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Why Chop Shop made the SteakMap list

A 45-day dry-aged bone-in ribeye in a lakeshore town of 34,000 people is the kind of thing that makes a directory like this worth keeping.

Chop Shop Primehouse sits on Ottawa Beach Road near Lake Macatawa, and its board is short in the way confident steak menus are — five cuts, each one doing a specific job.

The board

The headliner is the 24oz Dry Aged Cowboy Cut, a bone-in ribeye aged 45 days. That is roughly double the standard commercial window. Beef held that long loses a serious amount of weight to evaporation and trim, and the payoff is the concentrated, nutty, faintly funky flavor that dry-aging fans chase.

Next to it is a 16oz Wagyu Black Strip and a 32oz USDA Prime tomahawk. The 16oz Delmonico is described as a rich, marbled short loin cut — a name that means different things at different restaurants, and here it means the marbled end.

The filet mignon is house-cut tenderloin, offered at 6 or 10 ounces. House-cut means somebody in that kitchen is breaking down whole tenderloins rather than opening a box of portioned steaks.

Every steak on the menu is marked gluten free, which is a small courtesy most steakhouses never bother to print.

Prices

Chop Shop does not publish prices on its online menu, so SteakMap has no verified figures to quote. The grades, the weights and the 45-day aging are all stated, which is the information that actually decides an order.

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