The Prime Society

High ceilings, spacious dining room creates a nice restaurant space. Interesting large listing of steaks at different price points is good if your looking for something special, or something with your budget in mind. Beef carpaccio is very very good. Dry aged beef rump was very tasty and great value, my wifes pork ribs very good too. Service though was horrendously slow, rude and clumsy. Ive had better service in Astons!! Such a shame for such a great place with fantastic food, could be one of the better restaurants in Singapore.

A friend recomended the boy and i try this steakhouse in dempsey. I thanked them so much for the reccomendation! If you dont like meat, forget about this place, the waitresses even bring the steaks to your table! yes raw slabs of meat!! Though they kindly recommend certain cuts. She recommended i try the 'ranger valley hanging steak'. It has to be the most flavor some and juicy steak i have ever had!!!!!My boy had a sirloin which he demolished before i was half way through my steak. The side potatoes and salad went really nicely with the steaks too. Apple and pear crumble with salty caramel iced cream was a perfect ending to an enjoyable night. The waitress was very friendly, informative the whole night.

The food, service and atmosphere combining with the value compared to cut and mortons make this the best experience we have had in a steakhouse.

The ambience within the restaurant is good. Found the deco and furnishing pretty nice as well. Before coming to this place, i have heard its reputation and expecting nothing less than a good steak. However, was disappointed with the steaks. Nothing eally to shout about. The steak is pretty tough, but i had ordered the steak to be well done. However, i had tasted better ones (well-done) at other places with a lower price. Service wise is pretty standard of such a restaurant, nothing special.

Overall, over-rated and over-priced.

Having dined only once for obvious reasons here when I was living in Singapore last year, I was rather apprehensive about what the night had to offer.

It seemed that the dining room from memory had been freshened up since my last visit. It didnt end there with the physical improvements made. The food compared to my last visit has reached another level. My entree of japanese scallops with corn puree was very simple yet the flavors married perfectly. Steaks were cooked and seasoned just right too, though what impressed myself and the other half was the barramundi with avacado and prawn. The flavors and presentation was rather unique, though very successful it really summed up the quality of dishes across the menu that we choose.

While being disappointed that we were told the chocolate pudding was unavailable after ordering it, an alternate chocolate bar with yuzu ice cream was a stunning way to finish, heaven only knows how good the chocolate pudding was if this was the replacement. The service here while occasionally being baffled by our questions and the above, is courteous and warm. Will look forward to my next visit.

Tonight, both pieces of meat were sent back because they were so distinctly undercooked that I thought they were still twitching. 

If you want a good steak in Singapore, fly to the US and have a proper meal at Ruth's.

 

Somehow, the novelty of being situated at Dempsey among the old army barracks seems to be dying down. After all, that used to be the main reason why people chose to dine at the restaurants in Dempsey. I mean, honestly speaking, the food in most of the Dempsey restaurants are highly overpriced and overrated.

Anyway, I've visited The Prime Society twice so far. I loved the beef fillet I had the first time I was there, and the lovely sides that came along with the fillet. On my second visit, I had some really disappointing Ribeye steak which wasn't seasoned very well.

In sum, I feel that The Prime Society doesn't deliver consistently, as gathered from my personal dining experiences as well as my friends'. The bill also wasn't very kind to my pockets.

I've heard people talking about this place so I finally decided to visit last week. Although my expectations of this place were high, I usually go with an open mind, so as to have an unbiased opinion.

We ordered a Salad, Ribeye Steak and BBQ Ribs.

The salad was so-so. Nothing to complain, but nothing to shout about either.

The Ribeye steak was unbelievable. I have never seen a steak with so much fat in my life before. Granted its not one of the better cuts, but then again, it was absolutely unbelieveable. I thought to myself, it must be just my luck. As I continued, I realized my problems didn't end there. The steak was very very hard.

Then, the ribs I thought would redeem the reputation of this place, but unfortunately, only helped make it worse. I was hard, almost impossible to cut, and the BBQ sause and seasoning had not gone into the ribs.

I can say however that the fries and garlic potatoes were nice - but then again, maybe we were just hungry - haha!

When the waitress asked about our meal, I politely said 'OK', but as she could sense something amiss, she probed. I replied that the steak isn't good as its too fatty. She responded that Ribeye cuts are like that. So I was thinking, if you only serve the best and you claim that Ribeye cuts are such, then why serve Ribeye?

So, here the thing, Prime Society has this sign outside the place and it has something written on it like (not the exact words but to the effect of) that they only serve the best cuts - the upper cut, and this is the place to be, to come for if you want to have a great steak. I'm sorry, there is absolutely no way I will ever say that about Prime Society.

It was so bad that I thought to myself that if this was the first steak of my life, I would have promised myself never to eat another.

I felt so disgusted at it all, that I could not wait to pay my bill and get out of the place. A place which claims so much glory, but eventually cannot deliver, is worse than a place which is humble, but always over delivers on their promise.

Overall, for what you paid and the quality of the food, it was a really disappointing experience.

 

 

 

Decided on Prime Society since out of town friend\'s apartment is located near the venue.

This was my 1st time there for lunch, dinner is usually a pricey affair as we all know very well. I am please by the easiness to secure a parking lot, and the abundance of choice for seating locations. At 12pm, we were the 1st and only guests. Ha...pleasing for me but definitely not happy for the proprietor.

I settled for the set lunch which was good value at S$30, comprising Ribs / wagyu dumpling soup while my guest had the Angus Ribeye Fillet and salad.

All in all a very pleasant experience for good value business lunch. I\'ll be back for lunch soon....dinner???er that\'s another matter.

Went to Prime Society on Saturday.. and was a pretty good choice.. The restaurant was almost empty when we arrived at 7.15pm, but by 8pm it will Full..

Service was quite fast (at times too fast) but better then no service! We ordered entrees and mains. The hi-light was the entrees.. We ordered a Air Dried Beef dish which was fantastic, and was quite surprised by how good the Caesar Salad was... not your normal Caesar salad in presentation but taste was fantastic - its a must try.

Mains we very quick coming, and the steak was cooked perfect, but was too much.. Also ordered some beef ribs.. melt in the mouth on the inside, but a bit burnt on the outside.

Wine list is great.. had a really nice bottle of Merlot.. bit over priced but it was a special night out!

Worth a try if your a meat lover..

We got the bill, and was wrong, and they advertise 2nd entree free when u order 2.. but when we questioned we were told no.. ? We check on our Iphone the webpage, and differentially displayed this.. but they still refused to give discount.

You might wonder after reading this review, if anything more could have gone wrong….

This gentlemen’s dinner was set for 8 people at 8pm on Friday, 30 Oct. Reservation made and confirmed, 4 days in advance. Thursday afternoon the restaurant calls and suggests our party of eight should either come 30 mins earlier, or 60 mins later, as another party of twenty is arriving at 8pm, and the restaurant ‘could not guarantee service in a timely manner.’ While shocked at this, we wondered what the restaurant would do if all 50+ seats were full at 8:30pm on a Friday night….would we all be waiting?

We arrive more or less at 8pm, drink at the bar. No problems there. Seated, menus, extortionate prices for 3 pieces of bread, and a drop of EVOO.

We ordered several $150 bottles of wine and worked our way through at least 3 before dinner.

3 fillet steaks so hard that they could have been used as hides for a football. Not even the supplied steak knives could cut through the meat. When pressed about this, the wait staff were not entirely sure what the problem was.

One US sirloin came pepper-crusted without warning to the diner. When the second one came, it was maybe lukewarm, and yes you guessed it…tough as nails. The diner who happened to order this meal had an excellent view of the grill and saw how steaks were being half-cooked, set aside and then reheated for serving.

Given that we were a party of eight and three meals were inedible and one was wrong, we complained to the head waiter. He scurried away to sort something out. He returned suggesting all the side dishes of mash, beans etc would be free, a discount of about $60, off a bill of $1,300. I pressed him again.

Having a keen sense of our increasing dissatisfaction not only with the meal, but with the service, he then returned suggesting additional discounts for the three inedible football hides, and wow…a bottle of the very cheapest Chilean house red he could find. I politely explained that if we wanted to drink $33 wine we would have ordered it. Again, blank looks.

I then suggested he should remove the four meals, all the sides and the service charge. For that he could keep the wine. He agreed, recalculated the bill, and returned with a $50 voucher redeemable for meals at Prime Society. You might think that was a nice gesture, given we had been pretty tough on the guy…except that the voucher expired…the very next day…31 October. When asked about this he was positive that ”although it says 31 October, it is good for 90 days”, despite the fine print conditions being very clear to the contrary.

With that I explained that most likely we will not be back the very next day, so we would like to use the $50 voucher now. I thought this was unlikely to be accepted, but to our surprise he agreed most probably out of embarrassment.

Final bill about $800, inclusive of a $500 discount, due to all the craziness.

Feedback to Management:

Don’t pre-cook the meat and leave it on the side of the grill

Don’t call patrons back to ask them to change their lives around your kitchen’s shortcomings

Don’t nickel and dime customers who have legitimate complaints about your food

If you want to make-good with a free bottle of wine, make it at least within range of what the diners were drinking

Get a new head waiter

Get a new grill-master

Go to Morton’s, see how they do it.