With 20-ounce cuts of meat and porterhouses the size of actual houses, Porterhouse Bistro is to carnivores what Real Food Daily is to vegans.

Porterhouse Bistro, in the heart of Beverly Hills, offers a delightfully simple menu. The dcor is elegant but understated; so too is the bill. Its the kind of place where the T-bones are perfection and a wedge of ice-cold iceberg lettuce still passes for a salad. A choice of sides, including broccoli and creamed corn, helps correct the dimensions of the food pyramid. If your loved one can be trusted, get the porterhouse, a whopping 40-ounce slab of meat thats cut for two. But this place isnt for stuffed shirts: The menu advises patrons to moo three times facing the Midwest (thats where the cows come from). Frugal foodies know to hit up Porterhouse Bistro between Mondays and Thursdays, when the four-course, two-beverage prix-fixe menu is reduced to a digestible $37.50. —Amir Kenan