re: Chophouse Nola or Doris Met

This statement gets bandied about here often, and there could be a small segment of truth to it, but in fact it is not correct.

Steaks can be cooked cheaper at home. Steaks can be cooked exactly to one's liking at home. Steaks can be cooked with whatever one wants at home. Steaks can be cooked and served with a mojito, or old fashion, port, or wine of one's choosing at home. Certainly there is some primal satisfaction in firing up a grill, sitting outside on a nice night, and cooking a steak (or reverse searing/searing/sous viding) that can not be replicated by sitting in a restaurant, but...

But all in all, given a choice between a top steak at a great restaurant (that is sourcing, aging, cutting, and more skilled at cooking it on equipment you dont have) and your home cooked steak, I'd take the restaurant steak 9 times out of 10. And only that once, if I really liked you.