My wife left me to my own devices this past Friday night, so I decided to take myself out on the town. I found myself near Union Square where I discovered one off my old favorite restaurants in Manhattan, Steak Frites, which had moved to another part of town a few years ago, was back where it started, on 16th street, just a bit down the block from the Union Square Cafe.
I wandered in and immediately found a seat at the bar. The decor had changed, for the worse, if you asked me. But the menu was pretty much the same. When I first came here in the early 90’s, I think the attraction for this place was that you could get a pretty good steak in a nice bistro atmosphere for a pretty reasonable price. Their signature dish, the Steak Frites (a ribeye with a big pile of fries) was, as I recall, 19 dollars. It’s 32 bucks now, and still a good deal.
Here’s how it arrived. It looked and tasted like it may have been cooked using the sous-vide technique. However they cooked it, it was a good, tender, tasty steak. Came with bernaise sauce. And a big pile of fries. I ordered some spinach on the side.
In the old days I would have eaten all of those fries. But not any more! I did have a few, of course, they were very good. But I satisfied myself with the beef and spinach. And the scotch too. (MaCallan 12 year old, if you’re curious.)
(Please forgive the foggy photography. I didnt want to use the flash on my blackberry again, it pretty much scared the shit out of everyone, including me, when I took that first picture.)
