From the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association:
The Conestoga Steakhouse in Dothan, AL is the winner of the 2014 “Alabama’s Best Steak” contest. Erin Beasley with the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association has the details.
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The statewide contest, sponsored by the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association (ACA), began in July with over 60,000 online voters nominating their favorite restaurants and narrowing the field down to the “Fiery 4” restaurants. An undisclosed judging panel spent the last several weeks visiting each of the top four restaurants and scoring a Ribeye steak for tenderness, juiciness and overall flavor. The judges selected the Conestoga Steakhouse as serving the best Ribeye steak in Alabama.
Ted Toole, the owner of Conestoga Steakhouse said, “I’m ecstatic and can’t wait to tell my family. Being both a cattle producer and a steakhouse owner it is a dream to win this contest because we promote beef on both ends of the chain. I only sell beef at our restaurant. The secret for us is buying high quality beef, which has kept us in business 37 years.”
An on-site media event will be held at the Conestoga Steakhouse on Monday, October 20th at 5:00 PM for ACA leadership to present the winning plaque. Please join us for this presentation.
Beginning July 1st, this extremely successful contest had 118 restaurants nominated online in the first four weeks of the competition by consumers in Alabama. Consumers could nominate any restaurant in Alabama that served their favorite ribeye on the menu. On August 2nd, the bracket challenge began when voters selected the top “Sizzling 16” restaurants. Consumers once again went online to vote for their favorite restaurants in hopes of moving them through the bracket challenge from “Sizzling 16” to “Enticing 8”, and finally the “Fiery 4”. The bracket challenge generated over 52,000 votes in the final two weeks.