It's an out of the way restaurant (not on the highway) that looks like an old school cafeteria/dive... BUT they cook their steaks and a few other meats on their open pit that you can view through a window or go hang out and chat with the pit master a bit if you like. They say Jocko's stands for "genuine oak coals cooks our steaks". It was about $12 for a large steak sandwich which wasn't a sandwich at all but the Spencer steak simply rest on top of two large slices of garlic bread. They are located in Nipomo, Ca. If you go on a summer weekend... either have reservations or plan on waiting a couple hours. They have a couple tables available in the back hallway near the kitchen if it's just two of you and you don't mind. They serve simple shoe string style fries with that "sandwich"... which I very rarely like but these are always tasty. I believe their meats are dry aged.
Sorry for being a bit off topic.
Making me so hungry for great meat since wife is a vegan, can’t wait for my next work trip to Chicago for a Weber grill restaurant that cooks all their entrees on charcoal grill while you watch them.
