101 Things I Love About Sydney

Okay, so they used to be $5 but these days $7 is the going rate for a decent pub steak. And if you pay more than $10 you're obviously a tourist.

The Forresters in Surry Hills started the $5 Steak craze, seeing it as a way of getting people in during mid-week winter nights, and they put a giant model cow on the awning to let people know. And it worked a treat - the pub was regularly packed out with budget-minded carnivores. But alas it didn't last. Soon every pub was offering cheap steaks (or even FREE in the case of the Glebe Excelsior every Wednesday with the purchase of a $10 jug of Coopers). Forresters, packed out with uni students, lowered the quality of the steaks, then discontinued it all together.

But the tradition lives on, and here are my current two favourite steak-based haunts for when i'm feeling low on iron midweek.

1. The Shakespeare in Surry Hills. Okay so it's $10 and can be variable, but generally huge and hearty.
2. The Great Southern on George St in Chinatown. $7. For when you're sick of laksa and pho, go a Chinatown steak.

And where are your favourite steaks?