"It's just pastry with a bit of stewing steak in the middle.
Even David Letterman, in a bit on CBS' The Late Show recently, ate a piece of steak as Andreas did.
Other such dishes include: Chicken fried steak – a breaded cutlet dish consisting of a piece of steak (tenderized cube steak) coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried.
On the top sat a bag of revolting frozen chicken bits, bought for the dog, and a giant bag of steak cut chips, bought for the husband (to eat with a rump steak).
Careful preparation for trip, involving administration of Rescue Remedy (New Age tranquilizing drops) and Benadryl smushed into bits of raw steak, has not produced the desired behavior modification.
The uptown Fatty Crab also has some proprietary fare, including the fatty dog; a whole-fish preparation that changes nightly; and my favorite of the uneven noodle dishes, the hokkien mee, slick with black vinegar and flecked with shrimp, clams and bits of flatiron steak.
And then there were the sixteen varieties of steaks, a bit of ridiculous culinary machismo — is the "platinum Wagyu" from Australia really worth twenty dollars an ounce, or is it just showing off?
The chipotle steak and cheese sandwich, also part of the rotation, combines a small steak, a bit of spicy chili, sweet caramelized onion, smoky roasted peppers and creamy cumin aioli with melted cheddar.
Second prize, a set of steak knives.
The final bit of cheek in this nonsteakhouse is the steak that's not a steak: a block of tofu masquerading as steak au poivre.
