Best STEAK HOUSE

[Doc]

Okay, all you carnivores, what's your favorite steak joint? And what cut do you like best, and how do you like it done??

[Driving Rain]

Has the Kenrisha gone down hill since I left QK?

Ruth's Chris Steak House in Toronto and Mississauga. The Best
Chowhound in Calgary good also.

[niss]

Master Steaks in YYZ. The Delmonico Medium.

I am also a sucker for the Prime Rib @ The Keg. Medium Rare.

[Snowgoose]

Best Steak Period - Ruth's Chris Striploin Medium Rare

Best Bang for the Buck - 24oz Porterhouse $25.95 The Tulip, Toronto

[deflux]

Ruths Chris is definately a good choice

My favourite is Wildfire but I think that is a Southern Ontario only chain...

[Nark]

Ruth Chris

Most steak houses are good, but I consider a great steak house one with an awesome view.

Cities close to the beach in the summer, and university areas of towns offer the best in that department.

[Hedley]

IMHO if you want a really good steak, you've
got to choose the right piece of meat, marinate
and flavour it, and cook it yourself.

Propane BBQ is ok, but charcoal is better.

T-bone is my personal favorite cut.

[SkyWolfe]

LUX in YEG - Porter House w/ Cognac sauteed mushrooms...

[yfly]

Mortons of Chicago, hands down.

Never been all that impressed with Ruths Chris.

Baseball cut sirloin at the Keg is a great steak as well.

Rare please.

I don't know how I forgot but any high end steak house in Brazil is sooo spectacular!

[Just another canuck]

For those in North West Ontario, go to the Prospector if ever through T Bay. They have their own cattle farm down Oliver Rd. and everything there is amazing. You can also do the surf 'n turf there with lobster or crab. I also like the Keg, but this other joint is waaaay better.

But I agree with Hedley as well... get a nice steak from a good butcher shop. Get it cut a little thicker and BBQ it yourself. I'm also a T-Bone buy, but a nice ribeye is good too.

[Changes in Latitudes]

I am also a sucker for the Prime Rib @ The Keg. Medium Rare.

So where did your sense of taste go on vacation? Might as well crack a hungry-man, dude.
I honestly can't believe it when people say the food at the Keg is any good. Maybe it varies from location, but I have never had a good meal there.

[grover]

i agree on the prospector. for as long as i can remember, meals there were awesome, and the beef was always the best part! now if i could only convince them to open a chain up here! Gotta do the grilling myself here....

[niss]

I am also a sucker for the Prime Rib @ The Keg. Medium Rare.

So where did your sense of taste go on vacation? Might as well crack a hungry-man, dude.
I honestly can't believe it when people say the food at the Keg is any good. Maybe it varies from location, but I have never had a good meal there.

I never had a meal that I didnt enjoy @ the keg. A real decent steak for the $ is the sirloin @ applebees.

[CD]

I agree with the Prospector in YQT as well... Villa D'aldeia Grill in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil is pretty darn good too.

[Flying Low]

Another vote for the Prime Rib at Prospector in YQT!

[ScudRunner]

If your down in DFW there's a Brazilian Steak house named Fogo de Chao. Kinda sounds like @#$! a Da Cow, its wicked awesome.

http://www.fogodechao.com/dining.htm

[Rowdy]

I *heart* the Kobe steak house in vancouver...

As for the keg.. they ALL vary. I've been to about 3 up until a couple weeks ago and they've all SUCKED. Then I was with the girlfriend up in whistler and popped in and it was downright effing delicious, the staff was amazing and everything worked out. I felt like yelling out CO-STAN-ZA!!

I also remember eatin a deeeeelish steak relatively inexpensively in Seattle about two years ago.. but I can't remember the name.

[cgzro]

In the ottawa region the best bar none is Stirling:

http://www.sterlingrestaurant.com/english/nousjoindre/

They are just opposite the prime ministers residence on the Quebec side of the river and about 20 meters from the water. When the Canada day fireworks are on, you can eat on the balcony, watch the fireworks. You can also arrive by boat or seaplane and park at one of the warfs near by if that turns your crank. Its a blast just sitting after a huge steak and watching the boats go by.

They have a wood stove to cook all the steak and its insanely good.

Highly recommended.

Peter

[rigpiggy]

Just about any friday night "Steak Night" at a bush camp, must be BBQ'd Rare!!!!!

[laticsdave]

In the Vancouver area, try Char's on the Fraser Hwy in Aldergrove. Dan cooks awesome steaks, Doug serves up some excellent drinks (Snakebite (1/2 Stella, 1/2 Strongbow)) and some great staff. Miss it more than anything else since leaving Langley. Rare steak w/ blue cheese..... mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!! And try the spinach salad. Off to drool some more now!

[mcrit]

Canyon Creek in the GTA (the potato soup is very good to), blue rare.

[Phlyer]

If you're ever in Ft. Lauderdale there is a place called Tropical Acres. It has been in the same location for 60 years and not only does it have awesome steak - the whole experience is well, an experience. Picture a restaurant that has not changed one iota since 1949 - the same decor, the same (really really old) clientele and the same old dude banging out the oldies live on a piano.
The same family has been running the place all this time and they know how to make you feel welcome. I expected Fat Tony to walk in and sure enough he did with some of his buddies.
Quite a memorable feed - make reservations though.

[flyincanuck]

I will make a reservation for next week

Queue de Cheval, downtown Montreal, despite the ironic translation (horses tail). It's a French play on words though. By far the best food and service I've experienced. But you pay for it.

Other mainstream: Outback and Keg.

Edit: forgot to mention rare.

[spin drift]

I'll agree with Queue de Cheval in front of the Bell Center on René Lévesque Boulevard.
All the meat is dry aged in their meat lockers for 30 to 45 days depending on the cut.
Service is impeccable.

Check it out warning 18+
http://www.queuedecheval.com/

Its not for your average meal lets say!
They might do a credit check on yah when you reserve LOL...

Bon Appétit!

[SkyWolfe]

I *heart* the Kobe steak house in vancouver...

I go every birthday and special occasion for the last 10 years...