While attending McGill, he wrote, directed, and acted in two feature films,The Steaks (2000) and Expiration (2004), both filmed primarily in Montreal, Quebec.
This location was closed in 2006 and replaced with Rick's Steaks (operated by Rick Olivieri, grandson of Pat Olivieri, founder of Pat's King of Steaks).
The hotel offers 121 rooms, 5 meeting rooms, Brasserie de Poort renowned for the numbered steaks and authentic Bar-Bodega 'De Blauwe Parade' with a unique Delft Blue tile fresco from 1887.
"Licence to Grill" addresses summer backyard entertaining and barbecue fare such as hamburgers, steaks, kebabs, leg of lamb, sides of fish, and grilled desserts.
In the early 1950s, the Garfield Goose children's TV show on WGN-TV offered a Rubber Tubby Duck as a premium for one On-Cor Minute Steaks wrapper and 25 cents.
John Milton referred to "Malvezzi, that can cut Tacitus into slivers and steaks".