Entrecôte

This article is about a cut of beef. For the restaurants, see L'Entrecôte.

Traditional entrecôte, cut from the rib

Contre-filet, cut from the sirloin

In French, the word entrecôte denotes a premium cut of beef used for steaks.

A traditional entrecôte comes from the rib area of the carcass, corresponding to the steaks known in different parts of the English-speaking world as rib, rib-eye, club, Scotch fillet, or Delmonico.

The term may also be used in France to denote the sirloin cut properly known as a contre-filet,^[1][2] being the portion of the sirloin on the opposite side of the bone from the filet, or tenderloin. In English, a steak cut from the contre-filet may be called a Porterhouse steak (as the term is understood in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom), a sirloin steak, a strip steak, a striploin steak, a wing steak, a club steak, a Delmonico steak, or a New York steak. (As well, if the contre-filet is left on the bone with the filet, the entire steak is called a Porterhouse steak (as the term is understood in the United States and Canada) or a T-bone steak.)

References

1. ^ Use of the term "entrecôte" by the L'Entrecôte restaurant in Lyon to refer to a contre-filet.
2. ^ Use of the term "entrecôte" by the Le Relais de l'Entrecôte restaurant in Paris to refer to a contre-filet.

See also

• UK and US cuts of beef
• Entrecôte Café de Paris