Best steak: a little restraunt near Salida, Colorado (real beef country). Recent contender: NY strip sliced and topped with truffel oil.
Worst steak: I can’t say because it was made by someone I don’t want to offend, but it was REALLY bad.

Best steak I ever had was Kobe filet in Bangkok. Worst was all the times steak was ordered medium rare and came from the kitchen medium well – at least. Unfortunately, it happens too much and it mostly depends on cooks pre-grilling orders and/or trying to guess/time when guests will finish their appetizers. One phone call and you leave the table equals overgrilled steak!

Worst Steak: first time I tried to grill on my Weber Q
Best Steak: District Chophouse in Washington DC

Best ever: Sparks NYC or Rod’s Convent Station in NJ
Worst ever: Across the street from Shopper’s Discount Liquor @ Scotty’s “A Place for Steak”. Horrible!!! AMM

Gary,

Great show as always. I’m fairly new to WLTV but in a very short time I already have about 50 shows under my belt. Bought a case of the Bandol you recommended. Loved it and I now know what “barnyard” means.

All the best,

Guy Gridley

QOTD: BEST…Pops cooked da best steaks on da “Barbie”!!
WORST…Pops when he was goin’ for “extra well-done”
and burned them into oblivion…. 🙂

Best Steak: Peter Luger’s in Brooklyn, NY
Worst: one that I cooked on the grill for a little (a lot) too long.

QOTD: I’m a vegetarian and haven’t had a steak in like 15 years. The worst? The one I had after two years of being a vegetarian – I haven’t had one since. The best? No idea.

Best: 8oz Filet at Perini Ranch in Buffalo Gap, Texas (http://www.periniranch.com). This is a terrific restaurant; their Mesquite Smoked Peppered Beef Tenderloin can be ordered & shipped. Amazing.

Worst: Tough to say. Typically only order steak if it’s at a top notch place, or grill at home with good quality product. Otherwise, will stick to other dishes.

Best steak – from our local meat shop – comes off my back yard grill better than any local steakhouse (plus I can raid my own cellar for old stuff to pair with it!)
Worst steak – Gene & Georgetti’s downtown Chicago. No flavor!

Thanks for reviewing the 2004 Cuvee de Pena box. I sell this wine in Illinois (very well, too). I probably need to retaste it to see where its at, but it was still drinking well when I last worked with it about 2 months ago. The 2005 vintage will be packaged in the box very soon. (It’s already in the bottle.) Hopefully, you’ll try a fresh version of the box when its released in January or February.

Joe

Off-hand I can’t think of a really bad steak that I’ve had, although I know there must have been at least one time. Most likely it was one that I cooked myself. My best steak memories are from family events. On a special occasion my dad will sometimes will cook up an enormous amount of meat; the amount being a necessity, as my parents produced eight children, all of them boys. It’s the taste of these steaks that stick out in my memory. I’m sure at some point in my life I’ve probably had a better steak somewhere, but those times are overshadowed by the family occasions; warm summer days, lots of laughter, and the smell and taste of my father’s barbecued steak.

Best steak ever was also my first great steak, a filet mignon at some restaurant in los angeles… a new experience, melt in your mouth, great flavor, etc. Worst steak ever, have to say, was from my mom… chewy rubber, a workout for my jaw muscles really… So, anyway, can I please have that nice bottle of vino? thanks!

QOTD- BEST- Ruth’s Chris if I want butter, Stack Las Vegas (Mirage Hotel) without
WORST-Arthurs in Hoboken

Send me the WINE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best, prime from the butcher in my mall, cooked fast and served with fries.
Worst, Steak and eggs at the Rio, in LV, for $3.99, also came with hash browns, pancakes, and ham!

COTD:
worst – last night – at home – I killed it
best – there were a few!!!

The Best – I grew up on a farm and the best steak was porterhouse from an animal my father had raised and butchered.
Cooked on a charcoal grill and matched with home grown potatoes, sweet corn and green beans. The flavor of that meat cannot be found today!

The worst was in an IHOP – thin, overcooked, tough – did not deserve to be called steak.

The best was a Rib in Montreal at Moishe’s, the grateast jewish steak house in the world!!!

Best steak: Gotta be Ruth’s Chris Filet. Worst steak… Broiled a cheap chuck steak in my little toaster oven to see if it would work. Talk about rubber…

Great ep again gary, I give love for “Real Sangria” in a box. Great stuff! Had some other very questionably alright wines, but nothing to write home about.

QOTD: my best steak that I’ve ever had was a nice 12oz angus that I picked up from omaha steaks. My worst, a cheap steak that I picked up at the grocery store and then proceeded to over cook. I suck at cooking

worst: had to be an attempted “cheese steak wrap” using some cube steak

best: a surprise free filet mignon at the end of a long night. not because it tasted so good, but because it was so unexpected.

Best steak I ever had was at Strip Steak in the Mandalay Bay Hotel Las Vegas NV by Chef Michael Mina. Kobe Filet with seared foie gras.
Worst steak I ever had was steak and eggs at IHOP.

Gary,
Just wanted to let you know that Bota Box is made by Delicato. They just revamped the packaging and I hadn’t noticed until I saw the show that the Delicato name had been removed.

QOTD – best was this steak house in san diego right before entering the service in 2000.
Worst – was a cheap vegas buffett.

The best steak is T-Bone was grilled on the BBQ, and the worst steak was high end cut was taste like low end cut.

Best Steak= Porterhouse on the grill salt & pepper only. The best!

Worst Steak= Flat Iron Steak, grizzle mania—Yuk double yuk!!

Gary, the Bandit Pinot looks clearer than our drinking water here in Leicester, Ma.

Just as I thought; box wine sucks!!!! Next you’ll be doing Carlo Rossi and other Jug wine.

If you ever, ever do a show on Rosso Di Montalcino; I pledge not to watch !!