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Receta The Angus Club Steakhouse: A Prime Choice For Great Aged, Grass-fed Beef!
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By: Anne M. Raso
To be straight and to the point, I adored my recent (and first time) visit to the Angus Club Steakhouse. Their supplier of meat is Master Purveyors (masterpurveyors.com), whom also supply such other wonderful New York steakhouses including Bobby Van's Grill, which I declared a year ago to have the best and biggest filet mignon in NYC. Well, when I bit into my filet at Angus Club Steakhouse, the aged, grass-fed meat (done medium rare) was so delicious and "buttery," that I swear I died and went to some sort of beef heaven!
InteriorBut I am getting ahead of myself. My dining partner and I started out with Mozzarella & Beefsteak Tomatoes ($15), one of the few non-seafood appetizers on the menu. (I guess that…
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