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CORRECTION: SEE CORRECTION APPENDED; Dal Rae steakhouse -- An article about steakhouses in Wednesday's Food section incorrectly said that the pepper steak at Dal Rae restaurant in Pico Rivera is made with bell pepper. It is made with black pepper. The article also said that the Dal Rae opened in 1958 and was named after a racehorse. The original Dal Rae, near Hollywood Park, opened in the 1940s and was named after the restaurant's owners. It changed hands in 1951, and the Pico Rivera location opened in 1958. The new owner later owned two champion racehorses named after the restaurant.; Dal Rae steakhouse -- A story about steakhouses in last week's Food section incorrectly said that the pepper steak at Dal Rae restaurant in Pico Rivera is made with bell pepper. It is made with black pepper. The story also said that the Dal Rae opened in 1958 and was named after a racehorse. The original Dal Rae, near Hollywood Park, opened in the 1940s and was named after the restaurant's owners. It changed hands in 1951, and the Pico Rivera location was opened in 1958. The new owner later owned two champion racehorses named after the restaurant.
BACK in the '80s, when chefs wouldn't serve you a steak unless they could cut it up and drizzle it with raspberry coulis, I joined a club for lovers of old-fashioned American beefsteak. In fact, I got myself named sergeant-at-arms and craftily wrote up bylaws that granted sweeping powers to the sergeant-at-arms.
After a number of fine steak dinners, though, one of our officers married a vegetarian, and meetings tapered off. Reluctantly, I gave up my dream of world dominion by means of retro steak club.
It turns out we Bloodhounds were as much ahead of the times as behind them. In the last few years, several high-end restaurants have spawned steakhouses. It only proves one thing: What goes around comes around, medium rare.
Patrick Terrail, owner of the once-famous Ma Maison, was prophesying a return to steak and potatoes in 1986. "We've been California-ed out," he said. As it happened, we didn't actually get California-ed out until five years later, when the economy went over a big cliff, and the next thing turned out to...