best chain steak restaurant

[Remobz]

The only way I can eat a quality grade A steak is if I leave the Country

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i haven't been in a while, but capitol grill was excellent

 

[dank69]

No TEXAS ROADHOUSE? ARE YOU GUYS KIDDING ME?

TR >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Outback >> Longhorn.

No fucking way outback beats longhorn.

 

[rsutoratosu]

Best steak that I have had was at Delmonico.
http://www.venetian.com/Las-Vegas-Restaurants/Fine-Dining/Delmonico-Steakhouse/

GF been there, it is quite good, twice this year when visiting vegas.

In nyc/ct Mortons blow, bland, no flavor meat chunks..

Ruth Chris is quite good here.. we often go. Other non chain Peter Lugers

We did find quality meats in midtown that was pretty good too.

 

[wirednuts]

i have never heard of any of those places

 

[torpid]

The cost of USDA prime (which is served at many of the steakhouses mentioned in this thread) is not cheap. Dry/wet aged, even less so.

If you're paying michelin prices and are not receiving a superior steak, you probably need to do better research.

Prime is not cheap but it is also highly overrated. I've rarely found it worth the price. The local scottish highland beef here is as good or better when I've had it. And for the same price as the prime steaks at most overpriced steakhouses, you can get a much more interesting preparation (or, better, a vastly superior meal) at a truly gourmet restaurant.

 

[Ns1]

Prime is not cheap but it is also highly overrated. I've rarely found it worth the price. The local scottish highland beef here is as good or better when I've had it. And for the same price as the prime steaks at most overpriced steakhouses, you can get a much more interesting preparation (or, better, a vastly superior meal) at a truly gourmet restaurant.

you = going to the wrong steakhouses.

not to mention, going to gourmet restaurant = getting gouged aka just as overpriced

 

[waggy]

Seriously, if that's your experience with a steak house, you're not going to the right places. There's a local place near me that makes bone-in ribeyes, fantastic sides, and a free bottle of wine for $50. A large bone-in ribeye is $25 raw these days. Well worth it.

hmm Bone-in ribeyes are by far my favorite cut of meat.

a local place will do a bone-in ribeye with a side and drink for about that price. they are a good place but not amazing. NOT worth the price at all. I don't know what they are doing but they aren't much better then the ones i do at home.

Now i have been to good places. the price is the same and the steaks are flat out amazing. to bad i gotta drive like 40 minutes lol

 

[torpid]

you = going to the wrong steakhouses.

not to mention, going to gourmet restaurant = getting gouged aka just as overpriced

I haven't yet been to, for example, a michelin starred steakhouse, but that is because there are very few of them in the US. Maybe I will change my mind when I go to one of them. I'm not even sure which ones exist outside of Peter Luger, which seems to have mixed reviews in this thread alone.

If you feel gouged at a gourmet restaurant but not at a steakhouse then you are going to the wrong gourmet restaurants and/or you found a steakhouse similar to Fritzo's above.

 

[MrColin]

I've only ever see and been to Sizzler's. I will not be voting for Sizzler's.

Same here. I wasn't all that impressed with Steakout or Outback either. When I want a steak I grill it over a wood fire or pan sear at home. Faster cheaper better.
I have a lady friend that shoots, dresses, and butchers her own venison. ZOMG, her house > any restaurant.

 

[torpid]

Ah... I found another one. Alexander's Steakhouse in the bay area. Some stuff looks pretty good, but I'd rather get an entire menu at The French Laundry than the $275 steak there. Surely a joke?

 

[rsutoratosu]

If you want good diy steak, the alton brown way

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/dry-aged-chimney-porterhouse-recipe/index.html

I did it and it was awesome, the charcoal was around 900-1000 degrees, sear the steak in seconds, on top of that, I dry age the prime steaks..

 

[Ns1]

n/m

 

[Deeko]

Ruth's Chris is by far the best chain steak place I've ever been.

 

[Deeko]

That said I went to John Howie Steak in Bellevue last night, so ya know, not much else compares....

 

[Markbnj]

Same here. I wasn't all that impressed with Steakout or Outback either. When I want a steak I grill it over a wood fire or pan sear at home. Faster cheaper better.
I have a lady friend that shoots, dresses, and butchers her own venison. ZOMG, her house > any restaurant.

Sizzler is... is... not even steak. It's like Ponderosa. I think they take some random piece of flank and beat the crap out of it with an aluminum hammer or something until you can cut it.

 

[brainhulk]

I'm gonna try to go the Capital Grille Restaurant in Costa Mesa the following weekend (this weekend too busy for me). I'm eager to compare it to the others, om nom nom nom nom

or should i go to Craft in L.A. instead?

 

[K1052]

I'm gonna try to go the Capital Grille Restaurant in Costa Mesa the following weekend (this weekend too busy for me). I'm eager to compare it to the others, om nom nom nom nom

or should i go to Craft in L.A. instead?

IMO CG is substantially overpriced for the food quality.

 

[Tommy2000GT]

why is Outback not in the poll?

 

[zinfamous]

To be fair $118 for a steak that feeds 2 people is a pretty good deal.

42oz?


Uh, most rational humans would consider that a 3-4 person serving of meat.

 

[zinfamous]

god yes.

that is the one reason i love going into chicago. Geno's east is fucking amazing (the orginal one). But there are so many good places to eat. come to think of it i don't think i have had a bad place to eat.

I'll never understand the popularity of Gino's. It's really nothing more than a glorified Pizza Inn that all the tourists flock to.

 

[Zeze]

No fucking way outback beats longhorn.

That's what I said.

 

[heymrdj]

No TEXAS ROADHOUSE? ARE YOU GUYS KIDDING ME?

TR >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Outback >> Longhorn.

So much this.

 

[Ns1]

I'm gonna try to go the Capital Grille Restaurant in Costa Mesa the following weekend (this weekend too busy for me). I'm eager to compare it to the others, om nom nom nom nom

or should i go to Craft in L.A. instead?

I'd go to Craft. Or Cut if you can afford it.

 

[shortylickens]

No fucking way outback beats longhorn.

Its like saying RC beats Rite, but really we all prefer Coke or Pepsi if we can afford them.
Texas Roadhouse and Logans Roadhouse are the Coke and Pepsi.