How come a lot of steakhouses can't get mashed potatoes right? (restaurants, Gob)

[Fargobound]

I like my steak with mashed potatoes, but I have yet to run into a steakhouse local or chain that can make decent mashed potatoes.

[jim9251]

You have to get a baked potato with a steak, that's a rule. Carved in stone from our ancestors.


Anyway, there's a local steakhouse here that makes insanely good mashed potatoes. I have them with chicken fried steak.

[erjunkee]

lol, jim9251!!

I agree that I can never get a place to make it the way I like so I always make it from scratch at home.


When out at a restaurant, I ALWAYS get a baked potato with my steak...it's something that's been ingrained in me since I first started eating steak as a child/teenager...

[Bulldogdad]

Mashed taters with steak?

Get a baked potato, turn it out on your plate load up with butter and sour cream. Get to mashing.

Drives my wife nuts when I do this.

Then I enjoy spreading butter on the skins like bread when they are cold at the end of the meal and popping them in my mouth

[cb at sea]

They don't make "mashed" potatoes...they make "smashed" potatoes...lumpy, with skin....I can eat them, but they're not my favorite.

[TabulaRasa]

Because baked is more in keeping with traditional steakhouse style.

[puginabug]

Originally Posted by Fargobound

I like my steak with mashed potatoes, but I have yet to run into a steakhouse local or chain that can make decent mashed potatoes.

Because I don't work there. I make the best mashed potatoes in the WORLD.

[ccm123]

I prefer a baked potato also, in a steakhouse. With a touch of butter and black pepper. My wife makes great mashed potatoes.

[SeaOfGrass]

I looove mashed potatoes and order them in restaurants, steak or no steak, whenever I get the chance. I blatantly renounce this baked potato rule.

[luzianne]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

Mashed taters with steak?

Get a baked potato, turn it out on your plate load up with butter and sour cream. Get to mashing.

Drives my wife nuts when I do this.

Then I enjoy spreading butter on the skins like bread when they are cold at the end of the meal and popping them in my mouth

At Red Lobster I usually have shrimp scampi, and after I eat some of my potato, I pour the leftover garlic butter from my shrimp scampi into the potato skin and eat the rest of the potato and skin with the garlic butter. It's delicious!


With steak I never order mashed potatoes; only baked. Mashed potatoes are for fried chicken, chicken fried steak, chicken fried chicken.