beefsteak club

plural beefsteak clubs

1. historicalAny of a number of 18th- and 19th-century men's dining clubs in Britain and Australia that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig concepts of liberty and prosperity.

   In the 1880s and 90s, a rash of nostalgic beefsteak clubs broke out in New York, but in the transition the original salty simplicity of a "beefsteak," as the feasts had come to be called, had been lost.

   1999, Michael Batterberry, Ariane Ruskin Batterberry, On the Town in New York, page 306