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Best Steakhouses

August_West said:
It's fantastic for the money. Ive never found it too salty . I think you got screwed. Go back and get the bone in ribeye. But I should've stayed out of this thread as I'm slowly starving myself and havent had a proper piece of meat or over 1000 calories in 10 days. And it's going to be a while before I do. Now I'm hungry .
Down 14 lbs in those 10 days though.
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Congrats. You’ll think it’s worth it later.
 
August_West said:
It's fantastic for the money. Ive never found it too salty . I think you got screwed. Go back and get the bone in ribeye. But I should've stayed out of this thread as I'm slowly starving myself and havent had a proper piece of meat or over 1000 calories in 10 days. And it's going to be a while before I do. Now I'm hungry .
Down 14 lbs in those 10 days though.
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Congrats on the weight loss - I hope your first steak isn’t Texas RH. It’s thin and tough. Gross.
 
browndog319 said:
Congrats on the weight loss - I hope your first steak isn’t Texas RH. It’s thin and tough. Gross.
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Ugh do I have to break out my NYC steakhouse photo library again?

Trust me. I have a frame of reference.
 
storrsroars said:
I always enjoyed Mario's. Great bar. But have to admit, a rare steak there had enough blood to warrant a chalk outline of the plate.
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Well then they know what rare actually is most places give you medium rare and call it rare
 
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Hal's, Kevin Rathbun and Little Alley are my go to steakhouses in Atlanta.
 
JustinesGuy said:
Marios was such a wonderful 1980s hang out. The clientele got old and died, as did the place.
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I seem to recall Dorothy Hamil had some relationship to Mario's. Maybe a family member owned it?
 
whaler11 said:
Mr Steak
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True story. About 30 some years ago I was working on a project with some engineers that were here from Italy. They were looking to try "a good American steak" and asked the receptionist at work for a suggestion. Her suggestion was Mr Steak. Luckily I overheard this and redirected them.
 
August_West said:
Ugh do I have to break out my NYC steakhouse photo library again?

Trust me. I have a frame of reference.
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Not if you’re using Texas Roadhouse as your reference point... I am a steak connoisseur and can even make a steakhouse quality steak at home (need the right cut, thickness to start, the rest is easy).

Please give me pictures. Please note, although not a Philly homer, I will argue that Philly is a better restaurant city than NY and some great NY restaurants started in Philly (Buddakan, for one). But please give me a slide show... but your argument is faulty bc it starts with Texas Roadhouse. If you need to eat it cheap, don’t eat it...
 
Danzz said:
I seem to recall Dorothy Hamil had some relationship to Mario's. Maybe a family member owned it?
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Really? That’s so cool - if it’s true, I didn’t know. But that’s awesome.
 
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methodology said:
Well then they know what rare actually is most places give you medium rare and call it rare
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This a million times... I love when real steakhouses warm you that it will be cool, almost purple. And I’m like “it better be!” I know what I’m asking for.

I also eat rare burgers... try getting one of those!
 
I have heard that not all upper echelon steakhouses use prime beef. Many of the waiters wouldn’t even know.
 
It looks like this will be controversial in this thread, but I don’t like Lugers. Great steak, but I believe all of the top places are great. I hate the jerk waiters, cash only, crappy bar and location. To me, it's just not worth it. Probably worth going once just to check it off the list though. The most consistent top place I've probably been to is Mastros. Great in LA, AZ, and very good in Vegas and NYC. But I wouldn't complain about a bunch of others in New York.
 
This is a great thread. I find it very hard to find a good steak house in the New Haven area(I live in Madison). As a few posters correctly mentioned Joesphs is really top notch, I would get the steak for 2 or 3 and its amazing. It really has a taste thats hard to be duplicated. I got a good steak at Flemings in West Hartford, Ruth Chris is good it comes sizzling on your plate.... I do appreciate any place that will serve a 10-12 oz bone in Fillet Mignon, but thats pretty rare...
 
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@JustinesGuy

I've heard good things about cast iron in new haven. Haven't been myself so can't speak for it.

Pasta cosi in Branford has very high quality steaks but it's not exactly a steak house.
 
methodology said:
@JustinesGuy

I've heard good things about cast iron in new haven. Haven't been myself so can't speak for it.

Pasta cosi in Branford has very high quality steaks but it's not exactly a steak house.
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I actually lived in Branford for 12 years and went to Pasta Cosi many times, its a very good restaurant just on the small side and need to call ahead. I have had there steak special and its very good they put some gorgonzola cheese on the top which really works. I do have to admit I did eat the entire Rib Eye with all the Cheese on top on a new years eve like 8 years ago. I went to a party a few hours later, was in the jacuzzi with what i might say was a few fine ladies and I got the worst stomach ache of my life, no need to go into details but I almost died haha. It was certainly a mood killer.
 
Chuck said:
It looks like this will be controversial in this thread, but I don’t like Lugers. Great steak, but I believe all of the top places are great. I hate the jerk waiters, cash only, crappy bar and location. To me, it's just not worth it. Probably worth going once just to check it off the list though. The most consistent top place I've probably been to is Mastros. Great in LA, AZ, and very good in Vegas and NYC. But I wouldn't complain about a bunch of others in New York.
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The Mastros here is great.

The best steak place I've been to is Ringside in Portland,OR. Amazing old school steakhouse
 
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Devland said:
Bonanza? Ponderosa? Even Friendly's sells steak (I think).
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pon-bon.com

You can register online for the VIP club.

I used to like going to Ponderosa when I was little to get the pudding.
 
whaler11 said:
pon-bon.com

You can register online for the VIP club.

I used to like going to Ponderosa when I was little to get the pudding.
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Bus trips with the baseball team in mid-70s was always Ponderosa or Bonanza. I wonder what they eat now.
 
Love "Steak and Shake."

I never get filet anymore. Strictly rib-eyes for me.
 
uconnric said:
Keens in Manhattan is excellent.
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Yes Keenes is good and in Manhattan Sparks is also very good. In Chicago Gino and Georgetta is outstanding but the best is still Peter Luger's IMO.
In NYC The Old Homestead and Gallaghers are good but lag a little behind the others.
 
How about Denver? Will be there in a couple weeks and the wife wants steak. I usually trust Yelp but would always prefer a personal, firsthand recommendation
 
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