Aston's Specialties

Had an intense craving for steak yesterday, so YY and i trotted down to Aston's at The Cathay (4th floor).

It was our first time there despite all the ra-ra about their huge portions and nice food at affordable prices. We heard bout the snaking queue too!

And yes! There was indeed a queue though it was still relatively early for dinner (bout 7-ish). We didn't have to wait super long though. Customers (those in front) were given menus and orders were taken in the queue - good for facilitation and efficiency.

The Filipino lady who took our orders was friendly and polite. Good impression despite the wait =)
We were then ushered to our table, where we waited about 10-15 mins for our orders.
The teenager who brought our food to the table wasn't really knowledgeable though. YY ordered the New York Strip while I had the Prime Ribeye, so we wanted to doubly confirm that we got the right cuts. When the first plate came and I asked if that was the New York Strip, the youngster merely agreed with me that it was and hurried away. Being highly suspicious about the cut, we proceeded to ask a older staff who told us that it was the Prime Ribeye. Now I am convinced by his answer because it looked more like the Ribeye cut.
But oh wells, shall pardon them since it was a busy evening and they are so young!

Ok more bout the food. Hmm..every main gets you a choice of 2 side dishes. I had the corn-on-cob and onion rings while YY had the corn and house salad. The onion rings were pretty good I must say. Very tasty. Salad was OK...but not more. Corn-on-cob was quite disappointing cuz it was really soggy. Think they must have boiled it for too long.
As for the meats, both were done to our liking - we requested medium. The texture was pretty good too. I personally feel that steak done medium should have some blood oozing out when you slice thru, and I wasn't disappointed. It was juicy, yet not undercooked or overcooked. =)

Ah! But I was disappointed by the portions. Was actually expecting to be really full after the meal. But it wasn't exactly a huge portion like what others said. Just merely enough, or perhaps the Ribeye wasn't very big. Maybe I should go for the Xtra Cut next time! Haha.

Price-wise, we paid a total of $33.20 including GST. No service charge. We had two steaks and two IBC rootbeers. =)
The ribeye was around $14 and the NY strip was $15.

Apologies for the lack of pictures!!