Cheap Steak!

If you have money in the markets, you're probably slowly but surely erasing items off your weekend entertainment plans list. But not to worry, bad luck with investments shouldn't hold you back from having a great steak dinner, or so Michael Landrum says.

Landrum is the rare man who has managed to make quite a bit of money from having a socially conscious business plan. Sure, at times he's a bit preachy, but he's also usually right so we let it pass.

Landrum own's Rays the Steaks in Arlington (which does a charity special every Sunday), Ray's the Classics in Silver Spring (which he opened to challenge the demographic stereotypes in Silver Spring), Ray's Hell Burger (uh, well its just a damn good burger) and soon-to-be Ray's the Heat in the District's blighted 8th Ward.

Anyway, Ray strives to deliver good food at good prices, and he's taking this to the next level with a new under 20$ menu of steak options at his Arlington Rays the Steaks location.

From Landrum: These new dishes are:

• Steak "Fajita"--A 14 ounce sirloin "skirt," marinated, grilled and served fajita-style (imagine if Ray's were to make fajitas...oh wait, we do!)--$14.95
• Center Cut Top Sirloin Steak in red wine and rosemary--blindfolded, these'd pretty much beat most NY Strips I've had--10-ounce, $15.95; 14-ounce, $18.95
• Top Sirloin Filet--an unbelievable cut: out-steaks NY Strip in terms of flavor, cuts more tender than a lot of Filets out there, but with real steak "tooth"--$16.95
• The Short Rib Steak--a full 16 ounce off-the-bone short rib "steak", charred and braised in Guinness with root vegetables and Colman's mustard, insane--$17.95
• The Brazilian Strip--think of a cross between hanger and NY Strip, but even juicier, served with "piranha" sauce--18.95

And I'm assuming these come with the usual gratis creamed spinach and mashed potatoes. A 14oz strip dinner with sides for 18.95 is do-able even with a 7000-pt Dow.