Do you ever watch restaurant videos?

I used to see a list of the 10 best steak houses in the US in various magazines. Then I figured out it was an ad.

Yeh, this is all pr driven. A lot of the food on the short slide shows looks too cute to bear, from my point of view. Still, I'm like a bee to a flower if you show me restaurant photos. There was this one place in Mexico City that got my interest:
http://www.theworlds50best.com/awards/1-50-winners/pujol/
http://pujol.com.mx/english/carta.html


To me the best steak houses were the old stockyard inns of the fifties.

Tell me about 'em.
I didn't get to the States 'til 1960.

But I can tell some great stories about the "asados" we used to enjoy in Argentina.

When I was seventeen, in the summer after high school graduation, my father and a crew were making an industrial film for Armour & Co. I got to go along and enjoyed the whole trip. It was all a ploy to keep me out of the convent, which I'd signed up for in a state of complete confusion, the good sisters telling me I had a vocation. Anyway, the trip was with my father and three men, a camerman and two film editors: the first time I'd really been around men as a group over any long period of time. So long, convent! Men's talk was interesting!

We filmed in farms in Nebraska and Iowa, and stockyards in Sioux City, Omaha, and made a short visit in Chicago. My favorite place was Johnny's, just outside the entrance to the Omaha Stockyards.

Hah, it's even online. But my memories before I check the site -
we went there for lunch a few times. I remember a terrific steak - way better than most I've had since - that was $2.95. I forget now what it was, big, a porterhouse or ?, but wonderful, with sides of potatoes and eggs.

I can't see the menus on the link, but there are some good photos, and the map enlarges to show what must be the stockyard area.
http://www.johnnyscafe.com/
Here's a page on it from yelp.com
People still rave about the meat and the portion sizes.
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/248/1151940/restaurant/South-Omaha/Johnnys-Cafe-Omaha


We ate at the Stockyard Inn in Chicago; what I remember is not the particulars of the meal but going in the building and getting to pick out the meat from display casing..
Armour and other companies closed there in the fifties; the film was made in '59, just after the big change in transportation re the animals, anyway, no filming that I remember. Not like the other places.


Don't remember where we ate in Sioux City but remember liking the city a lot.

My thoughts about the meat industry have gone from neutral back then, and yes, I saw the steers killed, the hung up carcasses.. to wary about much of the business and factory farming in particular - and still eating some meat, though a lot less. Humboldt County, where I lived last, had a lively bunch of dairy farms with the cows munching expanses of grass, and a number of grocers selling local grass fed beef. Better, in my view. Maybe not as tasty as those 1959 steaks at Johnny's.

great post osso

Just click at the top on dinner and the menu comes up.
Neat
Chateaub. for 2. $48.00

I did that, just did it again - a photo comes up. Hmmmmph.

So tell me about the asados..

Not to belabor this, but when the photo comes up; look at the top. Click where it says dinner.

Grrr. On the photo on my screen, there is no dinner above the photo, which goes clear to the top.
Well, I'll live - found the menu on some menus site.
Thanks, though.