also Madrid - in Casa Lucas on Cava Baja. Bill Clinton's favourite reataurant and I don't blame him. A-mazing. Served next to a cast iron plate to cook it yourself. No salad, no sauce, no chips, no veg - just meat!
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Where was the best steak you have eaten?
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My Dad's fishing mate is a farmer. Best steak I've had has been a lump of sirloin bought from him and cooked at home by me.
Otherwise, various places across South Africa.
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Molgrips
Fillet steak last week at the Aviator in Farnborough. Had it this week again, wasn't quite as good though. I even posted on here about it at the time.. I was almost in tears.
Walking distance from the Aviator, in North Camp, is Woods Butchers.
Go get yourself one of their rib eyes and take it home with you. Cooked medium-rare it's the best I've ever tased.
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I had a very good one at the Chequers in Marlow recently. They let you choose the cut of meat you want from the chiller and how much of it you want cut off before cooking!
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In order:
1. Butchers Shop and Grill - Sandton City - Johannesburg
2. Smith and Wollensky - Sandton City - Johannesburg
3. Pampa Grill - Clapham
4. Gaucho - Chancery Lane
5. Meat & Wine - Westfield Shopping Centre
6. Wotton Hatch - Wotton near Dorking in SurreyPosted 1 year ago # -
Llanberis in North Wales, a place not normally known for it's excellent cuisine.
A couple of years ago, a restaurant opened up in the premises between Joe Brown's and the take away, the one that currently has photographic vinyl landscape scenes on the windows.
I had an Anglesey black beef steak, cooked perfectly.
It was a superb restaurant, but in completely the wrong place. Can't even remember the name.Posted 1 year ago # -
Eating out:
The Champany Chop and Ale House, just outside Edinburgh. Slightly more affordable pub-type offshoot of the ludicrously expensive Champany Inn. Steak was absolutely sublime.
Eating in:
Last Christmas Day, got a rib of beef joint from a stall at the local farmers' market on the IOW that sold meat from an organic red poll cattle herd. Absolutely phenom-nom-nomenal. So much more flavour than your average bit of beef. Highly recommend looking for meat from a similar source.
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I've had a few, I'm not sure I can differentiate between 'exceptionally good' and 'the best steak in the world, bar none' though
I always recall the first time I had a proper drop of rib-eye ... with the rib and marrow still in. The Quarryman in Edmonton, outside Wadebridge, scrumptious.
Favorite cuts?
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Red water grill, Calgary
F'sure hey
Plum
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Peter Lugars Steak House in Brooklyn. Not far from Brooklyn Machine Works. Steak was superb, made all the better for getting a ride on some of BMW's finest bikes!
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At home - For me it's got to be a Bavette steak or beef skirt simply grilled on bbq or griddle, bags more flavour in the skirt and a very very cheap cut, very popular in France.
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I had an unexpectedly nice bavette steak in Pierre Victoire, on Wardour St (I think) in Soho.
Lovely sauce and fantastic frites as well.
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A porterhouse @ Rothmann's in NYC, the wine list was pretty good to
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The Grain Store in Edinburgh
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Moab, Utah.
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Had this recently at The Midland in Morecambe of all places - was pretty spectacular.
Pan seared 8oz Cumbrian fillet steak glazed with Blacksticks blue cheese, crisp rosti potato, sautéed baby spinach, roasted vine cherry tomatoes, pink peppercorn sauce
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fivelittlefish - Member
Moab, Utah.
Please don't say it was in that dingy western style restaurant a bit out of town? We had steaks there and they were average.
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Orgiva, Andalucia.
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A little restaurant in La Linea (which is the town on the boarder of Spain and Gibraltar). It is quite phenomenal, down a little side street and you would never find it unless you knew it was there and were shown it. Apparently it was in The Guardian's top 100 steak restaurants in the world. Quite unbelievable and one of the few things I miss from living in Gib.
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Munchies in chamonix does a great Argentinien fillet with a bernaisse sauce.
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It was on a plate, in front of me.
Sorry. IGMC shall I?
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Best steak was in a random restaurant near Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. It was a ‘bife de lomo’, a kind of mega-fillet. Steak, watercress salad and tomato salad, with a bottle of Finca Flinchmann Caballero de la Cepa. Sublime.
As far as the Argies are concerned, Santa Fe produces the best steaks. It’s low-lying, humid and flat, so the vegetation is lush, meaning the cows don’t have to move much to eat lots.
PSA: If you want a decent Argentinian style Parilla (BBQ) over here, the best I’ve been to is Santa Maria de Buen Ayre in Hackney. It’s proper argie and not bad pricewise.
A proper Argie steak has salt rubbed into it, for a while, then barbecued slowly over wood embers, raked under the grill- no direct flames or charcoal! The wood burns in a brazier at one side and is then raked under as required. The result is a toasty, caramelised outside with a tender, juicy middle.
-I’m salivating now, so it’s a good thing I’m going back over to Mendoza at the end of next week…
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Gaucho - central london.Amazing.
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Clarabel's in Ayia Napa does a nice steak, meat imported from New Zealand as far as I recall.
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Gaucho in Valencia better than the Churrascarias in brazil
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I tell you what. It wasn't steak as such, but I had roast venison last night at the hotel which was tremendous. I think it was probably a fillet or something, so pretty steak-like.
Really was something else.
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The Russian Embassy, Guyana - damn fine I must say
Otherwise it would probably be one of the many I have had in Orkney (the beef from there is better than the Kobe I have had IMO - properly rich and tender).
Although given the rib roast I got from my local farmer last year in Cumbria I may have to give one of his a try sometime... it may be a bit special.
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Several fantastic steaks in Livigno, Italy but not quite as good as one cooked by my mate Didier before he had Silver Darlings restaurant in Aberdeen.
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Fillet, cooked on slate (with plenty of pepper), overlooking Lac Montriond from the tin mines, after a days riding in Morzine. Not bad
Oh and Carnivore in Milwaukee was INCREDIBLE also.
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Luxor steak house. Las Vegas.
The fillet minion didn't need chewing...Posted 1 year ago # -
Cattlemens in Bulawayo. Superb every time. The franchised one of the same name in Vic Falls was shiiite though.
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Some place in Torrey, Utah. Stopped off overnight on a roadtrip and stumbled into the first place we saw. Superb steak and an unreal sunset.
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Can't remember the name of the place but it's in Rome and we found it by accident. The restaurant had two full cow carcasses maturing in refrigerated units in plain view in the restaurant. The steak was simply cooked and served with sautéed potatoes with a nice bit of sea salt..........mmmmmmm
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St Clements restaurant in Hastings or Jamies Italian in Oxford.
Although I've been around the world those appeared in my memory as best.Posted 1 year ago # -
Another for Peter Luger's in Brooklyn or La Caveu in Cleremont Ferrand - both superb
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