Sam’s Steak House in Kiev and other awesome places
If you are one of those who cannot live without good hearty steaks, whether you are a guest of the Ukrainian capital or its resident, you will definitely like it in Sam’s Steak House in Kiev — they make the most delicious meat in Ukrainian capital. Sam’s Steak House Kiev is the first restaurant in Ukraine, where they introduced the technology of aging meat for steaks. Foreign tourists visiting Kiev especially need to go there to compare the level of cuisine in Kiev with the rest of the world and make sure that when it comes to food Ukrainian capital is not worse, but perhaps even better than its competitors.
Guests of Ukrainian restaurants are becoming more and more demanding when it comes to quality and taste of meals. Restaurateurs in return master the best standards of the world gastronomic culture. One of these standards is seasonality of the food.
There are a number of meals with fans all over the world and stereotypes about these meals; for example, they say this meal should only be eaten in that country. This is especially true of steaks; sophisticated gourmet will certainly say that ideally you should eat steaks in America or at least cooked from imported American meat. There the skill of cooking steaks is absolutized, and the quality and taste of meat are at the highest level that can satisfy both the demands of extremely demanding domestic market and the tastes of connoisseurs from all over the world.
Sam’s Steak House in Kiev
But restaurant culture and technologies do not stand still, and today you can taste the highest quality steak made of (that is important!) local meat even in Ukraine.
Of course, it is too early to talk about a strong trend, but there are some very bright signs emerging.
Hence, the special offer of Sam’s Steak House, the first in Ukraine, where the technology of aging meat for steaks has been introduced, is very interesting.
It is known that in USA there is a strict system for assessing and assigning the quality level of meat in the order of its decline: Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Commercial, Utility, Cutter and Canner. However, in Ukraine there is no such gradation; it is about marbling of meat. In the market you can often find enough marble meat, which depends on the way of growing animals and animal feed, but it does not change the price in the market.
UKRAINIAN STEAKS ARE WINNING OWING TO THEIR PRICE
It is quite difficult to find the “right” meat for steaks. Sam’s Steak House works with “Kozyatinsky myasokombinat” (Kozyatin meat processing plant), one of the best in Ukraine. Its products meet the criteria of standards, and this manufacturer is one of the few who can provide stability in quality, including the age of the bulls, suitable for the size of the steaks. This is especially important if you take into account the restaurant cooks steaks only from three parts of animal carcass that guarantees the right quality: sirloin, chuck and loin parts.
In addition, the restaurant uses meat aging technology. Unaged meat is very tough. During the aging process fibers in meat dissolve; therefore, the unaged meat will still be tight. Sam’s Steak House works with a local product and applies special meat aging technology; it differs from the traditional wet technology. The technology is aging meat by protecting the wall of meat cells with beef fat, which allows preserving the taste molecules — parts of the carcass are placed in special containers with fat where the meat ages. In addition, beef fat is a natural barrier to bacteria. With this ripening, the fibers of the meat dissolve, the meat “rests” and becomes soft.
To implement this technology, in 1996 Sam’s Steak House Kiev invited a German expert who conducted personnel training, supervised the construction of professional refrigerating chamber for meat aging and controlled the process as a whole. This is very interesting, and the restaurant has long practiced excursions to the Meating Room, where in the evening on weekdays or during the day on weekends everyone can visit the meat workshop and see all the stages of meat aging.
Meat countries have long established their traditions of roasting and consuming meat. For example, in Brazil and Argentina, the most popular steaks are medium roast from grain-fed meat; in Morocco — only well-fried, in USA they like huge steaks with varying degrees of roasting, etc.
In Kiev, many like rare steaks, but this tradition has formed relatively recently. Customers are more likely to order steaks with more regular roasting on the advice of the chef or waiter. For example, the Tenderloin steak from the leanest, cleanest fillet is recommended to eat rare fried to avoid dryness, but Rib Eye, on the contrary, is recommended not less than medium fried so that the internal fat melts. For taste, these nuances are very important.
Sam’s Steak House Kiev on 37 Zhilyanska Street has been operating since 1996 and is considered one of the first steakhouses in Kiev.
Other restaurants to eat steaks in Kiev
Other restaurants that make quality steaks:
- Beef Meet and Vine
- Goodman
- Argentina Grill
- Steakhouse
- Grill do Brasil
Some of the restaurants cook steaks from Ukrainian meat, others — from imported meat.
Ukrainian cuisine restaurants in Kiev
However, when visiting a new country, one wants to try something traditional, local, in this case — Ukrainian. Steaks are not part of Ukrainian traditional cuisine, but such meals as borsch, vareniki, grechaniki, lard, pickles and Kiev chicken are a good choice for gourmets who decided to try Ukrainian cuisine.
To do this, visit other popular Ukrainian places. If you do not want to make a mistake with choosing the right place, we invite you to join our gastronomic tours: we will taste street food, visit the best Ukrainian restaurants and even visit the local market, try the caviar from the Black Sea, real Ukrainian bacon, Ukrainian hot dog famous since 1981, we will tell you about the traditions of cooking vareniki and a drink true Ukrainian wine or beer.
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