Surf and turf is a main course particularly common in steakhouses which combines seafood and meat, usually American lobster tail and steak. The main course is the main dish of a multidished meal. ... A steakhouse (or steak house) is a restaurant that specializes in the cooking of beef steaks. ... Seafood in Brussels, Belgium Seafood is any sea animal that is served as food or is suitable for eating. ... Meat is animal tissue (mainly muscle) used as food. ... Binomial name Homarus americanus Milne-Edwards, 1837 American Lobsters are a type of lobster (biological classification Homarus americanus), also known as the Northern Lobster, or the Maine Lobster. ... A steak is a large slab of meat, usually beef, but also possibly fish such as salmon. ...

The term originated along the Atlantic coast of North America. As of 2005 the earliest published use of the term (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) is in a 1967 advertisement in the Buffalo, New York Yellow Pages, placed by a restaurant called Michael's House of Steaks. The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a comprehensive multi-volume dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Buffalo, also known as the Queen city, and the City of Good Neighbors, is an American city in western New York. ... In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. ...

The dish is also called "reef and beef" in Australia. Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/Oceania. ...