Eisenbergs is the quintessential new york sandwich shop, full stop.

There are tons of great sandwiches in new york city, but "sandwich shop" has a specific connotation; tuna melts, egg creams, lime rickeys, etc. Eisenbergs is that archetype.

"Okay, now that all that shit is out of the way, normal conversation can take place."

Thanks for the assist. Since we're apparently not permitted to say anything negative, I look forward to seeing more inane "that looks tasty" responses.

Seriously though, these steaks are cooked properly (assuming you ordered them rare) but note that the delmonico cut is not dry aged. I wouldn't pay NYC steakhouse prices for a wet aged steak.

Well, that's not actually true. You can color-correct the photograph and have it dead-on. Of course you're not going to the trouble snapping photos of a hamburger.

Then you come to the display device, a computer monitor. Unless you work in publishing or are a digital artist, odds are your monitor isn't calibrated, since that takes an external kit, so you don't get true colors and your warmth is probably significantly off. Also many people are running laptops with cruddy 6-bit TN screens. But if you do have a good 8-bit IPS monitor that's properly calibrated, it can absolutely accurately depict the correct colors in a photograph.

Once you get past that, you get into peoples _perceptions_ of color, and the fact that the exact same shade of "red" may actually look different to different people, since eyes are organic. There's nothing you can do about that.

I would call that burger "dark pink", so medium-rare. I think of rare as "light red"-- it definitely is not red. But yeah, photos can be deceptive.

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Yep, I would never order a tenderloin, but if it was placed in front of me somehow I would happily eat it.

It is super rare. But we learned that Nick likes his steak "black and blue" from an earlier post, so maybe he ordered it that way.

Oh. Yeah, I guess it's usually a slightly paler yellow, but it's not anything I would pick out as a problem. Could be a trick of the photography. The raw steak, not so much.

If it's cold, how could it be anything BUT raw? It wasn't even heated, much less cooked enough to denature proteins and change the texture.

Anyway, it is definitely subjective. I would call that entrecote in wikipedia medium-rare, as it's dark pink.

Interestingly, unless you ordered it that way, these much more modest sized steaks are also undercooked-- the center is raw.

Raw tenderloin is pretty tasty, though, so I wouldn't send it back. Well, I would never order tenderloin in the first place, but if it was somehow placed in front of me I'd happily eat it.

Oh cool. Hope you tried the salad too!

Kenji beat me to it. The center is completely raw and looks like it wouldn't even be WARM, and that gray band must be a full centimeter thick. Unless you ordered it that way, this is simply not a competently cooked piece of meat.

If you only avoided actual leavened bread, it wouldn't be a particularly interesting series of posts!

For breakfast, I went to the corner diner and had an egg white omelet, hash browns, OJ, and black coffee. I told the waiter NO TOAST! He was like 'Whhhhhhhatt?!? It's included!'