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Location(s) Being Reviewed: Go West
Date/Time of Visit: 9/29/12
Quality of Food (1-5): 5
Menu/Food Options (1-5): 4
Quality of Service (1-5): 5
Atmosphere (1-5): 5
Overall Rating (1-5): 5
Price ($-$$$$$): $$$
What makes this restaurant unique:  High end "Cowboy Cuisine"

Tell us about your experience:

We hit Go West on a Groupon on Saturday.  Had no idea this place existed.  They must have spent a fortune on the decor for this place.  The service and atmosphere were great.  You can watch them trim and grill your steak, and the quality of the meat was excellent.  I had a ribeye that comes with a chili relleno, and my wife had a fillet that comes with potato enchiladas.  We also had fried green tomatos and a cup of the jalapeño corn chowder.  All were excellent.

The photo does not do the food justice. The sauce on my ribeye was a very good chimichurri.
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All of the sauces were bright and interesting.  Excellent flavors.  Great wine and whisky selection.

Unfortunately, the place was empty.  I think their selection of location and lack of any marketing is a problem!

I've been there before. They advertise on the radio and have billboards.

It's good, but definitely a special occasion place for me. They say they are in sapulpa when in actuality it seems more like West Tulsa.

We really liked it, but when you see restaurants pushing deals on Groupon and then you are the only people in the dining room at 6pm on a Saturday night, it becomes painfully obvious that they may not be long for this world, and that's sad because the food is good!

It's the 2nd Avalon Steak House.  Avalon built it and occupied it for a very short time.

They're active on social media but you're right, I've only seen it busy once.

The food is quite good.

Their address does include a Tulsa zipcode (74131) so you'd be right about that.

They've been open over a year I think.

They've been there over a year, and not sure how they have made it this long, it's never crowded.  The food is great but for it's location the price point is out of reach of most people who live and work in the area.

That area is a weird geographic anomaly, Tulsa zip code but it's an area annexed by Sapulpa.  Water and sewage supply and sales tax rate are all Sapulpa.  Only reason I know is I've got a client in the area I've helped in the past with an industrial waste water project.

Sorry, I don't want my steak covered in any 'sauce' makes me question the quality of the beef and the ability of your staff to grill it.

It doesn't make any sense but "that's what she said" popped into my noggin.

that sounds like a night full of Marshall's consumption (obligatory reference now made).

   

I see what you did there, the woman I am seeing would agree.,

I dunno a mesquite grilled thick fresh pork chop shmeared with hatch chile goat cheese and topped with mushroom ragout is pretty damn spectacular.

Can't beat a good chimichurri on a steak!

TMI,  TMI,   TMI,.....

Pork and Chicken, I will make an exception on, especially after living in AZ and love Sonoran cooking, I just prefer my steak, rib eye, t-bone, Porterhouse, NY Strip and such lightly seasoned, and maybe carmalized onions and sauted portabello mushrooms. Just my preference.

Sorry, just in an onry mood.  ;D

We've been going there since they opened and have always appreciated their menu and love the saloon.  The owner, Johnny and his wife Aila, are very customer-oriented as is Peter, their bar manager.  We usually go at least once per week for drinks and menu specials.  They have a $5.99 lunch special during the week, but you are right, they are seldom busy.  I suspect it's the location, which is a shame given the beautiful facility.  I hope they are able to continue providing the great food and service.  They are closer and have better parking than many of the more mediocre restaurants in the Tulsa area. 

They should cut bait and relocate in one of the new developments at 91st and Yale. 

A bit selfish of me since I live there. ;)

Second.

Damn Southies.  Then again 91st & Yale is much closer to my house as well.

Funny though, Avalon never had trouble staying crowded at their original location just up the road in a more obscure place and their menu wasn't near as adventurous as Go West's.  I don't think Avalon made it six months in the new location before they went tits up.  This location has really good visibility, I think they just need to advertise it heavier.  People will go out of their way for a great meal if they know it exists in the first place.

They might also want to have some cheaper menu options for the folks who live around there.

91st and Yale might be closer distance wise.  Travel time, however might be a different story since you live just blocks from the BA...I loathe Yale south of 61st.  It's almost as bad for me as 71st anywhere between Yale and Garnett.

IMO, the Avalon lost its charm when it moved.  They shed some of the bad boy image.

It takes me a little under 10 minutes to get over there, at least when they don't have the BA EB to 75/244SB ramp closed. It's about 20-25 minutes from here to 91st and Yale, unfortunately. That's what I get for living so far north, I guess. :P

I like living up north.  I don't have to deal with all those damned Southies!

 ;)

Our deliciousness confounds you.

Deliciousness is pretty close to dooshiness...   ;D

See?  You're confused just by reading a Southie post.