My steaks are better than most restaurants'. Steak is just too simple to make when you own a Weber grill. A bit of olive oil, salt and pepper, and then it's eight to twelve minutes on the grill. I'm fortunate to be able to get USDA Prime beef when I want it, so my steaks are wonderful at home. With my steak, I want a great Pinot Noir but I don't want to pay the 100+% markups at restaurants. I want a real Caesar Salad which most restaurants won't do because of raw egg. And before all of that, I want a perfect Martini which is hard to find at restaurants. So, steaks I usually do at home.
Some seafood you can do at home easily too. Cedar Planked Salmon, for example, is a snap on the Webber. But a lot of seafood is a lot of work to prepare. Cows are such big animals that the store breaks them down for you. But a lot of seafood is small animals and so the store just sells you the whole thing. Even chickens come plucked and emptied out at the store. If you had to pluck and clean it out yourself, you'd probably eat less chicken too. It's not that I'm opposed to butchering animals, it's just time-consuming. So, seafood that needs extensive cleaning and prep is best outsourced.
There's a lot more to do with seafood too. A steak, a spritz of olive oil and some salt and pepper. You never see steak grenobloise or steak almondin or steak pantries with a hazlenut crust. But fish? There are a lot of ways to do fish. Epicurious has over 1100 recipies for fish and only 162 for steak.
The best steak is simple. Excellent seafood is much harder. So, for my eating out dollars, it's usually seafood.
Being born, raised and still living in a major beef producing state!!:thumbup: I vote steak now that being said there aren't many places that can outdo me at my own grill,
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