Stag Hotel Chateaubriand – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 18

On weekdays The Stag do half price steaks for members, and the waitresses are very attentive and entertaining because they’ve got nothing better to do.

On the menu they have a chateaubriand which is designed to be shared amongst two people, however it’s only 500g and I already knew I wouldn’t be satisfied with a meagre 250g of meat, so two of us ordered this “dish for two”, and the other guy ordered a 500g rump.

The rump on half price day is like $14 – total bargain – the chateaubriand comes with mushrooms, onion rings, chips, mash, green veggies, and a choice of three sauces. When the chick asked which we wanted we asked which three sauces we could choose from… Nope – you get THREE SAUCES from their selection!

The bearnaise was delicious, the blue cheese was way too overpowering for me – but I guess other folk who aren’t as pussy as me would enjoy it, the pepper was a delight, the garlic and worcestershire was ok I guess, but in the end I find it hard to get past just garlic/herb butter as pretty much the ultimate steak sauce.

Oh yeah the normal price for a chateaubriand meal deal is $80 bucks, not a chance I’d do it at that price, but at $40 bucks it felt like a banquet of six pieces of steak with loads of sauces and a few random bits to taste, totally worth it at half-price.

Here’s the sauces… (BTW, don’t do the “more ‘sources’ than Wikipedia”, they’ve heard all the bad jokes)

It’s difficult to get an idea of scale of this plate, it is basically 3 times the size of a normal dinner plate.

Current weight: 84.4kg
Alcohol: 1 bottle of red wine, 9 gins
Other food: none

Total steak eaten: 6.5kg
Total other food: 10 eggs, 620g processed meat, 500g chicken, 950g seafood, 725g carby stuff, 500g vegetables
Total alcohol: 29 beers, 9 bottles champagne, 6.5 bottles white wine, 14.5 bottles red wine, 0.5 bottles rosé, 23 gins, 5 vodkas