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Here is the appetizer menu at St. Elmo's:

They are definitely huge. Almost like a small lobster tail.

No steak is "worth" the price in a restaurant. 

For that matter, nothing in a restaurant is "worth" the price.

$15 for mushrooms, to share? $15 for a potato?

That's a steakhouse. It is what it is.

Most of here agree we can fix an excellent steak at home without much bother.  Most of us probably order one out on occasion knowing this.

The best steak I ever had out was a Tomahawk ribeye at Eddie Merlots, I think it was $59 at the time, now it's over $100.

This is why I prefer "ethnic" restaurants, their items are mostly things I can't fix at home without a lot of work.  I had to suggest to my wife that she order when we're traveling things that are "local", don't go to a steak place and order seafood, don't go to Boston and order a steak, etc.  For whatever reason she hadn't put this together perhaps because in France, the food can be somewhat less local than here?

A friend once told me that raw oysters were just an excuse to eat cocktail sauce, but I've learned not to use that on good oysters.

Oh yeah I love them without cocktail sauce.  I sometimes will put a dab of horseradish on top, though.  Like wasabi on a bite of sushi.

For whatever reason she hadn't put this together perhaps because in France, the food can be somewhat less local than here?

I'd say food across the USA is quite a bit more varied than France, but it's really not a fair comparison because not only is the US much larger, it's also been more of a "melting pot" than France has over the past 200 years, with a wider variety of ethnic foods introduced here, compared to France.

And that's not to say that food across the country of France doesn't vary, because of course it does.  I just don't think it's as wide a variety, for the reasons stated above.

Or at least, that's my theory!  Could be completely wrong...

I dab some mignonette on them at times.

Some places don't have it of course.

If they don't have it, that tells me to not order oysters.