We got turned on to box wine via our local Catholic church. They imported a red table wine in a 5L box from Cantina di Monteforte. Our house wine for a good time. http://www.cantinadimonteforte.it/

QOTD: Best steak: Gotta be a NY I cut and cooked myself at a college kitchen job. Or maybe an entrecote frites somewhere when living in France. Lot to be said for tartare.

Worst: sorry to say steaks get pretty raw treatement in Chinese restaurants. Had some pretty awful steak strips at wedding banquets and similar gatherings.

I always see Franzia in my step-mom’s fridge, so maybe I should introduce her to some Bandit.

QOTD: Best steak would have to be this filet mignon at a small steakhouse where I live called Hickory Hills. The steaks are really tender and juicy.

Worst steak would have to be a ‘steak’ I had while in Honduras. My whole family was on vacation there to see where they used to live (my grandpa worked for a fruit company repairing helicopters and got moved down there when my dad was young). At this hotel we were at I ordered a steak, although I’m not sure it was beef. It had an intriguingly good flavor until you began to chew, then it was chewy and stringy. Not to mention it was pounded like no other, probably 1/8th” thick.

QOTD: Best steak..local restaurant in NJ..great blue cheese stuffed filet mignon
Worst steak…too many to count!

Best steak + atmosphere…Sparks, Best steak & burger…Luger’s

QOTD: Best steak was last Christmas at my parents house, worst was when I tried to cook one in the oven.

Best steak was a 40 day aged New York strip from Boa in West Hollywood. Melt in your mouth!

Worst steak was at Patrick’s Roadhouse in Pacific Palisades.

QOTD: best was one that one of my friends cooked for me a couple of years ago and worst was Ponderosa’s top sirloin which tasted like a big chunk of disposed tire.

great episode on the box wines, never tried any but to each his own i guess. i just don’t drink that much (it takes me 3 to 4 days to finish a bottle)

QOTD: worst steak: sizzler restaurant in Michigan 7 years ago, it was overcooked, tough, bland, dry, just blech

best steak: back in 2004 i went to Japan and ate at Renga-Tei a kobe steak restaurant. it was sublime.

JG

best steak- Costco baby. Kirkland style. take your pick tenderloin, ribeye, ny strip. they are always good.
worst steak: anyone well done. eat charcoal if you want that.

Best steak I remember: Ray’s the Steaks, Arlington, VA.
Worst steak I remember: Some hotel restaurant in Smolensk, Russia in 1990. Scary square piece of Chernobyl wondermeat.

Best steak – ‘The Collinsworth’ at the Precinct (Cincinnati, Ohio);
Worst steak – all you can eat rib eye extra value meal deal at the Sizzler around the corner

Best steak – III Forks in Dallas Porterhouse medium to die for.

Worst steak – Oh lord there are so many probably Sizzlin’ Sirloin

Best steak- ribeye at Capital Grill in Chicago

Worst- Denny’s

I had the Cuvee de Pena when it first came out and thought it was a pretty decent wine. Tasted it one year later and thought it was one of the worst wines I had ever tasted. I definately think that the packaging affected the taste after awhile.

QOTD: Best Steak – Ribeye on the grill this summer; worst steak – completely overcooked steak at a friend’s cookout this summer.

QOTD:
Best steak was a NY Strip that I had at a wedding rehearsal dinner.
Worst…in college we would make a weekly trip to the Ponderosa for the cheap steak and the all you can eat salad bar.

Great show, thanks for the input on boxed wine. Enjoyed the show!
QOTD: Best steak is hands down the Rib Eye. Worst steak (if there is one) would have to be a chuck steak….not the best cut of meat.

The worst steak I had was at Peter Lugas in Brooklyn. And the best steak is at Strip House on 12 street in Manhattan followed closely by Sparks in midtown.

Nice show.

Best steak – American Kobe strib rare off the home BBQ grill. Not the most tender but the best flavor.

Worst – Omaha steaks filet mignon given to us as a gift several years ago. No flavor and a streak of gristle running through them.

Second Night Watching your shows. This is awsome. You have me hooked

Most surprisingly memorable Steak: 16 oz med rare : Keg Halifax NS
Most Disappointing in memory bank: ALberta AAA On the BBQ Last Month. Not good.

Keep up the great work

Thanks

Best Steak: Kobe/Wagyu steak at a place in chicago called Yoshi’s Cafe, rare, just unbelievable. I’d never had Kobe and compared to how it’s abused in meals all over the fancy restaurants this was just fantastic! Nothing too special done with it just letting the meat shine.

Worst Steak: An overcooked steak (I sent it back and the second one was cooked even FURTHER) from a fantastic steakhouse which I won’t shame. I don’t know how they screwed up Rare twice. It was upsetting.

Very interesting episode. You know the first thing I thought was that maybe they needed some time out of the box to air out, just as we do with bottled wine. Just a thought. Steak, now that’s a favorite subject of mine. The best i’ve ever had is a porterhouse at a great restaurant called pompeii in Philadelphia. The bottle of Monsanto 1997 Chianti Reserva is what made me fall in love with wine. The worst would have to be the one I had the last time we went to Sam Seltzer’s, it used to be one of our family get together spots but it’s just gone to hell. As far as chain places go, Longhorn has killer steaks. Anyone have an idea of why wines are tasting astringent to me lately?

Best Steak: Honeymoon, Ahwanhnee Hotel in Yosemite, they have this amazing table at the end of the dining room that looks out on Yosemite Falls, there also happened to be the most beautiful person in my life sitting on the other side of the table, and i had the best Filet Mignon ever, (was not 21 yet, did not get to have wine). Worst Steak: let me count the ways, more steak is bad then good, unfortunately, I had a Filet Tip a few weeks ago that was terrible, it had the old blood flavor infused in the meat, that nothing could take away, even a great bottle of Barbera. Mind you I love my steaks a little bit mooing normally, but this was not rare, and thank god, we probably would have got sick. (This was at someone’s house, we had to eat, at least I brought the wine).
Great Episode: I would probably pick up a box wine to try, especially at the price points mentioned. I would probably be disappointed, and wished I hadn’t but, at least i am trying stuff right.

Great show, I have always been curious about boxed wines but been to shy to actual buy one. I guess I should just do like you say and pick one up for the hell of it, but after that thoose rave reviews I am still pretty weary. Best steak I’ve had was a New York cut at Ruth Chris in SF. They have quite a selection and I have been meaning to go back…Maybe If I go in and sport an $800 bottle of wine I’ll have an excuse to go agian. Worst Steak: I remember a summer evening when I was proabably 10 or so and my mom made Stroganoff for dinner…it is usally my favorite dish….It has noodles, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream and usally a nice tender meat…For what ever reason the meat was overcooked and super tough…I had to chew and chew and chew it…My mom would not let me be excused from the table until I finished the my plate. I remember sitting at the table for about 30 or 40 min complaining about that horiable meat…I chewed it all up and spit it in my napkin…I then tossed it out the kitchen window when she was not looking…I remember telling her the story yrs later and we both got a good chuckle…Cheers…..Happy Holidays…. Adrian

BEST STEAK…In a tiny restaurant in Sicily 7 months ago when I was on a layover…caballo…yes it was a horse steak and yes it was amazing.

Thanks Gary

GV, thanks for the ep. Glad to see that there are occastionally some decent wines that come from a box and might be worth a try.

QOTD: Best and worst steak, hrm…

Best: Filet from Bern’s Steakhouse, Tampa FL (which coincidentally, has one of the largest wine cellars in the US, or so they say. This restaurant is incredible!)
Worst: The Golden Corral, that was a mistake I will not repeat.

Thanks as always!