Steak at Stefan’s Charcoal Grill

This site has almost become a monthly food review blog, but any way, this time I went out with some of the Mighty Boys to eat some old fashioned steak (having missed out on the grand final with a disappointing semi-final loss). We’ve been to this place (in suburban Balwyn) before and it has a pretty good reputation for well cooked, quality steak. The owner, Stefan, grills the steak on his custom grill and has been doing so for what I would guess to be quite a long time. Good on him, still doing what he enjoys I bet, and doing a hell of a job of it I might add. Maybe surprisingly, or probably not, the menu does not have any wagyu or fancy stuff like that (is Angus fancy?). It’s a pretty simple menu, with all the regular cuts, New York cut on request, and you can order a three course menu consisting of entree (soup or sausage), steak, and dessert (apple strudel, black forest cake, or crepes), it also comes with a side of salad and chips. There is also some bread with butter to keep you occupied until the cooked food arrives.

Angus Scotch Fillet

I was just going to have the regular scotch fillet (my go-to cut), but everyone else went for Angus, so I had to follow as my social programming commands me to, and got the Angus Scotch. The sausage came out first (vegetable soup? yeah right… although, maybe next time) and it went down nice and fast with the aide of some tasty mustard. The garden salad is nothing special but it’s dressed well and provides enough salad-y side. The chips are standard steak chips but they’re always a treat with steak! The steak comes out, nicely grilled, and cooked to perfection (medium rare of course!), a beautiful tasty chunk of beef. Somehow I ate and sliced my scotch up so that the last piece left was just fat, well, I’m currently trying to add a bit of bulk so I just downed it for all the flavour it was. It wasn’t wagyu, but a perfectly cooked angus scotch is nothing to sneeze at.

I was pretty full at this point, but the dessert comes with the meal, so I downed the lemon crepes with aplomb, will try the walnut crepes next time on recommendation. Look, it’s a great steak and a definite recommendation because Stefan clearly knows his steak and how to cook it, also, on a Wednesday night I don’t reckon there’s much chance he’s going to make any mistakes due to being busy (which might be the case for some places), I can’t wait for next time :D. The restaurant is nothing to write home about but it’s a nice quiet place and you can see Stefan standing over the grill doing what he does best.