Cellblock Steakhouse

The Jailhouse does a creative job of its theme... including dining in a "cell" with authentic bars. The food was great...and the prime rib perfect...with generous portions and startlingly great pricing. The wine list was limited, but touched all of the "value" points and categories. Service was attentive, efficient, and pleasant...no artificial fawning. No smoking in the restaurant, thankfully. Only downer was the smoky entryway and distracting radio music... which actually fell in line with the theme. Ooh, that prime rib!

The food was excellent, actually everything was. There were four in our party. I ordered salmon and it was cooked to perfection. Everyone else ordered prime rib and they thought it was fantastic. We also really enjoyed the mushroom appetizer (non breaded), and the overall atmosphere. If we are ever in the area again, we will eat here.

My husband's steak came out medium rare instead of medium. Mine came out well done instead of medium well. The beans were cold. The potato was so hot you couldn't eat it till completely last. The vegetables were lukewarm. If the food would have all been at the right temperature and cooked properly, it would have been a great meal

Food was good just not out of this world. Our server, Michelle was wonderful and on top of it.
It is a great atmosphere and the service is good. The meat selections, in my opinion, are good sized but too thin. It is just to difficult to get it right with a thin steak. It was good, it could have been great. The whole carrot and asparagus spears were a nice addition to the plate.
Overall I would recommend. It is a good meal in a unique environment.

Fun atmosphere with the tables inside individual "jail cells". Excellent, fast, friendly, service.
Our steaks were great. I had the 12oz ribeye and wife had the fillet mignon, with loaded baked potato each and a soup for wife and garden salad for me.

Very fresh and tasty salad. Soup was the spinach and potato and was very good.

My steak was a large, fairly thin ribeye with good char. I asked for rare, and it was slightly overcooked but still tasty, with great marbling.

The only small negative to me was the loaded baked potato. While well cooked and with nice extras and well loaded, it was smothered in that processed synthetic type cheese. For a $30 steak, I would have expected natural cheese on my potato. But the overall mean taste was very good.

The wine selection was limited but with some very high end price options. We chose the merlot and Riesling house wines by the glass and they were fine.

Overall, we were very happy with our meal and service and would come again if passing through Ely again.

A few small adjustments and I'd highly recommend this unusual and fun steakhouse!