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Dallas’ Expensive Steaks Arms Race Is Back To Entertain Us
On the finish of 2019, the largest drama within the Dallas meals scene was the Steak Race. Steakhouses throughout city had been competing in opposition to one another to see who might promote the largest, wildest, costliest beef. City Fireplace launched the $150 “Battle Axe.” Knife countered with a bone-in ribeye dry-aged for 240 days; it offered for nearly a greenback a day. Then tv chef Curtis Stone weighed in at Georgie with the winner: a $390 steak flown in from Australia.
How issues have modified. Since these days, we’ve had one million individuals die from a pandemic, just a few hundred individuals attempt to storm the U.S. capitol and stage a coup, and a complete lot of different stuff to fret about. Issues bought so dangerous, Georgie even dropped the $390 meat. (Their costliest common providing now’s $275.)
However for those who’re nostalgic for the great outdated days once we spent extra time enthusiastic about meals than rebellion, I’ve excellent news: the Steak Race is again!
Tuesday I bought a press launch asserting the reopening of SĒR Steak + Spirits, the steakhouse on the 27th ground of the Hilton Anatole. They’ve a brand new chef, Richard Hoffmann, and an all-new menu to match. Curious, I pulled up SĒR’s web site and found the “Cadillac” (citation marks within the unique), for $280. Right here’s the outline: “38 oz. tomahawk, 16 oz. foie gras, flight of sauces.” The sauces are crimson chimichurri, au poivre, and béarnaise.
SĒR has helpfully confirmed that the foie gras is plated on prime of the tomahawk steak in order that its richness can soften into the meat. This truly sounds form of enjoyable, particularly the sauce flight. Everybody ought to do sauce flights.
However most significantly: sure, we’ve entered an excellent new period of one-upmanship. Knife’s 240-day dry-aged ribeye is presently $235. Monarch has a 45-day dry-aged tomahawk, additionally 38 oz., for $240. However SĒR’s new Cadillac prices precisely $5 greater than Georgie’s (present) excessive bid.
The Steak Race is in full swing. SĒR’s rivals are going to need to form up in the event that they need to beat the $280 new child on the block. They are going to want much more than a dry-aging cupboard or a pound of foie.
Listed below are my options for much more costly, extravagant steaks. Cooks, you’re welcome to make use of these concepts, and please don’t give me credit score. Let’s get grilling!
The Influencer: $300
8 oz. filet mignon crusted in pink peppercorns and gold leaf, skewered and served on the rim of a bloody mary, and on completely different skewers on prime of the drink, there are additionally jumbo cocktail shrimp, a cheeseburger slider, and a Boston cream doughnut with sprinkles
It’ll look nice on Instagram! Please word that this specifically constructed, experiential dish shouldn’t be served with plates.
The Cadillac Escalade: $475
38 oz. tomahawk steak, 38 oz. foie gras
As an alternative of steak topped with foie, why not go along with equal elements of each?
The Booster: $500
18 oz. bone-in New York strip, loaded baked potato, two tickets to Southern Methodist College soccer recreation (non-conference)
As a part of your buy, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson will personally tweet reward for the SMU pupil athlete of your selection.
The Wagyar: $600
Wagyu and caviar, blended collectively
Right here’s the recipe, if you wish to do this at residence. First the chef takes a premium Miyazaki A5 Wagyu ribeye, raised and butchered in Japan and flown in to Texas. That is probably the most marbled steak on the planet, resembling the photograph above. Then the kitchen makes use of subtle precision laser steering to chop out all of the precise meat within the steak, leaving solely the ribbons of fats. Lastly, they spoon Golden Osetra caviar into all of the little holes the place meat was once.
The Housewives: $750
8 oz. filet mignon, dry aged for 240 days and wrapped in edible gold, served with a shot of Monkey 47 dry gin
This minimize is aged within the private wine fridge of a distinguished Dallas socialite. When it arrives at your desk, your server will whisper the socialite’s identify in your ear one time solely earlier than strolling away. Hear fastidiously, as a result of for those who miss it, you don’t get to ask, “Sorry, what?” That’s why this order is so unique.
The Sugar Bae: $1,111
12 oz. boneless prime New York strip, that’s it
Salt Bae himself involves your desk to slice the steak and do his factor the place he douses the steak in salt that he bounces off his elbow or no matter. However as a substitute of salt it’s cocaine.
The Miata: $40,010
38 oz. tomahawk steak served in an precise all-new 2022 Mazda MX-5 Miata, Grand Touring trim, which you get to maintain
Sadly, our restaurant was solely in a position to safe Miatas painted in platinum quartz, and the additional $10 is due to that dumb vendor add-on the place they cost you to place a cargo internet within the trunk. However, hey: it’s a Miata! For an extra $10, we’ll take away the pesky cargo internet.
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Brian Reinhart grew to become D Journal’s eating critic in 2022 after six years of writing about eating places for the Dallas Observer and the Dallas Morning Information.