We'd all been eyeing the place for years. What goes on in that old-school little corner building at Mission and Cesar Chavez, where the promise of a full steak dinner with salad, baked potato and garlic bread beckons at only $8.95 per person?

Indeed, the salad is of the iceberg lettuce variety, with your choice of chunky American dressings like blue cheese laced with herbs, and the baked potato is a fluffy starch canvas for all of your sour cream fantasies come true. The steaks, we're happy to report, are absolutely fabulous and even better than the steaks on which we splurged at fancy-pants Fringale after winning big on horse number seven at the Bay Meadows Racetrack last Memorial Day.

- Excerpt from Get Your Steak On by Tracie Broom