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title: 'I Tried the Best Steak in America'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ED1sREyLHSM'
video_id: 'ED1sREyLHSM'
date: 2026-07-21
duration_sec: 1417
channel: 'Joshua Weissman'
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# I Tried the Best Steak in America

> Source: [I Tried the Best Steak in America](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ED1sREyLHSM)

## Summary

This video explores the best steaks across the United States, from celebrity chef restaurants to historic steakhouses and a legendary 72-ounce challenge. The host and his friends taste and evaluate each steak for flavor, value, and overall experience, culminating at the number one rated steakhouse in America.

### Key Points

- **Gordon Ramsay Steak** [00:44] — Tried New York strip ($109), Trio beef ($165), and beef Wellington ($85). The Wellington was the best value and received high praise for its perfect cooking and flavor.
- **José Andrés Bazaar Meat** [02:52] — Tried A5 Philly cheesesteak ($19), A5 Wagyu, filet mignon, and a 2.5 lb ribeye ($287.50). The cheesesteak was a standout for its unique preparation and value.
- **Lawry's The Prime Rib** [05:43] — Oldest prime rib restaurant in the US (founded 1938). Prime rib served tableside from a trolley. Prices $41-$52 per cut including sides. Good value but not the best flavor.
- **Big Texan 72 oz Steak Challenge** [07:12] — Attempted to finish a 72 oz steak, baked potato, salad, shrimp, and roll in one hour. Both participants failed, paying $72 each. The steak was well-seasoned but became difficult to chew.
- **Isidor (Texas Wagyu)** [11:00] — Full-blood Japanese Wagyu raised in Texas. Tried flat iron and Denver steaks ($86 each). The flat iron was praised for its deep beefy flavor and good chew.
- **Peter Luger Steakhouse** [12:34] — Iconic steakhouse with a secret cooking method: seasoned with salt, broiled, sliced, then finished in the broiler with clarified butter. Steak for two about $135. Excellent crust and flavor penetration.
- **Gotham Steak (Oldest Steakhouse)** [16:01] — Oldest steakhouse in America. Dry-aged steaks cooked with multiple methods. Bone-in filet mignon ($85) and rib steak ($85). Good dry-aged flavor but slightly underseasoned.
- **Churrascaria Plataforma** [17:55] — Brazilian steakhouse with unlimited meat and salad bar for $84 per person. Top sirloin was juicy and flavorful. Excellent value for the amount of food.
- **Cote (Number One Steakhouse)** [18:52] — America's first Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse. Butcher's Feast ($78/person) with four cuts of beef plus sides. Added A5 Wagyu for $110/person total. American Wagyu New York strip was the favorite.

### Conclusion

The best value overall was Cote's Butcher's Feast, while the best experience was José Andrés Bazaar Meat. You don't need to spend a fortune to enjoy great steak at America's famous steakhouses.

## Transcript

Is a great steak really worth the price? You're&nbsp;spending the most amount of money for the simplest&nbsp;&nbsp; thing, steak, salt, pepper. So, today we're going&nbsp;to answer that question by going on a journey&nbsp;&nbsp; trying the best steaks in the United States. From&nbsp; the oldest steakhouse in American history to this&nbsp;&nbsp;
giant 72 oz steak that anyone can get for free,&nbsp;all the way to the number one voted steakhouse&nbsp;&nbsp; in the USA to find out what is not only the best&nbsp;experience, but a meal that's actually worth our&nbsp;&nbsp; money. And we're starting our journey off in Las&nbsp;Vegas. Ah, Vegas. Slot machines, bright lights,&nbsp;&nbsp;
and a million celebrity steakouses. Here we're&nbsp; going to two of the top celebrity restaurants.&nbsp;&nbsp; Starting at one of my idols, Gordon Ramsay. This&nbsp; is a huge moment. I'm a little scared because&nbsp;&nbsp; I've loved him for so long and I've watched him&nbsp; almost my whole life, but this will be the first&nbsp;&nbsp;
time I've ever tasted his food. Obviously, we got&nbsp; the Wellington, got the trio beef, and then we got&nbsp;&nbsp; this. I'm joined by my friends. We have R.J., we&nbsp; have Graham, we have Jack. R.J., I think we're&nbsp;&nbsp;
going to have - You're the voice of the people. I'll&nbsp; try. Graham and Jack, you guys know good food,&nbsp;&nbsp; but you also know value of a food. So, I need your&nbsp; help on that end. Deal. So, we're going to taste&nbsp;&nbsp; each of these and we'll announce our favorite at&nbsp; the end. The steak does look nicely cooked, that&nbsp;&nbsp;
I'll say. It has a nice char to it. It's a little&nbsp; chewy. How much was this? I think it was like&nbsp;&nbsp; hundred something dollars. Yeah, it was not cheap.&nbsp; This is good. I don't think financially it's worth&nbsp;&nbsp; of beef? Just pick up a piece and try it. I'll&nbsp; explain these. So, this one's the A5. Melt it in&nbsp;&nbsp;
your mouth. Salted. Like it had like a nice little&nbsp; like pop to it when you bit down on it. Not my cup&nbsp;&nbsp; of tea. It's too buttery. That A5 might have been&nbsp; one of the best bites of steak I've ever had in my&nbsp;&nbsp; entire life. American Wagu. This was fantastic.&nbsp; The American Wagu was a little bit better. It's&nbsp;&nbsp;
less aggressively rich. The last one, prime beef.&nbsp; I like the texture of it. You know, it felt like&nbsp;&nbsp; a nice cut of meat, but I felt like it had more&nbsp; body to it. When you bit, you can feel it. Yeah,&nbsp;&nbsp; there's some chew. That one was my least favorite&nbsp; in terms of flavor, but in texture, I agree. It's&nbsp;&nbsp;
balanced. It's not overly fatty. It's not overly&nbsp; lean. It was nice. Overall favorite, what I would&nbsp;&nbsp; bottom. One we've all been waiting for, the one&nbsp; that Gordon's entire brand has been leaning on,&nbsp;&nbsp;
which is the beef Wellington. So, let's try it.&nbsp; I think for like a beef Wellington, especially&nbsp;&nbsp; someone that's so known for their beef Wellington.&nbsp; I like the texture. I like the flavors. It's good.&nbsp;&nbsp; they are not going to screw up. And it's seasoned&nbsp; perfectly. The flavor is great. The beef is cooked&nbsp;&nbsp;
absolutely perfectly. It melts in your mouth and&nbsp; the pastry is cooked beautifully. A 10 out of 10.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is perfect. 11 out of 10. That was first time&nbsp; ever having beef Wellington. Phenomenal. So, my&nbsp;&nbsp; first Gord meal is complete. We had the New York&nbsp; strip for $109, the Trio beef for $165, and the&nbsp;&nbsp;
famous beef Wellington for $85 each. The New York&nbsp; strip is a classic and the Trio Beef luxurious,&nbsp;&nbsp; but the Wellington had the most hype. And I got to&nbsp; say, it delivered. And at the cheapest price tag,&nbsp;&nbsp; clearly the best value. But this is just our first&nbsp; spot. Nice work, Gordon. Happy to say I still love&nbsp;&nbsp;
you. Now moving on to Bizarre Meat by Joseé Andre.&nbsp; He constantly is advocating for humanitarian&nbsp;&nbsp; efforts. He's also a Michelin starred chef and&nbsp; was named as one of Times 100 most influential&nbsp;&nbsp; people twice. To speak on his food though, what&nbsp; Gordon is to the UK, Jose is to Spain. He's always&nbsp;&nbsp;
kept it innovative, but he's most known for his&nbsp; authentic Spanish food. I'll be honest, walking&nbsp;&nbsp; to this restaurant, I can tell we're in for a wild&nbsp; ride. Now, we came here to try three cuts of meat,&nbsp;&nbsp; but they were incredibly kind and they sent out&nbsp; a mountain of food at no charge. We ate beyond&nbsp;&nbsp;
discomfort. Literally, we were eating for 3 hours.&nbsp; But somewhere mixed in there, we actually had the&nbsp;&nbsp; bites we came for. Starting off with their A5&nbsp; Philly cheese steak. Came completely differently&nbsp;&nbsp; than I thought. It's sort of like an inflated&nbsp; bread and then sliced A5 Wagu on top. Holy,&nbsp;&nbsp;
dude, that is insane. That is delicious. It's&nbsp; airy. The cheese is incredible. The steak is&nbsp;&nbsp; perfect. I love that. So, we got the inside scoop&nbsp; that this restaurant cost $40 million to create.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The fact that you could order one of these for $19&nbsp; and it's one of the best and most unique bites of&nbsp;&nbsp; can or needs to be improved. I think that might&nbsp; be a 10 out of 10. It's really a banger. Next up,&nbsp;&nbsp;
they brought out their A5 Wagyu cooked beautifully&nbsp; tableside. The way you eat this is you take a&nbsp;&nbsp; touch of that wasabi and kind of spread it on&nbsp; there. And then I wouldn't recommend eating&nbsp;&nbsp; this in one bite. Cut off a small strip. Oh man,&nbsp; that cut like butter. This is phenomenal. For A5,&nbsp;&nbsp;
it's actually not overly fatty. Like a lot&nbsp; of time with A5, it's so fatty and greasy,&nbsp;&nbsp; you have to add the sauce. I do like that it's&nbsp; not heavy. Plus, with the actual real wasabi,&nbsp;&nbsp;
makes a great flavor. Do they have A1 steak sauce?&nbsp; I'm kidding. We have another steak. This is the&nbsp;&nbsp; filet minan. Wow. I would take the beef Wellington&nbsp; over that. Oh, but this is really good. The piece&nbsp;&nbsp;
the resistance. This is the ribeye. This is one of&nbsp; their iconic pieces. This is the mix between the&nbsp;&nbsp; Angus and the American Wagu. This has the perfect&nbsp; mix of like beefy but also not overly beefy. Like&nbsp;&nbsp;
a grass-fed steak is almost too beefy. This is&nbsp; nice and mild yet you still have that forward&nbsp;&nbsp; roasty beef flavor. It's not too fatty but it's&nbsp; not too lean. Out of all the ribe eyes I've had,&nbsp;&nbsp; it's it's up there. This was an incredible&nbsp; experience and it was not cheap but somehow&nbsp;&nbsp;
it felt worth it overall for how special it was.&nbsp; Now let's talk about prices. We had the 85 Waggy&nbsp;&nbsp; for $60 an ounce, beef tenderloin dish with [&nbsp;__&nbsp;]&nbsp; raw for 110, and the 2.5 lb ribeye for a whopping&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.8750, over $100 a pound. And finally, the cheese&nbsp; steak blew us away. And at $17 each, it might&nbsp;&nbsp;
have been one of our most memorable bites of the&nbsp; year. You could just get a few of these and be a&nbsp;&nbsp; happy camper. Now, who is better, Jose or Gordon?&nbsp; Honestly, I love them both, and they're special in&nbsp;&nbsp; their own right. I couldn't pick one. Now, moving&nbsp; on. We're now entering a spot that isn't just&nbsp;&nbsp;
famous. It is the bedrock of American steakouses.&nbsp; L's the prime rib is literally the first prime rib&nbsp;&nbsp; restaurant that was founded in the US which was&nbsp; ultimately founded in 1938 and it's known for one&nbsp;&nbsp;
thing and one thing only. Massive shining trolley&nbsp; filled with prime rib cooked to perfection. Carved&nbsp;&nbsp; tableside. This could be the most theatrical steak&nbsp; experience that we've had thus far. I'll be honest&nbsp;&nbsp; though, the beef looks good. It's heritage.&nbsp; It's technique. It's the flavor of beef done&nbsp;&nbsp;
right. We did get the famous spinning salad. I've&nbsp; always wanted to try this. It's good. It's like a&nbsp;&nbsp; standard steakhouse salad. Seasoned nicely, good&nbsp; acidity, little crunchy romaine. But we're still&nbsp;&nbsp; because it's simple, there's not a lot to hide.&nbsp; The question is, how good is it? Super tender.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Wo. It's good. I wouldn't say it's phenomenal. You&nbsp; guys didn't get any ribb cap. Try this rib c. Wow.&nbsp;&nbsp; hard to flavor prime rib all the way to the center&nbsp; with salt because it's so big. And I think this is&nbsp;&nbsp;
the salt. I mean, it's cooked very nicely. Out&nbsp; of all the ribe eyes that exist in the world,&nbsp;&nbsp; I won't say that it's like the best ribeye&nbsp; I've ever had. But from a prime rib standpoint,&nbsp;&nbsp; this is like a really wellexecuted classic ribeye.&nbsp; The prices were insanely good here. We each got&nbsp;&nbsp;
a cut of prime rib that was between $41 and $52&nbsp; depending on how big your steak was. And each came&nbsp;&nbsp; with sides. This is by far the best value. I mean,&nbsp; I can't believe it. But I know we'll find a better&nbsp;&nbsp; steak. And we could even find a better value. And&nbsp; I'll be surprising, this next place might just do&nbsp;&nbsp;
it. We've left the polished dining rooms behind&nbsp; and now we're in the middle of nowhere. Amarillo,&nbsp;&nbsp; Texas, off Route 66. Now, this stop ain't about no&nbsp; Michelin stars and it's definitely not about white&nbsp;&nbsp; tablecloths. It's about the most legendary&nbsp; steak challenge in America. Attention big,&nbsp;&nbsp;
we have Josh attempting our 72 oz challenge.&nbsp; The rules are simple. I need to finish this 72&nbsp;&nbsp; ounce steak, which is four and a half pounds,&nbsp; a baked potato, a salad, three fried shrimp,&nbsp;&nbsp;
and a roll within an hour or I need to cough up&nbsp; 72. Honestly, at this point, it's actually kind of&nbsp;&nbsp; a crazy deal. And if I can't finish it, I'm hoping&nbsp; at least the 2019 World's Strongest Man Martins&nbsp;&nbsp; can. Are you ready? I am ready. I'm so ready. No.&nbsp; With only 12% of people finishing this challenge,&nbsp;&nbsp;
the odds are definitely against us. But it's just&nbsp; some big fat steak. Is it even good? Honestly,&nbsp;&nbsp; the steak is seasoned really nicely. Salt levels&nbsp; are perfect. Got a garlicky, peppery kind of rub&nbsp;&nbsp; I feel like I'm protected by a guardian angel.&nbsp; Enjoying the food. It's delicious. I'm curious at&nbsp;&nbsp;
which point will this go from totally delicious to&nbsp; this is work. I feel like I'm not making a dent.&nbsp;&nbsp; I thought I was done with half the steak, but I&nbsp; still have all this. We're 15 minutes in. My jaw&nbsp;&nbsp; is a little tired. I think I'm at 45%. We're&nbsp; on track to beat. Oh, we're doing good. Once&nbsp;&nbsp;
but I'm putting ketchup on this steak. Truly&nbsp; impressed at his face. I'm trying here. I&nbsp;&nbsp; still have quite a bit. I cannot let this place&nbsp; have my $70. God, it's either my jaw is tired&nbsp;&nbsp;
or I'm hitting chewy piece after chewy piece. We&nbsp; were rocking and rolling till about the 35minute&nbsp;&nbsp; mark. Some of these drier pieces are really hard&nbsp; to get through. There's one piece I just gave up&nbsp;&nbsp; on. I just swallowed it. The dinner roll helps&nbsp; a little. Now I'm hungry again. I have a whole&nbsp;&nbsp;
potato left. No chewing. It's heavy, but your jaw&nbsp; gets a break. Nah, I don't think that's the move.&nbsp;&nbsp; I just felt this and I was just like, that's just&nbsp; like concentration. You're a 30 minutes. Stomach,&nbsp;&nbsp; no problem. My face muscles for the smiling. No&nbsp; more. No more smile. The jaw muscles I can't feel&nbsp;&nbsp;
anymore. Nose gone. If I scoot it over, it looks&nbsp; like I ate half. That's 2 lb down. 30 minutes in.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know it sounds crazy, but can I get another&nbsp; roll? That might have been a mistake. Jeremiah&nbsp;&nbsp; Martinez. Besides sweating meat juice, Martins&nbsp; and I started hallucinating. Maybe a lot. I'm&nbsp;&nbsp;
not even thinking right now. I'm just letting&nbsp; my bodies take over. Eat faster. He's back. 15 minutes left to go. Can I get it done? This&nbsp; doesn't feel good anymore. Oh god. Not losing it&nbsp;&nbsp;
without putting up a fight. Martis was barely&nbsp; holding on at this point. It's like endurance&nbsp;&nbsp; running but for your jaw. That bite was rough.&nbsp; Oh my days. I'm fine at this point. I only had&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 minutes left on the clock. I'm so done with&nbsp; chewing. Hell, dude. I ate the salad. I ate two&nbsp;&nbsp;
rolls. plate. Almost the potato. Allow my name&nbsp; to be forgotten with the wind. Yeah, I know,&nbsp;&nbsp; Vic. I can see you looking up at the damn clock. I&nbsp; know. I really want you to do it. I want to do it,&nbsp;&nbsp; too, dude. But me, how does somebody shoot so&nbsp; fast? I was so close. And I wanted to win this&nbsp;&nbsp;
challenge so bad, but I'm going to be honest&nbsp; with you. I was on the edge of uh let's just&nbsp;&nbsp; say losing my lunch. And if you do that,&nbsp; you also lose. So, I spared everyone the&nbsp;&nbsp; view and let the timer run out. Two. One.&nbsp; and Sweet Martins blocked out as well. 3.
How far along do you think we got? Probably a&nbsp; fifth left in mine. You got like a tenth left&nbsp;&nbsp; in yours. You could go in with all the attitude&nbsp; in the world. Whoever finishes this is not a&nbsp;&nbsp; human. We got close. No cigar. That means we're&nbsp; paying a grand total of $144. Honestly, it's not&nbsp;&nbsp;
a bad deal cuz you still got to eat. But how can&nbsp; you talk right now? You're the same guy that you&nbsp;&nbsp; were when you first came in here. It was a fair&nbsp; play. I think it's a good deal. We did our fight,&nbsp;&nbsp; but this is not the end. We're moving on. When you&nbsp; think of some of the greatest beef in the world,&nbsp;&nbsp;
I'm sure your mind goes immediately to Wagyu.&nbsp; Turns out some of the best Wagyu might not&nbsp;&nbsp; even be coming from Japan. And I think Texas&nbsp; is producing some of the best Wagyu beef in&nbsp;&nbsp; the world. Full-blood Japanese Wagyu cattle being&nbsp; born and raised in Texas. It's done locally here&nbsp;&nbsp;
in the restaurant Isidor, which we're in right&nbsp; now. This restaurant happens to also be one of&nbsp;&nbsp; the top 50 restaurants in the United States of&nbsp; America, according to New York Times. I have&nbsp;&nbsp; Kate with me. Kate is my wife. We started off&nbsp; with a nice Crudeo, Wagyu beef tartlet, a beef&nbsp;&nbsp;
butter with bread service made tableside, and a&nbsp; giant tender short rib. All great highlights with&nbsp;&nbsp; great texture. Let's be real, we're here for the&nbsp; main event, the steak. We have the flat iron here,&nbsp;&nbsp; the Denver here. Here's what's unique about these&nbsp; two pieces. Very, very important. These aren't the&nbsp;&nbsp;
typical filetmenan ribeye steak that you're going&nbsp; to see. The only steaks they're highlighting are&nbsp;&nbsp; to guests because they're not the typical steak,&nbsp; but also they tend to be chewier. And what they're&nbsp;&nbsp; saying is this beef is so goddang good. We're&nbsp; going to go with the least popular cut. So, let's&nbsp;&nbsp;
see how that goes. I want to start with the flat&nbsp; iron. That's incredible. One of the best pieces&nbsp;&nbsp; of beef I've ever had. It's got that anxious,&nbsp; meaty, deep, rich beefy flavor, but it's not like&nbsp;&nbsp; overwhelmingly grassy or anything like that. And&nbsp; then the intramuscular fat makes it just so juicy.&nbsp;&nbsp;
And this one has some bite. There's a little chew&nbsp; to it, but it's a good chew. This is delicious.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a Denver steak. The way that that develops&nbsp; a crust and the intramuscular fat on this piece is&nbsp;&nbsp; way more. This is a lot more rich, but again, not&nbsp; overly so. Also, the seasoning on this is so good.&nbsp;&nbsp;
It's incredible. They do kind of have very similar&nbsp; flavors, but it's still delicious. We had two&nbsp;&nbsp; steaks at Isidador. $86 each. I'd probably choose&nbsp; the Flat Iron for me personally. Not too bad of a&nbsp;&nbsp; value, but the whole tasting menu itself was very&nbsp; special and highly recommended. Texas is doing&nbsp;&nbsp;
great. But for the next one, I want to cover some&nbsp; Hall of Famers, which is going to take us to New&nbsp;&nbsp; York. Up next is Peter Luger, which I would argue&nbsp; is the most iconic steakhouse in existence. Now,&nbsp;&nbsp; they have many steaks, but they are famous for&nbsp; one. A secret method that they've held close to&nbsp;&nbsp;
them that they have been kind enough to show us.&nbsp; It's very specific. So, here's how it's done. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; we're in one of the most iconic meat lockers in&nbsp; existence. This is the final room. There are three&nbsp;&nbsp; total. This is the final boss of meat lockers.&nbsp; This is like the last rack. These are ready&nbsp;&nbsp;
to roll. Exactly. All these short loins here are&nbsp; ready to be butchered and then brought upstairs to&nbsp;&nbsp; cook this thing. So, these are all the meat you've&nbsp; seen butchered. That's all now brought up. This is&nbsp;&nbsp; our meat fridge. They season their steak with only&nbsp; salt. It gets broiled for a few minutes, flipped,&nbsp;&nbsp;
broiled a little longer. Then it lands on a plate&nbsp; of clarified butter where it's then sliced, and&nbsp;&nbsp; then placed back in the broiler to finish. I've&nbsp; never seen someone slice a steak, and then finish&nbsp;&nbsp; it again. Why not cook it all the way through? Is&nbsp; this really going to make the steak better? When&nbsp;&nbsp;
they cut it, put it back on the platter, go back&nbsp; in, it forms this like steak, juice, butter sauce,&nbsp;&nbsp; and then we'll tip the plate so that it all kind&nbsp; of pulls together. Don't leave the kitchen if a&nbsp;&nbsp; steak isn't sizzling. We need that sizzle. I want&nbsp; to hear it. They were nice enough to give me a&nbsp;&nbsp;
They do a lot of salt coverage so the fat can&nbsp; come up through the salt and moisturize the salt,&nbsp;&nbsp; hopefully a perfectly seasoned steak and a nice&nbsp; crust. It's a technique I'm not really sure I've&nbsp;&nbsp;
typically I would use a chef knife, but they're&nbsp; using literally just a steak knife to do it all.&nbsp;&nbsp; was uh was was you know, let's just say that I&nbsp; did not have the muscle memory for that. Oh my&nbsp;&nbsp;
god. Magic. What? Uh and then back in. Yeah. Now&nbsp; we wait for it to finish. This is the last step.&nbsp;&nbsp; Once it's finished, the waiter picks it up and&nbsp; delivers it to the table. Every single waiter&nbsp;&nbsp; in this restaurant has a pager. They don't pick&nbsp; up the steak within a minute of them being paged.&nbsp;&nbsp;
They won't really last as a waiter. And finally,&nbsp; it was time to taste. A peculiar technique. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; how good is it? That's OG service right there.&nbsp; This is the fillet. Damn, it's really good. Ton&nbsp;&nbsp; fact that the juices from the strip side are&nbsp; kind of co-mingling with what's going on with&nbsp;&nbsp;
the fillet. You're getting some of the flavor from&nbsp; the strip in the fillet. New York strip. I really&nbsp;&nbsp; was worried about the one-sided salt thing, but&nbsp; it works so well. It really is actually very good.&nbsp;&nbsp; Joining us on our New York steak adventure is&nbsp; seasoned channel taste tester and director Vicram.&nbsp;&nbsp;
That fillet is great. This has the crispy crust&nbsp; on the outside. It's as tender on the inside,&nbsp;&nbsp; but you have a really good textural experience as&nbsp; well. I think the flavor penetrates a lot deeper.&nbsp;&nbsp; The salt I can taste in every bite. Not just on&nbsp; the crust. It seems like when I was looking at it,&nbsp;&nbsp;
it seemed like, okay, it'd go on the crust, it'd&nbsp; fall off, maybe a bit would get through, but the&nbsp;&nbsp; entire thing has a good amount of flavor, has&nbsp; a good amount of salt, and the crust on the top&nbsp;&nbsp; really brings it home. I think I can enjoy another&nbsp; like eight bites of this thing. Even though it's&nbsp;&nbsp;
very sweet. They comped our whole thing, which was&nbsp; very nice of them. That said, if we did have to&nbsp;&nbsp; pay for this, I'd say it's a pretty decent deal at&nbsp; a steak for two for about $135 total. That's 6750&nbsp;&nbsp;
they're a household name. That's why they're still&nbsp; running. And after tasting this, I'm now realizing&nbsp;&nbsp; that they're still running because they're holding&nbsp; on to the practices that got them successful in&nbsp;&nbsp;
the first place and they've just maintained that&nbsp; quality. And that is it. I think I have to come&nbsp;&nbsp; Incredible work. Moving on. Next up is the oldest&nbsp; steakhouse in America. Why has it stood the test&nbsp;&nbsp;
to a steakhouse where they don't slice the steak&nbsp; for you, but I kind of like it in a way. Gotham&nbsp;&nbsp; saw go to flat top. He got a great color on it. He&nbsp; changed the cooking method three different times.&nbsp;&nbsp;
First it was flat top, then it was broiler, then&nbsp; it was grill, then it was back to flat top, then&nbsp;&nbsp; rested, then back to the flat top. The quality of&nbsp; the beef literally cooked perfectly. It's actually&nbsp;&nbsp; very good. The crust is really nice. This is&nbsp; a very unadulterated steak, though. I mean,&nbsp;&nbsp;
it's literally just salt, pepper, I think a few&nbsp; other spices, but you really get the beef flavor&nbsp;&nbsp; time that he said it was dry age, but they're not&nbsp; over dryaging it or you taste the dry age. You can&nbsp;&nbsp; still taste the beef. I do wish there was a touch&nbsp; touch more salt. I do like a little bit of brown&nbsp;&nbsp;
butter on there. I wish that I had a little bit&nbsp; more of that plating is old school cuz what do I&nbsp;&nbsp; do with this parsley and burnt garlic? All right,&nbsp; let's check it out. What am I really coming here&nbsp;&nbsp; for? I think it's that flavor. The dry-aged flavor&nbsp; really takes it a step up. The beef flavor is very&nbsp;&nbsp;
forward, just very classic experience. This&nbsp; one alone, I'd just be happy. I wouldn't say&nbsp;&nbsp; this is the most extravagant steak I've ever had.&nbsp; Going to somewhere like Joseé Andreas, I'm having&nbsp;&nbsp; flavors that I've never tasted before. Honestly,&nbsp; I'd say this is a bit better than the Wellington&nbsp;&nbsp;
experience I had just from a textural experience,&nbsp; but I definitely would put this above something&nbsp;&nbsp; like a ribeye cooked with this much texture and&nbsp; flavor goes a lot higher than something like&nbsp;&nbsp; that one. The bone in flamean, it's cooked pretty&nbsp; damn nice. The bone does nothing for the steak at&nbsp;&nbsp;
all. It looks cool, but it truly does nothing for&nbsp; the steak at all. It's also lacking a little bit&nbsp;&nbsp; with flavor and seasoning. So, which steak was the&nbsp; better value? Super tender 15oz prime filet minan&nbsp;&nbsp; for $85 or the bigger, fattier 24 oz goth and rib&nbsp; steak for actually surprisingly the same price.&nbsp;&nbsp;
steaks. It's kind of an OG establishment. I&nbsp; mean, like we're talking old school served&nbsp;&nbsp; simply. They're not trying to reinvent the wheel&nbsp; the way that they've always been served. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; this is the place to go. Moving on, we're at&nbsp; the number one Cherascaria in New York City,&nbsp;&nbsp;
Cherasaria Platform. And joining me today is&nbsp; Henry aka the sandwich king, Salt Hank. If you&nbsp;&nbsp; don't know how Cherasaria works, it's very simple,&nbsp; right? Red means stop, green means go. You leave&nbsp;&nbsp; banana here because that's kind of what makes&nbsp; the Brazilian steakhouse special, right? It's&nbsp;&nbsp;
the classic Brazilian cut top sirloin. Absolutely&nbsp; stunning. So, let's flip things to green. It's a&nbsp;&nbsp; service right at your table that never gets old.&nbsp; No, that's perfect. It's just juicy. It's nice.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's beefy. Top Shirine's actually one of the&nbsp; most flavorful cuts of beef you can get. But what&nbsp;&nbsp;
I love about it is it's actually quite tender.&nbsp; This is my favorite part right here. That fat&nbsp;&nbsp; cap on the outside. I do wish there was a touch&nbsp; more salt. I agree. Actually, long story short,&nbsp;&nbsp; we are here for the pani. Is this pani good? It's&nbsp; excellent. It's flavorful. It's delicious. Most&nbsp;&nbsp;
cut beef. It's juicy. It's not the best steak I've&nbsp; ever had, but it just delivers. I could eat this&nbsp;&nbsp; all day long, feel good, and happy. Unlimited&nbsp; meat plus unlimited salad bar cost $84 a person&nbsp;&nbsp; without tip and tax. I mean, that's insane value.&nbsp; Kind of hard to beat that. The more you can eat,&nbsp;&nbsp;
the better the value it is. So, let's move on&nbsp; to the number one steakhouse in America. Our&nbsp;&nbsp; steak tour across America ends here at Coat. It's&nbsp; been rated the best steakhouse in all of America&nbsp;&nbsp; and number 10 in the world. And this place is&nbsp; dramatically different from every steakhouse we've&nbsp;&nbsp;
visited so far. It's America's first and only&nbsp; Michelin starred Korean steakhouse. And I'm a firm&nbsp;&nbsp; believer Korean barbecue is one of the best ways&nbsp; to enjoy meat. It also turns out that Salt Hank&nbsp;&nbsp; might be Coat's biggest fan, like ever. We ordered&nbsp; the butcher feast which comes with four cuts of&nbsp;&nbsp;
prime and Wagyu beef plus bonchan and a few tasty&nbsp; sides for shockingly good price which I'll reveal&nbsp;&nbsp; at the end. But we did add some Japanese Wagyu for&nbsp; a pretty significant upcharge. Maybe the Wagyu is&nbsp;&nbsp; worth it. This really is going to come down to the&nbsp; quality of the beef and how well they execute the&nbsp;&nbsp;
grilling. Be first by itself. Cheers. It's so&nbsp; good. It's really good. He has this like poker&nbsp;&nbsp; face. It's the besting meat ever. It's juicy.&nbsp; It's nice. I'm enjoying it. What happens when you&nbsp;&nbsp; cut into a steak that hasn't rested? juice just&nbsp; flows out of it. He didn't let the steak rest,&nbsp;&nbsp;
but we're eating it so when we bite into it, that&nbsp; juice is just shooting into your mouth. Next,&nbsp;&nbsp; we tried some American Wagu. I think the texture&nbsp; is actually perfect. The flavor is so much higher.&nbsp;&nbsp; By the end of this meal, I'm picking my favorite&nbsp; cut. You should pick yours. So far, we have&nbsp;&nbsp;
the American Wagu flat iron, which so far is my&nbsp; favorite. Onto the next USDA Prime is up again,&nbsp;&nbsp; but this time dry-aged ribeye. Big flavor out the&nbsp; gate and then immediately lost. American Wagu,&nbsp;&nbsp;
New York strip. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with&nbsp; you. I've said this before. I really believe&nbsp;&nbsp; American Wagyu is the best cut of beef more&nbsp; than A5. A5 is like all the way on the extreme&nbsp;&nbsp; spectrum. Prime is over here. I want something&nbsp; in the middle where I can eat a lot of it,&nbsp;&nbsp;
but it's not so fatty that I'm eating butter. This&nbsp; is kind of hitting that. It's so tender, so juicy,&nbsp;&nbsp; I actually agree. So, this is the short rib galby&nbsp; marinated. It's meat candy. Cheers. If this wasn't&nbsp;&nbsp;
marinated, I would say this is immediately my&nbsp; favorite choice. But I feel like that's an unfair&nbsp;&nbsp; winner. It's so perfect. The fat content, it's not&nbsp; too fatty, but it also is so rich and anxious. The&nbsp;&nbsp; beefiness comes through, the sweetness from the&nbsp; marinade, the little smoky char. It's crispy. God&nbsp;&nbsp;
to disqualify just because it's not pure meat, and&nbsp; that's not really a fair comparison to the other&nbsp;&nbsp; steaks. We still have two more cuts. It all comes&nbsp; down to this. The supposed king of all meats,&nbsp;&nbsp;
the Japanese A5 Wagyu at the number one steakhouse&nbsp; in the USA. Tenderloin A5. You ready? I mean, come&nbsp;&nbsp; on. Right. It's so good. It's really good. It's&nbsp; almost a little too much. Uh-uh. I think I just&nbsp;&nbsp;
love fat. It's really good. Yeah. It's so tender.&nbsp; Literally biting through butter. Obviously,&nbsp;&nbsp; the extra fat is contributing a little bit more&nbsp; meatiness to it. A little bit more richness and&nbsp;&nbsp; uncxiousness that the other fillet just simply&nbsp; didn't have. It's more tender. It has more flavor.&nbsp;&nbsp;
How could it not be better? Ready? I think this&nbsp; is going to be like at least top two bites of&nbsp;&nbsp; the night. Love A5, dude. All right. Come on. It's&nbsp; so so good. Like the flavor is so deep. It almost&nbsp;&nbsp;
has like an umami quality to it. And there's just&nbsp; salt. That's my favorite so far. I'm going to put&nbsp;&nbsp; this neck and neck with the American Wagyu strip&nbsp; because I can eat much more of the American Wagu&nbsp;&nbsp; strip one. And this is so rich. I can barely take&nbsp; this last bite. So much fat, but flavor and the&nbsp;&nbsp;
texture is superior. My favorite is the New York&nbsp; strip American Wagu by a slight margin. Is this&nbsp;&nbsp; the best steakhouse experience that we had? It's&nbsp; a perfect marriage of two things. The experience&nbsp;&nbsp; that a Korean barbecue brings combined with really&nbsp; high quality, diverse selection of good steaks. I&nbsp;&nbsp;
also want to point out there is an array of acidic&nbsp; amazing kimchi that help cut through all of this&nbsp;&nbsp; fat and beef that are singing right now in my&nbsp; mouth. So, how does this all stack up? First,&nbsp;&nbsp; we got the Butcher's Feast, which was $78&nbsp; per person, and that comes with four cuts&nbsp;&nbsp;
of beef plus sides, which was plenty of food.&nbsp; But we went overboard and got a bite of A5,&nbsp;&nbsp; most prized beef in the world. And that brings it&nbsp; up to $110 a person. That's more than worth it.&nbsp;&nbsp; What was truly the best value in terms of price&nbsp; per pound? Actually, Big Texans 72 oz steak for&nbsp;&nbsp;
$72. Clearly a winner. But in terms of a full meal&nbsp; plus flavor plus experience, it's nice, fancy,&nbsp;&nbsp; meat is incredibly high quality. If you just get&nbsp; the butcher feast, then Coat ends up being the&nbsp;&nbsp; best value. Where was the best experience&nbsp; overall? Personally, I'd say Josie Andre's&nbsp;&nbsp;
Bizaarre Meat tops the list for me, and Coat was&nbsp; a close second. So, you clearly don't have to&nbsp;&nbsp; empty your entire wallet just to find some value&nbsp; at America's most famous steakouses. Subscribe.&nbsp;&nbsp; Love you. I love you, too. I love you. Well, I&nbsp; was talking to them. I love you, too. [Music]
