Hereford House’s quite excellent lunch menu!
As a long-time resident of K.C. and its burbs, I thought I
knew everything about Hereford House
I needed to know. Hand-cut steaks, four
locations (east, west, north, and south) plus Pierpont’s in Union Station,
great burgers (hand ground from their steak meat every day), good happy hours,
and this year, sixty years old. What I
didn’t know about especially was their great lunch specials every day of week,
like a 12 oz. ribeye for just $25 on Mondays or what turns out to be a pretty
famous meatloaf on Thursdays.
On a recent lunch date with publisher Kathy Denis last week,
we were treated to their newest steak – the Hereford special strip steak. What makes this different is the fact that
it’s “marinated” overnight – dried porcini mushrooms, salt, black and crushed
red pepper, and a couple of other ingredients.
The result is the juiciest and most flavorful strip I’ve ever had – and
I’m a ribeye girl. This steak is the
result of extensive testing – which means steaks being eaten day after
day. After day. Before they went on the
lunch and dinner menus. We also tried
their oysters Rockefeller (normally on the dinner menu) which were perfectly
roasted with enough butter, lemon, spinach and parmesan to make me forget I’m
eating oysters. With the short rib
sandwich we ordered extra crispy sweet potato waffle fries which were perfect –
and it’s hard to get sweet potatoes crispy.
I have to admit that one of their eight desserts pretty much
did me in, it was that good. Their carrot
cake riff is something I’m going to go order all by itself and call it lunch.
As it was, I managed all of the above and said happy anniversary, Hereford
House. No wonder you’ve been around so
long!
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