surf and turf

From the environments of the animals used in its preparation (surf being the sea and turf the land), chosen for the rhyme. The earliest-known published use is in a 1967 advertisement in the Buffalo, New York Yellow Pages, placed by a restaurant called Michael's House of Steaks.

surf and turf (uncountable)

1. A meal that combines seafood and meat, typically lobster or shrimp and steak.

• surf 'n' turf

• reef and beef

• “surf and turf”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “surf and turf”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “surf and turf”, in Collins English Dictionary.