There’s probably no single entrée at Dal Rae more emblematic of the restaurant’s mid-century tastes than the pepper steak. The restaurant cuts the steak from either a New York strip or a filet mignon, but either piece of meat is a good one. What makes the dish, however, is the pepper sauce, which completely caps [...]

Celebrating Dal Rae’s golden anniversary

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
It’s nearly nine o’clock and brothers Lorin and Kevin Smith are still roaming Dal Rae’s dining room. The two take turns weaving through the restaurant’s tables and tapping on chairs as they walk by and leaning into the steakhouse’s scalloped booths to kid with customers. “Make sure you [...]

Making meat-and-potatoes memories at Clearman’s Steak ‘N Stein Inn

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
John Clearman opened Clear-man’s Steak ‘N Stein Inn in Pico Rivera in 1946, the same year that Winston Churchill first warned of the Iron Curtain and Dr. Benjamin Spock published Baby and Child Care. The Nuremburg trial was wrapping up, television peaked at 12 [...]