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Beef and reefMeaningA type of cuisine that combines both meat and seafood (especially lobster and steak), or restaurants that serve such cuisine. See also, surf and turf. Origin
'Beef and reef' and 'surf and turf' emerged around the same time. Whichever was first must have influenced the other and whoever coined the second must have been delighted to find another rhyme that fitted the meaning so precisely. Surf and turf is the more commonly used, especially in the USA, with beef and reef best known in Australia. Phrasefinder is also on
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The term began to appear in print in the late 1960s. Here's a reference from the Syracuse Herald Journal, 1967, in an editorial review of 'The Fabulous Fireside Inn'. 
