"Beef steak in the style of Montevideo." Beef steak with onions, garlic and chillis, braised with tomatoes.

Small meatballs or Russian origin, made with minced (US: ground) meat or poultry, flattened, fried and served with a sauce smitane, a piquant sauce made with soured cream, onions and wine. Its popularity has been overtaken by the burger.

Fillet steak with broken peppercorns

Beef steak with a sauce of red wine, shallots and parsley.

Beef cut. A steak taken from the thick end of the fillet or the whole fillet. Bliss. It is usually roasted and served to two people.

Beef burger. Hamburger.

A steak of beef or perhaps horse sautéed in butter and served with beurre marchand de vin.

Minced (US: ground) beef with sorrel and bone marrow.

Beef tartar. This is made from very finely chopped raw fillet of beef mixed with onion, gherkins (US: dill pickles) and capers and formed into the shape of a steak. A depression is made in the top into which a raw egg is broken. It is eaten raw. The meat really should not be minced (US: ground). It is thought to have originated with the fierce Tartars of the Baltic region of Russia who shredded the meat with a knife and ate it raw.