Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a restaurant specializing in seafood and steak.

1967–8

Buffalo Metropolitan Telephone Directory (NY 489/4: [advert] Michael’s Hse of Steaks... Superb steakslobsterchickensurf ’n’ turf [OED].

2. a meal of seafood and steak.

1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 189: The friendly flight attendant was carefully cutting Chemo’s surf-and-turf into bite-sized pieces.
1997		E. Little Another Day in Paradise 76: Room service has come and gone, turf and surf all around.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 204: surf ’n’ turf burger Fish and meat burger.
2013		Buzzfeed 25 July 🌐 The shy, funny drilling contractor who would bring us surf and turf from the nearby steakhouse on slow nights.

3. in attrib. use.

2004

A. Kleinzahler Cutty one Rock (2005) 188: A chain of surf-and-turf establishments in Schenectady.