Palace Steak House
Category: Steakhouses [Edit]
Neighborhood: Mission3047 Mission Street
(between 26th St & Capp St)
San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 647-2011
- Price Range: $$
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Private Lot
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Takes Reservations: No
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: No
- Outdoor Seating: No
- Good for: Dinner
- Alcohol: Beer & Wine Only
248 reviews
Neighborhood: Marina/Cow Hollow
"Pretty much if you can give me a steak as rare as possible in a down-to-earth atmosphere with entertaining waiters, I'm golden. I came to…" read more »
41 Reviews for Palace Steak House
I've been walking past this place for about 6 months. I live basically across the street. One day coming home from work I carved steak and my mind immediately went to Palace Family Steak House. I ordered a New York Steak. The whole meal was like 12 bucks and it came with a salad, baked potato and an amazing piece of garlic bread.
The service is stellar and I love the homey feel of this place.
methinks i had high expectations based on all the recent reviews. perhaps i should have hauled my ass there earlier but nevertheless, I got there at 8:45-ish and was done and out the door by 9:15ish. That could mean either the food was so good that i shoveled it into my mouth super quick OR well, that it was just ok.
i like the fact that my food came really fast. the lady waitress was very sweet and nice and the baked potato was nice and buttery. i just found the tbone steak i ordered to be kinda bland. so was the baked potato. maybe they expect you to season your stuff yourself, which is nice, but i would have appreciated a bit more flavor. and being a garlic aficionado and seeing that they had bunches of garlic hanging as decor, i think i was expecting garlicky goodness somewhere.
oh well, i'll come back again regardless. i want to see if their burgers or steak sandwiches will offer more flavor. i just want to see if this might be a good place to go that's super close to my house for meat hankerings. hopefully more stars later when i rereview and try something else on the menu.
Support your local steak house!!! I only go here when my Dad is in town because it's the place where he'd go as a teenager. Each time we go, he says, you know for a $1.50 you would get a meal fit for a king. That was back in his thuggin, stealin from Sears Department store days. It makes it more enjoyable for me because he gets all nostalgic.
For $11, you get the New York steak, a salad, a fat baked potato and a fat piece of garlic bread. The Filipina lady that works there is really nice. Everytime we go, she tries to teach me some new Tagalog. The decoration inside is cool stuff that you'd put in your kitchen, so it has a real homey feel. I'm definitely going to start coming here more often.
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My co-workers and I had a management meeting the other day, and we were hungry, we weren't craving much of the SOMA restaurants, but we were hungry, but on budget, so my manager brought up Palace Steakhouse... i was like... "STEAKHOUSE? but isn't steak expensive?" Upon arrival, Ceasar Chavez, and Mission, I thought to myself this place can't be good. My friends always tell me, "you can't judge a book by its cover", wow let me tell you that is true, this place has the most outdated interior ever.. from the 60s i believe... and all their furniture is sticky.Once i saw the prices on the menu, i thought to myself that this food but be bad.. i mean steakhouses with these kinds of prices.. it's unbelievable, but let me tell you, its one of the most unforgettable experiences I've ever had.
For about $13 you get a 12 oz. T-Bone Steak, cooked the way you want, Baked Potato, Garlic Bread, and an ice berg salad. $13!!!!!!!!!!!! wait ... am i serious?? $13... yes that is correct. This is one hell of a steak for $13 dollars. I ordered mine rare and it came rare.. it was flavorful and tender. I mean its no Ruth Chris or Flemings, but it is great for $13. The baked potato was delicious and the garlic bread as well, the ice berg salad could use some work.. but everything else was great!
Props to the owner.. i believe it's the nice Filipino cashier in the front and the guy cooking! They are such nice people... GO SUPPORT THEM! GO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL STEAKHOUSE!
ooo supposedly the steak sandwiches are to die for!
I give Palace Steak House a solid 3 stars. Sometimes 3 star restaurants have enough going for them that you end up eating there all the time. If I wasn't such a good cook and if steak wasn't one of the easiest things to cook, I would probably eat there often. I mostly eat at 3 star ethnic restauants because the food is more of a challenge for me to prepare.
I was not expecting great food, and I was not disappointed or surprised. The food was VERY average, but sometimes that's good enough. If you are in the mood for a cheap and easy steak experience, on par with Sizzler (minus the salad bar), then you won't be disappointed.
My friend and I both had ribeye steaks with baked potato, bread, and salad. The steak tasted very average (the quality of Safeway beef) but was cooked a perfect medium rare, which hit the spot. The steak sauce was pretty good too.
We brought a bottle of cabernet and paid the $7.00 corkage fee. I knew in advance that they don't sell decent wine.
The best thing about P.S.H. was the very friendly owner, named Marina. She asked if this was our first time and we said, "Yes". She said, "Well, it's good you got here before we retire!" She was great and I made us feel at home. I understand from other Yelp reviews that they have been trying to sell the building and retire for awhile. I'm glad I got there in time.
The decor is completely tacky, but warmly inviting. I didn't find the restaurant to be dirty or disgusting as some reviewers have stated. It was just very average, but homey.
I eat a lot of steak and if there is ever a night I don't feel like cooking and have a craving for steak, I will come back. I doubt P.S.H. will be someplace I come to often, but you never know. Marina was so nice and the place is charming in its tackiness, it makes me smile inside while writing this review.
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This place is definitely unique and worth checking out. It's super cheap, since you get a sald, baked potato, and bread with your steak. I love the vibe, the booths, the mini bottles of wine, and the way you order up front and get the food delivered to your table. Unfortunately, the food was pretty gross. It's hard to mess up garlic bread, but they do. I'll still go back, just not hungry.
The BEST Steak I've ever had , PERIOD.
In my previous attempts to find really good Steak at a value price, I must have been to Geneva Steakhouse a couple times, thinking THAT place was good, but boy was I persuaded otherwise when I tried Palace Steakhouse.
I love the mom & pop theme, vintage home ambience. The fact that this place has been here like forever says something.
The iceberg salad looks so simple, yet it's the BEST I've ever had before eating steak.
The T-Bone, New York are great.... but the Rib-Eye is my fav! Can't go wrong here... and the garlic toast bread that comes w/ the steak is crispy and tasty as it should be. Baked potato comes standard with the meal but I usually sub in the yellow rice pilaf which has become a necessity for me when I come here.
Thumbs down to the negative nancies who even give this place under 4 stars.... you must be straight trippin prudes lol it's okay don't come back, we don't want you in there anyway!
Can't wait to buy my Palace T-shirt!
Thank god for Palace Steakhouse!
I've been eating here for years. The food is great and really cheap. As many others have said it might feel like you're back in the 70s, but who cares? If you want a cheap meal that's good, I suggest coming here.
Whoa! This place is a trip. I had to call upon the same sense of adventure that served me while eating street food in Africa. Never mind the cockroaches crawling across the sticky tables, the grimy chairs, the guy who just took your money throwing a steak on the grill with his bare hands etc. Oh yeah it's skeevy, it's decorated with dusty cow figurines and it's about as low rent as I've ever seen a steak house (or alley entry Chinese place in Hoboken) but i still give it 2 stars for sheer 'i dare you' factor and the dude behind the counter was pretty cool. I will admit to wussing out and ordering the relatively safe fried fish sandwich. It was fine - we survived to tell the story.
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Palace Steak House has been owned and operated by the same local couple since 1968. I don't think the decor has changed much since those doors first swung open. Well, it looks like they added a bunch of cow tsotchkes at some point during the 80s, but other than that, its a museum exhibit to mid-century steakhouses.
The owners can be found there every night that its open. They are a delightful twosome. She's behind the register and is always chatty and cheerful. Mr. Chef Hat in the kitchen manages to be gruff and incredibly polite at the same time.
For around $15.50 a person you get salad, baked potato, grilled bread, a mini bottle of wine, and a club steak cooked to order. That's a full dinner for two for $31! And its good, man, good! Its not the best steak in the city (see Chenery Park for that) but I've always been pleased with my cut of meat and they way its prepared.
Go check out Palace Steak House before it disappears. The owners are always threatening to retire and they've put the building up for sale again. When it finally goes bye-bye it will be a big loss to the folks who know a joint doesn't have to be fancy to serve up a fine meal with class.
Steak for the people! That's what Palace is. Its a good meal for an honest buck. 5 stars for keeping it real (and tasty.)
All the decor is sticky, and all the food tastes like it's been stepped on.
The steaks are cheap, but you get what you pay for. I had the New York Strip for $10, which tasted like a house slipper that someone had drenched in Worcestershire sauce and then nuked in a microwave for five minutes. I had to saw through gristle for every bite, and felt like I was cheating death with each added morsel I consumed.
The potato was harmless, though not what I would call "enjoyable."
The salad was standard, iceberg lettuce-based, pre-mixed salad doused in Italian dressing.
The garlic bread was thick and heavy enough that you could abuse a disobedient dog with it. Like eating a warm, buttery piece of wood.
I had to try this place once, I do not need to go back.
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I slid my orange tray along the line til I got to the beverages. I thought a nice glass of red wine would go best with my steak. My choices: 2 Buck Chuck or single-serving bottles of Sutter Home Cab. I chose the Sutter Home. The man with the cow-print chef hat was even kind enough to give me my choice: chilled or room temperature.
This place is delightfully tacky but the food isn't half bad. You are served an abundant portion of salad, steak, veggies and potatoes. It's not the highest quality but it's certainly palatable. The bill for two: twenty-four dollars!
Sure, it's archaic, weird and hasn't been redecorated since they opened in 1968 -- but it's a good square meal and goddamned cheap! Plus, they have parking in the Mission. (I'm awarding an extra star just for the parking lot.)
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what can i say, you get what you pay for. just don't have great expectations for a dry aged prime steak and you'll be fine. i'd still rather eat here than some place like sizzler or outback steakhouse for example.
Holy snap dragons Batman!
First of all let me tell you that this place is classy. In a way where it has so much hilarious charm and 'ambience' that it's leaking out the window seals. I've been meaning to go into Palace Steak for a while, their sign of supporting my local steak house has always been enticing. You can tell right away from the outside that this is not the kind of place you bring your wife's grandma the second time you're meeting her.
As soon as you walk in it's like enterting another dimension where cows and plants rule the universe. I had lunch there today which means that the place was entirely empty. The aged liberal chef and his counterpart were watching the Anna Nicole trial and they seemed legitimately interested in the outcome. I find it really hard to dislike a place where the chef has an amazing grey beard, wears a cow print chef's hat and tells you that everything is his pleasure.
This place is no House Of Prime rib but it is certainly worlds better than Tad's Steak House on Powell. Their potatoes are cooked perfectly, the steak is juicey, and who can pass up slow rock jams while you're stuffing your face with garlic bread? My only regret is that I went at a time when it was quiet, I'd love to have seen the other sorts of patrons that come in there.
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Well - you've got to try it if you live in the hood - at least once.
it's really inexpensive especially for all the weirdness you get. (everything from cow decorations all over -hahahah - to broken clocks)
I've stumbled in there twice now - once after a long day of partying - and found it very filling and enjoyable -
just tried it again for lunch today - and the experience did not have as much shine as I remember -
love the huge slice of butter/garlic/bread - the ingredients seem to come in that order.
give it a whirl - it won't last forever!
it's edible but somehow maybe the cheap price makes it seem hard to believe - is that wrong?
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This restaurant was good, not too bad. I was hoping for better. I went there last night for dinner based on all the Yelper reviews and found pretty much the same things - steaks, flags and reasonable prices. I was disappointed with the T-bone but i have to give it props for being cooked to medium rare perfection as requested. I didn't expect as much fat though. The baked potato was yumm-o and the garlic bread was good but could be more garlicy.
I would love to see the place a tad cleaner - i kinda felt like the seat cushions had seen too many arses and the trays hadn't been cleaned since 1987.
I came here with my boyfriend, against my better judgment, the night after I moved into a new apartment across the street. He's a southern boy who grew up going to all-american type diners back down in Tennessee. I'm a Bay Area native who, until recently, claimed to only like "ethnic food" (whatever that means :) ). In any case, I didn't expect to fair very well in the Palace Family Steak House, since I don't eat meat, and literally the only thing on the menu I could order was the fish sandwich. My boyf ordered a steak, of course
Well, as it turned out, he wasn't a big fan of his meal, but I ended up loving mine! It was a very tasty fish sandwich indeed. It came with a salad and a baked potato as a combo meal, for like $9.99. They charged us fifty cents extra for each tiny little side container of sour cream we took for the baked potatoes, which I thought was more laughable than anything else.
Overall, this place is pretty old-school, in every sense of the phrase. I can't say that you'll be robbed of an amazing experience, dining or otherwise, if you never make it over to the Palace Family Steak House, but if you do happen to get dragged there for one reason or another, I wouldn't bother putting up too much of a fight!
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Low quality meat, poorly prepared bread and potato, combined with somewhat surly service (which got our orders wrong, not that it mattered), all combine to form a poor experience. The folksy atmosphere and cafeteria-tray self-service ordering method, which must help keep down costs (there are no waitstaff), would be fun if at least the main dish could be called good.
Some reviewers claim to have had good steak, garlic bread and/or potatoes. Perhaps this place has huge variance in the quality of their output. My meat and bread were tough and unappetizing.
I'm pretty convinced that only a bad person would give the palace steak house a negative review. Like, this place RULES! Mark my words, in 25-30 years, there is going to be at least one Bourbon and Branch-styled Palace Family Steakhouse "themed" rip-off in the city, and these people, or their mindless offspring, are going to eat it up with a spoon. But, a steak won't be $10 there, of course with inflation, it'll be like $60.
This place is authentic. It's real, they ain't copping some posture. And it's got this awesome built-in yuppie repellent vibe going on, it's hard to put your finger on, it's just, like, too real...
And I'm a vegetarian. Even limiting myself to one menu item, I still love this place. The decor makes me feel all warm and fuzzy, like, fuck, I wish my living room looked just like the inside of the Palace Steakhouse, right down to the awesome cow figurines, the cheesy orange trays, the flags, the big multicolored booths, the little lanterns on the wall set inside carpeted inlays, the decor is absolutely fantastic! Also, I really wish my grandparents would come for a visit; we'd go to the Palace at least once, probably three or four times. Maybe I'm mildly obsessed with the Palace Family Steak House because it reminds me of a place that would be in my hometown of Baltimore; not any particular place, but stepping inside is like a portal to another time, another dimension, where the God of Steaks wears a funny cow hat and has super long hair and his [wife?] takes your order and is super friendly and myspace hasn't been invented yet and neither have methamphetamines and there aren't clandestine GPS chips in your cellphone and the world is just a better place, man.
Actually, this place makes me just plain want to eat a steak. Out of 6 of us tonight, I was the only wimp eating a veggie burger. Actually, I've been kind of craving meat for a little while now, and if I choose break through to the "other side" I've decided that this rite of passge into post-veggie-ism must take place within the comfy confines of The Palace Steak House.
Pretty Powerful, that Palace
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Alls I know is, my man and I are headed here right now, in the hopes of scoring a romantic xmas eve dinner!
No website for The Palace...there is a band called "palace family steak house" all over the interwebs...THANK GOD! Not everything has to be Ikea Slick and Starbucks Slimy.
A blast from the past-1968 Sacramento suburban steakhouse-alive and well and living in the barrio!
We think it's a super-romantic date place, but maybe you have to be best friends to appreciate the ambience. On a first date it will definitely either weed out the yuppies or set the stage for a beautiful future
You can't beat meat for $10. Except in the Castro, where you may get paid $10 to beat meat.
Have you HEARD the MUSICAL?!
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A really good steak for a really good price. The lady behind the counter is very nice and the cook is gruff but lovable. They will even make it "to go" which is good because it is not in a neighborhood you really want to hang out in.
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The Good: The steak was of reasonable quality, grilled perfectly, and a good deal at $11 (even it was a bit thin)
The Bad: The gray iceberg lettuce and the tough garlic bread.
The Ugly: the decor and the slime on the tabletops.
If you go, bring your own wine. Paying 6 bucks for corkage is a much better deal than paying anything for Charles Shaw.
SFD
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Okay people of course fine dining is not expected when you go in here I even have overlooked the painted brillo pad that is stuck and painted red at the bottom of the stairs( we all know that means you have mice or worse yet rats)
The last time I went I was appalled I had a friend from out of town who wanted a cheap steak and so off we went...
It was all going fine ordered 2 new york steaks,Salad bake potato etc... Uh yeah I also wanted some wine they asked me if I wanted the
sutter home cold out of the fridge..Hello it is red wine..Uh I will just take it room tempature
While I am eating the cafeteria like salad and get to the bottom Im like starving so I pick up my salad like it is a rice bowl and finish it off
but then i feel something hard in my mouth...
Oh hell no a big ass piece of plastic like it used to be a circle but now its broke in half and it was dirty looking...
Damn I wanted to puke all over the table but my friend was still eating so I went to the Filipino Lady (owner) and I said he I don't know what this plastic thing is I could have choked or broke a tooth...
And her reply was I don't know what it is either...
Ummm Ya could have offered me some more cheap wine to try and kill all the bacteria that could of killed me ummm...
I will never go back here....Oh Helll NO
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ewww... chewy small portions of steak, dirty looking worker who smelled of urine put the crutons on the salad with his bare hands, sticky tables and chairs. No exterminators needed, the place itself will chase away the rodents.
It's been about a year since I told myself I would go to Palace Steak House. Everyday I pass it on my way to work and hell, you gotta support your local steak house. After trying to get some $10 steak on Thanksgiving weekend, my heart was crushed walking there to find out it was closed. What the hell? Turkey sucks!
In any case, I finally got a chance to hit up this SF institution. We went classy and picked up a bottle of Charles Shaw. Hello, awesome! Make sure you substitute the baked potato for fries since the potato didn't look good. The fries were bangin though! The salad reminded me of something I'd eat in the high school cafeteria, but got the job done. And for my New York steak, definitely not the best steak I've had but for $10 who gives a damn? And yet another case of deja vu and Denny's, the garlic bread.
Things that make Palace Steak House all the more amusing is the crazy old chef, people watching other patrons inside, the absurd flag collection, again eclectic things hanging every which way and the service. No, really, the people working there were genuinely nice.
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This bathroom was one of the best I have seen in SF. Not because it was clean but because you got to walk through the kitchen and that was quite the treat. I got to see the baked potato oven and all sorts of other aging cooking equipment. There was a small framed photo in the bathroom which gave it a little touch of country. So really, the bathroom is half the reason to go to Palace and it looked like the woman's bathroom went up a small set of stairs. OOOoOooooO, the mystery!
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I...feel like...people don't...even know...how a local steak house is supposed to BE in California. Hell, I didn't know, until I came here. And now, I know. It's supposed to be exactly like this place.
You are supposed to get a bowl full of simple, crunchy, iceberg lettuce, with scads of simple, garlicky croutons. No mixed greens, no baby frisee - iceberg/crunchy/croutons.
You are supposed to get a simple, honest, baked potato, drizzled with melted butter, and expertly cooked so that the white flesh is subtly browned underneath the skin.
You are supposed to get buttery, crunchy, garlicky bread that tastes exactly like you expected.
But most importantly, you are supposed to get a delicious, perfectly cooked steak for around $10. New York, rib-eye, T-bone - where else can you have an actual SELECTION of fine beef for around $10 in San Francisco? Moreover, where else can you order steaks that are actually cooked to medium-rare when medium-rare is requested for around $10? It's insane, this world we live in, where this restaurant does not receive 5 stars across the board.
Honestly, everyone who I have frequented this restaurant with can't believe how amazingly awesomely you can eat for $10. And as if that wasn't enough, the proprietors are this cute, older couple, who almost certainly met during the Korean War; they work so hard at pleasing you with their incredible meats, and you will almost certainly be emotionally moved by the whole damn experience.
And these claims of inedibility are baffling and untrue. This restaurant has been around since 1969; you don't last that long in San Francisco unless you offer something that's worth it.
Palace Steak House = delicious $10 steaks in San Francisco in 2006 = 5 fucking stars.
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The first time I went to the Palace Steak House I didn't shit for days after. The second time, my friends tried to give their leftover steak to their dog and she turned it down. Don't for a minute think the meat is any good.
But this place is an institution. The decor is spectacularly kitsch, and trust me - they have no idea. The service is fast and friendly and the price is right.
Also, you should listen to the palace steak house song (not officially associated with the restaurant, but associated with the band named after the restaurant). It pretty much says it all.
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There's something eerily compelling about this place. For $10 you get some wilted salad and a baked potato drizzled with margarine, plus a big slab of meat cooked by an angry old guy in a giant green chef's hat. For free, you get to sit in the ancient, dusty booths, admire their overwhelming flag collection (seriously, what?) and people watch to your heart's content. All sorts of people make the Palace their regular stop for clogged arteries and colons - large Latino families, gangbangers, punks, old folks and everyone in between.
But the meat tells the story and the meat, my friends, is fucking good.
My boyfriend and I have a couple of friends with whom we do a semi-regular beef excursion, wherein we go as a foursome and sample various meathouses (meathice? meathousen?). Our previous outing had taken us to House of Prime Rib (their choice), so we decided that Palace would make a nice contrast. Despite our reassurances of the atmosphere, our friends came dressed up for a night out. Comedy at it's finest.
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I went in support of my local steakhouse. Now, I don't need fancy to think a steak good, but I do need edible. Look here Palace Steak House, you can sing the proletarian song of the local steak house all you want, but you are on Cesar Chavez--I don't think any of the big chains are breathing down your neck, so stop whining and make a better steak.
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Decent meat for super cheap. It is in kind of a shady area though. Go with a group. this is not a date place.
I have eaten here over ten times and will not stop.
I refuse to go to one of the fancy steakhouses and pay top dollar when I can get an incredible steak and support a Mission institution at the same time!
I took my parents, two hearty Midwestern carnivores, and they were in heaven.
Love the decor, the people, the price, and the quality!
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I'll support my local family steak house when they make food that I can digest. I swear the baked potatoe was already cooked and just reheated - the salad was iceberg and cherry tomatos. Really dumpy and just not good.
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Support your local steakhouse. C'mon -- if you've passed it every day on your way to work -- you know you have to try it. Don't worry, you won't die trying.
I can now say that I've done my part in supporting my local steakhouse... In all honesty, the place is not worth checking out.
Sure, the cook/waiter/cashier was a nice old man... but the trays were nasty, my plate was nasty and the food was nothing to write home about.
Save some money by getting a cheap piece of meat, pounding it and cooking it in a frying pan and smothering it with warm A1 sauce.
For a place thats been around since 1969, you'd think the guy cooking the meat would know how long it took for a medium steak to cook... but no, instead he has to cut the meat while its cooking to check the color. LAME!
Save your dough and go to a real steakhouse... not a steak-shit-hole.
i love this place.
where else in SF can you get a steak--no--a full meal--for about $12? the steak is not bad. i mean, it's no ruth chris or whatever, but who wants to eat there, when you can eat your steak off a plastic tray with some of the most artery clogging garlic/butter bread you can find, plus wine that comes in little bottles?
i hate that people critisize the food here. because they obviously don't get it. it's not really about the food, it's about everything else. the old grandpa who cooks it, his happy little wife//sidekick, and just about marveling at how a place like this is even around in SF today.
besides, the steak isn't bad at all. it's perfect with ketchup.
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grab a tray, order off the big board, make sure to take advantage of the salad bar toppings of jalapenos, croutons and kidney beans and pick out the most recent year of wine in small plastic bottles.
one of the best steaks in the city and not just because you get a steak, salad, cheesy bread and baked potato for $12. they really know how to cook a damn good steak here. they've been cookin streaks for over 30 years, so they better be good at it.
great place to eat before hitting up the mission bars.
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i'd give 4 stars for the meats, but the baked potato and iceberg salad aren't that much to write about.. i like their bread though, but it's pretty ghetto as well.
the decor is pretty old... as in they've probably not touched the stuff that's there in ages...
the plates are cheap and a good value and it's in the neighborhood so i go there once in a while...
This is a place I never would've ventured into from off the street just because of it's locale and look. But thanks to Max's review, I checked it out, and it's definately gonna get put on the rotation of kick ass places in sf to eat for less dinero. There is no where else in this city where you can eat a steak like this for 10 bucks! It was delicious. The salad was basic, but that's what you go to a steakhouse for. Salad, crutons, dressing. The dressing, by the way, was awesome. I had the ranch, and my friend had the blue cheese. Jalapanos and carrots are available as well, if you lament the fact that there's no appetizers. My friend was bummed there was no bloomin' onion (we usually drive to corporate outback to feed the cheap steak itch). But I'd say that the $2 glasses of wine make up for that! And the chef and his wife were so nice! They really wanted us to enjoy ourselves. I decided to splurge with a 2 dollar galss of red, and he informed me that they had cabernet, as the menu board only said burgundy was available. I thought it was perfect that it was served chilled! Anyone who would give this place a bad review isn't worthy of calling themselves a steak lover!
so, i like beef. a lot. good beef. the better the beef, the better for me. tasty, appetizing - thats what i mean by 'beef' and therefore i dont need it to be pricey to love it dearly. hence, this five-star rating borne of true love for my very own local steakhouse, palace. my very own, your very own - all who pass through its doors hungry and leave with a sense of bliss (and those who dont/havent: WHAT?!) certainly lay claim to this treasure.
"prove it!" you exclaim. "gladly!" respond i. check these facts: 01) you pay before you eat. understand the absolute brilliance of this procedure after stuffing yourself with the beefy goodness you are about to order, and you will fully appreciate this ingenious setup. 02) the salad, a basic iceberg-mix-from-a-bag, do-it-yourself-croutons, tastes like heaven, just as it should at a steakhouse. why this happens, i dont know, but a basic cheap iceberg salad from a steakhouse tastes incredibly and i cannot reproduce this at home. 03) steaks! steaks! steaks! ribeyes, t-bones, new york strips, all at a $9ish to $11 dollar range. and let me add, this is a full meal: steak, baked potato (sour cream add 25cents), grilled garlic bread, salad. for that price, and for this quality, i am at its divine mercy. 04) the steaks are slathered in butter before grilled on an ancient behind-the-counter setup by the king of steaks. hes got no patience for your stammering, because all he loves is steak. when you enter this place, please do so with the feeling, you cant go wrong. 05) GOOD. CHEAP. STEAK. if you say medium-rare, thats what you will get. no joke. 06) since 1969 and it looks like it. for a reason.
i have zero clue as to why anyone would review palace poorly. there is no honest reason. everything about it is perfect. perfect, if you like red meat. if you dont like it, take heed: the place is too good for you, then, and not the other way around.
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