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Think I've just had my best steak and chips ever!


Went to the Magnolia last night (and no, I do not have shares in the place, nor am I the chef!)

and had the most delicious tasty plate of Frenchy-ness and was instantly transported into holiday mode.

I asked for medium rare and it was!, proper home made b?arnaise sauce with fresh tarragon.

Nice pile of chips and a big green salad with basil and parsley plus a perfect dressing.

Bloody brilliant(tu)


What is your "best I've ever had"? Does not have to be food....

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Tony.London Suburbs

Tony.London Suburbs

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Domestic Advice? Keep the Lady happy as everything else will fall into place.


If the Lady isn't happy then you haven't got a happy home and on the same theme remember what many older Men told me was I was younger:


"Any Man who tells you that he is in control in the home is either a Liar, a Fool or more likely Both:))

Mick Mac

Mick Mac

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Best steak for me is easy - Porterhouse steak, Wolfgangs restaurant New York, best by a long way - served with the bone. About an inch deep, charred a little on the outside and rare on the inside.


Don't know what porterhouse steak is referred to here - may be t bone?


Second to that is most steak in France, cooked rare, always seems to be good, but I'll always remember the New York one as being the best.

charliecharlie

charliecharlie

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[quote name='Nope porterhouse her as well Mick Mac

]

thought' date=' at first, you might be talking about keeping your woman happy, in ref. to TLS post!!


Guess what you really meant was.... Nope, porterhouse [b']HERE[/b] as well Mick Mac

Oh what a differnce a vowel makes>:D<

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Mick Mac

Mick Mac

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SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Nope porterhouse her as well Mick Mac

>

> I have bought them in (shhh...) The Butchers on

> Lordship Lane

>

> Of course you risk being gunned down by

> chip-on-shoulder types - but a porterhouse is

> worth it



Ok - cheers Sean - I thought that cut may not be the same here or maybe it was not available during "mad cow" years - I'll def try to get some from William Rose/or alternative. Doubt very much I'll be able to relplicate the standard it was cooked to in NY though, but I'll give it a go.

It recall it was a huge steak and only available for 2 people sharing!

Jeremy

Jeremy

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If we're talking porterhouse steak, it has to be Peter Luger's, Brooklyn (I believe Wolfgangs is one of several newer restaurants opened by former Peter Luger employees).


A porterhouse (US defintion) is very similar to a UK T-bone... with maybe a slighty higher ratio of fillet to strip-loin.

Mick Mac

Mick Mac

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> If we're talking porterhouse steak, it has to be

> Peter Luger's, Brooklyn (I believe Wolfgangs is

> one of several newer restaurants opened by former

> Peter Luger employees).

>

> A porterhouse (US defintion) is very similar to a

> UK T-bone... with maybe a slighty higher ratio of

> fillet to strip-loin.



Thats correct Jeremy, but Peter Luger's was in Brooklyn and we had already been out in brooklyn the night before and therefore wanted to go local. Wolfgangs is in Donald Trumps top 5 restaurants in NY so not too shabby, but yes Peter Luger has the long standing reputation.


Sean - these US versions were huge - and only on the menu for 2 or 3 people sharing. We asked what was the best steak they had and they said it had to be the porterhouse, but don't seem to see it on the restaurant menus here.

Tony.London Suburbs

Tony.London Suburbs

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charliecharlie Wrote:

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> thought, at first, you might be talking about

> keeping your woman happy, in ref. to TLS post!!

>

> Guess what you really meant was.... Nope,

> porterhouse HERE as well Mick Mac

> Oh what a differnce a vowel makes>:D xxcc


Think you were right the first time;-)B)

Jeremy

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Mick Mac Wrote:

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> We asked what

> was the best steak they had and they said it had

> to be the porterhouse, but don't seem to see it on

> the restaurant menus here.


The T-bone (which is very similar) used to be pretty common, didn't it? Until the beef-on-the-bone ban was introduced off the back of the BSE scare. Not really seen it since.

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