A new steak house recently opened up in the self-appointed elitist stretch of Oklahoma City proper, a beautifully self-effacing joint that proudly offers up various highly premium cuts of beef and a la cart sides to only the very best and most worthy of thick-walleted clientele, usually at a cost that is more than a week’s worth of groceries for many of the area’s dollar-menu dependent families.
Chances are I’ll never be able to chow there.
More my horsespeed, however, is the wonderfully contrived cowboy kitsch of Cimarron Steak House, 201 N. Meridian, who are coincidentally also celebrating their 25th anniversary, offering an 8 oz. sirloin with your choice of sides for only $9.99. Sure, it may not be grass-fed specially-bred hypoallergenic-beef from a no-kill farm, but, in these weary days of economic apocalypse, it’s the little things, like a $10 steak with your choice of sides, that can make even the lowliest cow-puncher feel like a Dionysian Nichols Hills property owner, if only for 45 minutes to an hour.
Built a little over 25 years ago on the ashes of the old Doc Severinsen's jazz and dinner club—yes, that was a thing—the old west, or, at the very least, a maniacally recollected thumbing through of Time-Life’s leather-bound The Old West collection, comes alive at Cimarron, with oversized antlers and unpolished saddles lining the neon strewn wall as elderly patrons who just figured out Groupon enjoy their meals in quiet desperation.