I was in high school in the late 90s. I took a few of my dates there. Always was good food and awesome drinks. Still depressing how Dayton never recovered from the closing of GM and it's supporting trade companies.
@@jessicaboyd1048 it was in a bad neighborhood, and the building was in terrible shape. It eventually had a security guard with a post in the middle of the parking lot.
My mother worked there longer than anyone: 1974 until 2007. She was the waittress who worked on that elevated station in the front. Joe Bissett preferred to sit in her station. Her name was Emma Maddox.
When I see an abandoned business I can't help but think about how some of the people felt on the last few days it was open. I worked at the Payless distribution center for 6 years in brookville ohio. I watched the place decline and die out. The last day walking through the empty warehouse was just so sad. I reflected on when business was booming and the warehouse was full of shoes and people. Its just such a surreal thing to go through.
I totally agree. Most people who remember these places appreciate the memories they bring back but for a few they are memories they don’t want to bring back. I try to believe that the positive memories outweigh the negative.
@@OnceOccupied I absolutely loved how this video starts. I love the picture of the business thriving and it fades away into what it is today. It’s a reminder to how fragile and precious things in life are. I know some places are better off gone...but I’m forever the optimist. I too always think of the good things that went down in places. The Salem mall is a great example of that. I really REALLY miss that mall. I love the old 60s style pillars on the outside. Even as a kid I really enjoyed the beauty of that place. I know some bad stuff happened there. But it will always be a beautiful peace of history gone to me.
you always have the unique explores, so much history and this place no longer exists so sad, great explore and video and stay safe. Thank you for sharing.
Excellent video! I love how you show old photos of the place in operation and explain how the owner prepared the "meat popsicle." Great job...thumbs up!
Makes me so sad... As you were going through the main restaurant, I was like, Hey! I sat at that booth for a birthday. I sat at this booth for an anniversary! Best steaks in the world. SO sad when they closed. 😒
I remember going to this place as a kid back in the early 70's. This and the Pine Club on Brown Street were my dad's favorites. Sad to see it like this.
My ex wife and I used to go there. A great restaurant but the surrounding neighborhood declined until Grub Steak was like an oasis. Thanks for this video tour.
These photos of people eating in there make me happy but also sad. It reminds me of family meals with all my extended relatives (many of which are no longer with us).
I'm also from Ohio & enjoy your videos. Didn't know the place but was interested enough to look it up. You'd think the family would have kept that stained glass. This place was def full of life years ago.
We were just talking about this place the other day, best place for steak in Dayton. Seemed like the quality went down at the new location, never went back.
Never ate at this l9cation but did a few times at the West Carrolton location. The best rolls and steaks. Sucks it did not last long there. Glad you did this video I was curious about it.
And it's day that was the place to go out to eat it was very nice in Dayton Ohio and it was very fancy had a great atmosphere great food we've lost so many great places
Some neat history here. The stain glass, lights about the booths and that old door how cool. Too bad they abandoned the building and never did anything with it. Have a great day
Northmont's library, in the new addition to the original building, had desk-carols shaped like that. Northmont High School is maybe ten miles from Grub Steak.
I love those lights wow! Oh how I would love love love to have some of those old chairs!! Hey where’s part two? Can you send me a link I can’t find it.
This place was a place the Chattertons grew up loving the food and the awesome people that worked there at grub steak. This was a awesome I mean awesome place that probably will never be no more
Vintage baseball cards in the attic?? Imagine stumbling across a Mickey Mantle rookie card just sitting in the attic of an old abandoned steak house in Ohio
@@elvisneedsboatsbennett2455 It was near UD, MVH, and Denny's. They were very famous for their super strong garlic-based dressing. Maybe Grub Steak had it too, don't know... ?
@@HallStevenson I think you're right about the dressing coming from dominic's But those God awful ribs at grubsteak were my ex fil's favorite. He was excited when there was a new grubsteak opened in Xenia. Unless that was a buckhorn tavern. It's been 12 years since I lived in ohio
@@elvisneedsboatsbennett2455 Oh yeah, I remember Dominic's and their garlic intensive salad dressing! If Dominic's was on Main, it was South Main - they were a little South of downtown. The Buckhorn is/was on the edge of Butler Township near Clayton - at the end of Heathcliff? I grew up just West of there! My family would go there back in the '80s and we loved it! I've also heard stories from the 20 years older kids in my neighborhood, about how their dads would go to the Buckhorn on the way home from work, and get liquored up!
Not a great part of town is understatement of the decade. But I use to love that place. It was one of the first dates I had with my wife. We would go there at least once a month. The crime rate in the area would never allow for it to exist today.
Hey. And wow blast from the past. Sign w numbers lit up when each servers table order was ready in kitchen/bar Ea server was given a # for shift. When it lit up pic up at kitchen deliver to designated tabke
I know this sounds crazy but I wonder if Caroline Park would be interested in that Frigidaire? Like NCR, and Delco Frigidaire was a staple and major employer of Dayton. In fact, in Dayton the name "Frigidaire" was synonymous with refrigerator. Perhaps you could broker a meeting between the owner and the park.
This business operated in new premises for just 5 years more? Well, that's a serious flop for something that had lasted nearly half a century before. I'm surprised nobody comments upon that.
There is something extremely unsettling about the energy of this building, almost as if the building witnessed a lot of evil and this has been imprinted on the walls and furniture of the place. Its not even the mess and all the crap thrown everywhere that gives this impression but there is malevolence in this building, i can sense it in waves, has this area ever been rumoured to be haunted?
You're right. Joe Bissett's son Clay managed it. He wasn't very successful. After months of ignoring health inspectors, eventually they were shut down.
The building is not in great shape. The Main St side is deteriorating and the rear, a small alley like street named Bissett Ct, after the founder, Joe Bissett (actually the main entrance) is very overgrown.
The painted over Dutch door i bet under all that paint it’s still gorgeous. I hope if they do tear it down they salvage what’s left that can be saved. wondering around 8:05 I heard a hey was that they person who was with you? It just caught me off guard when I heard it.
Yeah there was somebody else with me but sometimes people will hear things that I don’t hear when I make videos by myself which is a little nerve-racking 😳
A basement full of hot water heaters. I never figured out why anyone would ever own one of those things. If you've got hot water, why would you need to heat it? I think they may be a scam!
@@OnceOccupied lol. Plain ol' water heater's are the way to go. What part of Dayton was this in? I remember the name, but I never ate there. (I grew up in Miamisburg). Do remember curing munchies at a White Tower (double butter-burgers?) somewhere downtown, like 3rd. street maybe? Friends thought a couple of us were nuts for going there to eat late night. Pretty often we'd feast out late at a steak or BBQ place near UD. Maybe on Brown St.? Can't remember the name for the life of me, but with 8 or 10 of us, all "well tuned up" and eating like a bunch of starvin' Marvin's, they put up with us I guess! They had a second restaurant, too. I want to say it was up the hill off of Main St. All of it 40 years ago, some friends are gone, but seems like last week in a way. Edit: Saw your vid from Hara Arena. Sad! Saw many a concert there. Also, if you're looking for places to check out, there was a really old abandoned factory on the Little Miami River just behind Kings Island. It was a Peters Cartridge munitions plant. ( It blew up a few times!) I know they were making powder and ammo for WWI, so it's old! You could see it good on Google Street View. The road is about 3 feet from the walls of the place. I guess it's still there. I think it was Columbia Records that bought part of it and made 78rpm records there back in the 40's/50's too.
I was in high school in the late 90s. I took a few of my dates there. Always was good food and awesome drinks. Still depressing how Dayton never recovered from the closing of GM and it's supporting trade companies.
Thank you for reminding me of that!!! I've forgotten all of the companies who have left Dayton!!
I was a waitress there. Great place to work! The numbers were the 8 stations. When your station number was lit, you knew you had an order ready.
Wow. This must be wild to see as a former employee.
Why did it close down
@@jessicaboyd1048 it was in a bad neighborhood, and the building was in terrible shape. It eventually had a security guard with a post in the middle of the parking lot.
It always make me sad to see abandoned places that was so full of life at one time 😔
My mother worked there longer than anyone: 1974 until 2007. She was the waittress who worked on that elevated station in the front. Joe Bissett preferred to sit in her station. Her name was Emma Maddox.
When I see an abandoned business I can't help but think about how some of the people felt on the last few days it was open. I worked at the Payless distribution center for 6 years in brookville ohio. I watched the place decline and die out. The last day walking through the empty warehouse was just so sad. I reflected on when business was booming and the warehouse was full of shoes and people. Its just such a surreal thing to go through.
I totally agree. Most people who remember these places appreciate the memories they bring back but for a few they are memories they don’t want to bring back. I try to believe that the positive memories outweigh the negative.
@@OnceOccupied I absolutely loved how this video starts. I love the picture of the business thriving and it fades away into what it is today. It’s a reminder to how fragile and precious things in life are. I know some places are better off gone...but I’m forever the optimist. I too always think of the good things that went down in places. The Salem mall is a great example of that. I really REALLY miss that mall. I love the old 60s style pillars on the outside. Even as a kid I really enjoyed the beauty of that place. I know some bad stuff happened there. But it will always be a beautiful peace of history gone to me.
Amazing that you were able to get in this gem. I love that you focus on Dayton Ohio
Thank you. I watched this with my kid. I can remember walking down the long hall and my dress shoes would click so loud. Thanks for the memories.
This videos are so epic ans being from Dayton Ohio means allot
Thanks 🙏🏻
you always have the unique explores, so much history and this place no longer exists so sad, great explore and video and stay safe. Thank you for sharing.
9:35 that door 🥰🐨 I love architecture , seeing all the lath on the walls, the skinny horizontal bits of wood just amazing
My wife and I ate there many, many times! It was one of the best steak houses around!
Excellent video! I love how you show old photos of the place in operation and explain how the owner prepared the "meat popsicle." Great job...thumbs up!
Makes me so sad... As you were going through the main restaurant, I was like, Hey! I sat at that booth for a birthday. I sat at this booth for an anniversary! Best steaks in the world. SO sad when they closed. 😒
Wow ..I use to live across the street from here in the early 70's. We always use to eat here ,even when we moved out of Dayton.
This was definitely one of the best locally owned-operated restaurants in the area. Was very sad to see it go. People waited in line for tables.
Great video! As always!
I'm loving the design and the architecture of this restaurant. Stay safe out there.
This is making me reminisce about my childhood memories in restaurants that may not exist anymore...
That is exactly why we make these videos! ☺️
I remember going to this place as a kid back in the early 70's. This and the Pine Club on Brown Street were my dad's favorites. Sad to see it like this.
My mom worked here all my life till it closed. Miss their food and atmosphere 😢
Even when they moved.
It is sad to explore places like this because do you think about all the people that spend a big portion of their lives there.
My ex wife and I used to go there. A great restaurant but the surrounding neighborhood declined until Grub Steak was like an oasis.
Thanks for this video tour.
These photos of people eating in there make me happy but also sad. It reminds me of family meals with all my extended relatives (many of which are no longer with us).
I'm also from Ohio & enjoy your videos. Didn't know the place but was interested enough to look it up. You'd think the family would have kept that stained glass. This place was def full of life years ago.
Good video. Very cool
I ate there many times in the 80s and 90s. They had great food.
I wonder how many restaurants, malls, houses, businesses, structures will be abandoned after this Pandemic.
If Biden becomes president, ALL businesses will be closed for good!
If Trump wouldn't have ignored the issue at hand, there would never been a shutdown.
This pandemic is on Trumps watch, IDIOT!
@@aginggracefully1391 I'm not an IDIOT. All the idiots and morons voted for Biden..... which you will soon see.
There is no pandemic and the media is proving that now
We were just talking about this place the other day, best place for steak in Dayton. Seemed like the quality went down at the new location, never went back.
Never ate at this l9cation but did a few times at the West Carrolton location. The best rolls and steaks. Sucks it did not last long there. Glad you did this video I was curious about it.
And it's day that was the place to go out to eat it was very nice in Dayton Ohio and it was very fancy had a great atmosphere great food we've lost so many great places
Grub Steak i visited this location in the late 90’s with my Dad. I remember the food being amazing.
Some neat history here. The stain glass, lights about the booths and that old door how cool. Too bad they abandoned the building and never did anything with it. Have a great day
where the tables set up in a swastikka shape??? that is strange....
loved it as always greetsz from holland .....max
Northmont's library, in the new addition to the original building, had desk-carols shaped like that.
Northmont High School is maybe ten miles from Grub Steak.
The Royal Ribs there were great,
I love those lights wow! Oh how I would love love love to have some of those old chairs!! Hey where’s part two? Can you send me a link I can’t find it.
I have so many stories of going there with my family
I am enjoying your video and I noticed that there are a lot of neat stuff I am wondering has the stuff taken out before it was gone to bad that it was
I think they are waitress numbers. Light up when one of her orders are ready.
For sure!
Yes. It was high tech for the time.
Each service had a number, cook lit up the servers number when one of their orders was ready.
That makes sense!
This place was a place the Chattertons grew up loving the food and the awesome people that worked there at grub steak. This was a awesome I mean awesome place that probably will never be no more
I enJOYed many a delicious steak there!! #thanks for the memories!! :)
Looks like a large beautifully furnished steakhouse.Yhe booths could be cleaned and sold.👍💗
The tour guide mentioned that the booths were covered in MOLD.
Ate there so many times in my youth and adulthood.
Vintage baseball cards in the attic?? Imagine stumbling across a Mickey Mantle rookie card just sitting in the attic of an old abandoned steak house in Ohio
A 1960 Tom Brewer baseball card! That was unexpected!
this was my ex father in law's favorite restaurant. that house dressing had you tasting garlic for DAYS!
Sure you're not thinking of Dominic's ? 😂
@@HallStevenson was dominic's on north main?
@@elvisneedsboatsbennett2455 It was near UD, MVH, and Denny's. They were very famous for their super strong garlic-based dressing. Maybe Grub Steak had it too, don't know... ?
@@HallStevenson I think you're right about the dressing coming from dominic's But those God awful ribs at grubsteak were my ex fil's favorite. He was excited when there was a new grubsteak opened in Xenia. Unless that was a buckhorn tavern. It's been 12 years since I lived in ohio
@@elvisneedsboatsbennett2455 Oh yeah, I remember Dominic's and their garlic intensive salad dressing! If Dominic's was on Main, it was South Main - they were a little South of downtown.
The Buckhorn is/was on the edge of Butler Township near Clayton - at the end of Heathcliff? I grew up just West of there! My family would go there back in the '80s and we loved it! I've also heard stories from the 20 years older kids in my neighborhood, about how their dads would go to the Buckhorn on the way home from work, and get liquored up!
Not a great part of town is understatement of the decade.
But I use to love that place. It was one of the first dates I had with my wife. We would go there at least once a month. The crime rate in the area would never allow for it to exist today.
I wish you could do some videos about mom & pops that have went out of business due to Covid19. And the struggles they faced trying to remain open.
Big meaty ideas.... Love that one!
Hey. And wow blast from the past. Sign w numbers lit up when each servers table order was ready in kitchen/bar
Ea server was given a # for shift. When it lit up pic up at kitchen deliver to designated tabke
That Frigidaire is more like 1920s
And still working over 80 yr later? Clearly not... Unless they changed all of the gear and kept the chamber itself.
Case would be old probably has had the refrigeration replaced several times
The Grub Steak existed before Joe Bissett bought it. Nothing is known about the previous owner.
I know this sounds crazy but I wonder if Caroline Park would be interested in that Frigidaire? Like NCR, and Delco Frigidaire was a staple and major employer of Dayton. In fact, in Dayton the name "Frigidaire" was synonymous with refrigerator.
Perhaps you could broker a meeting between the owner and the park.
Man I miss that place!!
How sad to see abandoned place that once people went there now sad . and empty i find these abandoned places sad to see .
Love to have that Strohs bottle.
This business operated in new premises for just 5 years more? Well, that's a serious flop for something that had lasted nearly half a century before. I'm surprised nobody comments upon that.
Its a shame it was left to rot what didn't transfer to new location
As I recall, the family fought over everything related to it
I heard about this place but never took the time to visit.
Ate there several times after being told about the place; moved here from out-of-state and neighbors put in their recommendations..
Neat
It will be perfect as a filming location for one of my movies. It will be restored to its original condition.
I use to eat at this place, those were the days.
I would be scared to go in by myself
Always good to bring a friend or just watch my videos 😜
There is something extremely unsettling about the energy of this building, almost as if the building witnessed a lot of evil and this has been imprinted on the walls and furniture of the place. Its not even the mess and all the crap thrown everywhere that gives this impression but there is malevolence in this building, i can sense it in waves, has this area ever been rumoured to be haunted?
It’s in a very bad area so that could be.
There had been another location; out on 35. I don't think it was there long.
You're right. Joe Bissett's son Clay managed it. He wasn't very successful. After months of ignoring health inspectors, eventually they were shut down.
I would of loved to see what the building looks like from the outside .
Still in good condition
The building is not in great shape. The Main St side is deteriorating and the rear, a small alley like street named Bissett Ct, after the founder, Joe Bissett (actually the main entrance) is very overgrown.
I hope someone recovered that stain-glass window.
The booths tho.....
I wonder if the shape of the booth were on purpose.
I forgot all about grub steak.
Worked there when 15yrsold. 1-8 is server#
This about 45 mins to an hour from me
That restaurant and bar is to far gone to be saved.
do you everstumble upon some critters
The painted over Dutch door i bet under all that paint it’s still gorgeous. I hope if they do tear it down they salvage what’s left that can be saved.
wondering around 8:05 I heard a hey was that they person who was with you? It just caught me off guard when I heard it.
Heard it too. Sounded like a man's voice.
@@mickeyleebluebird1746 When I first heard I was like what the heck was that and had to listen to it again a few times to make sure I really heard it.
Yeah there was somebody else with me but sometimes people will hear things that I don’t hear when I make videos by myself which is a little nerve-racking 😳
I wonder why they closed and changed locations
Too much crime in the neighborhood, and their core customer base of business people who worked downtown eventually moved away.
Food ready for server #
It’s sad how no one care anymore. The commissioners and council members. It’s all the money not about the history or trying to keeping going.
Out of business high crime area.unsafe. super busy 35 visit ago
35 yes ago
A basement full of hot water heaters. I never figured out why anyone would ever own one of those things.
If you've got hot water, why would you need to heat it? I think they may be a scam!
Made me laugh out loud.
@@OnceOccupied lol. Plain ol' water heater's are the way to go. What part of Dayton was this in? I remember the name, but I never ate there. (I grew up in Miamisburg). Do remember curing munchies at a White Tower (double butter-burgers?) somewhere downtown, like 3rd. street maybe? Friends thought a couple of us were nuts for going there to eat late night. Pretty often we'd feast out late at a steak or BBQ place near UD. Maybe on Brown St.? Can't remember the name for the life of me, but with 8 or 10 of us, all "well tuned up" and eating like a bunch of starvin' Marvin's, they put up with us I guess! They had a second restaurant, too. I want to say it was up the hill off of Main St. All of it 40 years ago, some friends are gone, but seems like last week in a way.
Edit: Saw your vid from Hara Arena. Sad! Saw many a concert there. Also, if you're looking for places to check out, there was a really old abandoned factory on the Little Miami River just behind Kings Island. It was a Peters Cartridge munitions plant. ( It blew up a few times!) I know they were making powder and ammo for WWI, so it's old! You could see it good on Google Street View. The road is about 3 feet from the walls of the place. I guess it's still there. I think it was Columbia Records that bought part of it and made 78rpm records there back in the 40's/50's too.
Wtf how u think the water was heated. Wow duuuurrr
@@ravrachael69 Care to re-think your comment and get back to me, Ms. Einstein? Because this will be way too easy. lol
@@KSparks80 OMG, so funy.
That place was infested with roaches and mice.
Nazi signs?
Sad this strip club actually looked decent hope it gets put out with respect
Natzis owned this apparently.
So untrue
Annemarie Nemeth it’s a joke. Tables were in a swastika arrangement.