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AKRON, Ohio - Every burghal needs a steakhouse - not one that advertises best steaks, choicest cuts and the like, but a real, 18-carat focus on beef. Where the affection is on the bowl and not in the marketing.

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I appearance red meat the way I appearance dessert. I won't eat it every day, but back I do, I appetence it to be actual good.

The Diamond Grille embraces two things: Steaks, and an old-time, amiable feel that charcoal a abating breach from the sometimes trying-too-hard contemporary eateries that pop up.

Little has afflicted in the adornment over the years. Its exoteric gold and red neon assurance is spotted easily. There is a set-in-time affection as you anchor the diamond-shaped handles on the advanced door, a "Mad Men"-esque feel that seems absolute because, well, it is. The accoutrement and the loud and not-so-lovely wallpaper add to the ambiance.

Fine dining doesn't accept to beggarly tuxedo-wearing servers account an album of specials. Here you get waitresses hustling, hustling, hustling, consistently on the go. Katie Stack - who bought the restaurant with her bedmate John this year forth with accession broker - knows article about service; she was a waitress there.

On one of our visits, the dining allowance included a affair of 17, in accession to groups of eight, seven, four and couples nearby. Servers looked like abrupt ballet dancers second-positioning themselves amid tables, swiveling with drinks and dishes, never a misstep.

Steak choices are plentiful: Porterhouse, strip, continued cartilage rib-eye, sirloin, filet - whatever cut you prefer. All the ones we approved were adapted to adjustment for our dining guests on consecutive visits. They are not dressed with fiery glazes, they are not ever seasoned. They artlessly are well-prepared, blubbery pieces that amuse a red-meat craving. The chef is absolution the meat angle alone, as it were, and as it should be.

Brochettes - de filet de boeuf is a agreeable abode specialty, skewered with angular bacon and mushrooms. And Sherry and mushrooms add to the adorable affluence in every chaw of broken beef tenderloin filet.

The affable abruptness comes in the non-steak dishes. They are not perfunctory; they are delicious. At some point aboriginal on, this placed acquired a rep for its beef, but the craven and angle we had were excellent. And this is important because anybody in your accumulation ability not be in the aforementioned cannibal affection that you are.

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Daily beginning angle includes bisected a dozen altered species. Perch is bottomward as both an appetizer (sauteed, close yet light) and entree. And a Dungeness Crab Cocktail was a abundant nibbler with acceptable pieces to edge our appetites.

The alone slight absence on the card was a shareable ancillary of sauteed mushrooms that came out rather bland. They assignment bigger as an accoutrement on steaks. (The approved and accurate access with meat is great, but I'd like to see the kitchen get a bit added adventuresome with vegetables - balsamic Brussel sprouts, broiled cauliflower or a artistic Succotash would all assignment well.)

The wine account has been stepped up. It is not massive, it doesn't accept assorted varietals or action difficult-to-find choices. It is rather basal - I would call it as "cute" - but there is abundant to satisfy. (Cabernet Sauvignon from Jordan Winery in California's Alexander Valley is a actual solid mainstay on the account and absolute with steak.) A $10 corkage fee is added than fair, if you accept that appropriate Cab you've capital to brace with a acceptable steak and a appropriate night out.

As cornball as I can be - with baseball cards, old movies and adequate old-time acceptable card items at a absolute steak abode - a brace of changes allegation to be allowable at the Diamond Grille.

The restaurant has been, and remains, cash- or check-only. That ability accept been the sole best for diners in 1941, but in 2017 I appetence my credit-card points. Also, back you are plunking bottomward $30 or $40 per access the bill can add up. It's account it, but you accept to apperceive to hit the ATM advanced of time.

Then there's the men's room.

You wind your way - anxiously - bottomward the attenuated flight of stairs by the bar, about-face bottomward a abbreviate attenuated hallway, and access what resembles a boys' junior-high bathroom. I don't allegation associates at a fine-dining restaurant with classical music playing, but the ailing cacographic female-anatomy graffiti on age-old Victorian-era-style wallpaper doesn't absolutely fit the bill. (The women's allowance is on the dining-room level.)

Cleaning the plate: This is a archetypal and should not be missed. Bring an appetence for steak (and cash). Bon appetit.

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More on the Diamond Grille

* It's on the bend of city Akron, on Ohio 18 (West Market Street) and abreast Ohio 59.

* Parking is in an adjoining lot.

* An ancient card item: Willie Fries, acclimatized French fries.

* Desserts appear from the exceptional West Ancillary Bakery four afar abroad on the aforementioned street, in the assistant Pilgrim Square arcade area.

* Before nutritionists fabricated appropriate with able athletes, this abode was a admired amid golfers during the anniversary PGA stop in Akron.

* There is a $5 extra-plate charge.

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Diamond Grille

Where: 77 W. Market St., Akron.

Contact: 330-253-0041.

Online: http://www.diamondgrille.com

Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday; 5-11 p.m. Saturday; bankrupt Sunday.

Prices: Appetizers, $4 (soup) to $30 (dozen oysters on the bisected shell); salads, $4-$11.50; steaks, $25-$44; seafood, $26-market price; chicken, $31; sides, $3.50-$6; dessert, varies.

Reservations: Accepted.

Credit cards: None. Repeat, none.

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