As for entrées, Ocean Prime provides its patrons a multitude of choices. During our visit, there were a staggering 17 seafood selections and eight meaty options on the menu. The jumbo lump crab cakes with asparagus and sweet corn cream were quite good, as was the ginger salmon served alongside stir-fried snap peas and soy- butter sauce. The salmon dish, though, could have been prefaced with “jumbo” as well; we were only able to consume about half of the fish. Among the offerings on the bill of beef, there was a 22-ounce porterhouse and an 18-ounce rib-eye—driving home the notion that bigger is better at Ocean Prime. We were quite pleased with the downright burly 16-ounce Kansas City strip, accompanied by Champagne vin blanc.

Be sure not to order up dessert at Ocean Prime if you happen to be dining alone, as the sweets we dug into were also behemoth in size. Luckily, the magnitude of each dessert was backed up with good flavors. The Baked Alaska, an old favorite, offered a little bit for everyone: pound cake; toasted meringue; strawberry jam; fresh raspberries; and vanilla, chocolate and black raspberry ice cream. Each forkful was unlike the last, picking up a different flavor and texture. The chocolate-peanut butter pie was also large and lip-smacking and consisted of peanut butter mousse encased in bittersweet chocolate ganache. The dessert menu also boasts a ten-layer carrot cake, if sizable sweets are your thing.

Before your steak and seafood cravings kick in, do keep in mind that the prices at Ocean Prime are quite steep, even for a high-end establishment. A 12-ounce bone-in filet will cost you $43 while the Chilean sea bass is listed at $36. This goes for the cocktails, too. Berries & Bubbles, a concoction of Belvedere Cytrus Vodka, crème de cassis, marinated blackberries, house-made sour and Domaine Chandon Brut, was an eye-popping spectacle—as the name suggests, the cocktail actually bubbled as it was prepared tableside—but rings in at $16. However, at Ocean Prime, it might just be worth doling out for the supercool, see-and-be-seen atmosphere that happens to come with a side of tasty surf and turf.