If you guys ever have a chance, drive out to Hilje, and get yourself a ribeye from Prasek's Smokehouse, grill that up, and hands down it'll be the best steak you'll ever have.
I hear ya Max, the fine dining experience is one of my favorite pleasures in life. It's just that I'd rather hit Beef & Bird, Rainbow Lodge, Aldo's, Damian's or any number of places where I can get things I wouldn't normally get at home (and definitely better than I could cook myself). Steaks just ain't it for me. To each his own however.
I for one enjoy hanging out with your wife...Sorry, MadMax, it was just to easy...the post that is. I'll quit. I enjoy reading your opinions. Capital Grille when I'm on Corporate money and Angus at the house when I'm spending my own. I enjoy both, but only if the dollars match the dinner...my money = nice steak at home, Expense account = Capital Grille...it works every time.
Beef & Bird! good call!!! you're the first person I've heard reference that place here! that's the kind of place I never think about going...and then i pass it driving down the street and think, "how come i don't eat there more?" good stuff!
i went to a steakhouse in sugar land once with my friends, after that 60 dollar spent, i never ate at any steak restaurants again except golden corral.
When I was in town a month ago I went to the Riviera Grill in the Sam Houston Hotel after an Astros game. It's not a steakhouse, but I did have their's. It was the best I've ever had. Best restaurant I've eaten in Houston, too (which includes the 13 years I lived there). That Vic and Anthony's place, from the outside, looked huge and very expensive.
Seems to me Angus is as good as restaurant meat. I go to Sam's and get a pack of the Filets for about $25. It's all two of us can eat plus I get to have steak sandwiches with Horseradish sauce for lunch for a couple of days. If you cook'em at home try McCormick's Montreal Steak seasoning. It's a great mix of coarse salt, red and black pepper, corriander and GARLIC. I highly reccomend it.
I ate there with my folks for their anniversary last January. It is still as good as it was the last time I went there...over 20 years ago. Also, if you have not checked out Joe Mennke's other place, Bistro LeCep, you should. It is awesome.
i remember i went to beef and bird before a high school dance once...fortunately for me, it was a girl-ask-guy dance, so i didn't have to pay! but i ordered the wild game dinner and was just knocked over by it...maybe the best meal i've ever had...maybe. haven't tried his new place...my sister was friends with his daughter...i should check it out. thanks for the heads up!
It's a French (Freedom) Bistro...great food, prices in the $10.95-$19.95 range. I had their bouillabaisse (sp?) and it was damn good. They've got some pretty decadent desserts as well. Joe Mennke came by the table to say hi, just like in the old days at Beef and Bird. It's a killer date/take the wife out/take the mistress out kind of place.
A three-part series by the Houston Press' Rob Walsh (and one of hp's close personal friends ) gives the lowdown on the USDA Prime debate. For my money, I put taste over tenderness, and I have never had a steak better than those that come off my own grill, except of course the ones that came off my own campfire. The absolute best steak I have ever eaten came from a grass-fed cow slaughtered on the ranch I was working on, cooked over a mesquite fire. As I recall, the sides were beans and, ummmm, beans. But they were damn good beans. Ah, memories .... http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-08-02/cafe.html http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-08-30/cafe.html http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-04/cafe.html/1/index.html The third url is evidently too long: after issues/: 2001-10-04/cafe.html/1/index.html
Mannke's a great guy, he used to be a customer of my father's (banking) back in the day. Always remebers him (and me, even though I didn't go there for about 10 years between the ages of 16 & 26) & stops by the table to chat for awhile. He came to my 4th grade class when we were studying foreign countries & talked to us about Germany for an hour or so. Beef & Bird is possibly my favorite restaurant in town, and definitely my favorite wine list, and Le Cep is very, very good as well. Just be prepared to eat a heavy meal at Le Cep, those frogs love their cream sauces.
Personally, I like home-grilled steak (especially when it comes from the family cattle....much better than store bought). But I like going out for steak (or any other nice meal) once in a while. My most recent trip (and now favorite) was to Ruth's Chris in Sugar Land. It was a wonderfully romantic evening with really great steak! I just loved it!
I used to always get that place mixed up with a dentist office that's just a little west from there. My parents had to drag me screaming and kicking from that place once, so I kinda associate Brenner's with it. I'm weird.
well then u should definitely make the short trip there and u will love the atmosphere and the amazing food, no question about it. same goes for you RM95, you need to forget that horrid memory and replace it with a great one by going to Brenner's.
