Does anyone remember the York Steakhouse?
Peter Maranci
thought of them, but they had GREAT food. I know there were branches in
Trumble CT and Dedham MA, plus many others. But they've been all gone
for years. I looked them up on Google, but all I could find was
something called the "New York Steakhouse", which is definitely not the
same thing.
There was something about their food -- a very particular and really
delicious flavor -- that I've never had anywhere else. I don't suppose
anyone out there used to work there, and can tell me their secret? Or
knows a place that still serves burgers with that particular savor?
Nostalgically,
Peter
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Peter Maranci <pe...@maranci.net> wrote:
> Does anyone remember the York Steakhouse? It's been years since I
> thought of them, but they had GREAT food. I know there were branches
in
> Trumble CT and Dedham MA, plus many others. But they've been all gone
> for years. I looked them up on Google, but all I could find was
> something called the "New York Steakhouse", which is definitely not
the
> same thing.
>
> There was something about their food -- a very particular and really
> delicious flavor -- that I've never had anywhere else. I don't
suppose
> anyone out there used to work there, and can tell me their secret? Or
> knows a place that still serves burgers with that particular savor?
>
> Nostalgically,
> Peter
I remember them, though not as fondly as you do. There was one
at the Westgate Mall in Brockton.
I remember over-tenderized meat, boring salads, aged baked
potatoes and cafeteria-style 'service.'
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Seth Goodman
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<snip>
>
> I remember over-tenderized meat, boring salads, aged baked
> potatoes and cafeteria-style 'service.'
>
That's how I remember them too - they used "good" grade (now known as
"select") grade steaks, heavily tenderized with papain. Okay for a quick
meal, but not exactly great food.
I used to eat at the one at the Burlington Mall, occasionally. We used
to refer to it as the "Yuck" Steakhouse. They've been out of business for
at least ten years, I would guess. No great loss.
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Gunther W Anderson
steakhouses in the 70s, and I do fondly remember meals at places like
Ponderosa. It seems that they've almost completely fallen out of favor.
Possibly no great loss to the world, but it does serve to make me feel
old, as all my old memories become just memories.
Are there any more of those steak house places left in New England? All
the ones near my old home in Virginia are gone.
Gunther Anderson
Cynthia Zerquera-Fischer
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I remember the one at the Natick Mall. And the Ponderosa in Attleboro.
Sadly, these type of affordable family fare places are long gone, replaced
by the likes of Outback Steakhouse, Bugaboo Creek, etc.
There is one good old fashioned steakhouse left in New England - in Mendon,
MA. It's called New England Steak and Seafood. It's sit down, not
cafeteria style, but some elements make it old fashioned. You get crackers
and Cheez Whiz for appetizers, onion rolls with dinner. There's a whole
section on prime rib. Everything is laden with butter. We like to go there
because it is very quiet.
CZF
Adam Kippes
> There was something about their food -- a very particular and really
> delicious flavor -- that I've never had anywhere else.
I'm not so sure about that. I used to eat frequently at the one in the
old Natick Mall (most of my family worked there in high school in the
1970's); it was pretty good, certainly for the price. But I don't know
of anywhere like them anymore, at least not around here. I guess it's
just gone out of style.
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Debbie Deutsch
<G7MK4...@world.std.com>:
This sort of steakhouse was popular back in the '60s too, at least in New
York. Tad's Steakhouse had a number of locations around New York City and
advertised a steak dinner for $1.25, which was a good price even then. The
steak was grilled. My memory is that it was pretty decent - some version
of strip steak of reasonable size. Then again, I was in grade school in
those days.
Debbie
Paul Kinnucan
"Debbie Deutsch" <ddeutsc...@nospam.ma.ultranet.com> wrote in message
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Nick's Steakhouse in Central Square was popular with MIT students in the
60s. It was a cafeteria-style steakhouse. My housemates and I use to eat
there almost every night after moving off campus to a house on Harvard St.
behind Central Square. Salsbury steak and a Greek salad were staples of our
diet. I wonder if Nick's is still there.
- Paul
Peter Maranci
gun...@world.std.com (Gunther W Anderson) wrote:
> Actually, there was sort of a golden-age for those cafeteria-style
> steakhouses in the 70s, and I do fondly remember meals at places like
> Ponderosa. It seems that they've almost completely fallen out of
> favor.
True. Ponderosa still exists, but around here (Rhode Island) it
*really* sucks. The food is just awful.
But since you brought up Ponderosa, you've reminded me of all the other
great old steakhouses of days gone by;
Bonanza. BASED ON THE TV SHOW! I think? How cool is that! The only
other restaurant I know that was based on a TV show was Howdy Doody's,
and that's long gone. The one in Dedham MA that my grandmother used to
take me to changed to a MacYuckburger's long ago. As I recall, Bonanza
had cafeteria-style service, a Western decor, and good, standard
American food. But the Bonanza I knew in Westport CT changed to a
Family Affair. I heard some wierd rumors about divorces and
inheritances and stuff; I think the story was that two brother split
the Bonanza chain, and one of them changed his half-chain to Family
Affair. It was a lot like Bonanza, but didn't have the cool TV
association.
Beefsteak Charlie's. "All the Wine, Beer, & Sangria You Can Drink". No
wonder they're no longer in business, huh? But it was a decent place to
eat, unless the "Duke of Magic" was doing a table-to-table show at your
locality. I remember we kids used to cringe when he approached. For
some reason, though, when I try to picture him in my mind I keep coming
up with the "Duke of Doubt" from those cheesy old Burger King
commercials. :)
> Possibly no great loss to the world, but it does serve to make me feel
> old, as all my old memories become just memories.
Yeah, doesn't it suck?
> Are there any more of those steak house places left in New England?
> All the ones near my old home in Virginia are gone.
Apart from Ponderosa, that style of steakhouse is one with history. Of
course there *are* steakhouses around still. Some of them suck; I'd put
the Outback in that category, as well as Bugaboo Creek. Both have
served me burgers with pieces of bone in them more than once, and even
one time would have been way too many. And frankly, there's something
about their burgers that just tastes *bad*. As if something was wrong
with the meat.
The Hilltop Steakhouse is still around, which is impressive for such an
old institution, but since they nearly shot me and publically
humiliated me many years ago (the full story should still be in the
ne.food archives on DejaNews), I won't go there.
I found a great place for steak a while ago, well off the beaten path:
the Coachman's Lodge in Bellingham, MA (273 Wrentham Road). It's an odd
place; we only found it by chance, and from the outside it's hard to
say what sort of place it is. But when you get inside...well, it's
unique. Whoever decorated it has excellent but odd taste; the place is
beautiful and dark, and just plain hard to describe. It's the kind of
place that you'd wear a tie to, and *maybe* a jacket, but you don't
have to. I've been there in jeans. Entrees range from about $10 - $20.
The steak is incredible. I usually have a top round sirloin with
carmelized onions, and it's simply perfect. The meat is incredibly
tender, and combined with the onions the flavor is so intense that it's
amazing - yet not overpowering.
Jeeze. Now I'm all hungry. :)
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Debbie Deutsch
<94klbg$rur$1...@news.mathworks.com>:
[SNIP]
>
>Nick's Steakhouse in Central Square was popular with MIT students in the
>60s. It was a cafeteria-style steakhouse. My housemates and I use to
>eat there almost every night after moving off campus to a house on
>Harvard St. behind Central Square. Salsbury steak and a Greek salad
>were staples of our diet. I wonder if Nick's is still there.
>
>- Paul
>
>
>
I think I remember Nick's. It was on the left side of Mass. Ave., going
towards MIT from Central Square. Do I have that right?
I don't remember ever going there. Was it upstairs? If so, I believe it
was eventually replaced by an Indian restaurant, which in turn is long
gone. Sheesh, we are going back a good number of years!
The staple Central Square restaurant of my MIT youth was Zorba's. Same
side of Mass Ave, closer to campus, walk down into a semi-basement level,
and consume goodly amounts of reasonably tasty Greek food.
Debbie
joan...@my-deja.com
What about Nick's Beef and Brew on Mass Ave. between Harvard
and Porter Sq., which was a cool red booth place. Now it's the
Temple Bar which has a nice atmosphere, but it ain't no Nick's
Beef and Brew (or whatever it was called).
Joanie
Alan Grossberg
Pittsfield, used to have good steak and excellent bread.
P.S. to Gunther: J.R.'s Stockyards Inn (Tyson's Corner, McLean) is a pretty
good steak and roast beef joint.
Christopher K Davis
> The Hilltop Steakhouse is still around, which is impressive for such an
> old institution, but since they nearly shot me and publically
> humiliated me many years ago (the full story should still be in the
> ne.food archives on DejaNews), I won't go there.
Deja's been lobotomized and only goes back a little over a year now. The
only post by you with the word "Hilltop" in it on ne.food is from '99 and
only refers to them inasmuch as you went there after Wild Harvest didn't
have any ground beef.
"Anyway, I ran over to the Hilltop steakhouse grocery (despite the fact
that I was savegely pistol-whipped there ten years ago (well, okay, it
wasn't quite that bad (but pretty bad!)), and got a huge bag of ground
beef. I barbecued it that night and my guests said that the meat was
clearly better -- before they even knew I'd gotten it somewhere else."
That's all. Not really "the full story" -- so feel free to repost the
whole thing for our edification/amusement/outrage at the Plastic Cow
Palace.
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>> old institution, but since they nearly shot me and publically
>> humiliated me many years ago (the full story should still be in the
>> ne.food archives on DejaNews), I won't go there.
>
>Deja's been lobotomized and only goes back a little over a year now.
It's still there if you search the complete archive. The message in question
has the non-perspicuous title
Re: Bugaboo Creek (was re:) So tacky.....
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French so their communications to each other wouldn't be confused with
the customers conversations.
Does anyone remember the name of the steakhouse that used to be on Route
1 in Peabody? It was just north of the Holiday Inn (north bound). Now
it's an Italian restaurant that I can't remember the name of right now.
You know, the BIG chain (not Olive Garden) that uses brick ovens for
their pizza.
Anyhow, in the 80's it was Michael's Gran Cru but the steakhouse was
there in the 70's.
danielk...@my-deja.com
> Bonanza. BASED ON THE TV SHOW! I think? How cool is that! The only
> other restaurant I know that was based on a TV show was Howdy Doody's,
> and that's long gone.
What about Roy Rogers? They used to be much more Western0themed, with
wooden trash barrels and fences that formed the line where you waited
to order.
> Beefsteak Charlie's. "All the Wine, Beer, & Sangria You Can Drink". No
> wonder they're no longer in business, huh?
I went to one in New York maybe 2 years ago, in the fringes of the
Times Square area. Have they gone out of business since then?
And to reply out-of-context to another post, there are a bunch of Tad's
Steakhouses left in New York. I think they're run by the big Riese
Restaurants franchise company.
-Dan
Larry Burdick
Same as the others, where you took Mom on Mothers' Day because she didn't
like those garlicky foreign places you kept trying.
- Larry
Uri Guttman
what about newbury's steak house? i used to take my parents there for a
safe meal. they had a good and large salad bar. i don't remember how the
steaks were.
frank's in north cambridge is still around and we don't
like it much.
jimmy's steerhouse in arlington is a decent value. sometimes the steaks
are pretty good (they do seem to vary). their prime rib always seems
very fatty. fish dishes are not worth much. they recently did a major
renovation which helped a lot with their ambiance. we wish they had
non-heavy appetizers and any form of soup. they are very middle of the
road and you know what you will get for your money.
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Barry Shein
Were there "Sizzler" steak houses in New England? How about Scotch &
Sirloin?
I remember ending up at a Scotch & Sirloin in London, near Victoria
Station, man it was awful but we were starved and the weather was
lousy etc.
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Barry Shein <b...@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>Were there "Sizzler" steak houses in New England? How about Scotch &
>Sirloin?
>
10 years ago.
Chuck Demas
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>... Now
>it's an Italian restaurant that I can't remember the name of right now.
>You know, the BIG chain (not Olive Garden) that uses brick ovens for
>their pizza.
Do you mean Bertucci's?
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Back in the 70's, I now remember, it was Emerson's Steakhouse. I never
made it there but 1 or 2 nights a week they had an AYCE steak deal. The
quality? I can't speak to that.
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Phil Sunde
wrote:
>In article <G7MK4...@world.std.com>,
> gun...@world.std.com (Gunther W Anderson) wrote:
>> Actually, there was sort of a golden-age for those cafeteria-style
>> steakhouses in the 70s, and I do fondly remember meals at places like
>> Ponderosa. It seems that they've almost completely fallen out of
>> favor.
What about the "99 Restaurant and Pub," as they call themselves? Do
they qualify as a "steakhouse"?
Phil
Gunther W Anderson
: >In article <G7MK4...@world.std.com>,
: > gun...@world.std.com (Gunther W Anderson) wrote:
: >> Actually, there was sort of a golden-age for those cafeteria-style
: >> steakhouses in the 70s, and I do fondly remember meals at places like
: >> Ponderosa. It seems that they've almost completely fallen out of
: >> favor.
: What about the "99 Restaurant and Pub," as they call themselves? Do
: they qualify as a "steakhouse"?
Maybe, but not a "cafeteria-style steakhouse". In fact, the other
steakhouses that people have mentioned (like Bugaboo and Outback) don't
qualify either, except by way of pointing out that the modern cheap,
family steakhouse is of a completely different model. Me, I like salad
bars. The kind I can walk up to again and again, getting a dollop of
cottage cheese alongside my lettuce-with-boiled-eggs,-croutons-and-
cheese, with a few canned peaches thrown in for good measure. Yes, I
thrived at the freshman cafeteria in college. Cap'n Crunch for
breakfast, salad bar for lunch and dinner. And I'm still not dead.
OK, the over-sharing light is on. Sorry.
Gunther Anderson
Ron Newman
<rqg...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> But since you brought up Ponderosa, you've reminded me of all the other
> great old steakhouses of days gone by;
>
> Bonanza. BASED ON THE TV SHOW! I think? How cool is that! The only
> other restaurant I know that was based on a TV show was Howdy Doody's,
> and that's long gone. The one in Dedham MA that my grandmother used to
> take me to changed to a MacYuckburger's long ago. As I recall, Bonanza
> had cafeteria-style service, a Western decor, and good, standard
> American food.
Bonanza still exists. See
http://www.bonanzarestaurants.com/
There's still a Bonanza in Pittsfield MA, according to
http://www.ponderosasteakhouses.com/scripts/database.asp?state=MA
I didn't realize, until I went to this web site, that
Ponderosa, Bonanza, Bennigan's, and Steak & Ale are actually
all one chain.
Ron Newman
Wang Center in downtown Boston. Don't know when it closed.
Gunther W Anderson
: P.S. to Gunther: J.R.'s Stockyards Inn (Tyson's Corner, McLean) is a pretty
: good steak and roast beef joint.
I'll remember that next time I'm visitng family. I live in Watertown
(MA) now... :-)
As long as we're talking about random, real steakhouses, there's a
restaurant on 117 heading towards Hudson called something like the Beef
and Ale (or is it Beef and Beer?). It's on the south side of the road,
across from a strip mall with a grocery store. I used to drive by it
all the time, but never stopped in (because every time I passed it, I
really wanted to be wherever I was going, and not somewhere in between).
Anybody know how that place is?
Oh, that's Mass. Rt. 117.
Gunther Anderson
rob...@my-deja.com
Uno's.
Anyone remember "The Red Coach Grille" on the South Shore/Cape Cod? My
parents loved both those places...not me though!
In article <%lsb6.6140$cd.9...@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net>,
Allan Sherman
<snip> Me, I like salad
> bars. The kind I can walk up to again and again, getting a dollop of
> cottage cheese alongside my lettuce-with-boiled-eggs,-croutons-and-
> cheese, with a few canned peaches thrown in for good measure. Yes, I
> thrived at the freshman cafeteria in college. Cap'n Crunch for
> breakfast, salad bar for lunch and dinner. And I'm still not dead.
>
We occasionally stopped at a steak house with a stupendous
salad/appetizer/desert bar in southern Connecticut. It was just off I-95
(exit 41?). Haven't been there in maybe 6-8 years. No idea if it is still
there....
Elizabeth McCracken
>What about Nick's Beef and Brew on Mass Ave. between Harvard
>and Porter Sq., which was a cool red booth place. Now it's the
>Temple Bar which has a nice atmosphere, but it ain't no Nick's
>Beef and Brew (or whatever it was called).
>Joanie
That was Nick's Beef and Beer House--lovingly known,
after the lights in the sign burned out (or did the
letters just drop off?) as Nick's Eff N Bee Ho.
They had artificial fireplaces hung on the wall,
for some reason, and were shockingly cheap.
I don't know whether anyone has mentioned it, but
there used to be a cafeteria style steakhouse in Waltham
called "The Round-up" that had a frozen yogurt stand
called "Afternoon Delight." Hey, it was the 1970s.
Eventually, it was turned into a Ground Round. I don't
know what it is now.
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Allan Sherman
> there used to be a cafeteria style steakhouse in Waltham
> called "The Round-up" that had a frozen yogurt stand
> called "Afternoon Delight." Hey, it was the 1970s.
> Eventually, it was turned into a Ground Round. I don't
> know what it is now.
> Elizabeth McCracken
That brings back old memories....
It is now John Brewers Tavern. We have had a number of enjoyable meals
there. On Rt 20 near the Waltham-Watertown line.
Al
Brett
> Does anyone remember the York Steakhouse? It's been years since I
> thought of them, but they had GREAT food. I know there were branches in
> Trumble CT and Dedham MA, plus many others. But they've been all gone
> for years. I looked them up on Google, but all I could find was
> something called the "New York Steakhouse", which is definitely not the
> same thing.
>
> There was something about their food -- a very particular and really
> delicious flavor -- that I've never had anywhere else. I don't suppose
> anyone out there used to work there, and can tell me their secret? Or
> knows a place that still serves burgers with that particular savor?
>
> Nostalgically,
> Peter
> Peter Maranci rqg...@my-deja.com
> RuneQuest RPG scenarios, sheets & more: http://www.maranci.net/rq.htm
Apparently there is still one in Columbus, Ohio!
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/the_last_york_steak_house_colu.html#1
Dan Logcher
> On Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 9:39:27 AM UTC-5, Peter Maranci wrote:
>> Does anyone remember the York Steakhouse? It's been years since I
>> thought of them, but they had GREAT food. I know there were branches in
>> Trumble CT and Dedham MA, plus many others. But they've been all gone
>> for years. I looked them up on Google, but all I could find was
>> something called the "New York Steakhouse", which is definitely not the
>> same thing.
>
and Boston Chops.
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Paul
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was not memorable to me. The OP has been waiting over 15 years for
this answer, so may have starved by now.
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Uri Guttman
DL> On 7/5/2016 10:04 PM, Brett wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 9:39:27 AM UTC-5, Peter Maranci wrote:
>>> Does anyone remember the York Steakhouse? It's been years since I
>>> thought of them, but they had GREAT food. I know there were branches in
>>> Trumble CT and Dedham MA, plus many others. But they've been all gone
>>> for years. I looked them up on Google, but all I could find was
>>> something called the "New York Steakhouse", which is definitely not the
>>> same thing.
>>
>> Apparently there is still one in Columbus, Ohio!
DL> and Boston Chops.
in arlington there is tango, an argentine steak house. very good steaks,
chimmichurri sauce, etc. they hosted argentine soccer team recently when
the team played a game in foxboro.
uri