Quality Meats
“I got the filet mignon, which was excellent, and especially notable was the corn creme brûlée- what an inventive side dish!”
“The four of us ordered a variety of food from the bone marrow appetizer to salads to four different main dishes to sides to desserts.”
“I have been to a lot of prestigious steak houses in my day, including del friscos, Peter luger, and keens among others.”
Quality Meats
Takes Reservations: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$$$ Price range Above $61
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This place lived up to its stellar reputation. The tomato soup w cheese crouton was absolutely incredible – especially for such a simple dish. Depth of flavors was amazing Could eat this every night. The crab cake starter was "the best crab cake I've ever tasted" in the words of my daughter. And she knows crab cakes. Grilled lobster was perfect. What kept me from giving them a five star? The bone in rib eye steak looked beautiful when presented, but was noticeably undercooked (we ordered medium rare and it was rare rare). We had them put it back under the broiler to bring it up a couple degrees. However, the house made steak sauce prepared table side was … awesome. I don't usually need or want any steak sauce, but this was worth it.
Fabulous dinner.
Having tried numerous steakhouses in NYC, I was drawn to Quality Meats on the basis of their attempt to offer a modern interpretation of the classical steakhouse menu – now, that's something you don't see very often. Let's begin on where they succeeded. First off, the aged rib steak was true to the restaurant's name, absolutely succulent throughout, and by far, one of the best that i've tasted. The three-way Filet was another one of my favorites, more so because of what it tries to bring in a single dish: steak au poivre, beef Wellington, and beef Oscar-style. Flavor-wise, I still prefer the aged steak. The rest of the dishes are the points of deviations where Quality Meats really brought a touch of modernness. The Foie Gras with Apricot was a surprise. The tart, sweet apricots actually complemented the Foie Gras really well, a fantastic combination. Next is the bone marrow. As a kid growing up, my mom would often save the bones from making soup and serve the ones with bone marrow. Here, they are roasted and quite buttery, but there is another dimension of representing what is nostalgic. Overall, a great experience! I would love to add them to my rotation of steak affairs.
It gets the vaunted Merlin Five, but clear your schedule and your stomach because you will be in a 'food coma' for at least 24 hours afterwards.
Quality Meats is a steakhouse close to Columbus Circle with a confusing title that makes it sound more like a butcher shop. Decor is dark and meant to evoke a coal mine or slaughterhouse, I think. Anyways, who cares. We're here to talk meat.
We had for appetizers the bone marrow, gnocchi (sp), steak tartare, and corn creme brulee. For meats, we had the ribeye, the porterhouse, and filet mignon done rare and medium rare. I think the gnocchi (sp) and corn creme brulee are definitely skippable. The bone marrow and steak tartare are unbelievable, though I would not recommend the latter if your stomach is not attuned to 'exotic' foods.
Now for the steaks. My least favorite was the porterhouse. My favorite the ribeye because of its generous cuts of FATTY beef. (I'm on the low carbs, high fat bandwagon, so I just gobbled it up). Both filets were amazing. We may have had a fourth steak, but I can't remember what it is. It was a ton of food, but one thing I recommend is going to Quality Meats with like 8 people so you can order a ton of stuff and come out to a reasonable per-person rate.
Dessert: we had a mochoa (sp) ice cream, some mint chocolate chip thing, and a caramel thing. I'm not a caramel guy, but I thought the first two were phenomenal. I could barely walk when the meal was over.
Keeping it about food and not about elaborate restaurant performance is what it's all about here at MC3. And for that reason, Quality Meats gets a vaunted MCFIVE! #MERLINFIVE
Good quality meat … Like the name says I guess! Only problem was that I was surrounded by suits which kinda kills the vibe.
Servings were pretty big! I didn't actually finish my steak
I've been to Quality Italian a few times, but this was my first time at QM. Overall a great restaurant; but I think my heart remains with QI.
The menus are pretty similar, but I feel like there is a little more variety at QI. I had the oysters (excellent) and the dry aged strip steak. It was a terrific steak, cooked perfectly medium rare. The sauce in particular was excellent.
The service was friendly and professional. The decor was nice – like trendy, dim, steakhouse.
Definitely come check it out.
One word, amazing! My fiance and I came here last night for our anniversary and were blown away by everything. The service was excellent. We each had the filet mignon and split the parmesan waffle fries and broccoli and cheese bites. The filet was perfect and the sides were great. Everything was delicious and I cleaned both of our plates. Also, they know how to make some serious cocktails. My fiance had the el vuelo and I had the sazerac. The sazerac was definitely one of the best drinks that I've ever had. This place definitely lives up to its reputation. Highly recommend!
To be honest, the second you were present with a huge plate of classic steak (dry-aged ribeye, NY stripe, fillet, whatever), I guess you (or at least me) suddenly care less about the ambience around. That's how I define a real "carnivore". Haven't really been to many of the top steakhouses, I'm just opening myself to all the great tastes and hoping for something to give me a wow moment.
Quality meat certainly did that. Ranking from my most to least favorite: dry-aged ribeye, sugary bacon, corn creme brûlée, Brussel sprout, chocolate cake with spiced cherries, tri-fillet. If your group has got enough people, definitely go for their porterhouse steak (with better quality however giant in size). Do not be tricked by their 2-people sign, it is definitely prepared for a larger group!
After all, the major reason I was here was to celebrate my end of "vegetarian" journey. I definitely was more than happy to be surrounded by the mouth-watering dishes; and so glad that I eventually discovered something equally impressive with my all-time favorite place Peter Luger.
Classic.
This was a pleasant experience. We had their 64oz rib in steak for 2 (medium rare), the creamed corn, corn brulee, Yorkshire spinach, a tomato salad, 3 different types of oysters (not all oysters are created equal is what I learned) and something with brussel sprouts. Everything was was tasty and the prices were what i expected for NYC. Their sergvice could have been better though.
1) When we ordered the Steak, I kind of figured we were in for a long wait, but I think our server should have told us we were in for an hour+ wait.
2) But given he didn't say anything about how long cooking would take: He shouldn't have disappeared for at least 35 minutes. As in at no point did he check on how we were doing or anything, which was certainly unfortunate.
All in all, if I were the kind of person who went to steakhouse frequently, I certainly would be back.