The Steak House and Hi Ho BBQ in Hammond Reviews

Was in Hammond over the weekend. Had dinner at the Steak House.

The Steak House is a very casual small restaurant with brick walls. Not much to it, but the steaks are very good. The menu isn't large and you order the steaks by the ounce. They're grilled and all of our steaks (7 of us) were cooked the way we ordered them with a nice char and lots of flavor.

We had several orders of chargrilled oysters, which were very good, not the best I've had but very good and some sort of chili shrimp app which was also tasty.

I think 4 people had a salad off the menu rather than the salad that came with the steak, plus a few sides. The mac and cheese was darn good.

We had 3 bottles of wine, plus 4 additional glasses, 2 martinis and a few old fashions. I think the bill was just over $300 including tax. It was a deal for the amount of food and the quality of the food. Service was excellent and the owners were friendly, visiting tables to make sure customers were pleased. I recommend it if you're in the area.

Grabbed a pulled pork sandwich at Hi Ho to see what the fuss was about with this place. I still don't know what the fuss was about. The meat and sauce were nearly flavorless and the sandwich was so full of sauce that it was falling apart before I could take the first bite. It was hard to eat and not that worth it, but I was hungry, so I ate what I could. I don't get the love for this place at all. Maybe I ordered the wrong thing. The sauce tasted like bland "liquiddy" ketchup to me. There was a generous amount of meat floating around in the sauce and that was the only positive if there was one.

Also hit Berry Town Produce on the way out of town. Love that place. First time in my life I'd seen fresh red beans in the shell. I'd have bought them, but I don't have time to shell and cook them this week. Also so another bean in the shell I'd never seen called horticulture bean. It was a fat white bean with a little purple here and there. Anyone had those?

Loaded up on some Liuzza's Creole tomatoes. Had one, last night, that was really good.

Dropped in B&J seafood next to Berry Town, as well. Picked up a few items. Very very nice selection of fresh seafood, fish, crabmeat, boiled crabs, crawfish tails... There were some "fresh off the boat" shrimp with the heads on which were beautiful. Didn't buy any since I couldn't use them this week, but if you live in that area and need fresh shrimp. I'd go there. The place is clean and there were no old seafood smells. Reminded me of some of the nice seafood stores in AL and FL. Excellent source for fresh seafood. I didn't pay attention to the prices. I think the fresh crawfish tails I bought were 13 bucks a pound and that's all I remember.