First time I loved steak was my step dad making Canadian ribeyes in the back yard. Big delmonico ribeyes in the U.S. was the next level for that kind of shit. Had wagyu at Jacob's a few times in Toronto; awesome, but I'd never go for that, or any steakhouse steaks, again unless someone hooked me up w/ a box of it or a cut for a good price. Butcher/farm > steakhouse.
I came from my buddies farm just now and got one of those huge IKEA bags filled - mustard greens, swiss chard, 2 kinds of eggplants, pak choy, soursop, passion fruit, fresh corn, two kinds of pears/avocados, pomegranate, 3 kinds of hot peppers (scotch bonnet, bird, cherry), 3 kinds of seasoning pepper - $26 USD. $20 w/out the avocado. He threw in a bag of big fat ballyhoo fish as a treat.
I find big chain restaurants in general are pretty much a scam unless they are offering some signiture item that they have truly mastered, and/or the are a part of the local community, so you go for more than just food. Or they just offer something that would be truly too time consuming to make for yourself. I can crank out solid dim sum, but to do 20 different items and not make any money but spend all day doing it? Fahk that. I ask wife for 10 kid, but she say just 2, so no free labour mean we go out for dim sum.
That's if there is dim sum around. Here there isn't, but there is a Chinese supermarket that sells all kinds of stuff to make it, which is hardly comforting when WIFE ONLY GIVE YOU 2 CHILD!