"Jose" wrote in message
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[...] While waiting, we went to a nearby Dennys and had a steak which
easily rivaled the best steaks I've ever had, and way surpassed the
steakhouse in Seattle. I was floored.

Who'd'a'thunkit?

Not me. Denny's is the last place I think of when I think "good food".

I don't know what steakhouse you went to, but I don't know of any "high end
steakhouse of great repute" in Renton. We've got Ruth's Chris in Bellevue,
and of course several excellent independents (and another Ruth's Chris) in
downtown Seattle and scattered about elsewhere. Mostly people around here
seem to think that The Keg or Black Angus count for "good steaks", but they
are chains and qualify as "fair to middlin'" at best, IMHO.

I'd say your experience was a fluke...I certainly wouldn't count on it. But
it does highlight the my point that it's always worth trying something
different.

Pete