Let the dads in your family eat steak

Though so many dads these days are opting for grilled fish, steak still seems to be the traditional dish of Father's Day. Here are some favorite restaurants:

BLACKSTONE STEAKHOUSE,

10 Pinelawn Rd., Melville, 631-271-7780. In a stone-and-wood style space, Blackstone offers up first-class cuts of beef: a juicy rib steak, hefty porterhouse and fibrous, salt-edged sirloin. $$$-$$$$FRANK'S STEAK, 54 Lincoln Ave., Rockville Centre, 516-536-1500, and 4 Jericho Tpke., Jericho, 516-338-4595. The restaurant mini-chain has built a reputation for its marinated Romanian skirt steak, which is juicy and sweet. Better are the porterhouse for two, the peppercorn-crusted rib-eye and the garlicky rib-eye. There's husky prime rib, too. $$$INSIGNIA, 610 Nesconset Hwy., Smithtown, 631-656-8100. A brassy palace of protein. Kansas City strip steak stands out, despite its gilding of truffled foie gras butter. Also notable: porterhouse for two or more; fist-size cut of filet mignon; Wagyu steaks and the 16-ounce Australian rib-eye. $$$$JIMMY HAYS, 4310 Austin Blvd., Island Park, 516-432-5155. There is no arguing with the prime beef, dry-aged on the Jimmy Hays premises. Dig into the 17-ounce New York strip, filet mignon, Porterhouse and chateaubriand for two. $$$