Sterling Steakhouse

This place has re-​opened, Finally.
It’s back to the great service, atmosphere and amazing food.
We were so glad to see that it’s back to it’s roots!
Go there! You won’t be dissapointed.

THIS PLACE HAS CHANGED OWNERS AND NAMES.
It is now called «Sideways».
Sterling Steakhouse was good while it was around!
update 20 071 012… it is now totally defunct. sad.

Date: February 22, 2006
Location: 1429 North Ivar Avenue
Corkage: $ 25
Phone: 323.463.0008
This is a fairly new steakhouse just opened last year, adjacent to the trendy Cabana Club, same owner for both establishment.
Elegant interior decoration, a blend of traditional and contemporary. Big open bar area to be seen before or after dinner. Imagine this to be a crazy busy dining destination on weekends.
To start off the dinner, I went with the Tuna & Albacore Sashimi Salad served Checker Board Style ($ 17). The sashimi is fresh as it can be, the preparation and presentation is simple, classic and straight forward. None of the excessive dressing on the plate that forces you to taste the flavor, rather, the dish was served with a soy ponzu sauce on the side.
Too many sashimi based salad at western restaurants these days kill the flavor of the delicate fish, this is not one of them.
The piece of meat I decided on was a 20oz Bone in Rib Eye ($ 36). As the plate arrived on the table, I welcomed the great aroma of butter, reminded me of the Plugra Butter I use at home. I had ordered the Brandy Pepper Sauce ($ 1.50) to accompany the steak, but actually found it to be useless as the steak was perfectly seasoned and cooked to temperature. Straight horseradish, if you can handle it, is actually the best pairing with this beautiful hunk of meat.
This steak is perhaps the best I’ve had since the dinner at N9Ne Steakhouse in Chicago when I visited for Otis’ CDP last Summer.
Both Rob Harpest (Manager) and Jonathon Mitchell (Sommelier) are also winos at heart. Although the corkage is stated at $ 25, if you pour them a glass and/​or talk wine with them, the chances they will give you a break at the end of the night.
No worries on stems, not Spiegelau or Riedel but works perfectly fine.
Give this place a try if you haven’t been (rickym13 pay attention), hope you have an enjoyable night as I did.

2 words: Mac n Cheese
Okay that was more like 3, but yum. I am always in search of a place that can do more than just melt up some cheese and slop it on some noodles, but Sterling, wow, hats off to the cheese loving chef who came up with this little baked plate of deelish heaven. Bread crumbs and all.
The rest of the menu is pretty flawless as well, although as good as they sound, the lobster mashed potatoes weren’t as amazing as one would hope, in fact that pretty much sat and got cold as our party was fighting over the remains of the mac n cheese by the end of the meal.