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| - This is the most playful steakhouse you will ever eat at.
The words "playful steakhouse" may seem a little odd, but when you think about it, most steakhouses have all the creativity of the post office. You scan their menus to see what they have; "WE HAVE BEEF!" they say, pointing proudly to their hangers of well-aged meat.
"That's cool," say I. "So what do you do with the beef?"
"WE COOK IT," they say, looking vaguely baffled, as if merely procuring a twenty-dollar piece of cow and searing it on a grill should be enough.
"No, I mean, what do you do with sauces? Side dishes? Rub-ins and spices?"
"WE OFFER LOADED BAKED POTATO!" they reply, as if the loaded baked potato is some new-fangled craze that they've only recently become aware of. "ALSO, BREAD. WITH BUTTER. BUT NOT OLIVE OIL, THAT'S CRAZY, "
When the Big Advance in steak technology is, in fact, sprinkling bleu cheese on it, you know we're in trouble.
But it's true; steakeries tend to be the backwaters of dining experiences, stuffy old places that are so busy talking about the quality of their meat, they've never once investigated anything else they could do with it. Kind of like John Holmes, but older and deader.
Not so at Strip! Strip does kooky things, and not just with beef. They have a peanut-butter-and-Captain-Crunch-encrusted chicken, which they top with pepper jelly. They call it the PB&J.
They also have a brownie hamburger - just roll that around on your tongue, BROWNIE HAMBURGER - and donut fries that consists of brownie "burgers" on poundcake "buns" with mint "lettuce" and thin-sliced strawberry "tomatoes." The ketchup is actually raspberry sauce, and mustard (if I recall correctly) is mango sauce.
So they're a little nuts there. And if you want a little more to your Stripper meat, which is excellent, they offer all kinds of sauces (mercifully automatically on the side) and flavored butters to drizzle, as well as upscale side dishes like tater tots stuffed with bleu cheese and bacon.
The servers are garrulous, yet informative, willing to go to great lengths to keep you happy, and the atmosphere is noisy come the evening - it used to be a barn, and has some of the echoiness of rafters in the place, but it's very clean and nice-looking.
In short, if you want to fuse a mildly adventurous dining experience with the joy of dead cow, Strip can't be beat in Cleveland. Highly, highly recommended.
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