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Best- New york strip from Ringside in Portland, OR Worst- wine poached fillet well done.

Best one: Filet Mignon form a special portuguese cow from the north of the country called “Boi Charolês” that looks like a yak (whatever that means) everytime I eat it!!!

Worst one: An awful steak that looked more as a shoeleather than meat in Hong-Kong last year.

The best steak of recent memory was the on I had for dinner last night. It was unexpected after a hard semester of grad school. I came home, and my partner had grilled and bought a bottle of the the wine I’ve been dying to try to go along with it. It was the best because it came with some much thought and love, and I awoke this morning still thinking about it.

The worst steak? Probably one I had years ago at Sizzler.

Gary,
Great show on boxed wines. I have only bought them for big parties, and usually for good reason. Thanks for the enthusiasm and good insight.
Brenton Drakeford

The worst steak I ever had was in a small restaurant we endured in Pecos, Texas, right smack dab in oil country ourside of Midland/Odessa Texas. The steak tasted like oil, the potatoes tasted like oil, the water tasted like oil, and the restaurant was jammed with people. It was horrifying!

The best steak? Not Ruth’s Chris, which for the money was okay, but not a religious experience like most say. No the best is ALWAYS The Keg, a Canadian chain that makes perfect steaks every time you go there. Roughly half the price of Ruths, and phenomenal steaks with amazing consistency.
Their only weakness is a half-ass wine list. Their idea of fine wine is J. Lohr Cab. We part ways there.

Gary,
The best steak I have ever tasted was a dry rub from Costco that I sealed in a food saver bag, froze and put in an ice chest for a 7 hour trip to a lake house. It was unbelieveable! I always cook them black and blue, char on the outside and rare inside, try it some time.
Thanks
Brenton

Best Steak: Bistecca alla Florentina in a restaurant called Antica Taverna, Casa Grande in Tuscany. Thick cut, simple preparation, perfectly grilled – finished off with a spritz of lemon.
Worst Steak: United Airlines (when they still served food on planes) – piece of bad “pleather” with some fake grill marks, covered with sauce.

Great show. Please, do more shows with wines in at least the $10-$20 range, for the people who lunch on brown-bagged peanuts, waxpaper-wrapped hunks of homemade cheese, and oil-slicked stale bread, for the struggling puppeteer gastronomes who eat and drink beyond their means, all those wine-crazy mimes out there, and for the abundance of wine-fetishists in the non-profit sector! And the sad bureaucrats spinning wild dreams in drab cubicles. I’ve been so broke lately I had to turn a trick in Long Island City en route to the office to get a Metrocard, so it’s good to know I can use what’s left over buy a little something to drink with dinner.

Best steak-I guess a hanger I salt for forty-eight hours, sear and serve rare/medium rare with a vulgar overabundance of red wine sauce.

Worst steak-an enormous, malaise-inducing, almost willfully overcooked veal chop that I had forgotten about until today.

Another lurker gets flushed out by the big prize!
Best steak — Bistecca Fiorntine in Florence, Italy. Worst @ Tad’s Steaks in Times Square, NYC.

Qotd: The worst steak I’ve ever had was at O’Charley’s. It tasted like liver! The best I’ve tasted was a filet I cooked on my grill!

Give me a big shoutout for my birthday on News Years Eve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks
Scott Snyder
WV

Years ago it was at the encouragement of a very good friend, who is now a professional winemaker, that I abandoned the box (and jug) and start to consider buying wine not by lowest price per volume. Maybe it is time to consider “alternative packaging” 🙂

QOTD: Best steak: A fillet mignon at Morton’s Steak House in Las Vegas. Worst steak: Oooh, I am thinking it was at a company function or some similar event. Burnt, bitter practically inedible, because I didn’t want the burnt chicken.

I thought the Bandit wine said “LOL” on it, but it actually said “1.0L”

The best steak was probably one my dad grilled for a family dinner. Always love those steaks.

The worst steak I ever had was probably one grilled by my dad…he has blackened a few during his long record of grilling!

QOTD: Best steak… skirt steak I made for myself in North Miami Beach on an outdoor grill while drinking Malbec. Cumin, garlic, lime, tequila.
Worst steak: well done tuna steak. Might as well eat it right out of the can.

The best steak I had was camping in Nh a ribeye my friend cooked on grill
the worst was ribeye at a well know eatery

The best steak I’ve had was some file mignon that was left over at folk’s house. It was really good when it was first cooked (my mother is a chef), but the next day in a sandwich was amazing. Absolutely blew my socks off. The worst was at a diner in NYC (BigNick’s) which I usually go to for hamburgers, but one day I was craving steak and it was a mis-steak. Just really tough and had way to much “seasoning” which was just garlic salt. Gross.

QOTD – either mortons or possible a Tri-tip from the local meat market (Iowa Meats) here in San Diego….both very good

Good show G! Box wine…LMAO

QOTD – I will start out with the BEST!!! PLAZA III in Kansas – OMG…. right from the start, you walk in to an old world style joint…they wheel out the MEAT TRAY… and ask you which cut you would like then BAM…on a grill it goes…into the mouth…and OMG…almost better then (fill in the blank)

Worst – I am always afraid of trying to order steak from places that dont specialize in it…but there is a place around my home town that after a while…there prime rib went into the sh1ter…and I mean that….

Cheers!
RichG

GV – Thanks for looking into box wine. Good option for everyday quaffing! QOTD – Best steak? My brother’s backyard BBQ always brings the love. Worst steak? At a steakhouse in Allston, MA on my birthday many years ago…

Best steak I’ve ever had – porterhouse steak in Argentina, unknown restaurant name, but the setting and company made it one of the best meals of my life
Worst steak I’ve ever had – when my boyfriend cooked it on your grill that other time, and he was too lazy to even marinate

Great show GV! Thanks. I’ll give the Bandit a try if I can locate. My wife loves PG.

QOTD: Best steak, ordered Wagyu beef filet from Lobels in NYC. Cooked at home on the grill. Salt, pepper, hot grill, med rare. Very tasty.

Worst steak, Peddlars Steak house chain, in Tenn. Shoe-leather liver. Dont remember the cut. No matter it sucked.

qotd: Best: A steak I had at Ruth’s Chris, New Orleans, 1983, with my soon-to-be wife (and still married and loving her even more).
Worst: I have too many to pick from: my wife, whom I love very much (see above), is a terrible cook.

Best steak: my first filet mignon (When I was a boy, my father took the family out to eat every Wednesday night, whether we could afford it or not. He always encouraged the children to try something new. I still remember my first filet mignon at “The Steakhouse”; good not just for the steak itself–which was buttery soft and delicious–but for the lessons involved in those family meals.)

Worst steak: “chopped steak” burger (Home from college; no one home; went into the fridge; found what I thought was hamburger; made a “burger”; cooked it on the gas grill; turns out, chopped steak does not taste so good if you do not know what the hell you have or what you are doing; part burnt, part raw, all nasty. Suffered a good talking-to on that one, too, for a number of reasons…)

QOTD: Best steak I had was the Porcini Rubbed Delmonico with 8-year aged balsamic from the Capital Grill in Manhattan. The worst steak I had was at my Uncles house. I don’t know what he did, but he absolutely killed it.