Grilling season is a great time to prepare a meal centered around what you can prepare on the patio. You can serve this tasty grilled beef thinly sliced. If you've mostly limited your grill skills to individual steaks, this is a chance to try something with a larger cut of meat. Tri-tip is also known as triangle steak. It comes from the bottom sirloin cut of beef. It is often used to make hamburgers, but the tradition of grilling it sprang up in santa maria, california in the 1950s. It is a lower-cost cut of beef that has full flavor and less fat. Sliced tri-tip steak can pair well the usual barbecue or grilling sides or you can select a menu that is more french-or italian-focused. You might let your choice of wine inspire you.