How Much Does a Good Restaurant Steak Cost Where You Live?

[ulmont]

Petit Filet Mignon (8 ounces) was 33 clams, Grand (12 ounces) was 39.

A little higher here, Yi.  36 for 8 oz filet mignon, 46 for 12.
http://www.buckheadrestaurants.com/media/menus/Chops_Lobster_Bar_Dinner.pdf

[Sheilbh]

A very good quality steak at a place that doesn't have its head up its own arse around here is £17 to £20.

Yep.  Same price for a very bad one too.

[sbr]

The best local (non-chain) place in Portland has a 6oz filet for $39, 10 oz filet for $58, 14oz New York for $49.50.

http://www.ringsidesteakhouse.com/images/pdf_menu/downtown/pdf_menus/ringside-steakhouse-dinner-menu-portland-restaurant.pdf **pdf warning!!**

The next best place is Ruth's Chris, a national chain.  The on-line menu doesn't have prices but I think they are comparable.

I have never eaten at Ruth's Chris.  I have eaten at Ringside a couple of times, but the most recent was probably 10 years ago.

[The Larch]

IIRC you can get some great Argentinian style steak for around 20 € around here.

[Admiral Yi]

What makes a steak Argentinian "style?"  Is there more to it than just coming from Argentina?

[The Larch]

What makes a steak Argentinian "style?"  Is there more to it than just coming from Argentina?

The cuts are different.

[Ed Anger]

What makes a steak Argentinian "style?"  Is there more to it than just coming from Argentina?

It has a very inflated sense of self and when cut, surrenders to the knife.

[derspiess]

What makes a steak Argentinian "style?"  Is there more to it than just coming from Argentina?

The cuts are different.

And it's cooked a little differently.  Always (or should always be) slow-cooked over hot coals.  Actual Argentine beef is free range, grass-fed.  Or at least the better stuff is.

[derspiess]

In Argentina you can go to a fast food place and get a decent cut of bife de chorizo (not to be confused with chorizo sausage)  or lomo cooked the proper way for like $7, including a beer and some fries.

[Ed Anger]

Do you,as an Anglo, get a side order of sneer from them?

[derspiess]

Do you,as an Anglo, get a side order of sneer from them?

My people love me. 

Seriously, every where you go, service tends to be very friendly down there.  Though oddly the better the restaurant, the slower it is (though still friendly).  I can usually sorta blend in but generally they're at least outwardly nice to Yanquis.

[Sheilbh]

They were even nice to an Englishman

[derspiess]

They were even nice to an Englishman

Seems like the love every individual Brit they come across (particularly musicians) but still claim to dislike Brits as a group.

[mongers]

They were even nice to an Englishman

Seems like the love every individual Brit they come across (particularly musicians) but still claim to dislike Brits as a group.

So, I'll be alright going there, just so long as it isn't in a group, say like a battalion. 

[Ideologue]

I dunno.  Like $15-$25 I guess.

$45 for a steak?  Jesus.