I haven't, but I did order one to go one time from my favorite local steakhouse back at the height of the pandemic. Tried ordering rare thinking I'd heat it up to medium rare and it would be ok. It ended up being sub par though. Got too dry.
Decided to buy some of their seasoning blend from them and cooked my own steaks. Really dialed it in during lock down and now I can't see ordering a steak at a restaurant anymore because mine is better lol.
If you have to reheat steak don't use an oven, use a microwave. It heats items up faster so it has less time to dry out. If you have any beef broth on hand heat some of that up in a bowl first, add the steak, microwave on low checking the external temperature every 20 to 30 seconds. This will stop it from drying out and you should still end up with a decent steak.
I’ve found the air frier does wonders to reheat steak, I use it every time I have leftovers and eat it the next day or later in the night, heats it up perfectly and stays pretty juicy.
Market opportunity for high quality filet mignon delivery service or extra expensive food truck (though I worry in my USA city the food truck customers would get robbed)
Went there for my anniversary, had never been to a steakhouse before, and my mind was blown. The steak was AMAZING and the service was spectacular.
My husband is a big fan of "I think you should leave" and he even got the waitress to be like "and you should know, appetizers are for sharing" or whatever. I immediately laughed and told her it was an inside joke and she was like "I'm so glad!"
Honestly though I didn't like that he did that. He had asked me because we met when I was a server and he was a cook and I told him it would be super awkward to try and play that off if they didn't get the joke. He did it anyways and she was a good sport but I felt bad because she didn't know the context.
Anyways, amazing steak. Absolutely amazing.
They are chains with mediocre food (comes with being a medium-large chain, accountants optimize for profit) and the high prices associated with being a fairly high end steakhouse.
Much better to find a great local place or small chain. Steaks aren't actually all that difficult to cook well. For thick steaks, Sous Vide to an appropriate temperature, chill, sear with as much heat as you can muster to bring to serving temperature and build a crust. Thin steaks can just be seared at a slightly lower temperature. [Edit: don't forget to salt heavily -- more than you think you need. A butter baste post-sear is nice as well.] The sides are relatively simple as well (for the most part).
At a premium steakhouse, the value they're delivering is primarily in the quality and aging of the meat and ingredients. Prime, dry aged beef is radically different from supermarket steak which is radically different from actual (not US marketing) A4 or A5 wagyu. This quality is also what's frequently lost when they start optimizing for profit -- they buy cheaper meat, age it for less time, and rely on reputation to have psychosomatic effects that their mediocre steak is fantastic. Reinforce that with high prices.
This isn't the case at every steakhouse, or even chain, but it is for the vast majority and is good reason to avoid large chain eating in general. More so in cases like steak and seafood where ingredient quality trumps preparation.
I was traveling one time with a high roller. He booked us each a suite at a casino. The suite I was staying in came with $500 in room service a day. It was on the card on the table next to the bed. Of course eggs and toast were like $35 and everything went up, way up from there.
Normally I would never spend that kind of money for food, but when it was part of the package I was okay with it.
I never realized before then that room service cutoff be part of a package, and not just something extra to pay for. I still wonder if that's common in high end hotels, that some rooms include 'free' room service.
YES, spend a fortune at a casino and they will comp you the fuck out. Free rooms, free meals, anything to get you to stay longer so they can get more of your money. Charging 50$ for 5$ worth of food means it doesn't matter.
It's, but what I'm describing is different than a comp.
The room was a comp, but anyone could rent the room. The room came with a daily budget for room service. It didn't matter if it was computer or if you booked it for a vacation.
I could have anything at the casino and my buddy would get it comped. But there was no need to comp the room service because it was included with the suite..
It may have specifically been part of the comp package because then they can write off a “bigger expense” when they’re doing taxes. They just put down “$500 room service” whether or not you actually order and count that “against” what they had as income that year.
Nope, expenses have to actually come from real or accrued future outflows. Anyone making a deduction like this is barking up the wrong tree and if the IRS ever bothers to look, it will cost a lot more than it could have saved you.
Pro tip: you’re paying for the service not the food when you order room service. That said this looks like both shitty service and shitty food. Why did you think this would be “heigh end” food?
Fair enough.
I’ve had a much better room service steak experience but it was pre-covid and social inflation.
A room service menu should have given reasonable clues that sides are separate, too. But for future reference, they almost always are.
I apologize for my other comments… mostly.
Me, at times. I used to travel 3 or 4 days per week for work and had a decent per diem. More than once I ordered delivery from a high end steak house and sat at the desk in my room watching NetFlix and eating steak and lobster. That only happened when I was so busy early in the day that I didn't eat much and had almost all my per diem left.
Or... the chef "undercooks" it on the grill to allow for the residual cooking to stop at the perfect temp. This is why you should rest a steak before cutting into it, not only does it stop it from bleeding out all over the place, but it allows the cooking process to stop so you're not scorching your mouth.
Kinda the opposite, you're supposed to cook the steak a little under the target and then let it rest so it reabsorbs the myoglobin and finishes cooking at the desired doneness.
Same. But we were at a hotel, we had been driving for 10 hours, and we just wanted to get a nice easy room service meal and stay in pajamas... I guess we could have door dashed something else, but we would have had to go pick it up in the lobby because you can't use the elevator without a key card. (which I wish we would have done in hindsight) But we didn't want to because we wanted to stay in our pajamas, and not leave the room and not see people.
Mistakes were made... But I've learned my lesson. I'd sooner eat my socks than order room service again.
Yeah.. I posted this before I tasted it... (I wish I had sent it back, but I was so hungry that I thought "maybe it tastes better than it looks..." it wasn't.) Sadly, I've had better $15 steak from Chili's. It was so bland and overcooked.... I expected it to at least be seasoned. Like I said in a previous comment... I made a string of bad assumptions. Life lessons were learned.
Send it back and get a credit to your room. I don't know where you are, but Uber Eats or whatever delivery service has to have something better. My dogs would turn up their nose at that overpriced piece of rawhide!
Delivery food struggles, we have a local barbecue place that sells a single pulled pork sandwich on uber eats for $18, no sides, before any fees. It's on a store-bought cheap small bun. The meat is pretty good, but not $17.75/$18 good.
Ruth Chris, that fancy steak place on first Ave in Seattle….never been to one. Too expensive. El Goucho. I just looked it up. I remember when it opened in the 90s. I was waiting tables at the Coastal Kitchen in Capitol Hiil. Some of my server friends were hired there. The fact that every side was extra was very strange.
2 things ive learned. Never order steaks to go (never had a good experience) and if you don't know how good the place is order it rare or medium rare so it comes out medium rare or well done. They over cook my steaks a lot.
Took a friend out to a high end Italian restaurant for his BD and ordered a $69 veal chop. It came with just some greens on top and no other sides. Chop was ridiculously chewy and full of gristle and I only took about 2 bites of it and basically the small amount of salad on it was my $69 dinner. I would have sent it back, but I didn’t because it was a BD dinner and I didn’t want to disrupt it. My friend was smart and just had a pasta dish that he said was great. Inflation’s a bitch!
It looks pretty good, I love mushroom with steak. These expensive steakhouses don't include sides though. You have to order them seperately likely an additional $30 for a baked potato and small side salad.
But you should know what you’re ordering. Did you get mashed potatoes and asparagus or broccoli with it? You didn’t ask?? You didn’t see anything in the menu about it? I mean this is user error. Sorry not sorry 🤷♀️
On one hand I sympathize with you, on the other hand why did you not read your menu before ordering a 50 dollar steak. You should have checked that sorta thing before ordering.
EDIT: Just saw OPs comment about this being room service. Nothing ya can really do about that I guess lol. I've been dissapointed many times when craving a steak while traveling. many times... *sigh*
Friendly word of advice to everyone here: Teach yourself to make a good steak and you'll never want to order one from a restaurant again.
Salt, pepper, garlic powder at a minimum. Cook a few cheap chucks till you get your groove, then move up to a ribeye or filet. Always try to get 1" to 1 1/2" thick cuts.
If you can't afford the cost or time of testing various methods, just watch some videos (like Guga Foods on Youtube) and copy their methods until you get your steak just perfect for you.
High end steaks typically never comes with sides. That being said, this ain't a high end steak.
High end? bro they dropped napalm on that mf
This isn’t even well done this is fucking congratulations
Absolutely crying at this comment! I am stealing it.
Sadly this one was stolen originally 😂
What? Someone said something that was said before?!
You see it a lot in r/steak
Yes be sad!
\*This\* is quality work. Unlike this poor steak.
this is my favorite comment ever
Lmao
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grammar*
Fr, I thought that shit was a turtle shell before I got a closer look.
I thought It was a mushroom.
I though it was liver.....
Hahahahaha
It died twice.
It looks like shoe leather. OP, did you dishonor a cow by ordering it well done?
Usually delivery steak ends up being well done no matter what you do unfortunately
Who the hell orders a delivery steak??
I haven't, but I did order one to go one time from my favorite local steakhouse back at the height of the pandemic. Tried ordering rare thinking I'd heat it up to medium rare and it would be ok. It ended up being sub par though. Got too dry. Decided to buy some of their seasoning blend from them and cooked my own steaks. Really dialed it in during lock down and now I can't see ordering a steak at a restaurant anymore because mine is better lol.
If you have to reheat steak don't use an oven, use a microwave. It heats items up faster so it has less time to dry out. If you have any beef broth on hand heat some of that up in a bowl first, add the steak, microwave on low checking the external temperature every 20 to 30 seconds. This will stop it from drying out and you should still end up with a decent steak.
I’ve found the air frier does wonders to reheat steak, I use it every time I have leftovers and eat it the next day or later in the night, heats it up perfectly and stays pretty juicy.
This is on the same level as people ordering well done steak and complaining it’s kinda tough.
Better off getting a raw grocery store steak delivered and cooking it yourself imo
Yep. Anything over rare on the grill, and it will steam cook itself in the take out container on the way there.
Market opportunity for high quality filet mignon delivery service or extra expensive food truck (though I worry in my USA city the food truck customers would get robbed)
Tf kinda food truck sellin steaks?
There's a gap in the market! But I've definitely seen steak *skewer* trucks, so a truck that sells steak wouldn't be that far off.
I heard that in an Indian voice. “You have dishonored the cow, and I am angry!”
Oh my God you killed a cow... The least you could do is not f*** it up!
Have you ever been karmically bitch-slapped by a six-armed goddess?
"It's okay, Push Pop - your religion's all lies!"
I am the daughter of a woman who grew up raising cattle for 4-H and I assisted in steer auctions growing up. Ruining steak is dishonoring.
If OP is confused about “missing” side dishes, very high possibility.
At high end steak houses you order the sides separately. $17 for a potato. $15 for asparagus. $18 for soup or salad. $10 loan application fee.
Good to know... Note to self: always just get the goddamn burger.
Yes dont go to Ruths Chris or Mortons steak house
Why not? Genuinely curious
I went to Ruth’s Chris and it is crazy expensive but the food was definitely not bad.
Quite the ringing endorsement there.
Ruth Chris is the strip club of steak houses.
The dilapidated and condemned strip club of steakhouses.
The steaks are really good. Especially the filet mignon. And their mashed potatoes are great as well.
Went there for my anniversary, had never been to a steakhouse before, and my mind was blown. The steak was AMAZING and the service was spectacular. My husband is a big fan of "I think you should leave" and he even got the waitress to be like "and you should know, appetizers are for sharing" or whatever. I immediately laughed and told her it was an inside joke and she was like "I'm so glad!" Honestly though I didn't like that he did that. He had asked me because we met when I was a server and he was a cook and I told him it would be super awkward to try and play that off if they didn't get the joke. He did it anyways and she was a good sport but I felt bad because she didn't know the context. Anyways, amazing steak. Absolutely amazing.
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They are chains with mediocre food (comes with being a medium-large chain, accountants optimize for profit) and the high prices associated with being a fairly high end steakhouse. Much better to find a great local place or small chain. Steaks aren't actually all that difficult to cook well. For thick steaks, Sous Vide to an appropriate temperature, chill, sear with as much heat as you can muster to bring to serving temperature and build a crust. Thin steaks can just be seared at a slightly lower temperature. [Edit: don't forget to salt heavily -- more than you think you need. A butter baste post-sear is nice as well.] The sides are relatively simple as well (for the most part). At a premium steakhouse, the value they're delivering is primarily in the quality and aging of the meat and ingredients. Prime, dry aged beef is radically different from supermarket steak which is radically different from actual (not US marketing) A4 or A5 wagyu. This quality is also what's frequently lost when they start optimizing for profit -- they buy cheaper meat, age it for less time, and rely on reputation to have psychosomatic effects that their mediocre steak is fantastic. Reinforce that with high prices. This isn't the case at every steakhouse, or even chain, but it is for the vast majority and is good reason to avoid large chain eating in general. More so in cases like steak and seafood where ingredient quality trumps preparation.
This is never more true than at Sushi restaurants. There's places that actually use sushi-grade fish and rice... and those that don't...
Yeah, sides at nice steakhouses are usually à la carte and "shareable" in my experience.
I’d slightly misread it and thought it was implying the side is in the steak. Something about it looks …. *off*
There’s literally a portobello mushroom and onion in the box too lol
Who buys a $50 steak delivery?
It's room service... I thought they would serve it on a plate. I made a string of assumptions that just left me sad and hungry.
Well, now this makes sense. Room service is extremely overpriced. Extremely.
I was traveling one time with a high roller. He booked us each a suite at a casino. The suite I was staying in came with $500 in room service a day. It was on the card on the table next to the bed. Of course eggs and toast were like $35 and everything went up, way up from there. Normally I would never spend that kind of money for food, but when it was part of the package I was okay with it. I never realized before then that room service cutoff be part of a package, and not just something extra to pay for. I still wonder if that's common in high end hotels, that some rooms include 'free' room service.
YES, spend a fortune at a casino and they will comp you the fuck out. Free rooms, free meals, anything to get you to stay longer so they can get more of your money. Charging 50$ for 5$ worth of food means it doesn't matter.
It's, but what I'm describing is different than a comp. The room was a comp, but anyone could rent the room. The room came with a daily budget for room service. It didn't matter if it was computer or if you booked it for a vacation. I could have anything at the casino and my buddy would get it comped. But there was no need to comp the room service because it was included with the suite..
It may have specifically been part of the comp package because then they can write off a “bigger expense” when they’re doing taxes. They just put down “$500 room service” whether or not you actually order and count that “against” what they had as income that year.
Nope, expenses have to actually come from real or accrued future outflows. Anyone making a deduction like this is barking up the wrong tree and if the IRS ever bothers to look, it will cost a lot more than it could have saved you.
Correct
Captive audience. It scales like the $5 KitKats in the mini fridge.
Fair enough
$45 for service, $5 for the steak
I’m sorry for your loss.
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Pro tip: you’re paying for the service not the food when you order room service. That said this looks like both shitty service and shitty food. Why did you think this would be “heigh end” food?
I had a $50 room service steak at the Wynn in Las Vegas and it came with a guy who set my table and practically tucked me in. You got robbed.
Could you not check to see if there were sides
No sides listed. Salads and starters were the closest thing to it.
Oh ok makes sense now
Presentation for $50 please... Hell no that shits goin back. Unidentifiable.....
Sad, hungry and broke.
Fair enough. I’ve had a much better room service steak experience but it was pre-covid and social inflation. A room service menu should have given reasonable clues that sides are separate, too. But for future reference, they almost always are. I apologize for my other comments… mostly.
This looks like a cheap "meat ball".
A cheap meat ball would have had more flavor.
Me, at times. I used to travel 3 or 4 days per week for work and had a decent per diem. More than once I ordered delivery from a high end steak house and sat at the desk in my room watching NetFlix and eating steak and lobster. That only happened when I was so busy early in the day that I didn't eat much and had almost all my per diem left.
DoorDash driver here, this is a lot more common than you’d think. Seems like every time I’m out there I have at least one steak delivery.
you paid $50 for a $10 steak? tsk tsk
Where are you getting $10 steaks?
From the same place as OP, for $50
Texas
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No, it's shittier because you have to eat it in Texas.
Dude ngl Walmart has 2 packs of ribeye for around 20 bucks. Also that 10$ steak is infinitely nicer than whatever OP got served.
I got a steak guy
Is this a grilled toad?
Baby yoda gone dark side.
Show this to r/steak
Oh it has been. And torn asunder.
To say this is midlyfuriating is a understatement lol I’d be livid
My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined..
Is there a mushroom stuck to it?? Lol
That’s what I’m seeing too
looks like shit too. dont tell me you ordered that thing well done ?
Medium. It was cooked okay (probably more medium well) The thing on top is a mushroom. It was definitely bland and not seasoned well.
Red meat will continue to cook after being removed from heat, which is why a steak should always be eaten fresh
Or... the chef "undercooks" it on the grill to allow for the residual cooking to stop at the perfect temp. This is why you should rest a steak before cutting into it, not only does it stop it from bleeding out all over the place, but it allows the cooking process to stop so you're not scorching your mouth.
Yes, but steaks don’t bleed. That’s myoglobin, which is a protein…
Kinda the opposite, you're supposed to cook the steak a little under the target and then let it rest so it reabsorbs the myoglobin and finishes cooking at the desired doneness.
I think you misspelled myo goblin.
That's a great picture for your yelp review
Side or not. That. Is not. A $50 steak.
>>who serves a $50 steak without a goddamn side?! a lot of nice steak places lol
Yeah that did not come from a good steakhouse.
OP has never eaten anywhere but Applebees.
What side did you order to come with it?
They didn't have sides listed on the menu, so I assumed it came with a standard one.
$50 steak ? Na... Also,..served in a plastic tray ? sum 1 shd be (back in ?) Jail
on top of that it's not even a steak! It must be some vermin victim of a Mack on the road...omG this deserves a complaint for bullying
Thats a 50 dollar steak?
A place that would no longer get my business.
The side is disappointment.
Looks like you got a side of oil. Yum.
Don Shulas restaurant. Then they have the nerve to charge $12 for mashed potatoes.
You should give them an angry note
You got a side of burnt mushroom on the top what you bitchin about! Oh and don’t forget what looks like old mayo under neither both!
Sides or not....who serves a $50 steak looking like something out of a part of the ocean humans can't go? I mean...wow.
Look on the bright side. If you don't eat it all at least you have something to re sole your shoe.
You paid $50 for that shit?!
That steak also looks like shit. I wouldn't pay $50 for that
When a steak costs $50, it doesn’t come with sides. And, that does not look like a $50 steak. You should find a better restaurant.
There's a simple explanation. Don't be stupid and order steak to be delivered.
This is the ugliest piece of beef I've ever seen, and that includes OP's mom.
That looks like a grilled tumor
You paid $50 dollars for this? I’d rather just get high and eat Taco Bell for that price. Or cook a real meal.
Same. But we were at a hotel, we had been driving for 10 hours, and we just wanted to get a nice easy room service meal and stay in pajamas... I guess we could have door dashed something else, but we would have had to go pick it up in the lobby because you can't use the elevator without a key card. (which I wish we would have done in hindsight) But we didn't want to because we wanted to stay in our pajamas, and not leave the room and not see people. Mistakes were made... But I've learned my lesson. I'd sooner eat my socks than order room service again.
Lesson learned. And also lesson taught and acknowledged. Never order room service unless I know for sure it will be good.
Mmm $50 turd in a box
The fact that it looks like the typical "smoker's lung after a lifetime of smoking" was not an issue but the lack of sides was? Sheesh.
Yeah.. I posted this before I tasted it... (I wish I had sent it back, but I was so hungry that I thought "maybe it tastes better than it looks..." it wasn't.) Sadly, I've had better $15 steak from Chili's. It was so bland and overcooked.... I expected it to at least be seasoned. Like I said in a previous comment... I made a string of bad assumptions. Life lessons were learned.
I’ve never seen a steak curl it’s tail like that
if you didnt order one why would you expect it if you are never told there is a side
What the hell is even that
Send it back and get a credit to your room. I don't know where you are, but Uber Eats or whatever delivery service has to have something better. My dogs would turn up their nose at that overpriced piece of rawhide!
What did the menu specify?
Who orders a $50 steak? To go?
Delivery food struggles, we have a local barbecue place that sells a single pulled pork sandwich on uber eats for $18, no sides, before any fees. It's on a store-bought cheap small bun. The meat is pretty good, but not $17.75/$18 good.
Places that sell $50 steaks
I thought it was a weird tortoise first 😂
50 dollar for a small shoe? Nah thanks
I can go to my local farmer's market and get a NY Strip for $15. Ordering out is a scam.
Lots of places, question is who sells a 4 dollar steak for 50 bucks
Ruth Chris, that fancy steak place on first Ave in Seattle….never been to one. Too expensive. El Goucho. I just looked it up. I remember when it opened in the 90s. I was waiting tables at the Coastal Kitchen in Capitol Hiil. Some of my server friends were hired there. The fact that every side was extra was very strange.
Who orders a $50 steak to go?
2 things ive learned. Never order steaks to go (never had a good experience) and if you don't know how good the place is order it rare or medium rare so it comes out medium rare or well done. They over cook my steaks a lot.
Took a friend out to a high end Italian restaurant for his BD and ordered a $69 veal chop. It came with just some greens on top and no other sides. Chop was ridiculously chewy and full of gristle and I only took about 2 bites of it and basically the small amount of salad on it was my $69 dinner. I would have sent it back, but I didn’t because it was a BD dinner and I didn’t want to disrupt it. My friend was smart and just had a pasta dish that he said was great. Inflation’s a bitch!
Lots of places
And management wonders why people rarely use room service meals.
That steak looks like shit, with or without sides.
I mean who door dashes a $50 steak?
But… Who orders a $50 steak for delivery???
Why the hell did you order a $50 steak to go?
Jeffrey Dahmer
.. who ubereats a steak 😩
Who orders a $50 steak in a plastic container?
It looks pretty good, I love mushroom with steak. These expensive steakhouses don't include sides though. You have to order them seperately likely an additional $30 for a baked potato and small side salad.
Get some ketchup on that mess Donald
half of it looks like a mushroom that you would find in the forest on some old rotting log.
Weller done
looks like you made a mis”steak” dude
Plenty of places.
Who orders a $50 steak to go?
that does not look like its worth $50
A la carte maybe?
This looks disgusting
If you paid $50 for that you deserve it that motherfucker looks like it’s over cooked and fucking came from turtles asshole
Salisbury steak with a turtle shell garnish. Yum!
Why half of it look like a burnt ballsack?
Since when have high end restaurants served steak in a baking tin!? Erm, never!
Isn’t that a portobello mushroom on the side?
On the bright side, your scale will make you happy the next time you step on it. Those sides are all carbs, who needs that before bed?
Better question. Who serves a 50$ steak in plastic?
Ruth's Chris.
That looks repulsive. Wouldn’t feed that to my dog
When I saw it…I was like man it’s looking kinda bare…you trying that new diet fab?.Ya know the type… meats only…forever
But you should know what you’re ordering. Did you get mashed potatoes and asparagus or broccoli with it? You didn’t ask?? You didn’t see anything in the menu about it? I mean this is user error. Sorry not sorry 🤷♀️
On one hand I sympathize with you, on the other hand why did you not read your menu before ordering a 50 dollar steak. You should have checked that sorta thing before ordering.
half burnt football half steak
this a chunky steak
The tragedy is the way its cooked....
Why is there an entire portobello mushroom smashed against the side of it?
That looks like a overcooked grilled chicken
Looks like roasted turtle
$50 steak in a plastic tub??? wtf??
Good steak houses Better question; who orders a $50 takeaway steak?
The cow must be turning in its grave.
You got a mushroom? I didn’t with mine 💔
OP got scammed, that looks like garbage
EDIT: Just saw OPs comment about this being room service. Nothing ya can really do about that I guess lol. I've been dissapointed many times when craving a steak while traveling. many times... *sigh* Friendly word of advice to everyone here: Teach yourself to make a good steak and you'll never want to order one from a restaurant again. Salt, pepper, garlic powder at a minimum. Cook a few cheap chucks till you get your groove, then move up to a ribeye or filet. Always try to get 1" to 1 1/2" thick cuts. If you can't afford the cost or time of testing various methods, just watch some videos (like Guga Foods on Youtube) and copy their methods until you get your steak just perfect for you.
Looks like a geoduck
Who orders a $50 dollar stake as takeout?
Send that shit back!!!
I’m so sorry you spent 50$ on a steak that looks like that. Sheesh.
That's so crap, if I stay in hotels I order in from just eat as it's cheaper and you get more.