A night that was supposed to send one friend off before the Army turned into the kind of dinner people talk about for the wrong reasons. Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City steakhouse, 1587 Prime, is taking fresh heat after TikTok creator Nicole Rose posted a viral review on March 22 describing a slow, expensive, and frustrating meal.
That criticism did not land in a vacuum. It followed an earlier review from Defector’s Liz Cook, who also questioned whether 1587 Prime is delivering on the one thing a high-end steakhouse has to get right: the steak. For Mahomes and Kelce, that means more pressure on a restaurant already tied up in a trademark lawsuit.
Nicole Rose’s viral TikTok put the service, prices, and steak at 1587 Prime under the spotlight
Rose said she visited 1587 Prime on a Thursday night with friends, including one preparing to leave for the Army. What should have been a memorable dinner quickly went sideways. In her TikTok, Rose said, “We just wanted to get out of there.”
The problems started with the drinks. Rose said it took 45 minutes for a martini to arrive, and when it finally did, it was the wrong one. She also said no one explained the restaurant’s tableside martini setup. Instead, papers were dropped off at the table, and her group was told to fill them out before waiting another 25 minutes for the drink to be made.
Rose was not impressed by the presentation or the price. The martini cost $33. The service, in her telling, did not match it. She said her friend had to search for a server just to get a beer refill. The fried chicken arrived before the drinks and, according to Rose, did not justify its $25 price tag.
Then came the bigger issue at a steakhouse: the steak. Rose said the sauces were forgotten. By the time they arrived, one of her friends had already finished eating. Rose said her own steak was not right either, saying, “My $100 steak was incorrectly cooked. Couldn’t even find the server to save your life. So just had to go with it, I guess.”
She did praise two items. Rose called the broccolini with chili “ten out of ten” and said the Parker House rolls were “hands down the best rolls I’ve ever had at any restaurant.” Still, her table’s bill came to $650, and her overall takeaway was clear. She said she would take Gibson’s in Chicago over 1587 Prime any day.
Liz Cook raised similar complaints before, while Mahomes and Kelce caught a small break in court
Rose is not the first person to question the restaurant. In Defector, Liz Cook wrote after two visits that the core problem was simple: “The main trouble with 1587 Prime isn’t its childlike idea of luxury. It’s that it’s a steakhouse that doesn’t nail the steaks.”
Cook reported that steaks arrived overcooked or too thin, and in one case, without a steak knife. She also pointed to pricing that made those mistakes hit harder. That overlap matters. One bad TikTok can be brushed off. A viral customer complaint that lines up with a published critic’s review is harder to ignore.
There was at least one piece of better news for the Chiefs stars this month. On Feb. 17, 1587 Sneakers sued over trademark and apparel claims tied to the use of “1587” and “1587 PRIME.” But earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald declined to grant the plaintiff’s request for emergency relief. The judge cited jurisdiction issues, service concerns, and what she described as a “significant delay” in seeking that relief.
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