Overall, I think Chicago is best city to find great steaks, however the very best steakhouse in my opinion is housed in Minneapolis. I've had the Silver Butterknife steak at Murray's many times and have never had a better flavored steak. It's broiled to absolute perfection every time.

There are so many steak houses here in KCMO. My first choice here on price is the Hereford House. Awesome food all around. If I have the dough I would go straight to the Savoy Grill. We had a wonderful seafood appetizer that ran 200 bucks and mouth watering steaks to follow.

I went there several years ago and really was not all that impressed with their beef.

Perhaps I arrived on an off day?...

Have lived in New York but am from London. Fair to say I have eaten at a good few of the worlds most noted steakhouses.

I NYC I like:

Lugers
Dylan prime if you need a more modern edge but still greast steak and great bar
V in columbus circle is great
keens would where I was and still am a regula when I visit. Great atmosphere!

In london try the Guinea grill. Really top place and easily the best in London

In Vancouver Canada the Gotham Grill is great

I would think maybe that would have been the issue.

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.)

Good tip! I'll keep it in mind.

Recommendations for Steak in Downtown Philly?

Spending some time here...

Thanks.

Apart from the usual chains: Palm, Ruth's Chris, Morton's, Capital Grille....

You might try Barclay Prime. I've been twice and had excellent meals. I highly recommend the Ribeye, which comes from the same purveyor as Peter Luger.

Also, not a steakhouse, but one of the best steaks I've ever had was at Pasion in Philly. Great Nuevo Latino cuisine. Located on 15th St.

You might be surpised to read Consumers Report for 7/6: they even rated steak house chains: tops: Capital Grill.

The Hitching Post in Casmalia, CA. They have another outlet near Solvang (Buellton) that was featured in the movie Sideways, but that place is mobbed with tourists now and best avoided. The original one is in Casmalia, a small town outside Santa Maria, and is excellent. I have been to Peter Luger and many other places and still like this one the best (prices are much more reasonable, too).

Went to Pasion. The ceviche was ok. I kinda of like Alma de Cuba much better.

I love the Capitol Grille's. I had a great meal in the one on Broad in Philadelphia a few weeks ago.

Yeah, no kidding, tell me about it. The one in Buellton is always packed now. Just read a story the other day where the owners said that while the $$$ is nice, they kinda long for the good ol' days.

Been to the HP in Casmalia many times. I actually like it better than the one in Buellton... and the costs are a bit more reasonable. However, they do not have ostrich on the menu there.

I ate at Barclay's Prime over the weekend.

It was quite quite good. The appetizers and Ribeye were top notch. The desserts although imaginative weren't anything remarkable.

Kobe beef sliders were a disappointment.