:: steakhouse chain best known for its western flair and peanuts on the floor ::
Well, “reality” insists that “peanut shells” on the floor is framed by my reality (SWMBO) and finds.
Wife and I don’t frequent our local Logan’s (or Texas Roadhouse or Saltgrass) because, well and quite frankly, I can grill the same rib-eye at home. My-own rub and done over both wood and charcoal.
When my DW wonders about going to a local steakhouse, I tell her that I’ll get a steak (her style/cut) and cook it my self with coal-roasted baked russets and corn-on-the-cob.
Child that —right there— is a BBQ steak dinner.
You could buy some peanuts and throw the shells all over the floor for “ambience”............
We try to do this every Friday evening. Play our own music, a few glasses of wine, BBQ a rib-eye, baked potato, salad, then go sit on the couch with the music blaring or turn on a concert from AXS TV! lol
We just finished a "steak" dinner I cooked on the stove with cheap $2.97/lb boneless beef ribs. Not melt in your mouth but tender enough. A whole piece, which I can't finish off, with sides of roasted farm carrots, slaw with everything but the kitchen sink in it and green beans with pecans (off our trees) comes in at $2.15 a plate. Sometimes, I'll include some homemade steakhouse bread. I'm not about to get dressed, drive to a steak house, wait forever for the order, gamble on it even being edible, pay out the wahzoo, tip and then drive home with my entire evening wasted.
Kroger and Central Market’s prime steaks are head-and-shoulders above most steak restaurants up to the Ruth’s Chris level. Used to enjoy the Carter Green steakhouse at the Island View casino in Gulfport when we lived there, though.
Of the steakhouse chains that aren’t higher priced, I prefer Texas Land And Cattle now that the recent idiot ‘craft dining’ management have been replaced by the new owners and the menu’s returned to about where it was before the prior idiots took over.