Best Steak You Ever Ate

[Hick]

Best steak ever-- -somewhere in the midwest (Iowa maybe). I was on a business trip to one of our suppliers and got invited to go out to dinner. The guy driving went out in the middle of nowhere in the dark to some small crossroads where there was an old warehouse. We went in and there was a little counter with a one price menu: $7.95 all you can eat. After we paid, we went into the main part of the warehouse. In the middle of the floor was a huge brick barbeque, and all the walls were lined with display cases containing huge cuts of every kind of beef you can imagine-- uncooked, along with all sorts of beverages, breads and desserts. All evening long we just picked out what looked good and cooked it ourselves. Absolutely fabulous! Never did learn the name of the place or even where it was.

[nseries]

Clint's Steakhouse somewhere south of Atlanta about 30 years ago.

[kevin c]

When you're young and hungry after a long summer day out on a lake: a New York cut grilled over open flame, seasoned only with salt and pepper, just seared on both sides. Still remember that steak after 45 years...

[10-x]

Guess this depends on how long ago one had the steak. Back in 80’s traveled and worked through Chicago and Peoria. “The Steak Joint” near the loop had superb rib eyes cooked perfectly to rare, then there was/ is a steak place in Peoria that had a rope “ Cow Tail” to open the door, excellent T- bones cooked perfectly. Forward to early 2000’s went to see friends in Texas. Went to a couple of places around Austin and Dallas/ Ft. Worth that were very good. Pretty content to carefully pick my steaks from local places and grill them on back porch. Cooking your own one knows what is put on the meat and how its cooked.

[mike britton]

My best steak came in a steak house on the strip in Vegas. Don't remember the name of it, we were there for my best friend's wedding, and the whole night was chaos.
I've always liked my steaks medium. The waiter said if I was buying the filet he insisted I get it rare. We argued, he won. I think my late wife had some influence there.
Anyway, it was exquisite! Cut it with a fork, flavor like I had never tasted before. Best $50 steak I've ever had!

[sharps4590]

Hands down, best steaks ever were those I raised and finished myself. Haven't had one that compares since we sold the farm.

[snowwolfe]

New York Pepper steak served at the Double Muskie Inn located in Girdwood Alaska.

[GregLaROCHE]

Best steak ever-- -somewhere in the midwest (Iowa maybe). I was on a business trip to one of our suppliers and got invited to go out to dinner. The guy driving went out in the middle of nowhere in the dark to some small crossroads where there was an old warehouse. We went in and there was a little counter with a one price menu: $7.95 all you can eat. After we paid, we went into the main part of the warehouse. In the middle of the floor was a huge brick barbeque, and all the walls were lined with display cases containing huge cuts of every kind of beef you can imagine-- uncooked, along with all sorts of beverages, breads and desserts. All evening long we just picked out what looked good and cooked it ourselves. Absolutely fabulous! Never did learn the name of the place or even where it was.

Sounds like heaven!

[Rapidrob]

While stationed in San Diego, CA in 1976 I went out for my 25TH Birthday to have a good meal.
Across from the moored Queen Mary was a restaurant called the Quite Cannon. Being a Gunnersmate back then, I had to go there.
I ordered a large steak and I have to say that it was the best steak I have ever eaten before or since.
I had told my waiter that is was my Birthday and he told the chef. The chef made me my own Birthday cake that was just as good.

[Iowa Fox]

Best steak ever-- -somewhere in the midwest (Iowa maybe). I was on a business trip to one of our suppliers and got invited to go out to dinner. The guy driving went out in the middle of nowhere in the dark to some small crossroads where there was an old warehouse. We went in and there was a little counter with a one price menu: $7.95 all you can eat. After we paid, we went into the main part of the warehouse. In the middle of the floor was a huge brick barbeque, and all the walls were lined with display cases containing huge cuts of every kind of beef you can imagine-- uncooked, along with all sorts of beverages, breads and desserts. All evening long we just picked out what looked good and cooked it ourselves. Absolutely fabulous! Never did learn the name of the place or even where it was.

We used to have several of them like that around. Sadly most closed and now the virus closed the last few left. I have been wondering if any of them will re open after the virus. The one in Walker, Iowa was right across the street from the meat locker. The steaks were never frozen. The owners were friends and if the restaurant started running low on steaks on a busy night he had a key to the locker and just went across the street to get more. The big chain steak places are for the birds.

[Iowa Fox]

Jims steakhouse in Peoria was another one but looong gone.

[David2011]

They all taste about the same to me because I learned a long time ago to cook them as well as some restaurants and better than most. The formula that works for me is to coat both sides generously with Montreal Steak Seasoning and let them rest until they get to room temperature. I use a good quality charcoal started with newsprint in a Weber chimney and add a piece of oak or pecan at the edge of the coals. I open the top vents all the way and throttle the heat with the bottom baffles. Take ‘em off the fire when the internal temperature hits 135 degrees.

[Petrol & Powder]

I have had a lot of great steaks in my life. Some I cooked myself and some I ordered in awesome establishments. But the one constant to the events has been the people I was with and the activity surrounding the event.

Before the liberal idiots completely destroyed NYC, Chicago and other major U.S. cities, I had some great meals in fine establishments. Frankly, I've had some great meals in some real dives as well. The food is important but the people are the key.

[Walla2]

Anthony's on 72nd in Omaha. Bone in strip steak. Just great. Hope it is still there. They had a huge fiberglass cow over the top of the entrance.

[Idaho45guy]

Best steak ever-- -somewhere in the midwest (Iowa maybe). I was on a business trip to one of our suppliers and got invited to go out to dinner. The guy driving went out in the middle of nowhere in the dark to some small crossroads where there was an old warehouse. We went in and there was a little counter with a one price menu: $7.95 all you can eat. After we paid, we went into the main part of the warehouse. In the middle of the floor was a huge brick barbeque, and all the walls were lined with display cases containing huge cuts of every kind of beef you can imagine-- uncooked, along with all sorts of beverages, breads and desserts. All evening long we just picked out what looked good and cooked it ourselves. Absolutely fabulous! Never did learn the name of the place or even where it was.

Sounds like Rube's Steakhouse in Montour, IA.

I took my ex-wife there for her 21st birthday back in the 90's. Excellent steak, but it's no longer quite that cheap.

Best steak I ever had? Easy.

I grew up in Idaho the son of a cop with four kids. We ate mostly deer and elk. The random beef steak we could get was the cheapest, and dad did not know how to cook a steak. Most were pan-fried.

Add to that fact that Idaho beef is generally awful, and I grew up not liking steak. Could only choke it down with lots of Heinz 57.

Fast forward to a cross-country road trip in my musclecar in `93 and stopping in Iowa and meeting a fiesty little redhead at a local church who invited me to her parent's house for dinner.

She proudly announced that her dad was cooking ribeye steaks and mom was serving sweet corn and homemade rolls. Never heard of ribeyes, and corn was OK. The homemade rolls sounded promising.

I was handed a plate with a huge steak, a cob of sweet corn just picked from the field next to their house, and a perfect-looking dinner roll.

After grace, I asked if they had any steak sauce. It was like if I had just asked them if I could have sex with their daughter on the table. The pretty redhead whispered to me to just try a bit without sauce. I went to cut a piece and was amazed at how easily it cut. I popped it into my mouth and the combination of flavor and tenderness was amazing! This was absolutely delicious!

I ate a few more bites, then tried the sweet corn. Again, just amazing! Never had corn that good before. And the rolls? My gosh, surely I had died and gone to heaven.

The family was amused at my incredulity of the steak. I asked him how he prepared it and he said nothing special; just rubbed with butter, some light pepper, some garlic salt, and grilled over charcoal.

The meat was purchased at a local grocery store in Grinnell, IA. Fareway, I believe.

I have since learned that beef is just better out there. Most cattle in this area are free range. Meaning they wander around the mountains eating scrub and weeds and go up and down hills and get tough. That produces the toughest and worst tasting beef possible.

I have purchased dozens of ribeyes since moving back here a few years ago and have had two or three decent steaks, but nothing even close to that first ribeye in Iowa nearly 30 years ago. No matter what grade or cut I try out here, it is all barely edible.

[tankgunner59]

Couldn't tell you exactly where it is located. But when I went to Ft. Meyers, FL in 1998 we went to a steak house called Bubba's, I had the best chicken fried steak I have ever had to this date. It was a ribeye steak about 9 or 10 ounces, tenderized and chicken fried to perfection. I would love to go back if I could find it again. It was one of those places that have buckets of peanuts on the tables and shells all over the floor.

[clum553946]

Couldn't tell you exactly where it is located. But when I went to Ft. Meyers, FL in 1998 we went to a steak house called Bubba's, I had the best chicken fried steak I have ever had to this date. It was a ribeye steak about 9 or 10 ounces, tenderized and chicken fried to perfection. I would love to go back if I could find it again. It was one of those places that have buckets of peanuts on the tables and shells all over the floor.

It’s still there!

[kootne]

2nd day of elk season, 1985, I had a couple hunters shoot a couple 6 point bulls in their beds on a steep thick north slope. We gutted them, propped them belly up with hips and shoulders on small logs to let them cool. Covered the open cavities with a layer of green spruce or fir limbs, pee'd on the trees all around to signify ownership to the coyotes and left them. My plan was to retrieve them the next day but the boss had me trying to get some more for other hunters. He said, "they'll keep, cool nights on a north slope, don't worry". So 5 or 6 days later Jim Loessberg and I finally took off with 4 mules to get them. A cold, windy, spitty snow day and about an 8 mile ride to where they were. We parked the stock on a little bench above the elk and bailed down with ropes and manny's. Before we started to quarter and tarp the loads I said, "Jim, I am not riding all the way back to camp with wet and greasy gloves". So I built a little fire and as our Handy Andy's got wet and bloody we would toast them back to comfort. As we split the first bull front to back I got another idea. "Do you think those 2 dudes would ever miss a couple steaks"? "I'm quite sure they would not," he said. So I quick cut and peeled some willow sticks, wove them into a grill and flopped a couple nice thick backstrap steaks on. The fire was small and some of the wood was punky and we were busy at the Hillside Meat Market so they just kind of simmered, got flipped a time or 2 when it was convenient but with not much other attention. When we were packed and loaded we gave our gloves one last toasting and ate our steaks with our fingers and knives like a couple of cave men. After a bite or 2 we both commented on how we wished the steaks at the local roadhouse were that good. I have always thought that was the best steak I ever ate.

[LIMPINGJ]

Oasis Steakhouse and Lounge in Manhattan, MT was the best I ever had when I flying around for a living.

[farmbif]

one memorable steak was 1989 while on the road heading west towards Nashville at the original cracker barrel restaurant. it was a porterhouse or some other quality cut of steak chicken fried with gravy, mashed potatoes and green beans and fresh baked rolls and cornbread. it was that good I still remember it like it was yesterday.