Ol' Abner Done It Agin!

For Tim's upcoming 30th year mark, I wanted to take him to a place that featured steaks, steaks, and more steaks. Mike Shannon's is the place in St. Louis, according to itself, to see and be seen and not to mention to eat some famous steak. I made reservations (definitely recommended especially since the Cardinals played a day game on Saturday)* and off we went to spend loads of money just to find out if a 40 dollar fillet is that much better than a 18 dollar one.

The truth is, no. Tim had a fillet and I had a dry-aged strip. Tim told me half way through our dish that my meals are better (this makes me feel both good and bad-meaning I didn't necessarily have to spend 150 dollars tonight; he was referencing my New Year's meal where I purchased 2 dollar(!) fillets from Aldi and he loved them). It would have been nice if the steaks had some sort of sauce-asking for A1 seemed a bit unrefined for the price of our beef. They were just boring. They tasted as they were supposed to, just boring. Also, everything here is ala carte, which is French for "we can jack up your meal even farther when you have to pay 8 dollars each for your salad and potato."

I wanted to try a "signature cocktail;" one I had my eye on featured egg whites and various other weird things, but the waiter steered me toward the safer bet of muddled raspberries in a lemonade-flavored spirit.

Tim would like to add that the people here are hideous. At a place that is to see and be seen, our dining room was full of really ugly folks. We were in the Musial room, which is sectioned off from the main dining room, and in the main dining room, you can sit at street level along tall windows. I am kind of thinking perhaps they grouped all of the ugly folks and put them off to the side...

http://www.shannonsteak.com/

*While we were waiting for our table, "some douche who thinks he's somebody" started joking around with the Maitre'D. Apparently, this was the Reds announcer and former pitching star, Jeff Brantley. No, I have no idea who he is.