It's a love hate thing. Anyone that walks around talking about how much money and whatever they've got to the people who are the source thereof is a foool. But, at the sametime there is something about that place that sets it apart from its contemporaries...

steaks and eggs Cheesecake... the best i had in BJ. i want one!

thats true they are quite some characters. E.g. the staff: Instead of coming and getting my order, get me some hot sauce etc. they just sit at the next table and eat their own food. And no matter how many times i tell them to get it for me, they just call someone else whos not gonna show up for another 5 minutes. They are really incompetent.

yeah, lee gets my vote too. Especially when he whips out his little book, for you to pronounce English words for him. Then proceeds to get it horribly incorrect. God loves a trier!

I find the service excellent in there, maybe because I go out of my way to be nice to them. I've seen boarish expats barking orders at them (loudly, slowly, in English), and I just cringe. Maybe you think they should speak perfect English, as they are working in a western restaurant. But if they could speak perfect English, they certainly wouldn't be working in Steak n Eggs, taking orders from loud, obnoxious idiots. Cut 'em some slack guys, they try their best. Try learning a little Chinese. Crazy thought!

And their constant humiliation at the hands of Paul and that awful partner of his, in full view of all customers, isn't going to make them want to bend over backwards. Be patient!

Hats off to Wayne, Brenda and Diana too!

to quote from a rant site:

Except big portoin, I really cant see anything appealing of steak and eggs.

And when I saw the many prizes they won on the wall of their restaurant,
I feel kinda sad that for the last several years, there are no competitor strong enough to beat them or at least can be threat to them.

This is neither good for them nor for customers.

Lack of strong competitors results in retrogress.

And it's always better for customes to have both Mc's and KFC, cocacola and pepsi.

The same in restaurants like steak and eggs.

Or maybe he does. That would explain a lot of things.

I've only been to Steak 'n' Eggs once, on my last day in BJ the last time I was there and I really enjoyed myself. Thought the service was great, the waiter was nice, loved the food and the cocktails. Paul seemed nice too esp after I told him I spent many years in Canada. Perhaps I was seeing things through rose-tinted glasses that night since I was with my bf and having way too much fun (yes eventhough I was leaving) but I will definitely go check it out again just to see if I notice the sort of things everyone else has written about.

steak and eggs was the first western restaurant i was taken to in beijng...the first restaurant actually; being as i spent 3 months in a city with no western restaurants...i was craving some western hard.

i don't care about anything except it's big portions of quasi-decent western food at a reasonable price. as long as i'm with friends and getting gut-rotting full on something other than kung pao chicken, i'm a happy camper

I'm a somewhat regular customer of Steak and Eggs, but my daughter likes Grandma's better, so we alternate.

Steak and Eggs gets my vote for being a great breakfast on a Sunday morning. I know there are many places to go, but Steak and Eggs does it for me.

I don't know if he got the contract or not, but I was in there a couple of weeks ago and an order came in from the new US Embassy. Paul started jumping around and barking orders and was really trying to break some kind of record in filling the order.

They were closed today for some reason. I went next door to Grandma's and it was very good. Nice place, good service, good food.

We tried the place twice and one thing was for sure: the food was absolutely nothing special. At least we didn't have to listen to anyone's life history! Doubt we will be back for a third try.

The Steak & Eggs is still open near WAB. Caters mostly to the students from WAB during lunch time and most other times is rather empty. I think Paul used to go there every other day, but I don't think he or YangYang even bother to go there and concentrate more on the other location.

Lets say it is a popular Western restaurant. Its good in the sense that often it can solve a craving that a person might have for a particular type of food, lets say blueberry pancakes or unlimited coffee.

Tried to go to the Steak n Eggs by WAB this past weekend, only to find the place looking like a construction zone. It was nice that it was in this location, although somehow, the decor and interior never felt very inviting and looked rather tacky. Hope the new place will have a better feel.