The New And Improved Fashion Board

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
*aside: who even looks at prices of salads in the context of a dinner at a fancy steakhouse? are there people who honestly get th house salad because the extra $3 for a tomato salad would break the bank? I get the salad that sounds the best to me. Often it is the tomato salad (don't even get me started if it is caprese with fresh buffalo mozzerella (hi Coltrane!)).

Don't go off on a tangent and act like it is the main aspect of the discussion -- and yes, I see it's a footnote. The point I was making was that they essentially cut a tomato and an onion three times and act like they've done something. The "acting like they've done something" includes the ridiculous price for the slicing.

No one is arguing that people who go to a steakhouse are comparing the prices on everything and trying to see which appetizer gives them the best value. As an overall point, I don't know why one would pass up the other appetizers in favor of a tomato. Maybe one is in the mood for a tomato. I don't know. But these idiots who sit around and spout off about how amazing the thick cut tomato and onion salad are look like jackasses to me.

And I've tasted these salads. They are not amazing or at least they were not amazing when I tried them. They were tomatoes and onions and tasted like tomatoes and onions.

TM

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The last several times we've had the urge to go to a steakhouse, we instead have bought the best steaks we can find and a bottle of good wine. Ever since Atticus set us up with the right grill, this works pretty well for a nicer price. If I'm going to eat out, I'd rather get something I can't make as well at home (e.g., seafood, or dim sum).

Omaha Steaks are pretty damn tasty. filet.

I think it is known that everyone goes to those places for the steaks. So, yes if you're going off about how great the salad is, you are lame.

OK, Ceej, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, alternatives, please? Whole Food filets were fine.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Omaha Steaks are pretty damn tasty. filet.

They're terrible. Wet, flavorless, and overpriced. At least the tomato and onion salad tastes like tomato and onion. Omaha steaks taste like Omaha, but not steak.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Twelve bucks for a tomato and an onion makes no sense.

TM

I assumed it relates to the logistical challenges of getting a good, fresh tomato and onion both into, and served in, Manhattan. Much like the reasoning behind a Red Delicious apple costing $7.50 in Oahu.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I keep envisioning men in business suits, a little tipsy, playing the statue game -- the one where the Statue Maker picks up the other players ("posers!!!") one by one, spins them around, and flings them across the room only to land and strike a pose to become a statue. I would LOVE to see this next time I am at a steak house.

That's an awesome idea. Activity for the next FB outing?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Much like the reasoning behind a Red Delicious apple costing $7.50 in Oahu.

I take that to be a sucker play for the Japanese tourists, who probably gorge themselves on apples at that low, low price.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Never said it was a vegetable. I don't care if it's a vegetable or mineral or fruit, it's still yummy.

Sorry, not an insult. It's a Sebby-ism:

http://www.lawtalkers.com/forums/sho...564#post167564

(NBPOTD!!*)



*Not Bob POTD

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The last several times we've had the urge to go to a steakhouse, we instead have bought the best steaks we can find and a bottle of good wine. Ever since Atticus set us up with the right grill, this works pretty well for a nicer price. If I'm going to eat out, I'd rather get something I can't make as well at home (e.g., seafood, or dim sum).

I am with you 100% on this. If I had outdoor space and a grill, I'd never go to a steakhouse, unless someone else was payin'.

TM

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Omaha Steaks are pretty damn tasty. filet.

I think it is known that everyone goes to those places for the steaks. So, yes if you're going off about how great the salad is, you are lame.

OK, Ceej, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, alternatives, please? Whole Food filets were fine.

I do not go to steakhouses for steaks, because I don't eat steaks. But I sometimes go to steakhouses.

In my opinion, steakhouses frequently have really good oysters. Down here, most steakhouses get really good stone crabs.

I like the tomato salads and the wedge of iceberg lettuce salads. I do not behave as if they are anything other than salads.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I am with you 100% on this. If I had outdoor space and a grill, I'd never go to a steakhouse, unless someone else was payin'.

TM

Hey, TM. My brother gave me a Keurig coffeemaker for Hanukkah. It makes a cup of coffee so good it makes me gleeful. I think even you'd drink coffee if you had one of these thingies.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Hey, TM. My brother gave me a Keurig coffeemaker for Hanukkah. It makes a cup of coffee so good it makes me gleeful. I think even you'd drink coffee if you had one of these thingies.

Our office has the industrial/corporate version of that, with individual K-Cups. 'Tis not bad.at.all.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Gattigap
I assumed it relates to the logistical challenges of getting a good, fresh tomato and onion both into, and served in, Manhattan. Much like the reasoning behind a Red Delicious apple costing $7.50 in Oahu.

This is what I originally thought as well. A truly fresh tomato that hasn't had the flavor genetically bred out of it so that it is bigger and looks nicer in the supermaket is rarely overrated. However, when I tried someone's salad at Luger's, I was surprised to find that the tomato they used was really no big deal, even with the delicate mix of fresh pepper and oil and vinegar. I think it's a scam the restaurants are pulling on idiots with too much money and they laugh every time they prepare an order in the back.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I didn't ask you out to Peter Lugers. You're there on your own
TM

think about it. I could help you get a cab.

do you order a side of beans or spinich or brocolli? isn't that $12 for 50 cents woth of vegetable and a garlic clove?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I am with you 100% on this. If I had outdoor space and a grill, I'd never go to a steakhouse, unless someone else was payin'.

TM

I very rarely make it to steak houses for the same reason as stated by Ty. The only exception is that I've been hanging out at a a new Churrascaria that recently opened near me. I think that's a different sort of experience, though, but a pretty damned tasty one.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Check with Sebby -- he'll take you there.

I can't follow this. Where am I taking ppnyc?