The U.S. has some legendary steakhouses, like Keens and Peter Luger in New York, etc.
Bonus points if you mention the wine that accompanied your steak!
Where was y’all’s best steakhouse experience?
The U.S. has some legendary steakhouses, like Keens and Peter Luger in New York, etc.
Bonus points if you mention the wine that accompanied your steak!
Where was y’all’s best steakhouse experience?
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Best steak I ever had wasn’t at any steakhouse. It was at home, on a grill, from an ornery cow we butchered the day before. Steak, seasoned with spite.
The best steak I ever had was at Don Julio in Buenos Aires. I had a filet and a NY Strip. I’m a NY strip guy, but that filet now represents the pinnacle of what a filet could be in my mind.
And the wine that accompanied the steak was a fantastic Argentine Malbec.
The best steak I’ve ever had was from, Curtis Custom Meats, (https://maps.app.goo.gl/d8b46eV4dvaWYioT9) seasoned with granulated garlic, salt and pepper. Then grilled on my 2 burner dynaglow.
It was fantastic. I’ve eaten at a few good steakhouses and I’ve eaten steaks from other butchers that that one takes the cake.
Porterhouse at Wolfgang’s Park Ave. This was like 20 years ago, so not a recent review but damn that was good. Also went to Keane’s which was great but had a better meal at Wolfgang’s.
Best steak I ever had was one dad fried for me, no occasion and nothing special about it but he simply hit it out of the park.
Second best was at Sweetwater’s on church street, goddamn I miss that place.
I’d say Ruth’s Chris filet medium rare.
I’ve also had some bangers over a campfire. Those were ingested under various states of intoxication so I can’t vouch for their actual quality but they were amazing at the time.
I’m not making this up-the best steak I have ever had was served at a Chili’s in Dayton Ohio. I don’t know if it was the particular cut of meat, that particular cow, or that line cook was just on absolute fire that day, but man that was an incredible steak. It was a New York Strip
I had never been to a Chili’s, but my wife and I had a gift card. I accompanied it with a tall Coors Light if memory serves.
My friend’s farm. We had fresh t-bones. Home grown and grilled. Yum. I ate two.
Cattleman’s Club Steakhouse outside of Pierre, SD. Served with caramelized onions and a Bud, after a long day of working outside.
I’ve been to fancy steakhouses, but the simplicity of an extremely well cooked, beatiful cut of meat that was raised in a pasture less than 10 miles from where it was eaten can’t be beat.
It was a ribeye from a cow we butchered paired with a coors lite and a baked potato first time my sister brought her future husband home. I think we had chocolate chip cookies after.
Murray’s in Minneapolis. Don’t even remember the cut (probably a ribeye or a strip, just knowing how I roll). Incredibly tender and flavorful, and cooked perfectly. Creamed spinach and some sort of potato as a side.
Honestly, second best is probably sous vide at home. 2-3 hours at 132 with salt, pepper, a few smashed garlic cloves, and a sprig of rosemary, then sear the bejesus out of it for about 60 seconds a side with butter
Ore House – Durango CO. We went there for our honeymoon in 2009. Steak was absolutely the best one I have ever had. Wife really liked hers too.
2 of the best steaks I ever had was at an Applebee’s. Really wasn’t expecting that. But perfectly cooked, seasoned, and extremely tender.
I’ve paid over $100 at fancy restaurants only to get a bland, tough steak.
99% of the time, I wish I were just at home cooking it myself.
Del Frisco’s
In all honesty I tend to believe there is a level of filet excellence that, once reached, is hard to greatly surpass. If the sear is done well, it’s seasoned enough, and it’s cooked appropriately medium rare…they are near equally excellent. You can pay $100 more and get something that is…basically the same.
The sides actually tend to make more of a difference for me, even though they aren’t the stars. Are the mashed potatoes appropriately buttery and creamy? Are the vegetables ‘medium crispy’ with a good flavor? Is the wine solid?
I couldn’t tell you which of my meals I thought was the best: in my mind about ten of them are near tied. And the one I make myself is competitive with them…although my sides aren’t usually quite as solid. 🙂
Right out of my own kitchen, from a grass finished steer raised by us on our place. Do it up on the cast iron, finish with a butter baste and salt, let it rest and get after it nice and rare. Lord!
Not in the usa but the Tokyo skytree musashi restaurant’s kobe beef is probably the best ive ever had in my life
My dad took me to Keen’s in NYC for my birthday many years ago and it was fantastic.
I find Peter Luger to be coasting on reputation at this point sadly.
Best steak ever for me was at Kevin Rathbun Steak in Atlanta. Ordered the spinalis. I’m still dreaming about it.
Tavern on the Green in Central Park NYC back in 1999. I don’t remember the wine, but it was really good too. It was a magical trip so that might influence my memory of it!
The best I’ve ever had in a restaurant was Pappas Bros in Houston. The service was exceptional too. We have great steaks at home on the Webber too though.
Not a huge fan of steak at restaurants, even steakhouses. I read Kenji Alt-Lopez’s Food Lab (a nerdy cookbook). Just follow the directions in the chapter on steak and you can cook your own cuts better than a restaurant.
I’m basic. Probably Fogo de Chao
Selanne’s Steak Tavern in Laguna Beach, CA.
The best steak that I have ever had was cooked on my Weber kettle in my backyard.
The best steakhouse that I have ever been to is the El Gaucho in Seattle: https://elgaucho.com/seattle/ It’s a classic spot, dark and romantic.
Restaurant: Filet at Hal’s in Atlanta.
Cooked: Ribeye we cooked camping over a nuclear bed of oak wood coals.
I was about 12 miles in on a canoe trip, tired as hell, salt and pepper over a campfire. 12/10 nothing has compared.
I haven’t been to many steakhouses, but my dad made a good one. Always rare.
I prefer beer or cider but if I’m having wine I prefer champagne, or a qevri.
Grass fed from 3 farms over. Ribeye served with a Cesar salad and a big glass of ice water.
A ribeye at the Cattleman’s Steak House in Oklahoma City down by the stockyards. Founded in 1910 or so.
A 100 years of experience lay in that steak.
Wine? Sweet tea, of course.
Probably Ruth’s Chris in Philadelphia. I don’t drink wine so I can’t tell you what wine I had.
Berns Steakhouse in Tampa Florida, I still think about it and the table side Caesar salad. No idea on wine but they have an enormous wine cellar
Peterson’s in Fishers, IN.
I had a transformative steak at Ray’s the Steaks in Atlanta back in the early 2000s. While I do not remember the exquisite wine pairing, I also cannot forget the bone marrow app that preceeded the steak.
I see that they closed in 2019. I’m so glad I got to have that experience. Amazing food, great company, and it was all paid for as I was on a work trip. Can’t beat that.
Best steak was at home. My husband made a wagyu on the grill. It melted like damn butter. Perfectly seared on the outside. The salt and fat were just out of this world
Morton’s Steakhouse in Atlanta and Capital Grill in Atlanta(Buckhead)
The Dining Car on Amtrak.
My favorite steak is off my own grill, but at a restaurant, Anton’s in Kansas City is pretty fire.
At a totally random mom’n’pop Italian place in Alliance, OH: Polinori’s Palm Garden Inn. Legit amazing.
I cook a steak as good as anything you can get in a steakhouse. Just need a cast iron pan, a good quality piece of beef, seasoning of your choice, a timer and thermometer.
I’ve been to many steakhouses where to steak was good, but the service sucked. Again, cooking a steak is easy, but running a restaurant well is another thing. If you’re eating out, get something you can’t make at home.
The Chop House on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Take out a mortgage before you go.
Old Hickory Steak House in Columbus Mississippi. It’s an old, repurposed Pizza Hutt. We picked it because it was surrounded by POS pick-up trucks. Your only choices are what cut of steak, how you want it cooked and whether you want cheese on your side salad. Drink options are water, sweet tea and three different brands of canned beer. They ONLY serve steak. No chicken, no fish, no tofu.
It’s been 25 years so I don’t remember the name of the place, but it was a restaurant inside of Circus Circus in Vegas. It was the best steak I’ve ever eaten.
Kid down the street had a show steer, gave that fucker a 10 day hang, and a nice SPG sesh on the grill. Best goddamn beef I’ve ever had, and I’ve spent my entire life in the beef industry.
Best steak I ever had was a bacon-wrapped filet mignon at a friend’s wedding years ago.
I have a sous vide and an offset smoker, and there’s a cow farm a few roads over. The best steak I’ve had is the one I do up on my porch.
I wish I knew the restaurants name…but I was on a business trip and went to a Japanese restaurant somewhere near Pittsburgh. The wait staff were all local women dressed in kimonos. Interior was very plain.
The customer ordered for me, with a trust me kind of deal, and they brought out a perfect, melt in your mouth ribeye sliced thin, and topped with a sweet and sour mustard sauce of some kind. I still dream about that steak and it was thirty years ago.
More recently the best was also a ribeye at Jeff Ruby’s in Columbus, OH. Just cooked to perfection, with a glass of Opus One on the side.
On a bet, I ate a 48oz porterhouse at Manny’s in Minneapolis. To this day, despite the size, it’s the best steak I’ve ever eaten. We like a lot of the higher end chains like Capital Grille, Ruth’s Chris, Morton’s etc. and none of them have measured up to that 48oz beast. You would think a monster like that couldn’t possibly be cooked properly but it was magnificent Midwest beef.
The White Mule Winery in Owensville, Missouri is known for its good steaks. Yum.
It was a medium rare steak at the Pink Elephant in Marquette, IA. Sometime in the 1960’s. It was aged. You could cut it with a fork.
Bone-in Kona at The Capital Grille
The best meat I had was 20+ years ago at a Brazilian steakhouse called Porcāo
I’ve been to Peter Luger twice and it was good but not somewhere I’d go again
I’m on the made it myself bandwagon…
as for Steak house restaurants, my experience is pretty limited.
Best experience was probably Murry’s in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Funny story: when I was a kid, on a family vacation in Salt Lake City Utah. We went for a big brunch at an all you can eat buffet. Then only a few hours later went to a fancy steak house for dinner, I don’t recall the name. I ended up getting so sick from over eating you can imagine what my night was like. I could not eat a grilled steak again for at least 10 years. I was so happy when I could finally enjoy a good steak once again!
Bavette’s in Chicago. Unbelievable.
Porterhouse at Wolf Lodge in Coeur d’Alene Idaho. Cooked over a tamarack fire with a baker, buckaroo beans, and krebel bread. The whole meal is worth it for the beans alone, but everything else is just as good.
It burned down last year. We’re hoping that they rebuild but haven’t heard anything.
The best steaks come from a quality local butcher, and are cooked by your friend Steve on his patio.
Best steak I ever had was in Lisbon. Tasca da Esquina. I’m not big on steak, it’s usually too dry and chewy, even when medium-rare. But this was so tender, juicy, and mostly tasted like butter in the best way possible.
Best steak I ever had was from Peter Luger. I don’t drink wine, but it went down good with the Luger Lager.
2nd best was from The Drover in Omaha with a Fairy Nectar hazy IPA.
best steak i had was in southern italy in a town called carovigno.