I once flew from Tennessee to Washington just to eat this steak! I had heard incredible things about this restaurant from Washington natives, travel writers, and food critics.

When the hostess sat me down, I boasted about how far I had traveled for the occasion.

I thought she would be impressed.

But she said nonchalantly: "Yes, we hear that every day. Heck, foreigners come just to eat this steak." What?! It seems that I am not that special anymore.

It's a legendary place with super big cuts of beef, and the beef on the menu is as small as Lil' Dude's, 10 ounces (283 grams), not too small for most people, and Cowgirl's

The beef is only 26 ounces (737 grams).

It gets bigger than that! But don't confuse it with those gimmick restaurants in Texas that lure tourists with 72 ounce cuts of beef while serving absolutely terrible quality steaks.

It is almost impossible to bite your way out of such a terrifying giant.

No, "Wolf Creek" is not a gimmick, and critics agree.

This is the real deal, their beef is aged in house, delivering the highest quality! I'm sure many men were embarrassed to order this cowgirl, an impressive size that anyone can devour.

But not this man.

I have a motto when it comes to steak: “Go big or go home!” Since the 26-ounce portion wasn’t enough to satisfy my hunger, I ordered a 40-ounce large steak from the Rancher.

(This includes a 24-ounce porterhouse and a 16-ounce sirloin).

It will look similar to the image below.

Oh my gosh! Not only was it huge, it was perfect! Even if the hostess inflated my expectations with stories from international travellers, and even if I suspected that steakhouse cuts of beef might be of inferior quality, it still gave me

Impressed beyond anything I could have imagined! It was better than my experiences with Kobe in Japan, Wagyu in Australia, and every other experience I had.

I had no idea! I had a whole steak with a lobster tail on the side, an appetizer, mac and cheese, a salad, lots of rolls, and a cheesecake for dessert.

Delicious! Oh my gosh! Not only was it huge, it was perfect! Even if the hostess inflated my expectations with stories from international travellers, and even if I suspected that the steakhouse's hunks of beef might be of a lesser quality, it

Still impressed me more than I could have imagined! It was better than my experiences with Kobe in Japan, Wagyu in Australia, and everything else.

I had no idea! I had a whole steak with a lobster tail on the side, an appetizer, mac and cheese, a salad, lots of rolls, and a cheesecake for dessert.

Delicious! Unfortunately, their quality dropped in 2017 for unknown reasons, possibly a change in ownership.

The rating dropped from nearly perfect to 4.3 out of 5.

The glory days are gone.

But at their award-winning peak, I enjoyed the perfect steak.

The restaurant closed on February 24, 2018.

Perhaps it is not easy to run a high-end enterprise in a medium-sized city with a population of only more than 200,000.

Maybe the owner retired and passed the house on to someone else.

Fortunately, you can still have similar experiences.

Their sister restaurant, the Wolf Lodge Inn in Coeur d’alene, Idaho, is a popular hangout for tourists and locals alike and is one of the most famous steakhouses in the country and still maintains its high quality.

(Wolf Lodge Inn, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) Yes, I've been to that restaurant too, where I devoured a 53-ounce steak, also called the Rancher,

Similar to Wolf Creek Steakhouse's porterhouse and sirloin combination, it's almost as delicious.

Over 3.3 pounds of delicious beef, definitely a personal record for me.

The menu has changed and sadly the 53 oz.

These days, only cut up to 32 ounces (907 grams) of ranch meat.

You might picture me as a pudgy gentleman, but I'm actually quite skinny.

Thankfully, the Wolf Lodge Inn has maintained its high quality, with a 4.8 rating on Facebook, a 4.7 rating on Google, and a 4.5 rating on TripAdvisor, just to prove its quality.

Wolf Creek was even better in its heyday.

Category 2: The Best Steak Ever (Any Animal Allowed) at Hotel Sumac (Aguascalientes, Peru) in Rome, or in this case at the foot of Peru’s famous Machu Picchu mountain, be like

Peruvians do things like that, right? Our family vacationed at this lovely five-star resort with a famous chef.

This restaurant comes highly recommended.

After a day of hiking around the stunning Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, we sat down to dinner.