€42 sirloin steak, Rathgar, Dublin

[u/enter_the_wu]

€42 “9oz” black Angus sirloin, caramelised onions, pepper sauce. Spuds and sprouts not included. I appreciate restaurants are struggling at the moment, but Jesus Christ. Would you be happy paying that amount for this plate of food?

[u/Ok-Reference-1227]

Please tell me they didn't serve it to you cut up like a mother would to their child. It looks dry as fuck on the inside which means they probably stuck it in the oven after being in the pan. It actually gets worse the longer you look at it.

The rocket and wedges 😭 you have to stick that on their Google reviews.

[u/caitnicrun → u/Ok-Reference-1227]

If it's precut as you say, I wonder if it's even the full steak. Like, how would you know? Then they can collect the other slicings and basically charge another 40 euro for them as a "steak".

[u/Ok-Reference-1227 → u/caitnicrun]

There is only two reasons it would be served like that, and zero reasons it should have left the kitchen.

Its to mask the fact that the steak isn't 9onces which probably means it's a cheap cut that shrunk significantly during cooking, 

or;

It was cut into to ensure it was cooked, which it wasn't, so they stuck it in the oven/microwave to finish cooking it and cut up the rest of it to make it look deliberate.

[u/caitnicrun → u/Ok-Reference-1227]

Ever read George Orwell's "down and out in Paris"?  He goes into many reasons the food at expensive restaurants is overpriced or outright terrible.  Almost a hundred years later they're still at it.

[u/marshsmellow → u/caitnicrun]

Which is apt as this was Orwell road. Absolutely amazing book BTW. That, the Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia are amazing memoirs. 

[u/caitnicrun → u/marshsmellow]

Oh aye, read them all. Pity he only gets known for 1984. Which is excellent sure, but the man was so much more than that.

[u/kikimaru024 → u/caitnicrun]

Oh shut up, there's plenty of expensive restaurants (in Dublin even) they are actually worth it.