Cocoa-Coffee Steak Marinade for Grilling

Coffee and chocolate sound like strong flavors, but they take on a delightfully mild tone in this steak marinade. Here, they're combined with brown sugar (for better browning on the grill) and a pinch of chili powder (for a subtle, spicy warmth).

Coffee and Chipotle-Rubbed Steak Kabobs With Stout Molasses Pan Sauce

Rib eye steaks are massaged with a potent mix of ground coffee, cocoa powder, and chipotle powder before being sizzled in a hot cast-iron pan. As the steaks rest, a quick pan sauce is made from oatmeal stout, soy sauce, and molasses.

Grilled Stuffed Flank Steak With Roasted Chilies and Pepper Jack Cheese

Butterflied flank steak rubbed with a garlicky chili rub, then layered with roasted green chilies and pepper jack cheese gets rolled, sliced, and grilled until smoky and charred.

The Secret Ingredient (Pink Peppercorn): Lamb au Pink Peppercorn Poivre

This dish is a monochrome spoof on the traditional steak au poivre. Lamb loin is cooked pink, crusted with pink peppercorns, and served in a reduction of Cognac and cream, blistered with more crushed, popping pink peppercorns. A rose-tinted twist on a classic.

Spice-Rubbed Grilled Flap Meat (Sirloin Tip)

Flap meat, also known as sirloin tip, is one of the most tender and flavorful cuts for your dollar. The key is to use a great spice rub for flavor and to slice thinly against the grain for tenderness.

Churrasco Steak

Churrasco takes different forms around South and Central America. This one channels the Argentine approach, cooked on a plancha or grill and bathed in herbal and garlicky chimichurri sauce.

Grilled Chipotle-Rubbed Steaks with Lime Butter

Compound butter is one of the easiest, yet most impressive ways to make a meal more delicious. Even though it's nothing more than softened butter with herbs or spices or other flavorings whipped into it, somehow it achieves a level of refinement that comes across as very impressive (for a barbecue, having a couple varieties to slather on everything makes for a fantastic party).

Ted Allen's Grilled Steak with Roasted Jalapeño Chimichurri

Chimichurri with steak is certainly not a new idea, and in fact it's probably the most common way that this Argentinian sauce is used (and they know a thing or two about steak in that country). The garlicky, herbal flavors marry beautifully with the richness and fattiness of steak, not to mention its visually stunning contrast of green against red.

The Steak Bomb With Flap Steak, Scallions, and Salami-Cheese Crisps

Grilled flap steak, charred scallions, salami-cheese crisps, a rich pepper-and-onion sauce, all packed into a soft roll with salami baked into it. These sandwiches are the bomb. The reinvented Steak Bomb, to be exact.

Spice-Rubbed Grilled Skirt Steak

A rub of cumin, ancho chile powder, cinnamon and paprika gives grilled skirt steak a smoky, spicy and slightly sweet flavor.