Steak Paradise: What's your "go to" steakhouse?

[Stewie]

I'm watching Steak Paradise on the Travel Channel and it got me to thinking. Where do you go for a consistently great steak? Plus, where did you have the "best steak ever" in your culinary adventures?

For me:

Most consistently great steak = Ruth's Chris

Best "steak" ever = Prime Rib at a restaurant on the Cal/Nev border next to Lake Tahoe. The name escapes me, but it was at a casino that Sinatra frequented.

I know prime rib isn't a steak by definition, but that meal was so good it has stuck in my mind for a decade.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by the Talking Can

rarely would I order a steak at a restaurant...I can make a $5 chuck eye steak taste better than what most places gouge you for...plus we always had butchered meat growing up so I am spoiled...

but the Grand Central Hotel and Grill in Cottonwood Falls serves a fine piece of cow

Again, not buying it.

I can get a ribeye at Outback that's better than your $5 chuck.

Again - it's all about the meat. Cooking steak is the easiest damn thing in the world to do. Oh there are some techniques to it (I like searing mine over a white-hot cast-iron skillet for maybe 10 seconds/side before putting it on the hottest fire I can build), but when it comes down to it - it's all about the quality of the meat.

Chuck steak sucks. I don't care if you salt-pack it before. I don't care if you do the reverse-osmosis patdown prior to grilling it. I don't care what you marinate it in to tenderize it - it's still going to suck. Even if it's some higschool kid slapping a standard USDA Choice ribeye on the flat-iron in back, it's going to come out better than the most carefully prepared chuck steak you can come up with because the fats not there for the flavor or the whatever flavor that was there has been disguised by whatever you did to tenderize it.

It's all about the meat.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by the Talking Can

rarely would I order a steak at a restaurant...I can make a $5 chuck eye steak taste better than what most places gouge you for...plus we always had butchered meat growing up so I am spoiled...

but the Grand Central Hotel and Grill in Cottonwood Falls serves a fine piece of cow

Really? A $5 chuck eye steak? What's your trick to making a muscle that gets tons of work turn out like Filet Mignon?

[Los Pollos Hermanos]

I love the Brazillian steak houses. Fogo De Chao being my favorite.

[cdcox]

Casa Seedy. I make a demi glacé + wine + mushroom steak sauce that is out this world. I make the demi glacé from scratch. It takes all day to
make, so I make enough for 4 meals about once a year.

[MIAdragon]

Best steak Ive ever had was in a small place just outside Buenos Aries. My go to place in Miami is called Christy's.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by ChiefsfansofDallas

I love the Brazillian steak houses. Fogo De Chao being my favorite.

I need to go to one of those. I've heard they're great.

[gblowfish]

I'd also say "My Weber Genesis Gas Grill." I can buy a huge steak and do it myself, and it's very close in quality to what you get in a fancy restaurant for less than half the price.

If someone else is buying, I've had a great steak at Capital Grill on the Plaza, Golden Ox over their charcoal pit, Hereford House (before it got torched) in Crown Center, Savoy Grill downtown and Jess & Jim's in Martin City.

Is The Majestic still open? I know it closed for awhile.

[MIAdragon]

Originally Posted by ChiefsfansofDallas

I love the Brazillian steak houses. Fogo De Chao being my favorite.

Texas de Brazil Churrascaria is not bad either.

[Renegade]

Level 2 Steakhouse at the Branson Hilton.

http://www.level2steakhouse.com/about.html

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I'd also say "My Weber Genesis Gas Grill." I can buy a huge steak and do it myself, and it's very close in quality to what you get in a fancy restaurant for less than half the price.

If someone else is buying, I've had a great steak at Capital Grill on the Plaza, Golden Ox over their charcoal pit, Hereford House (before it got torched) in Crown Center, Savoy Grill downtown and Jess & Jim's in Martin City.

Is The Majestic still open? I know it closed for awhile.

Yeah - avoid the Hereford House in Independence.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I'd also say "My Weber Genesis Gas Grill." I can buy a huge steak and do it myself, and it's very close in quality to what you get in a fancy restaurant for less than half the price.

If someone else is buying, I've had a great steak at Capital Grill on the Plaza, Golden Ox over their charcoal pit, Hereford House (before it got torched) in Crown Center, Savoy Grill downtown and Jess & Jim's in Martin City.

Is The Majestic still open? I know it closed for awhile.

Yeah, it's open again.

Do yourself a favor and try J. Gilbert's at some point. Much better than Majestic, IMO. Have not been to the Golden Ox.

[CoMoChief]

best in kc: jesse jim's

best i've ever been to: Gibson's (Chicago) <== not even close

[gblowfish]

Two great places to buy top steaks for do it yourself in KC are McGonigal's Market in South KC and Curt's Meat Market in Western Independence. Curt's is a mile from my house. The meats are more expensive, but great for special occasions.

[Alton deFlat]

Jim's Steak House, Pittsburg, Kansas

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I'd also say "My Weber Genesis Gas Grill." I can buy a huge steak and do it myself, and it's very close in quality to what you get in a fancy restaurant for less than half the price.

If someone else is buying, I've had a great steak at Capital Grill on the Plaza, Golden Ox over their charcoal pit, Hereford House (before it got torched) in Crown Center, Savoy Grill downtown and Jess & Jim's in Martin City.

Is The Majestic still open? I know it closed for awhile.

Wow, now even the gas grill folks are piping up.

Now that's just funny right there.