This is exactly my point, well put!

Complete dishes are not that difficult, take a good spaghetti bolognese, it has everything and the flavours are combined and compliment each other.

I do agree that the whole ‘steak for dinner’ is a bit hard to make a good ‘complete dish’ from. Personally I’d prefer something like noodles with steak/beef cuts or something like that. You can eat an entire steak with nothing else and call it dinner. But do that everyday and you’ll pretty soon get a deficit of a lot of nutrients.

• Adding fries to a dish in a (good) restaurant means you didn’t make a complete dish and just added the fries to add carbs/fill people.

• On that same note: just a piece of meat (steak, spareribs or smth like that) is not a full meal (and don’t you start about adding fries and a salad)

• a restaurant is only as good as its vegetarian dishes (some exceptions apply, like restaurants that focus exclusively on meat)

Ironically, I am not a vegetarian ;)