Steak, Bread, Lobster Mashed Potatoes, Oysters, & Cake

Mastro's Steakhouse has been on my list of must-go places for awhile now. For me, it was choosing between the pretentious Beverly Hills location or the Thousand Oaks location in the San Fernando Valley. Plus, if you follow Chelsea Handler, you know that she loves Mastro's. Is that a good enough reason to eat there? No. I'm picky about who I take food advice from. Trust me, Chelsea Handler didn't do it. But here I was anyhow...

 The atmosphere was a little too dark for me. I  don't like dark lightening. It's a personal thing. Also, they have a live band in the middle of the restaurant. I personally don't care for a live band. I was there for the food. And I love bread! The bread basket was great. It came with pretzel rolls, garlic cheese crisps, sourdough, and a few others I never got to. 

 Raw oysters are a must! I personally would rather go to a cheaper place like Boathouse for the oysters.

Ta da! So I was about to order a rib eye or another cut until the waiter told me about their specials. Damn them! Once he said that Waygu Rib-Eye was on there. I caved. I have an obsession with Japanese anything even if it's just the name. It was American Waygu steak for  $96. Zero Japaneseness aside from the name but I caved. 

I ordered it raw. Yes, bleeding steak sounds great. Anyways the bone was humungeous. I actually was able to take it home. The Waygu was good, but nothing great. Not $96 great. 

 The Lobster Mashed Potatoes for $34 - filled every bite with a clump of lobster in it. Between two people, it's plenty to share. There's a huge chunk of melted butter that comes with it as well. It's a big portion. You'll have to take it home. 

 Chocolate Layer Cake was presented. It is super good. We took a couple bites and had them pack it up.  We had wanted to try the famous Butter Cake but we were way too full. 

And their home-made whipped cream. Yum! 

2087 E Thousand Oaks Blvd
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362


Happy Eatings! 

Steak Dinner Post

I'm in Hong Kong A LOT so I usually eat a lot of Chinese food or well fusion food but don't you ever just get a tad bit tired of all the Asian food and want some steak? Hello, Steakhouse in the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Okay, so here's the thing. The place was dark as hell. It's part of the ambiance you say. Uh yeah... but I'd also like to see where I'm walking. It's also relatively small. Unfortunately, money cannot buy you class or manners. There were some "visitors" at the table next to us that had an issue. I'll skip out on that part. Cheers to my new favorite type of fries-duck fat fries. 

 Garlic Bread 

 King Crab Legs

 French onion soup

 Steak, steak, and more steak

 I shared with my fam, so I just had whatever they ordered but usually I get my steaks medium rare. When I'm in a good and adventurous mood, I'll get it raw. Yup, why not turn everything into sashimi?

 A ha! The famous duck fat fries! McDonalds needs to catch onto this trend. Quack!

Our veggies.

You can find it at 2/F, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai. By the way, the bathrooms are pretty bomb. You have toiletries in each stall. I'm strangely fascinated by bathrooms for all those that think I'm really weird.


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Salad Plus Cheese Bread That Will Ruin Any Diet!

Everyday is a good day to pamper yourself with good food. Eat at Clearman's North Woods Inn and you'll forget about your troubles- probably because you will sleep the away with food coma from the amount of food you get. The restaurant looks like a log cabin at a snow resort complete with fake snow and all. The floor is filled with peanut shells. You're actually asked to eat their complimentary peanuts and toss them on the floor over your shoulder! How convenient. Some poor soul gets to act like your mother and pick up after you eventually. 

Here's their menu... VIOLA!!! BAM!

 There's combos with a lot of food and sandwiches too but they are famous for their spread that they make their cheese bread with and.... their salad!!!

 Here's their mountain of delicious peanuts they keep bringing you. Remember to throw the shells on the floor!

 Drool. Here's the best part of Clearman's. Their salad and cheese bread. It doesn't even matter what they serve, just their freebies is enough to make me come here. I always wish that I didn't need to order and I could just get a free meal off eating their salads. We're so asian and cheap that we have them refill our cheese bread and salad before packing it to go for us. Score for another day's worth of food!

 The most amazing salad ever. The cabbage has this vinegary taste to it, while the salad just taste like cheesey/ ranchy amazingness. Together you are in heaven. 

 Here's their famous lumberjack steak. I'm not a big fan of steak in general just because I love my Kobe beef from Japanese places. It's hard to complete with that. But when I think of this place in being a higher class version of Black Angus, I'm reminded that this much food is worth it. 

Here was the Mahi Mahi dinner. The fish was a little dry but again I didn't come here for the dinner. I came for the awesome free salad and cheese bread. Plus, their baked potato came with cheese cream! 

This place is worth it just for their salad! Plus, a snow capped log cabin in hot weather is a sight to see. 7247 Rosemead Blvd. San Gabriel, CA 91775. They have another location in West Covina. 

Happy Eatings!