Want a good steak? Here are 5 places to get one, and the best way to eat it

ST. PETERSBURG — Sometime during the hazy days of the early pandemic, I had a hankering for steak.

It was hot and rainy outside in the late summer or early fall of 2020, when afternoon thunderstorms carried well into the evening and I was still spending most of my nights alone.

I was hungry and lonely, as I so often was back then, and looking for a place to tuck in for a good meal and a glass of wine, perhaps in the company of socially distanced strangers.

I drove down Fifth Avenue North and passed by Beau & Mo’s, a steakhouse from...