is it me or did the thing the peppercorn sauce came in look like an old ashtray ??

Couldn’t give a monkeys about the chip tbh it looked fantastic but I think they could of put some onion rings mushrooms and or veg with it as the plate looked barren

Me as well. Definitely an ashtray for the sauce.😂😂

Whoa, that steak looked great. 9/10 easy - didn't see the chipped plate ... personally, I like medium rare fillet, green peppercorns pressed into the steak (not a sauce)... flamed with brandy and a clarified butter sauce to finish. Agree with your choice of jacket potato, looked proper. Can't wait for the Paella vid :) Make it an epic Paella Lee!

Great to see you back out in the sunny sunshine Lee!! Enjoy the trip & looking forward to more videos!! 👍👍

Peppercorn is the best sauce to have with steak no argument I don’t care if it’s 70s or not.

I hope you’re right my friend. Just sat down and ordered the filet 😉

Were is the bloody garnish and veg? a crappy steak and a foiled jacket potato. Jacket potatoes need to be crispy on the outside

I think it was more disturbing that the sauce came in an ashtray… 🤔

Ure sauce was served in an ashtray 😂😂

What about the dish your pepper corn sorce was in it looked like they had upcycled an old Ash try anyone else spotted that

If I were to deduct a point, it would probably be for the peppercorn sauce being served in (what looks very much like) an ashtray 😂

I'm easy when it comes to steak, so I usually ask what the chef recommends, and if they say the sirloin is really good tonight then that's what I'll have. I was out for lunch in Durban with a Texas businessman once and when they asked him how he wanted his steak he said in his loud Texan drawl "just wipe it's a*se and lead it in" ... That turned a few heads !!

Ash tray sauce dish lol

Your Doctor is spot on I tried both Diet Coke and Pepsi against the regular stuff and the non Sugar one I could taste the Chemicals in both of them, A decent low Alcohol beer is way better, What's tbe problem wtth Peppercorn sauce being from the 70's when the Beer most people wash lt down with dates back 8000 years, You just can't please some people

Fair comment about the plate being chipped. Definitely a mark down for that Lee. I have worked as a kitchen porter and chef would bin a chipped plate straight away.

I have to confess Lee I have fridge magnets on my fridge from my holiday in Scotland few weeks ago 😂😂one from the William Wallace Monument, Blair Drummond Safari, Japanese Garden in Dollor and one from Sterling Castle 😁😁😁.

Good vlog Lee - although you did mention (again) Phil & Janice - who nobody cares about. Good work though - more please.

Ash tray for the sauce was nice touch

Glad to see you are having a great time. The weather is looking good. And it's nice to see some were different. Don't over do it xx

I'm going to mark it outside 😅.. Brother you are outside 😮

I would have taken a point off for the peppercorn sauce in a ashtray 😮

Looks good, but like others have said could be presented better, maybe with a salad or what I like to say “all the works” meaning mushrooms, tomatoes, peas, onion rings etc. 😂 love the new content though! Keep it come! 😊

Mmmm, as a master butcher for over 30 years, I’d go for the T-bone steak! You get the tenderness of the fillet and the flavour of the sirloin, plus the flavour of it being cooked on the bone! Nom Nom! Great vid as usual Lee! Bet that beer never touched the sides eh?!😂 👍👏👏👏❤️😊

09:51 looky looky man photo bombing 😀 Plate looked a bit empty Lee. Needing some vegetables or salad on that. Chipped plate a big no no . I would have sent it back.

Ribeye medium rare to rare seasoned with some salt and pecker.

Great steak and good choice to have a baked potato rather than fries. Hope the peppercorn sauce was hot (as well as hot!) 32 euros seems a bit pricey and side salad would have been welcome. So a 9 from me.

That steak looked spot on, maybe could have done with a couple of mushrooms and tomatoes to it.

My father always said theirs a Pork Chop in every Beer metaphorically referring to it being Liquid Grains & or has High Calorie value being Liquid Food

The pepper corn sauce was served in an ashtray?

That steak was definitely medium. Fillet is probably the best cut but sometimes can taste like liver . Sirloin and Ribeye are good and Denver (Chuck under Blade) is becoming increasingly popular. It looked good though and would give it a 8/10 as it could have done with some salad and, I agree, the plate chip is a little bit of an oversight.

Another great video, Lee. Really enjoying this series! Food wise: lot of money for not much on the plate, I have to say. Also, that attempt at "plate decorating" with what I assume is balsamic drizzle and paprika/pepper dust really grinds my gears. Doesn't look fancy (especially on a curved plate), or add anything to the dish and just actually makes the plate look dirty. Someone also mentioned the sauce looks like it's served in an ashtray which is so true. Nothing against peppercorn sauce though, also love it! 6/10.

Hi Lee, Lovely sized tenderloin, but please try with Bernaise (cooked with challots) or Hollandaise, The pepercorn is so 70´s, also it was not served in a ash tray this is the old traditional spice grinder.

Peppercorn sauce served in an old ashtray 😢

The chip is a serious presentation issue, but it is cracks not chips that potentially harbour disease causing ‘bugs’.

Thought quite expensive till I saw the size of the fillet steak 😮.. Looked fantastic,as you said "Cooked to perfection!" Don't know if you know when steak is cooked wait for about 10 minutes as it keeps cooking!! My favourite steak is Ribeye, Slowly grilled with butter salt and black pepper, outer crispy and glazed,inner medium no red but still Juicy. Jacket potato 'GENIUS' Would pay that all day for what you got. Comment about you going tea total for a few months."Suits you sir!" Think it's done you the world of good.

One of your best mate! 😉

Glad to see that you are enjoying Benalmadena. Also enjoying some of the recommendations. Angela and I are back in Benalmadena next may can't wait.

The steak looked a little bit lonely on the plate with just the jacket potatoe. I would have expected some salad or veg for the price. Good choice though ordering a fillet.

As a former restaurant owner and chef that steak was definitely medium rare

Plate looked bare ,needed tomatoes and mushrooms

Absolutely enjoyed this one too. We usually have our steak well done. You had Mum laughing again 😂

Hi Lee another great video which shared with my family. I probably given it 9&a half out 10. I didn’t notice chip on the plate but long as you enjoyed the meal food,location&service looked really 👍

Favourite steak is probably a Bavette, served Blue and sliced across the grain when served. Add a bordelaise sauce...perfection (though very difficult to find in the UK)

Thats one big steak. Unfortunately i couldnt eat it with all that red in it. Mine would need to be very well done and it doesnt be tough like people think. X

Lee, as ur in the sunshine, can u pop into Lidl and see the difference in items sold here in the uk please? Good video by the way! Keep up the good work mate

Hey hun were is the rest of your meal or is it that the plate is massive but haveing a chip in it is not on they should make sure all there plates are in good condition before serving food xxx

Needs way more butter ❤

Steak looks fabulous and so does the jacket spud xx my score is 9.9 xx

When we used to go to Benalmadena in the 90s one restaurant stood out from the rest and that was Restaurante OK the address is Calle San Francisco 1 Benalmadena. It's close to the Jupiter apartments off the front and a bit of a trek up the hill if you approach it from the seafront. The menu was international with a Spanish slant. There used to be oranges & olives growing around the restaurant and the crickets singing at night made for a great ambience, especially at the weekends when they used to have flamenco guitarists playing live. What we quickly caught onto, was that we stopped having a starter because they always brought you a large basket of Spanish bread together with some tasty Pate ex gratia. One item on the menu was the Castilian mixed grill a pretty large mixed grill, and they used to do a very nice Partridge dish and for vegetables, they used to do creamed spinach. Couldn't eat spinach before, until I ate there. It was very popular and most nights you would have to book in advance. You knew it was good because a lot of Spanish people eat there. That was 25+ years ago but looking at Trip Advisor it seems it still gets rave reviews. Maybe worth a try?

I liked the BMW at the start with the winking headlights, I thought the steak looked awesome and I did not notice the chip in the plate, but, I did notice the recycled ashtray. Can you get a salad with your steak or is it still not wise to eat uncooked food in Spain.

Looked ok would of liked to see some mushrooms & onion rings & maybe some veg for the money & was the pepper corn served in a ashtray 😂😂 But that’s how they do it & looking forward to try it !! Nice blog again Lee 👍10/10 .

Good to see you having a lager, Looked a decent steak and spud. Good price. Surely bit of salad garnish and/or tomato/onion ring should have been on plate? In Australia, Peppercorn Sauce still popular, had a steak with the pepper sauce with chips and salad yesterday at my golf club, AU$28, 13 quid. Overall a 8/10 from me. Points deducted, no salad etc.And chipped plate.

Cheers lee. Enjoy your beer.I’ve been off alcohol most of year due to health problems. Can’t wait to have a wee glass of wine

YESSSSS the Mac is Back, great to see you enjoying a nice cold beer in the Spanish sunshine….. are you swinging via Benidorm on the way back to the uk haha 😂

No veg or salad would have thought for €30 they could spring for a bit of something green if just for presentation

Absolutely perfect. Made me hungry again. Great review 👍

Cheers Lee! Looked like you enjoyed that first swig of beer. I remember Denis Leary once saying, "One beer at a time, one sip at a time." We are allowed to indulge. Life's for living.

Looked very nice..pepper sauce served in an ashtray by looks of it!!

Presentation was poor. A side salad would have transformed it. As is stands , rather expensive for what you were given.

Looks very nice, I always want steaks medium/well but never ever cooked like that, always massively under cooked, just don't like to see any blood when you cut into the steak. Excellent video again 👍

The one thing I noticed that was wrong with that meal, especially at that price.......No vegetables! This is very common with Spanish restaurantes, they only ever serve you meat and potatoes if you want vegetable they usually charge you around 10€ extra and then you get a plate of frozen vegetables! I like my meat but I can't do without the veggies after all you've got to have a balanced meal. For me if I want steak I go to Cosmopolita in Fuengirola, you get a very nice steak with veggies and potatoes pobre, delicious and all for just 17€ or thereabouts!

Filet Mignon 10oz steak is $49.00 where I live!!!

Looks lovely i would get stuck in to that

I don't eat much steak but the look on your face shows your enjoyment. Great jacket potato.

Thanks for sharing Lee

I agree with you about the plate. Also, it would have been good to have some garnish. Even a small salad would have set it off a treat. Now I’ll have to get up and make a coffee and have my morning ginger biscuit,

Go uphill from the sail roundabout and there is a lovely park to have a walk around (Paloma) it's got a lake, cactus garden, and a few coffee shops as well. And as for the meal, a free chip and you're complaining lol.

Those fridge magnets, probably bought by people who go to "keys in the bowl" parties perhaps ?

Drunk people buy the veiny stick fridge magnets the same people who get a Benidorm tattoo instead of getting a postcard.

Loving the show!

I thought you was going to say peppercorn sauce served in an ashtray 😢

I could not help but laugh when you mentioned the "symbol" you saw. Myself I think that is what I see every time I see the Amazon symbol myself lol

That spud looked great but I’d want lashings more butter, I also agree with others there could have done with being more extras with the meal

Steak looked good, very good. It is not a jacket or baked potato when cooked in foil because the foil keeps in the water, effectively boiling the potato. (I was told this by a chef lecturer in one of Europe’s premier culinary schools). It still tastes really good, but it’s a potato boiled in its own liquid. I like them. I also like pepper(corn) sauce. I would like one additional vegetable as it massively increases the taste combinations possible. Nevertheless - great value compared with here in the USA particularly.

Hi Lee, great vlogs from Costa del Sol. Steak a bit underdone for me. Looked lonely on its own, no veg mushrooms or onion rings. Peppercorn sauce not 70s, gives steak a nice taste. Glad you enjoyed your beer. 😅 ❤ Keep safe.

Of course they are cheerful...they don't have Sunak the Snake, Drakeford or Khan feeding them bullsh1t or crapping on them from a great height every day.

😊😊😊 Hi Lee on catch up that beer looks yummy on a hot day. That has to taste great.😊😊WOW giving a good 10/10 on looks perfectly cooked and the Potato is huge.😊😊😊

Why no Veg ?

I'm glad to see that after you ordered the 10 oz. sauce they gave you a little steak to go with it.

My favourite cut for steak is ribeye(I think it used to be called : "the butcher's cut" - as it was always the cut that butcher kept for himself). I like it medium rare.

Best steak in Benalmadena is the Angus on the front in Torrequebrada. There, if you ask nicely, the chef will do a steak tartare. And all the kitchen staff will come out, to see what kind of a lunatic is eating raw cow and raw eggs.

Hi Lee the first thing I didn't see was your Let's Go tea shirt.. To me the steak wasn't done enough for my liking. But everyone has their choice in the way steak is cooked. I have fridge magnets because was given them as presents l. Like rump steak too . Regards Keith x

Hey Lee it looks lovely there. My favourite Steak is fillet mediem done. You will feel little light headed.. You enjoy that pint 🍻🍻👍 xx

We are going to torromalinas in feb for 4 weeks so look forward to the places you have been to excuse spelling 😊

Always have Fillet steak medium rare. Also, always have pepper corn sauce, it’s not old fashion and out of date. As for you having a beer i’m sure you can have a couple.

Glad it was cooked to your preference but agree with comment below that doneness for a fillet steak should be rare/blue ideally and no more than rare to medium to medium rare at most. Such a lean cut dries out too much otherwise. Trying rumpsteak at your preferred doneness was a good suggestion - cheaper and a much “beefier” flavour. And it clearly wasn’t “reverse seared” as another comment suggested - you could see that from the temperature gradient and the cross-hatch surface grill marks. But most importantly, you really liked it - all that matters when all is said and done! 😊

Hi Lee I like San Miguel beer on a hot day.There is only one place I know were they sell it in NJ and it’s about 15 miles away in Parsippany NJ. About 32 dollars that’s not bad in this day and age Lol Perdantic I’m not sure is that something that is annoying? Also,I told a friend who’s been to Gibraltar he told me to pass along Roy’s Fish and chips, he said it was great Take care

Looks beautiful...love Spain but living in Oz I don’t get there very often!

Needed a couple of fried eggs, mushrooms, onion rings, buttered green beans, fries and a side salad. Optional, fresh buttered crusty bread.

Funny. Twoo weeks ago i say you must go to Torremolinos. Now on KZfaq i see your here. I'm also here now. Maybe we see eachother😂. We meet eachother 2 years ago in Tenerife. In Bruges you now, the movie. Greetz from Bart Belgium Bruges. Nice you lisining to my advies for visiting Torremolinos😂😂😂

The BEST English breakfast in Torremolinos by a mile is ‘The Bailey’ - Top of Calle san Miguel (Shopping street) across the road & on the right, forget the beachside restaurants, overpriced tat… Oh and pleeeeease stop calling it Benalmadeeeena - it’s ‘Ben-al-mah-deh-na’ ❤

Steak au poivre is peppered steak in French and universally sold in restaurants, it’s a steak rolled in peppercorns prior to cooking. The peppercorn sauce was originally introduced to deglaze the pan when pan frying the meat, nowadays it’s cooked separately or out of a packet!

Hello Mac my name is anthony from lincolnshire united kingdom I just wanted to say me and my partner really loving watching all of your videos it looks like you have an awful lot of great exciting fun

Grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, onion rings, peas and salad garnish??????

Hi Lee for your next holiday try Llandudno in north Wales it's lovely there

Bloody hell Lee I be moaning there wouldn't be enough on that plate it needed some side salad or something to finish the presentation oh my mum would defently not eat off a chip plate she can not stand chip cups so 100% agree with you there about the germs and it dosnt cost much for a plate does it? Keep up the good work Lee love your videos you make me laugh with just your dry comments alone 😀😅

When you can see more plate than food you know you're being ripped off. That looked terrible! 😢

Massive plate with one piece of meat and a totty? Could at least have chucked in some onion rings or mushrooms, slice of bread and butter , 2 digestives even.

I find that in Spain now don't seem to get any veg