Why do you love steak frites?

Update: Toby Rhind-Tutt – @the_rts on twitter – wins #steakfrites love competition. See the entry that won he and his wife an invitation to an epic steak frites tasting dinner at Racine Restaurant in London.
 

To steer us to the best cuts of beef for the ultimate steak frites we have London butcher Darragh O’Shea. To show those cuts off to best advantage we have chef Henry Harris of Racine.  The invaluable insights of these Knightsbridge neighbours are now captured in a series of 6 meaty web videos: Steak Frites – Mastering the Cuts.

You risk being aroused by watching these beefy close-ups, but you don’t have to be left unsatisfied. Harris will prepare his three favourite steak dishes – onglet aux échalottes, filet au poivre, côte de boeuf with béarnaise – and serve them together, along with golden chips, at special steak frites tasting dinners arranged exclusively with youngandfoodish in the private dining room of Racine.

The videos leave open a single question: what is it about this classic combination of meat and potatoes that makes it the beefcake attraction of bistro and brasserie menus? Why does our longing gaze keep returning to the words “steak frites”? Why, when we resist that temptation, do our eyes fall enviously on the plate of the companion who didn’t? Why do we so readily defy dining decorum, reflexively reaching across the table to pinch a single frite with barenaked fingers?

Do you have the answer? Can you express it in 125 characters or less? If so, be sure to enter our “why you love steak frites?” twitter competition for a chance to win an invitation for you and a guest to the premiere of the youngandfoodish 3-steak tasting dinners on Monday, 22^nd March at Racine. And just for entering the contest and thereby enriching our appreciation of this shared passion you’ll get a £10 discount to the  steak frites tasting dinner on Monday, 12^th of April. (Enter the discount code love at checkout).

HOW TO ENTER

• Send out a tweet that explains in 125 characters or less why you love steak frites. Be sure to include the #steakfrites hash tag somewhere in the entry.
• Become a follower @steak_frites
• Limit of 5 entries per twitter account.
• Submissions will be accepted from now until Saturday the 13^th of March, 10pm GMT.

HOW TO WIN

• Henry Harris (@racine­_kitchen), Darragh O’Shea (@osheasbutchers)  and contest officials @gastro1 and  @youngandfoodish will choose 5 tweets which strike them as exceptionally original, lyrical, passionate, mouthwatering, witty or silly.
• The winner will be chosen from these 5 finalists through a popular vote open to anyone with a twitter account. Voting will open Tuesday the 16^h of March at 7am GMT and close Thursday the 18^th at 11pm GMT.
• The winner will be announced here on the 19th of March

THE PRIZE

• The winner and a guest will be invited by Henry Harris and youngandfoodish to the debut 3-steaks tasting event celebrating Steak Frites – Mastering the Cuts. The event is to be held on Monday night the 22^th of March at Racine in London.
• If the winner does not expect to be available or in London that night, he or she can exchange the prize for an invitation-for-two to a subsequent steak frites tasting dinner at Racine. The first such dinner will be on the 12^th of April.

HOW TO FOLLOW

• Follow @steak_frites on twitter.
• Search the hash tag #steak_frites on twitter search
• Check updates in comments section on bottom of this page

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