Thread: Steak!!!

Just take the moo out of it.

I had the best steak in my life at Cattleman's Steak House in Oklahoma City. The restaurant was in a part of town known as Cowtown, directly across the road from a joint that sells cattle chutes and prods. These folks know steak. I ordered the Presidential T-bone Porterhouse cooked medium rare. The man at the next table asked for the same cut...well done. The waiter actually advised the man against well done. The man became agitated and the waiter went into the kitchen. A couple minutes later, the cook emerged from the kitchen with a huge, perfectly marbled, raw steak on a platter. I have to tell you, this looked like an artist's conception of a steak. It was absolutely perfect, and a little over two inches thick. The cook held the platter in front of the customer and said, "Sir, I want you to tell me how you would like this steak cooked."

The man was mad as Hell when he said, "Well done! I want that F'ing steak cooked well done!"

The cook replied, "Take a good look at this meat because this will be the last few seconds it will even resemble beef."

When the waiter came out with the man's dinner, there was a smoking cinder rattling on the plate next to a baked potato. I laughed so hard I almost choked. You know what? The guy ate that crunchy burnt mess.

So, aside from home where have you had your best steak and what was the cut?

Binions Restaurant on top of Binions casino in Old Vegas.

filet mignon


I dont know why, but i actually get a little ****ed off when i see people order steak(especially good cuts) well done.

If someone wants steak well done in my house, i will defrost a piece of chicken for them.

Oh man, the stomach is growling!

I don't necessarily have a place that stuck out, but the favorite cut is ribeye, preferably bone-in, cooked medium-ish with a cheese crust baked on.

And don't forget the creamed spinach.

I'll go to any place that actually knows how to cook as ordered (lots of times I order medium rare and get medium)... my favorite is the bone in ribeye... pepper crusted.. must be medium rare! I can't understand why someone would ask for a well done steak

Peter Lugers. Yum.
Angelo Maxies for filet.

Some no-name place in....you guessed it...Oklahoma City (Icedog, do you and I share a life or something?) I ordered the "little" cut that was probably 18 ounces or so. Bone in. Medium Rare.
PERFECT steak.

A filet at Mancini's Char House in St. Paul, MN. Always done exactly to your request.

I get a Choice KC Strip at my local grocers and do it myself on my grill. The best I have ever had.

bj

I ate a nice 18oz ribeye yesterday at Humperdink's, it was rare and bled when I cut it.

Very nice.

The best steak I've ever had was Wagyu beef at a Ruth's Chris steakhouse in Cancun. I'm ashamed to tell you what I paid for an 8oz steak, but it was the best damn steak in the world. I ate it rare, of course. I don't like it when they cook the flavor out.

I had a fairly good filet mignon in Picasso/Bellagio/Vegas. It was miniature but very tasty.

Rib eye and porterhouse are my favorite cuts, especially at places like Capital Grille or Smith and Wollensky.

PS: Rib eye @ Outback steakhouse can be a blast, too!

I remember watching James Garner in a movie where he sat down in a restaurant and told the waiter,"Burn me a steak". I don't eat beef anymore but when I did I was a medium rare guy. I preferred NY, Rib Eye, or Porterhouse but the one I really remember was the filet mignon my father in law used to cook.

I had taken a stainless steel beer keg and cut it longways. Welded hinges on it and made a stand for it. We would buy a Tenderloin and slice the thing up into 13/4 or 2" slices. Take bacon and wrap the edges with it using toothpicks to hold it in place.

The tenderloin was marinated in olive oil and spices prior to barbecuing. My mother in law's potato salad and some corn on the cob. That was thirty + years ago and I can still taste it.