Wow! This thread is over two years old and still people love their steak.
Since I last posted I found a few more good steakhouses:
*In Versailles walking around I found a restaurant with a big cow hanging from the sign. I think the name of the place is Le Monde De Beef (World of Beef.) Excellent steak with a French flare and pretty good prices even with the Euro. Very friendly staff and good wine list. I can't find this place on Google but maybe it's so special it does not have a website. \
*There is another great steakhouse but it's a private home in NJ
One sitting every month or so. Steaks always purrfect,
*Surprisingly in Jersey City there are two pretty good steakhouses:
*Edwards Steakhouse on Marin Blvd. The owner is teh former chef at Old Homestead and copied much of the atmosphere and even the famous skyline plates of that steakhouse (one of this Cat's greatest steakhouses ever.) I really really really want one of those plates!
The steak is good although sometimes inconsistant. Overall for Jersey City this is the finest restaurant (with the Liberty House which I have nto been too.)
*Surprise #2: Dorian's Bar at Newport has for around $22 a very good cowboy ribeye flavored wtih garlic and other stuff and a nice potato.
*Near the Ontario Mills there's a very good steakhouse called New York Grill. I could not get into the steakhouse at the Doubletree so I gave this place a try. Pretty impression and they got the New York Strip right. Very nice wine list. Some people gave it mixed reviews. I would go back.
http://www.newyorkgrill.com/home/menu
*I still LOVE Trader Vic's and have enjoyed them in London, Tokyo and California and Chicago. I yearn for the day Trader Vic's comes back to NYC (The BLEH Donald threw them out of the Plaza hotel when he owned it saying basically it did not fit the high class image of the hotel. WIll not say more about that person except when Trader's comes back I hope it's right across the street from a Donald property.)
*Two years ago I did a quick mileage run to Seattle and instead of doing BA Grill I did Metropolitan Grill. I sat at a table near the bar and the food was good, not legendary. I enjoyed the Duckhorn though
*I have heard mixed to negative reviews on V (or whatever that letter steakhouse at Time Warner is.) I have NOT dined there and really with the prices I do not really want to.
*I had a disappointing dinner recently at Smith and Wollensky. Even more disappointing was that my friends who took me thinking that was my favorite steakhouse. What we got was poor service and my steak was sent back three times! (I order medium well and was getting LIVE cow/medium rare.) I need my cow dead and dead. I know this place is popular with the BenjaminNYC/BJ "do" crowd. If I'm in NYC it's Old Homestead or Cite (Ironically cite is owned by Smith and Wollensky' sparent company.)
*Although I had one bad experience in my last Cite visit: the famous frites with rib or sirloin Steak is still on the menu. The "steak" is now a small filet in a sauce and some other strange combination. Now (at lesat for now) if you want big steak you have to order the big steak. I told the manager why did they change from nice big NY strip to micro style steak you'll find at a W restaurant. He said the new chef is changing to an elecktic comtemporary menu. I said this is a crime and one of Cite's greatest menu items is frites with mega sized steak. He said I was not the first person to complain.
Have nto been back to see if Cite has changed it to the way it was. The good news is the $70 wine dinner is going strong. The website says from Memorial Day thru Labor Day its served ALL evening long. The only thing to check is if Cite is open SUndays (last summer it closed on Sundays.)
I don't know when the quarters start and end but the wine dinner offerings for
Second Quarter 2006
Stonestreet Cabernet 2001
Chateau Belair 2000
Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc 2004
Nicolas Feuillatte Brut NV
Third Quarter 2006
Chateauneuf du Pape Vieux Lazaret 2003
Nickel & Nickel Rock Cairn 2000
Sartori Pinot Grigio 2004
Mumm Cordon Rouge Brut NV
(The Nickel and Nickel goes well with a nice rib eye or NY Strip steak.)