If there is one food related motto my dear husband would have, this will be it — “My favorite animal is steak.” It is the one food he could eat every single day. Imagine our delight when we came to check out Brickfire Oven-Roasted Steaks and Chops a couple of weeks back.
Don’t just take my word for it, here’s the Brickfire menu for proof. As soon as we stepped in and saw the prices, I admit to second guessing if their steaks would make the cut in my hubby’s discriminating taste for steaks. Amongst all the handful of steak houses we’ve been to, there is not one place that offer prices half as affordable as Brickfire Oven-Roasted Steaks and Chops.
Founders Chef Tadi Diaz and Aaron Macalinao with Brickfire Oven-Roasted Steaks and Chops‘s Marketing Officer, Jowie Maulawin.
As for how the steaks fared by our standards, I’d have to say, the founders did not claim for their dishes to be brick-oven roasted to fork-tender perfection for nothing. With all curiosity, I had to ask Aaron Macalinao myself how they can afford to sell their steaks for cheap when their tenderloins are this good. Pointblank, he told me that the key is to go straight to the source. As a learned butcher himself, who has beef for specialty and who has been the business ever since he can remember. His family has been in the meat supplying business for more than 20 years. Doing away from the middlemen does a great deal to the end prices of goods. Totally makes sense to me. I especially love how he has mastered steaks and transferred the knowledge to us such that we now feel more confident that we can tell a porterhouse, from just a t-bone and a tenderloin.
Cheesy Nachos and Fries, P150
The bucket of cheesy nachos and fries are my favorite Brickfire appetizer.
Brocolli Tex Mex, P160
The Brocolli Tex Mex is a the perfect, tasty and healthy balance to the abundance of steaks that we devoured for dinner that night.
Cowgirl Annie, P120
Cowgirl Annie, Brickfire’s T-bone steak sells for P120, can you imagine?! This one above is the Original, which is my favorite of the two Cowgirl Annie variants. The other one is the Honey-Mustard flavor. The serving was hefty, flavorful and can just about compete with this orange place we go to sometimes for steaks for a fraction of its price.
The Duke, P250
The Duke, Brickfire Oven-Roasted Steaks and Chops’s tenderloin, is my runaway favorite! I have yet to find a steak as tender and flavorful. To top it all off, indulging in such premium beef does not have to hurt the pocket anymore.
There was no way we can miss this. Brickfire serves A&W! There are not a lot of restaurants that serve this favorite soda of ours. All other rootbeers just don’t measure up.
Los Indios, Chicken Adobo, P89
Adobo. So you think you’ve tried them all? With a lot of variants to adobo, this is the first time I’ve seen adobo presented this way. Interesting, impressive, yes to both. You’ll love how it tastes even more.
Baked Fish, P250
Suffice it to say, this baked fish (cream dory) did not last five minutes on the table. The chef in me right there planned on cloning the same dish at home. The hubby’s favorite is cream dory and my son’s favorite cream dory dish is my lemon and butter recipe, this is a nice alternative to what we got used to. 😉
I should say that there’s probably something to how they prepare, marinate their prime meats. Unlike the steaks we got used to being grilled over an open flame, their steaks are roasted in a 400-degree heated oven. Allowing the meat to cook in its own juices and flavors. Just typing these away makes me wanna go right back for a good and hearty serving of The Duke. Brickfire Oven-Roasted fork-tender Steaks and Chops are sure worth checking out 🙂
Brickfire Oven-Roasted Steaks and Chops
2/F Xavier Residence Building, E. Abada corner R. Alvero Streets
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
Tel. (02)426-2254 | (0917) 777-7034
Operating hours: 6AM to 10:45PM
wow! everything looks interesting! 🙂 especially that adobo 🙂