As an aside, mal - My last memory of Steak & Ale was going to one for dinner with two colleagues. We all ordered strip steaks, medium rare. Theirs were picture perfect examples, the steaks you would see in magazines and TV ads. The first one served to me was burned black on one side and barely marked on the other. I sent it back. The manager spoke to me, apologetically, promising me a properly cooked steak would be out, shortly. While my coworkers were enjoying their perfect steaks, I ate my salad and baked potato. The next steak to be brought to me had the faintest of single marks on each side and had clearly been put in a microwave. I called over the manager, showed him the steak presented to me and urged him to look at the remaining halves of my companions steaks, then asked rhetorically which he believed to be grilled medium rare strip steaks and which he would want served to him. In reply, the manager asked if the restaurant could prepare another entree for me. I recapped that the three of us had arrived together and ordered at the exact same steaks at the same time. I wanted what they had been served, and if his kitchen could produce but two of them for our table, I would forgo an entree and pay for my side dishes. He "comped" my meal. I tipped the waiter as if I'd been served the meal I'd ordered.