Pour remaining juices over steak.

The resulting gravy is rich, sweet, bitter and spicy, all at once - ask for this over chicken enchiladas or steak.

Sliced and laid over hot steak, chicken, fish, veal or vegetables, the aromatic butter melts and spreads its flavors.

The point of any visit to Pete Lorenzo's, however, is to schmooze, and to do it over steak.

But as we chatted over fresh fish and steak (cooked, not microwaved, in the kitchen below), we noticed the dining car was filling up with an extraordinary mixture of people.

Drizzle sparingly over steak.

More adventurous cooks, she added, could serve a chili sauce over steak.

Beer is often drizzled over cooking chops and steak during cooking, the theory being that it adds flavour while making the meat more tender.

Spoon a little dressing over steak, and serve.

But as they joked and sparred over steak and beer, they discovered that neither side lived up to its stereotype.