Thursday January 7 2015. Our waitress Nancy gave us the best service I’ve had in years! She was friendly, knowledgeable & a pleasure to deal with.
The quality of the food was excellent too.
We will definitely be back!

I’ve always liked the food and service here, but always find the seating to be really weird for a group. I host business dinners with up to 10 people. We either get crammed into a booth that should at max fit 8, or get some weird corner piece that makes the middle person hold their pee all night.
Well executed steak. Just don’t bring a group.

Had the Prime Rib here the other night and it was fantastic. As well you must have the french onion soup as a starter, both my wife and I really enjoyed it.
Our service was fantastic, the manager delivered our food to us, and everyone was extremely polite. Will be back

I always eat lunch here when I come to Chinook Mall to do my shopping.
Service is good, staff are friendly & professional, and the menu is excellent :)

It is quite rare for me to be entirely satisfied with any restaurant after being in the restaurant industry for a while I consider myself slightly judgemental for the little things because I am aware of how it works.
This restaurant is incredible. I loved the service, the food, and the atmosphere. I’ve been here quite a few times and each time is as great or better then the last if that is even possible.
The food is so delicious! I’ve had the tuna steak a couple times which is just scrumptious. I’ve also had the mushroom ravioli which is just unbelievably flavourful and fantastically filling. They also have the best appetizers. Always get an appy. I promise you will not regret their tempera or steak bites, SO GOOD.
The atmosphere as well is just lovely. An amazing patio during the summers and impressive and cozy during the winter. The staff seem utterly amazing and trained spontaneously well.
Well done Chop!

Another great steakhouse in Calgary, not sure if you’re noticing a trend, however I love steak, I love Alberta and I love steakhouses. Service at the bar was fantastic, ask for Austin.

I was promised greatness. Another sub par chain resuraunt.
The service was great. I think that’s the only reason i gave it two stars.
I order Hunters Chicken. It was tough and slightly dry. I received a glass of wine with mystery object clinging to my glass. The waitress replaced it and comped it. Which goes to the great service.
Due to kitchen error we received a free starter which was generous! It was decent. Again service was great.
My wasabi infused mashed potatoes was lack luster. I love wasabi and tatters. Another let down.
Something disconnected tonight. Think I’ll stick to my mom and pop places.

There is only 1 word to describe this place other than AVERAGE… this word fits almost every category

July second time celebrating one of our families birthday at the Chop house. The table we asked to have reserved was for four and a private area where we could enjoy our meal without being close to traffic of the kitchen or bathroom.
The appetizers were small bites size pieces of what I think may have been tenderloin as it was so tasty with the two sauces offered the tastes danced around our mouth.
Then I got the iceberg salad with basil dressing, awesome yummy! The families meals were the sirloin Oscar, the mini cut steak and one order or the mushroom ravioli. The desert was a sample of three really tasty treats! Good service great tastes for a adventurous palette! Loved their mojito’s!

I haven’t been to Chop for about a year, and was anxious to try their steak bites. I was definitely disappointed in them today. The taste was not the same as I had remembered. The beef, whatever cut they were using had chewy pieces.
I asked the server about the steak bites, and he told me they had changed the marinade. In my opinion, they should go back to the old preparation of the bites.
I also ordered the Maple Bourbon Haddock. It’s blackened, and comes served with rice pilaf, parsnips, and greens. I found the main Entrée was pretty good, but they could’ve gone a little lighter on the salt.
Overall I would have to say, that I walked away feeling somewhat disappointed in the meal I had tonight. Maybe because the steak bites appetizer had left a bad taste in my mouth.
I won’t be back for a while. Not the worst meal I’ve had, certainly nothing that stood out in a positive way either.
Please use a better cut of beef when serving the steak bites. That’s what brought me back, and that’s what’s keeping me from future visits.

Travel a lot for work and enjoy a great cut of steak. This place is great! I have been to thousands of places and this place is very good. From the service at the bar or tables to the food served this place was good.
Kinda surprised in the reviews tho considering the other steak places in Calgary. This place is a must when in town. Period.

The wrong salad to start, the wrong entrée for my wife and the vegetables were stringy or undercooked.
Not at all impressed.
The only saving grace was a phenomenal piece of chicken that I’m told is off the menu so I probably can’t come back and have it again.
I will not be back.
Oh, and stop putting garnishes in a drink that I order custom touched, m’kay?

I have come here multiple times and continue to receive very poor service. Food/​drinks seem to be ok, however the service is always slow. It’s too bad because the location is very convenient — next to the movie theatre, however I have had much better experiences at Joeys right around the corner. Will not be returning.

Went to this location with my family for the first time yesterday. It wasn’t busy, it has beautiful décor and very comfy booths. Our server was friendly and attentive.
The steak bites were fast, and REALLY good! I’d give them a ⁵⁄₅ review on their own, they were very nicely seasoned, tender and delicious.
Our food came in a respectable amount of time. All of our steaks came properly cooked according to our orders. I ordered the steak Oscar, which as a combined dish, was the best I’ve ever had. The only reason I wouldn’t give this place ⁵⁄₅ stars is because as a group, we all agreed while what we ordered was great, we’ve had better elsewhere (for example, the steaks are FAR better seasoned at The Keg. My sister says the Ahi Tuna Salad was good, but is better at Moxie’s). Overall, a nice place with good food. I would go back.

Subpar food. The chop experi3nce starts with a salad. Theres only one choice really the ceasar. Ubless you like empty calories in iceberg with the wedge. The cold smoked ribeye was not smoked at all. I tasted no smoke flavour. Its a total lie that they cold smoked the ribeye. Its just a plain cut of ribeye you can get from safeway. They actually charge you for the bone an extra 4 bucks. 60 $ per person isnt two dollar signs, thats 4. Ive had 6 course meals at muse that cost the same but nuch more exotic and well cooked.
The steak was plain with just some montreal steak spice. The market vegetables were bland and earthy, someone didnt wash the vegetables. The rice lacked pepper, so I liked thenfresh crack pepper grinder and started to grind pepper and the top knob fell off into the bbq sauce that also sucked. If you cant be bothered to make a steak at home, skip this place and try somewhere else…

This is a great place to come for a glass of wine after shopping at Chinook Mall and this exactly what a gf and I did on Saturday. I really, really want to like this place more, but I will probably never eat here again. This was my second time back and the food has been equally bad each time. My friend got a salad and it looked nice, she enjoyed it and I am happy for her so because of that it gets it’s stars. I however was not as smart and did not get the salad and ended up having to salt and pepper my bland meal. One star for salad, one for wine and one for service.

Very simply put… the best steak I have ever had in Calgary.
Great service. Clean. Comfortable. Love it.

In reality it’s a 4.5
We were on the top floor, an open air patio which was nice, and had tasteful décor. The service was fairly good, and the food was yummy. We both had chicken, that came with rice and veggies, all were well cooked and seasoned. Desserts were very good and cooked in-​house. I had the pink lemonade cocktail and it was really good, although I’m not sure if there was truly an ounce of liquor in there. Prices were high, but worth it, it would be somewhere I’d like to go to for a special occasion.

My impression of this restaurant prior to my first visit was a twist on the Keg. My hunch was confirmed when I spotted «Sirloin Oscar» on their menu.
My family and I went on a Friday night at 6pm. As expected, the main floor tables were all waiting on their reservations to flood-​in. We were prompted to the lounge upstairs with no one to politely show us the way.
After we aimlessly found our way to the lounge we sat at one of their long centre tables to enjoy our meal side by side with another group of patrons.
We went with steak, as this place is suppose to be known for, and to my disappointment I found myself chewing the meat as if it was past it’s expiration date. I like my steak medium rare. This would be excusable if the other 3 steaks my family had weren’t the same.
If I want to hit up steak restaurant, I’ll go with the Keg over Chop.

I waited to visit this place a couple of times before I posted a review. My original visit consisted of drinks and a salad, there was an iceberg wedge of some sort that wasn’t too bad.
Again, not a lot of options for Vegan/​vegetarian.
The second visit wasn’t as great. And it seemed as though the menu had been changed to cater to some sort of seafood/​lobster Festival.
Warning to seafood lovers: seafood comes from the ocean and should be eaten fresh.
Anyhoo, the waitstaff looked tired and underpaid. All of them were falling out of their high heels and miniskirts. Most of them had on so much make up that you could see orange sparkle rounding the size of their faces and necks. I know this isn’t reviewing the food, but it makes it hard to order food.
Peroni was on special that night, which meant it was only about three or four dollars more than what you could buy it for at the store. I had a couple of Caesar’s That were actually made to order and tasted pretty good. Let me tell you, is very very difficult to find a good Caesar most times.
We split a pasta– Butternut squash the soybeans, Asparagus and some other unmemorable appetizer.
Butternut squash was fine, just fine. Soybeans were absolutely atrocious they were slimy and drippy and not at all what you would want to eat with your hands.
Asparagus was asparagus — not too great not too bad, at least it wasn’t woody or really small.
We left owing around $ 150, and were seated outside on the patio overlooking the parking lot.
One thing that struck me as icky from the beginning was the fact that the white plastic chairs you were to sit on had not been scrubbed down at any time this patio season.
I think I would return there for drinks, But not too many. Before a movie or something like that. Otherwise I would stay away from here for food.