Tri Tip Grill

Pretty decent philly steak. But that (really a ½ sandy) + a Diet Coke was $ 11+. But that’s ny/​grand central I guess.

The place is in a convenient location and there is never a line (there is a reason for that by the way). The food is ok, a little on the cold side, but whatever, its average. The service though is godawful. The employees are all on their phones and look at you like you are bothering them when you walk up to place your order. They are laughing and joking around, basically they don’t care about their job whatsoever, and I don’t blame them as I’m sure it sucks. So, if you want to spend 12 dollars for a sandwich and be treated like your invisible, its for you!

I was at Grand Central on Saturday and got the Tri Tip platter. I ordered the meat as served medium rare. I literally could not cut it with the plastic knife and fork. I had pick the meat up with my teeth and rip it apart. It was so tough that it was inedible. The only good part of the meal were the mash potatoes and grilled vegetables. The restaurant was fairly busy as Grand Central was jammed with people coming and going into the city for holiday shopping. Absolutely no excuse to serve meat like this.

Located near Shake Shack in the Grand Central Restaurant Corridor, I heard about this place from a fellow Unilocaler last summer and have been visiting from time to time every since.
Honestly, I’ve only gotten one thing. That one thing??? …Small Plate Tri Tip Steak.
I recommend getting it medium cooked. For about $ 10 you get about 8 ounces of steak, onion strings and au jus sauce. Note, steak portion is the same serving size as the large plate but without all the fixings.
I usually get a side of bbq sauce and double dip my always juicy steak. Admittingly, the plate can be a bit heavy in terms of a meal. I just look at it like, «Wow I got a heavy steak meal for about $ 10.» HaHa
The only problem I’ve encountered with Tri Tip is the plastic utensils. On a couple occasions I’ve broken my plastic ware as I tried to cut through my steak.
Note, though I have never taken them up on there offer, Tri Tip also offers wine and beer if you so choose to include with your meal.

I THOUGHT — and the store signage lead me to believe — that I was buying a «Philly Buck» sandwich that would be a «Philly Cheesesteak» style sandwich.
Instead I received a bun with sliced meat, peppers, onions and cheese that was simply heated under a heat lamp.
BIG FAIL !
I feel deceived. And unhappy.
No manager was on duty and the cashier didn’t seem very interested in my complaint. Her reply to my polite comments was «the onions were grilled?»
Huh?

I know that the majority of other Unilocalers did not go out of their way to get to Tri Tip. Scene: You find yourself waiting in Grand Central and you are hungry. What can ya do? Well… you check out the food options and you somehow stumble upon Tri Tip after ruling out Juniors and Shake Shack due to their long lines and your rumbling stomach. I got the small steak sandwich, it was actually horrible. I paid more than 10 dollars (…I love NY) and could not finish the damn thing. The steak was chewy and cold. The bread was stale and the onions were greasy. I guess I know why the lines are long at the other venues…

Every time I have the Cabo Chop at this Tri Tip I get plenty of food! The chicken is a hearty portion. They give you half of an avocado.
The service is fast and I’ve always been treated kindly even though they have a high employee turnover rate!
The only hard part is finding a nice spot to sit to eat. Grand Central seating near this area is congested. Taking this in consideration I go for lunch very early when I go here so I can get a table.
For a huge delicious salad you can’t beat the Tri Tip Grill.

4.5 stars for the price & quality of steak, as well as the portions, you can’t really go wrong with stopping here for a quick bite.
I sort of had low expectations of this stand because it seems so «fast food”-like that I assumed the tri tip steak would be mediocre but acceptable for a quick lunch. Instead, the steak (prime rib?) was great! And they did not skimp on the portion. It just wasn’t as hot as I would’ve liked it to be, so minus 0.5 stars.
Plus, the line isn’t long, it’s underrated next to the Shake Shack stand, worth going to!
PS, they sell alcohol!

I woke up super early to catch the MetroNorth so I didn’t get to eat breakfast at home and was really hungry by the time I got to Grand Central. I don’t come to this area very often so I don’t know what’s good around here, but I was in the mood for a egg and cheese sandwich so that was what I was looking for. I passed by the Zaro’s breakfast bar but couldn’t bring myself to pay $ 9 for a breakfast sandwich so I walked away. Good thing I did, because I then found myself in front of the Tri-​Tip Grill and their breakfast menu. I ordered their breakfast sandwich on an English muffin and medium rare Tri-​Tip. It was quickly made and to my happy surprise, they included tater tots along with the sandwich!
The sandwich itself was delicious. Can’t go wrong with meat, egg and cheese! My only complaint is that even though the cashier made sure to ask me how I wanted the Tri-​tip, what I ended up getting in my sandwich was pretty well done. But it was still very very tasty so I won’t hold it against them!
FYI: even though their menu said breakfast was only available Mon-​Fri, I was there on a Saturday, and they were serving breakfast.

They might not be cooking it over a wood fired pit right in front of you like they would in Santa Maria but this is the most legit tri tip sandwich that you’ll find in New York City, a place where steak reigns supreme but where nobody has even heard of tri tip.
Go for either a sandwich or platter and make sure to get some of the delicious creamy horseradish sauce.

Came here on the recommendation of an employee across the way at Magnolia and I’m glad I did. Got the border buck, steak with pepper jack cheese and Chipotle sauce. The sandwich was very tasty. The steak was the prefect texture for a sandwich, tender but didn’t fall apart in your mouth or the sandwich. Even Bob Thomas would like this sandwich because it’s chucked full of meat.
I got bbq on the side and you should too. While the sandwich is flavorful it needs additional sauce. Even a beverage wouldn’t wash that beef and bread down easily. It was pretty cheap at $ 10 so I was a satisfied customer.

Close to a 2.5. I got the brisket, and the best thing about it was the veggies. That corn was amazing. But $ 15+ for really heavily chewy brisket wasn’t the best in the world.
It’s a 3 for me because they give you a good variety of bread, veggies, mash and meat.

This is a nice place to grab lunch at. I work in the MetLife building and the Grand Central Terminal acts as a pseudo cafeteria for my building. Of all the choices, this is one of my favorites. I love to grab the Cobb salad for a quick bite to eat. The meat is always seasoned just right.

I stopped by Tri Tip for a quick salad, assuming it would take a few minutes to order and prepare. I waited for my salad for over 15 minutes, while I watched the staff behind the counter hand out multiple orders that were placed after mine. I finally asked the cashier what was going on, and she refunded my order, and she may or may not have mumbled an apology under her breath. I walked away, with no food, after wasting 20 – 30 minutes on this place. I do not recommend it and will never go back.

Wow who knew grand central has a decent salad place. For fast food this is pretty good for the price and quality. Wednesdays they have upgrade day. If you order any salad and they add the meat (steak) to it. Really great for the price and the steak is actually good.

I had a yummy roll with thin sliced steak and au jus and I was so satisfied. The meat was juicy and pink and the jus went perfectly. From what I could see steak rolls is there thing and they do it well. It was much better than I expected, simple and delicious.

Nice Meat Option in the Grand Central Station
Have been here a few times and have tried their chicken and steak dishes and salads.
My favorite is the Cabo Chopped Salad with Chicken. Fresh and tasty with corn, avocado, and lime dressing adding a great touch.
Love their portions and free samples.

On my way out to the suburbs from Grand Central, my friend and I decided to grab lunch at Tri Tip in the lower level of the station before heading out. I’d heard many things about how good the sandwiches here were, so I was excited to try one of their standard steak sandwiches. Getting our food wasn’t much of an issue (aside from being provided with zero napkins for a sandwich that you drizzle /​drown in au jus), and we eventually found a spot at one of the tables in the seating section to chow down at.
Unfortunately, I came out of the meal quite disappointed. Maybe I should have gotten a sandwich with more condiments on it, but that wouldn’t obscure the fact that the meat itself was chewy and rather flavorless without the au jus — which would have worked really well for something that already had intense flavoring but ended up coming off as a bit too light on this sandwich. I would also add that it was quite difficult to pour the au jus in any sort of fashion that either a) provided enough flavor, or b) didn’t drench the sandwich and meant you have a running river of greasy au jus at one end of the sandwich. Ultimately, though, the chewy meat makes it problematic to eat a sandwich — you take a small bite and end up with a giant mouthful of meat and a lot of stringy tendons stuck between your teeth. I might come back to try something else, but this reminded me of some of the less-​stellar cheesesteak places I’ve been to in Philly — and it pales in comparison to something like the prime rib sandwich at Eataly, which is what this aspires to be and falls quite a bit short of.

Tri Tip Grill serves hearty, smokey, and luscious tri tip meat — one bite, an instant vacation to a Texas cookout filled with charred flavor and gummy texture. It’s surprising to find it hidden in the basement of Grand Central food court next to the renowned Shake Shack, the place with an extraordinary long line during lunch. If people knew about Tri Tip they would realize they are standing in the wrong line.
The tri tip small plate consists of 3 thick slices burned on the outside and soft pink blush in the inside, a perfect medium rare. I initially felt ripped off spending $ 12 on 3 slices of meat then realized each piece is like a thin steak which led me to be filled and satisfied to say the least. It’s not a meal yet not a snack. We can define it as a hearty serving of pure protein with horseradish and french dip sauce and fried caramelized onion rings.
You can’t go wrong ordering the Tri Tip Small Plate. Cons — no vegetables and carbs. Wait, fried onions.

Everytime I come here, the cashier girl is on her phone and they never have what I want either because they just don’t have it. Like today I ordered a salmon sandwich at 9:50 (just aioli, lettuce, tomatoe, bread, lunch menu) they look
To see if they have salmon, they grab a empty plastic container and pull out several disgusting looking pieces of salmon, all looking bad. «We don’t have a full piece of salmon» though they had 3 pieces of bad looking salmon. (3 pieces can equal one idiot) i reply with you guys never have anything because it’s true, I’m work at the oyster bar so I get meals here and they never have anything I want. So she replies with we are only serving breakfast now with tons of Spanish attitude, so I say then you shouldn’t have all these menus up if your only serving one. I say u know what, I can go somewhere else, she replies yea you do that.
This is what u get when u let employees run a business in GRAND CENTRAL STATION, horrible

5 Sterne mal 2!!!
Der Laden ist in der Fresspassage der Grand Central Station und somit super gelegen. Das Personal ist super nett und zuvorkommend. Das Angebot ist von Breakfast bis Sandwiches absolut Klasse. Für jeden sollte da etwas dabei sein. Selber kann ich das Bacon Cheddar Buck nur empfehlen! Eine absolute Geschmacksexplosion! Das liegt vor allem an dem frischen und hausgemachten TriTip-​Steak, welches unvorstellbar edel schmeckt. Wer in der Grand Central Station ist, sollte sich dies nicht entgehen lassen!