Michael Bauer at SFGate gives Morton’s, long one of Steak Adventure’s favorites, one star.

He called the food “barely edible” while “the service was a comedy of errors.”

He also blasted the prices (certainly not cheap when we went, way back in 2005), citing, among other things, a martini for $14.50, a Jim Beam Manhattan for $12.50, and steaks in the $50 range—without sides.

(Seriously, a Jim Beam Manhattan for $12.50? What the hell?)

And this was before he even tasted the food:

The steak was burned and acrid, and the lobster tail was mushy, as if it had been frozen and thawed multiple times.

The Chicken Christopher ($33) consisted of three huge cutlets coated with what tasted like sweetened bread crumbs, swimming in beurre blanc with bits of raw garlic, decorated with a limp sprig of parsley and a wedge of lemon. It looked and tasted terrible.

Ouch.

When the bill arrived, it was adjusted by the manager to make up for some screwups, and Bauer figures it would have been “more than $200 for two cocktails and practically inedible food.”

Practically inedible food. Wow.

I can’t help but wonder if they just had a bad night, or if it’s really gone downhill since our first trip.

Read the whole sorry tale at SFGate.