I've eaten at Berns probably 25 times, due to spending an extraordinary amount of business nights in Tampa over thirty-some years. I've likely had better steaks elsewhere, but the Bern's "experience" is tough for any beef restaurant to equal. The ambience (I describe as: French bordello as decorated by Disney Imagineers), extraordinary service, menu flexibility, private dessert rooms, kitchen / wine cellar tour, and reasonable pricing, cause it to be my #1 steak destination anywhere.

I have also amazing memories of the "beef" at the Carnivore in Nairobi in 1990. Not fair to add this event to a best list, as by the time I left the restaurant I was three sheets to the wind after drinking a massive number of Dawa's (which translates in Swahili to "Medicine"). What I thought was an amazing steak may have been wildebeest in reality.