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best chain steak restaurant

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best chain steak restaurant

  • Morton's

  • Mastro's

  • Fleming's

  • Houston's

  • Sizzler

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Ns1 said:
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.
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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.
 
torpid said:
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.
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you = going to the wrong steakhouses.

not to mention, going to gourmet restaurant = getting gouged aka just as overpriced
 
Fritzo said:
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.
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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
 
Ns1 said:
you = going to the wrong steakhouses.

not to mention, going to gourmet restaurant = getting gouged aka just as overpriced
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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.
 
rasczak said:
I've only ever see and been to Sizzler's. I will not be voting for Sizzler's.
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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.
 
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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?
 
MrColin said:
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.
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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.
 
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?
 
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brainhulk said:
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?
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IMO CG is substantially overpriced for the food quality.
 
waggy said:
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.
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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.
 
brainhulk said:
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?
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I'd go to Craft. Or Cut if you can afford it.
 
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