Steakhouse menu mistake

[MatthewOU2015]

Hey Guys,

Tonight me and some friends went to a steakhouse. I only been to a steakhouse 3 times in my life and im not familiar with steaks. Nothing sounded appetizing expect for the "chopped steak". It said "Our signature chopped steak topped with mushrooms and your choice of sides". I thought it was a steak chopped up. I ordered it and it looked like a burger patty. My friends told me that what is was. I didn't want to bother the waitress or look worse in front of my friends, so I had to eat that nasty dry chopped steak.

Teaches me to not look up pictures or ask questions. Anyone else make any mistakes like that?

[Garneth]

Try knowing what you're ordering is before you actually order it.

[the game]

To me chopped steak is usually just salisbury steak. You really should know what you're ordering.

[Sinndra]

the only dumb thing here was not asking a question. nothing wrong with trying to educate yourself by asking either your friends, or the waitress to explain menu items.

if your friends make fun of you for that, then grow up and find new friends. they are not worth being friends with anyway.

as far as making mistakes like that.. ehh it happens to everyone, and the best way to deal with it is by not caring what others think and just ask questions when you arent sure about something.


also: trying new things is exciting to me. im very curious when it comes to new foods or drinks or what have you. i am also comfortable with myself to know, im not always going to like everything i try, and its very acceptable and understandable to say "i dont like...X, but at least i tried it."

[the game]

the only dumb thing here was not asking a question. nothing wrong with trying to educate yourself by asking either your friends, or the waitress to explain menu items.

if your friends make fun of you for that, then grow up and find new friends. they are not worth being friends with anyway.

Agreed, there was no mistake on the menu. The mistake was all the OP

[Tradewind]

I love when people try "going out" for the first time.

[talwynn]

moo http://i.imgur.com/92fxsCG.jpg

[ThePants999]

I'm confused. You thought nothing on the menu sounded good, except for what you thought was steak, chopped up? In a steakhouse? So you like steak if chopped up, but not if it's in one piece, and you're incapable of chopping it up yourself?

[deadman1]

Why would you assume that it was cut up steak? Why would they cut your food for you?


Also "nothing sounded good" why would cut up steak taste different from not cut up steak?

[dextersmith]

Eww salisbury steak = hamburger with gravy

[Polarthief]

Why would you assume that it was cut up steak? Why would they cut your food for you?


Also "nothing sounded good" why would cut up steak taste different from not cut up steak?

10/10 best answer XD

OT: OP, there are other things at a steakhouse, but the primary reason to go is for steak. If you don't like steak and your friends invite you to a steakhouse, perhaps, idk, try not going or try something different/new?

PS: Ask questions. Always ask questions. At LEAST ask your phone/google.

[Alvito]

If it was dried up you might want to learn about the wonders of not ordering meat well done.

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nvm
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[Lillyth]

If it was dried up you might want to learn about the wonders of not ordering meat well done.

A good chef knows how to cook a well done steak. They still need to be juicy.

If it is DRY then that means the chef fucked up the cooking on the steak and should not charge you for it or at least make you a new one.

[talwynn]

At your average steakhouse, you will be seeing primarily Sirloin, T-bone, Porterhouse, Strip, Filet, and Rib-eye as the primary steaks they offer. Depending on the steakhouse, sirloin is going to be the cheapest least flavorful. Next will be the strip as far as price and flavor. The T-bone and porterhouse are essentially the same cut, its a strip and a filet with a giant T shaped bone, hence the name. The porterhouse is a bigger, thicker cut T-bone, and usually has a bigger piece of the filet cut.

The two prime cuts of beef are going to the filet and the rib-eye. The filet is going to be a very lean piece of beef but it will be exceptionally tender. Filet is very good at taking on seasonings and marinades because of its lack of fat. Rib-eye is my personal favorite. Rib-eye should have a nice marbling of fat (marbling means fat spread throughout the beef). This marbling gives the rib-eye very good flavor. All beef, fat is where the flavor is. And if the rib-eye is well marbled, it will test better than anything other cut.

There are good and bad grades of beef as well, which will determine the price and usually what kind of steak house you are in. You go to a Ponderosa (if those still exist) or a Sizzler...you are going to get a steak that barely qualifies as horse meat let alone beef. Then you have your medium grade steak houses, Texas Roadhouse, Longhorns, ect. Those you are going to get a decent steak for a fair price. Usually the $15-20 range. You move up to the premium steak houses; your Shula's, Morton's, or Ruth Chris', you can look to spend between $40-70 per person easily without alcohol. Then the ultra premium steak houses, David Burke's Primehouse in Chicago (75 day dry aged rib-eye is $79, thats just the steak, no sides, no drinks, just the steak), St. Elmo's in Indianapolis, or Peter Luger's in New York. These places will dry age their steak, meaning they take the steak and let it sit for sometimes up to 2-4 months in a humidity and temperature controlled room and let nature take its course.

The lower end steak houses you may want to have the steak cooked medium, because the cook is probably going to either under or over cook the shit out of it. Texas roadhouse and those types of steak houses you can generally count on them to be on point about temp. You ask for medium, you may get medium moving slightly in either direction of the temp scale. The upper end ones though, medium rare across the board. Getting some of those steaks above medium is going to be very difficult and sometimes they simply cannot cook that steak that temp. Doesn't matter how good of a chef you are, no one can cook a 48 oz rib-eye med well or well done without turning the exterior to charcoal.

In the end, if you find yourself in this situation again, just remember, if you want to be cheap, sirloin; you want flavor, rib-eye; you want tender, filet; you want a little bit of both, porterhouse; you want the cheapest example of all three, t-bone.

[the game]

A good chef knows how to cook a well done steak. They still need to be juicy.

If it is DRY then that means the chef fucked up the cooking on the steak and should not charge you for it or at least make you a new one.

[Lillyth]

Yeah, I know that video.
The customer should have said something instead of making a photo and bothering Gordon Ramsay with this garbage. Bad plates leave the restaurant sometimes, it happens, nobody is perfect at all times. If it happens, you as the customer are entitled to open your mouth, get a new steak free of charge and at the temperature you want it.

Not saying a word about this means the customer is okay with how the steak came out and did not care to make an effort to inform the chef of the mistake.

[belfpala]

If you're unsure, ask the server. If the server doesn't seem confident in their answer, have the server ask the kitchen. Restaurant 101.

[the game]

Yeah, I know that video.
The customer should have said something instead of making a photo and bothering Gordon Ramsay with this garbage. Bad plates leave the restaurant sometimes, it happens, nobody is perfect at all times. If it happens, you as the customer are entitled to open your mouth, get a new steak free of charge and at the temperature you want it.

Not saying a word about this means the customer is okay with how the steak came out and did not care to make an effort to inform the chef of the mistake.

You're taking the entirely wrong message out of that video...

[Fencers]

There is no reason to be afraid of asking your server about items on the menu. If it bothers you to do so simply read up, educate yourself.

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A good chef knows how to cook a well done steak.

There is no such thing...