I didn't know that New York is cheap meat. Must be why they were on sale at QFC yesterday. And I bought seven.

Just stick to Hooter's and Deja Vu. Buy her a lap dance for dessert.

Y

Mf

Thanks for all the shared info KK, I'm making a list. Redmond isn't too far away and while there aren't a lot of special occasions lately, some nights just deserve one hell of a bottle of wine.

Memo to B-Run: Many years ago, I took ex-wife #2 to a nice restaurant and our waiter was............a little limp. While uncorking the champagne, he hit his head with the cork and squealed like a little girl and sat down next to my wife and fanned his face with her napkin..............true story, every bit. My wife laughed, he regained himself and was actually a good waiter. I left him a good tip.

Having a nice glass of cab sav as I type this.........

Snake

Well I am back, the Damage was $130 for the two of us. I had the Filet with a Crab stufffed lobster tail. My girlfriend had the filet with shrimp. We also got a side of mashed potatos and a side of french fries. The Filet and crab stuffed lobster tails was only 40 bucks I was suprised.

I have never been to a high end steakhouse and my filet was the best steak I haver ever had, tender with great flavor. However, I would expect nothing less. I didnt expect my grilled 10 dollar rib eyes to stack up to a Ruth Chris Filet. Service was good and the food came out pretty quickly.

Now you know what it's like to be a Husky.

By the way my bro in law ran the Met for about 15 years. Haven't been in a while but my fav was the New York peppercorn. One of my favorite lessor known restaurants is the Cafe De Paris in downtown Edmonds. Family owned. Try it sometime. Better prices and fantastic food. I usually have the rack of lamb with bernais and my wife has the peppercorn filet. Great french onion soup.

Aunty,

I know top round. I was an impoverished student and only bought round when it was ground. NY ain't like any round, top or otherwise. I buy ribs, T-bone, and NY because they are marbled and tender. Well the rib isn't as tender, but the flavor can't be beat, at least in the price range I live in. Porterhouse is good too, but I don't often see them at the store.

KK,

I like a $30 bottle of wine some times, and always expect to get laid for the effort. For a while my motto was life is too short to drink cheap wine. But the more I look around I'm finding wine at lower and lower price points that are completely drinkable to me, and I still get laid. Wine is nectar of the gods.

Sg

Yeah, Salmo.......but can you talk about earthy oak overtones if the bottle doesn't cost you an arm and a leg?



I watched a show on Food Network about wine........they had 20 wine "experts" and 20 Joe Blow's do a blind taste test of wines ranging in price from 6 bucks to 300 bucks. Among both groups, nobody was able to identify the most expensive wines. The wine experts were better able to identify the least expensive wines, and overall the top-ranking wines cost about 12-20 bucks a bottle.

Earthy overtones.

People generally drink 200 dollar bottles of wine so that they can say they drank 200 dollar a bottle wine..........not because it tastes any better than a wine a quarter that cost. Find a good bottle for 15 bones, and you really have it going on.

But it ain't easy being in the cool goup, and it ain't cheap either.

I would like to thank all those who contributed to this thread. This thread inspired me to go to the butcher and pick up 4 nice porter house steaks which were grilled to perfection last night and served with some large baked russet potatoes( with all the fixin's) a nice salad of mixed field greens, chevre goat cheese, toasted pecans, and a balsamic vinegarette, a diet coke, and some home made strawberry short cake. Needless to say I wont be having breakfast, but damn it was a great dinner. Thanks for the inspiration.-TBJ

I've heard 2008 was a great year for Diet Coke...

Kobe Ribeye Cap steak!.......Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...

You will kill for it.......You can cook it with a small propane torch and it will still make you kill for it......

This year I will get the Kobe Poterhouse and try it....

The Kobe NY Striploin is on the list to.....

They should offer financing...

KK, Dan,

I attended a mixed red wine tasting last winter. No really expensive bottles were in the mix, but a nice range of cabs, merlots, and zins. Popular acclaim picked the Columbia Cellars cab-merlot blend which can be had at Fred Meyers for $5.99. Since I had contributed what I thought was a nice $20 merlot, I concluded I was only fooling myself. I've devoted my time to sampling anything I can find for less than $10, and am finding that bad wine is uncommon. Excellent wine for cheap is also uncommon, but pretty drinkable stuff can be had for cheap routinely. Got two cases of Crane Creek chard at 3.99 minus the 10% case discount for everyday and feel satisfied.

Sg

My mistake is I never remember WTF I drank. So if I dummy into something I really like, I can't recall what it was so I know what to grab next time. All the vintner, year, type jargon just does not register with my gray matter, so I rely on guys like KK who know all that sh!t to line me up with some good wine.

I think maybe 1 person in 1000 can really taste the things they talk about tasting, so I don't bother myself with all the overtones, accents, and crap like that. I try it, if it tastes good, I drink more of it. I've never noticed much or a correlation between taste and price, so I leave the high-priced stuff on the shelf.

It's gotten me by so far.

Carlo Rossi Blush, from Bi-Mart....tasty

Mf

Everyone's wine taste buds are different as are their fishing gear choices. I'm sure there are some of you that will drink $2Buck Chuck wine and drive an expensive truck/boat rig and use nothing but top of the line rods/reels. I've got an '89 Lund and a 1990 F-150 with matching dents, but I won't drink cheap, shi%%y wine.

KK,

Yes, white wine. I nearly always have white with chicken or pork - unless it's BBQ ribs, in which case beer is better IMO. Red with hearty foods isn't a bad rule of thumb, but a light bodied red like Pinot Noir goes well with BBQ salmon or even baked halibut. Zin= steak, roast beef, etc.

Columbia is a good value, both the chard and cab and merlot; at leasat for me.

Snake,

I tried 2 buck Chuck, which was $3 at Trader Joe's a few years ago. It's flat out bad wine. Amazingly, to me is Tisdale at $3 and Crane Creek at $3.99 at Fred Meyer - cheap and good enough for everyday wine. And I drink wine pretty much every day, so dropping $10 or more for wine on a daily basis makes me feel weird when I go grocery shopping and wine accounts for 70% of my bill. I agree about not drinking crappy wine, but some of the values I've been finding are well above that catagory. I agree that $20 wine usually tastes better than $10 wine, but it sure doesn't taste twice as good. My take is that you have to spend larger and larger increments of money for smaller and smaller increments of improved wine flavor, earthy oak overtones notwithstanding.

Sg