"An unbeatable lobster tail and steak combo that offers serious bang for the buck."
A mighty celebration is underway, this morning, amongst well-to-do Australians both abroad and in their native down under. Chilled Paul Laurent Brut bottles being rushed from the basements and popped. Pink salmon caviars brought out on pewter trays. Top hats doffed as they pass each other in the street, monocles briefly removed to share happy winks.
The reason for such mirth, is the release of the revered foodie blog “Eat This, Not That’s” highly-anticipated “5 Chain Restaurants With the Best Surf and Turf Combos Under $25” list. As everyone knows, the rich don’t stay rich by throwing money around willy-nilly, and, this year, Cracker Barrel’s Sirloin & Shrimp (5), Cheddar’s 6oz Sirloin & Shrimp (4), LongHorn’s 6oz Sirloin & Shrimp (3) and Texas Roadhouse’s Sirloin & Shrimp (2) were all bested by Australia’s pride and joy Outback Steakhouse’s Tuesday Tails & Sirloin.
“Outback’s Tuesday Tails & Sirloin, ETNT critic Leah Groth gushed, “is one of the chain’s weekday deals, an unbeatable lobster tail and steak combo that offers serious bang for the buck. Every Tuesday, you can get a ‘succulent’ steamed lobster tail paired with their ‘juicy’ Center-Cut Sirloin, plus a steakhouse potato and side. And, all of it costs just $24.99.”
Amazing value and note Outback the only chain using lobster instead of much cheaper shrimp.
Over to you, dear reader. Where do you rank surf & turf amongst your favorite meal pairings? I’ll be honest, and it might simply be a product of my low-born rank, but I don’t find the steak complimentary to the lobster, or shrimp, I suppose, and vice versa. I like my steak with a potato and my lobster served on a buttery roll.
Hawaiian plate lunch, if you care, is my top of the pops.
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Possibly the best steak I’ve ever eaten was at Sano’s (I think that’s where it was) in Ensenada.
If not that place then somewhere very nearby. Dad lived basically across the road for a few years.
They do know how to make great steaks in Mexico.
too bad you’re crustacean adverse because that lobster restaurant in Puerto Nuevo is fantastic. but they also serve some great carne.
One of the greatest places on the planet to enjoy sunset.
Rule #1
Never drive at night
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Eating is cheating, cunt
Surf (Waves) and Turf (Golf) . Kellys’ favorite, especially because Outback is from Florida.
Also, can I get some curry goat rice and peas?
Salad dressing at the bottom of the salad was Genious
Crikey mate! That meal is cheap as chips.
Bordering on DS&S territory with this blogpost.
It’s either this or race rage baiting on another level.
I am more than okay with this.
Me too. I made this today.
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Epic, made my day!!!
splendid
No shellfish for Monty & Andrew Kidman will just a local wild berry bowl to save help the planet.
Allergic to crustatceans, so just the steak, thanks.
Da kine, plate lunch… no exist in Aus, l’dat.
Miss it so, so much. Ho bra! Da grindz!!!
So much cultural appropriation going on it’s crazy.
I’m allowed, I grew up there.
….and your pidgin still sucks.
“no
existstay in Aus, l’dat.”Well caught.
Been a loooooooong time since I heard it in the wild.
haha. wop yo jaw.
should come home.
Plate Lunch on me.
Funny that, an old Oahu head who moved to Cali and I didn’t meet until mid 90s is coming here in a couple days for some adventures.
If I won the lottery I’d come home in hearbeat.
No lottery need mate. just a plane ticket…..and I have an awesome van you can sleep in. sorry, #2 Camper came home for a stay otherwise you’d have the “west wing” of Hale Camper..
Thanks brother. Appreciate the aloha.
You can have my 2 scoops mac cheese
Ghost just blocked me?
I would but I’m doing keto.
At 27yo surifn all day then sure.
“wit gravy all ovah!”
Black Angus is the superlative white trash steakhouse chain though.
Pepper crusted ribeye grilled at home with a bourbon shallot cream sauce 100% of the time has always been better than anything I’ve had even at a place like Flemings. Must be the lack of pretentiousness. It ain’t that hard to grill a steak perfectly. Never understood a willingness to pay exorbitant markups for something you can do yourself.
Nothing says “lack of pretentiousness” like bourbon shallot cream sauce
I don’t know a home cooked sauce could be pretentious. Is it the bourbon? The heavy cream? Hmmm, that is white. Shallots? Cheap veggie carry moral judgement baggage too.
Shit, hope none of my home cooking is racist too?
Or maybe it’s just your perspective. Anything beyond Chef Mike heating up your Hot Pockets is pretentious.
I fear to mention a great Béchamel recipe.
t’would be a hate crime.
a good Au poivre kills….
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Flemmings has to be the most overrated steak chain in the world. Ruth’s Chris a close second.
For you guys? Bungalow in CDM
Hot Cougars, best steaks
Cougar Del Mar
remember quiet woman?
so. the first time I moved to Newport, I lived on seashore and orange right across PCH from Frogs and Antonucci’s.
roomie was a PV guy. I worked at Gullivers, a prime rib house which was babe city. they used to dress in “wench” dresses. wild!
Then, moved to Mammoth for a seasoned, then back to HI.
Next time I moved there (after Hurricane Iwa), I moved into a place on G street by the wedge before moving to 28th.
While living on G, I scored a little B&B money gig working at this awesome grocery store in CDM. Old school.
so, consider this. 22 yr.old surfer from Hawaii bagging grocery’s in CDM….in the 80’s. Coolest thing about the little grocery store was…..we delivered.
many of the women I met in CDM were not that quiet.
PS- remember he little French bakery/cafe where the Playboy centerfold worked? used to go just to stand in line networking with the ladies.
DUDe
Gullivers was epic
Do you remember the sisters that worked at Antonucci’s?
I lived one block away. Lugonia
CDM was a honey hole, fuck dude
The managers at Gullivers had pretty strict hiring policies. they would only hire babes. It was like Singapore Air.
bitd, being from Hawaii went a long way in Newport.
I used to get take away from Antonuccis at least three times a week….so yes. I remember them very well.
Fuck yeah
Yes. but what happens with wenches, stays with wenches.
Top 5 steaks in the world
John Dominis, Waikiki
Horn and Cantle, Big Sky
North Pond Cafe, Chicago
Tropicana, San Jose Del Cabo
Beach House, Poipu
Puck had one in West LA named Eureka and cooked over open mesquite, but it didn’t last into the 90’s. Chicago Chop House honorable mention and greatest piano bar. SW Steakhouse, Las Vegas honorable mention, but I had a charge account there and got burned out on it so I found Herb and Rye off the Strip and it’s real real good. San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito honorable mention just don’t get suckered into the 40.cocktails. Tony’s in Auckland behind Sky City, proper British steak house
There used to be a John Dominis on Mariner’s Mile. They had a subterranean parking garage that was riddled with huge concrete and rebar pilings. So, one night there my gal and I had just emerged from having dinner, when we came upon quite a scene. Imagine this, wealthy Newport family celebrates their 16 year old daughter’s birthday there, and as became pretty apparent was gifted a brand new Mercedes, was hysterically arguing with valet about an issue. That issue? One of the valet, a brazzo, was racing his other brazzo buddy down in the garage when he stuffed that girl’s birthday gift Mercedes up at a 45° angle between one of those pilings and a wall. Lots of crying. Absolute rage from Mom and Dad. Needless to say, while they were preoccupied with that, I walked over to the key cabinet, grabbed my keys, escorted my gal down the stairs and retrieved my own car, and bounced before the shit show morphed Iinto the shittiest
fuck yeah Otto
I think the Waikiki location was better, but yeah, Newps was a classic too
best ever was Topsfield Lodge Steakhouse in Richfield Utah.
right on the edge of the owners cattle ranch.
think it’s now called “Steves Steakhouse”
JD’s was great. mate of mine worked at the Newport Beach JD. he’d dial me in with a 3lb bug for the price of a 1lb.
So, you rolled into Newps, landed at the coolest dude’s pad on 28th, roll with the Dominis employs?
Fucking prime networker
yup. first week in Newps, I did the Quik warehouse walk.
my #1 skill has always been networking. That’s why I’m here.
No, it’s not
You ever visit Quik Eyewear?
uhhhh? No, what’s not?
Never went to Quik eyewear. only did the shopping cart tour at the old CM warehouse.
I miss Sizzler😄. We had an Outback Steakhouse but it closed a few years back and is now a Los Arroyos. $25 would be a smokin deal! ill have to visit the Oxnard location. I sing a song about the all the Mexican joints in SB/Gol, it goes like this… “We don’t need another Taqueria, we don’t need another Mexican Restaurante all we want is some Steak and Lobster… its to the tune of Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” 🤘
Like there isn’t enough faux pax steakhouses in literally every downtown district in the USA.
So true, so many bad taco joints
Carlitos or bust!
Carlitos is on the family birthday rotation along with Tee Off, Chucks of Hawaii, Brophy Bros, and sadly no longer in business The Palms! If the steak sucked at the Palms it’s your own fault😅!
They are working on the Palms… dunno the plan. Loved the baked potato bar.
Heard Tee Off is the bomb, crusty waitresses and all.
Do you go katsu chicken or pork with your plate lunch?
Kalua pork!
On BI, mostly katsu chicken. The O’z lunch truck in Kealakekua makes excellent pork katsu. Furikake chicken at Broke Da Mouth in Kona is epic.
So, Boys and Gwen
Your favorite Hippy pruned his head and will come up with a new screen name that reflects my now corporate style. That said, my stylist has been a studio stylist for decades and won an Oscar for Barbie, among other Golden Globes and Emmy’s.
She works the Awards shows and tonight she crafted a wig for Conan…. a bright red/orange thing that has some tie in to a movie actresses role this year.
Don’t know when the bit will air, but when she gets home she’s having a party at her house and you all are invited!
I reckon much like amputees suffer phantom pain, you’ll no doubt suffer something like phantom hippy hair pain
her skirt kind of rose as she swept the floor and bent over to collect
Did you collect it to donate to Locks of Love?
which horse you backing for best picture though?
Have not been to a theater since Derek Reilly’s debut role
He should have won the Oscar
Congrats on Santa Clara going to the big dance.
Kurt Rambis is proud.
I’m sure Steve Nash is also.
He was playing for them last time they made the tourney in 96
Yep.
Is it true that a lot of barbers refuse to cut long hair?
She refused to cut my hair last visit, just layering
She’s a genius and very easy on the eyes
What’s the difference between a barber and a stylist?
No razor
Have you ever gotten a cut-throat razor shave?
I’m still posting so no
You’re that afraid of the alphabet people finding out you got a straight razor shave?
YOu’re too fun
I keed
Get us a live feed of the afterparty and we’ll get you a live comment thread !
are you going with “Oscar for Barbie” as a new name, or just “Barbie”?
Let’s see if you can guess……
Buzz?
if he did, Hippy could morph into Buzzy Went
well played. Buzzy Trent. Legend!
You know Ivan?
Ken Radshaw-ka
That has a ring to it
Worth a Barbie Badge
Nothing more Australian than an outback surf and turf and a Fosters. Its where middle America goes when they want some culture.
The franchise near me closed. Not sure why it was often busy. Always thought it was an OK steak house, less expensive and casual what’s not to like?
My last visit to another store was terrible. Like many chains, seems quality is dying.
Authentic Australia, down to the accent in the commercials.
Nothin like those outback lobsters….
Never trust fresh lobster in the outback. They’ve been stored in the drop hole dunny.