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| - I was invited for a friend's birthday to the Keg. I have previously avoided it, thinking it is just a casual dining place, without much to recommend it.
We had a small group of about 8 and we all enjoyed it tremendously. We ordered nice generous drinks, and bunch of appetizers to share. I was not a super fan of the appetizers, but they were generally tasty particularly the dip.
But the highlight was the steak!!!!! I ordered a baseball steak, 'pittsburgh style' which is charred on the outside and medium rare to rare on the inside. This is my favourite way of having steak.
After a relatively short wait my patience was rewarded with one of the best steaks I ever had. This includes such nice establishments, such as Moishe's, (Montreal), Gibby's (Montreal), Rib and Reef (Montreal..with the best wine selection in the province of Quebec), La Castille, Peter Luger (New York..and yes!), Ruth Chris' (New Orleans, Cancun), Morton's (Chicago), and all the steaks that you can taste in Dallas and Houston.
Now the cut of the baseball steak is a Sirloin, not a New York sirloin, and its a bit more chewy than let us say a rib steak or filet mignon...but what taste. And the steak cost around $25.00!
The reason I did not award this place 5 stars, is probably out of vestigial snobbery. All kidding aside the appetizer are not quite up to scratch and the corporate ambiance leave a little to be desired. I don't know if the taste experience is repeatable either, as its hard to consistent in that kind of a soul-less corporate environment. But time will tell......
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