I'm 1-4 in ordering steak in this country.
A couple of years ago I suggested to my parents that they go to the Chophouse for their anniversary. Mom and Dad went... and left. The steak prices started at $20.
I'll admit that's pricey for Iowa.
I added the blurb below the header for this blog because I really, really miss good beef and pork. Tonight I ate a $36 steak. It was, well, not so good. If I had paid half that price back in Iowa I would have sent it back.
The menu claimed it was a rib-eye. From my stops at Chili's I should have learned that the meaning of rib-eye is not the same here as in the US. A good Iowa rib-eye is amazingly tender with lots of marbling. Here it is much more similar to sirloin.
Ironically, the one good steak I've had here was a sirloin at Chili's.
Jason and I were at Texas Roadhouse the other day talking about how hard it would be to be in a country where you couldn't get a decent steak. You have our sympathies.
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