Dinner?

[Pat Vegas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Maybe some mushroom / garlic interface thing on top of the steak?

[Classic Jorge]

This is most confusing when people say things like "I'll get him to call you after he's had his dinner" and it's only 12:45.

Oh, and I'm going to have a King Kebab from Bobby'z in Idle.

[Rich]

medium rare :-( It's a complete and utter travesty. Some places seem reluctant to accept my order of a blue steak.

[Classic Jorge]

You can just ask for it raw with a side of organic e-coli and some hand-reared botulism.

[Snin]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I suppose it can be used for texture but it generally tastes of less then f**k all.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I would only generally order steak ina restaurant in a specialist environment - Goodmans or Hawksmoor, for example, where I am confident that they know their meat and how to cook it.

Some ghastly spotty oik flipping supermarket-grade slabs of underhung flesh in the sort of provincial places you might eat is hardly going to know how to cook a steak, is he? For a start his griddle will be nowehere near hot enough to caramelise the exterior instantly.

You're just going to have to move to civilisation.

[Snin]

fresh picked tender purple stemmed broccoli mmmmmm

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Cabbage is tricky to cook properly and kale gives me gas. Also those French beans make squeakiness on your teeth.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I repeat, it generally tastes of less then f**k all.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Minging.

[Rich]

one of the offending places. Lovely red, mind you.

[Snin]

love the taste mate farkin love it

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Peasant culture, you see?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Willing to guess it is minging all the same.

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

and I've had some absolute disasters.

It's the specialists for me.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Now that was a huge mistake.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

So much f**king chewing involved mind you.

Then one of my mates kind of passed out on his way back from the ****ter.

[Classic Jorge]

When I worked in the Dam I ate there every night before retiring to my hotel overlooking Vondelpark

[Monty91]

Hawksmoor and Goodmans have made it utterly pointless ordering steak anywhere else, certainly in London anyway.

I met the executive chef of STK the other day and asked him discreetly if their steaks are up there with the aforementioned's. He gave me a look that told me everything.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Fiorentina as good as anything you'll find in London.

In the USA they like to give you grain-fed nonsense. Silly yanks.

[arse-nick (avid-analogue-addict)]

Unfortunately, a steak cooked thus is not going to be appreciated at it's best.