Dinner at The Strip Club

For the boyfriend's birthday last night, we went to dinner at The Strip Club. Wait, wait, before you think we're some crazy white trash couple, The Strip Club is a steak and seafood restaurant on the north side of St. Paul. It's in an old brick building, on top of the hill overlooking the St. Paul skyline. The food was amazing!! We started out getting a couple small plates to share. I had their soup du jour, which was squash, apple, and cream puree with pomegranate seeds. It was super flavorful and creamy. They had deviled eggs on the menu, so of course we had to get that. They were spicy and the eggs were pickled, definitely unique but tasty. We also got shrimp skewers over a spicy, cheesy, cauliflower puree that the boyfriend picked as his favorite taste of the night. For dinner, we split their New York strip steak. All of the beef they serves is grass-fed, so everything is super tender. After you pick your cut of steak, you can pick from 7 different sauce options. We got our steak with the "Thai Me Up" sauce, which was spicy peanut and cilantro. I gave up deep-fried food as a New Year's resolution, so we passed on their french fries with white cheese and chorizo. The steak automatically comes with fresh carrots sauteed in a butter sauce, which were surprisingly tasty for carrots. Overall, I would say this place is a lot cheaper than one of your high end steakhouses, and has much better unique flavors, with local produce, at a reasonable price. This place is definitely one of the best restaurants in St. Paul.