Simon Food Favourites: Beach Palace Hotel

22 August 2009

Beach Palace Hotel: Wednesday $2 Steak, Coogee (12 August 2009)

169 Dolphin Street, Coogee NSW 2034

http://www.beachpalacehotel.com.au

Steakout!

Where's a good cheap steak in Sydney?

These $2 steaks on Wednesday nights are getting seriously popular now and when lining up you really start to wonder if it's worth the wait. When arriving at 7.15 pm there's already a queue of about 50 people waiting to order. Patience is definitely a virtue when there's about a 45 minute wait before you get to order. The steak tonight has a bit more gristle than the first time I tried it but for $2 you can't really ask for much and the ones I've tried have been better than some other cheap $5-$10 steaks I've tried around Sydney. By 9.15 pm the queues are gone so timing is crucial if you decide to check out the steaks.

Other visits to Beach Palace Hotel:

• 12 August 2009 - $2 Steak

• 2 July 2009 - $2 Steak

300gm Rump Steak ($2) with chips and salad ($2) with any $4 drink purchase from 5 pm

Steamed vegetables $6

Steaks being constantly cooked

7.15 pm queues – the people standing are all in line to order

Dining

9.15 pm clear of queues

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02 July 2009

Beach Palace Hotel: Wednesday $2 Steak, Coogee (2 July 2009)

169 Dolphin Street, Coogee NSW 2034

http://www.beachpalacehotel.com.au

Cheapest steak in Sydney?

We've all probably had a $10 pub steak at one time or another and even the more reasonably priced $7 steak. Some of us have even probably had those elusive $5 steaks but by far the cheapest steak I've ever heard and tried is the very popular $2 steak promo on Wednesday nights at Palace Bistro in the Beach Palace Hotel (which I've always called the Coogee Palace for some strange reason). Fearing the worst of a really bad experience because it's so cheap, I'm comforted when arriving about 7.30 pm to see a long line of customers queuing to order and spot most of the diners eating their steaks happily.

While waiting to order I notice the cook filling the entire grill with steaks, about 40 I reckon, and found out from the kitchen they go through about 500 steaks a day — that's a lot of protein. So keep in mind they aren't really cooking your steak to order which means it might not be as hot as you'd hope. My medium-rare steak arrived cooked as ordered and was actually quite tender and tasty and had less grizzle than I was expecting for the price. For an extra $2 it came with salad (lettuce) and yummy hot chips although some of the lettuce leaves looked a little wilted and have probably seen better days — maybe due to the heat of the kitchen. The only catch is you have to order a $4 drink which you'd probably get anyway to wash it all down. A glass of red or white wine is between $5 and $7 and the reasonably priced steamed vegetables for $6 were good. Would I be back again, hell yeah!

Can you find a cheaper steak?

Other visits to Beach Palace Hotel:

• 12 August 2009 - $2 Steak

• 2 July 2009 - $2 Steak