Comments on: Not Plate

By: NotaChef

NotaChef — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:51:17 +0000

Anthony Bourdain says steaks are an easy way for restaurants to increase their profit margin. I try hard not to order steaks at restaurants because the butcher's meat is great on the grill. But goddamn I love getting served some steak.

By: Tim Carman

Tim Carman — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:16:06 +0000

Jamie;

This is a terminology issue: Cap Grille calls its NY strip a sirloin, which is not that unusual. The cut was definitely not rump meat, which would rarely, if ever, be mushy.

As to your first point, I would have been happy to rave about my steak at Cap Grille, had it been better, regardless of how comfortable I was eating among people who could hire people to squash me like a bug.

Thanks for the challenge. Seriously.

-Tim

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:20:32 +0000

It sounds like you were ready to dislike this place the moment you walked in, apparently because the patrons largely keep their locks kempt and drink Manhattans. I couldn't say whether the steak is better than you make it out to be, having never been. But I can't help but wonder: If your ken is for a New York strip, then why on earth did you order a sirloin?

By: Carrie the Red

Carrie the Red — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:06:58 +0000

I think they gave you the Dirty Fucking Hippie cut of meat, which was actually dry-aged camel hump.

(BTW, many of those Important Men in Suits enjoy the company of women, too. They just prefer the women in question to be greased, bound, and gagged while they're enjoying it.)