About forty miles outside of Birmingham, Alabama, tucked into the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, sits one hole-in-the wall U.S.-based restaurant with food good enough to convince customers to load up the car and take the hour-long drive necessary to grab a plate. Chefs Valentin and Jose aren't cooking up Old World food exactly, but rather a combination of the hearty, comforting dishes that have come to define Italian-American cuisine, steaks of all sizes, and a variety of seafood dishes to boot.
Exclusivity, like any product, gets more valuable the more people want it; it is both the cruellest and the most honest thing that a restaurant can sell. The Eighty-Six, a mega-swank steak house that opened in the West Village last fall, was, from Day One, clubby, celeb-packed, and impossible to get into-no surprise, as it's the latest from Catch Hospitality Group, which previously brought us the impossible-to-get-into Corner Store.
In 2024, DC got a slew of thrilling, genre-busting restaurants, from Dōgon to Pascual to La' Shukran to Moon Rabbit. This past year was different: more safe, less boundary-pushing. Major openings included copies and spinoffs of existing restaurants (Chai Pani, Lucky Danger) and Stephen Starr's revamp of the century-old Occidental. And 2025 closed out with two flashy new steak spots from big restaurant groups. Not exactly groundbreaking.
Located on the west side of the city, it's a family-owned business that's as quintessential a Houston steakhouse as you can get. All the steaks are USDA prime Certified Angus Beef and are wet aged for 40 days, more than twice the standard aging time for steakhouses, producing exceptionally tender, buttery steaks. And while the prices aren't cheap, Taste of Texas' dedication to using only
Jimmy vowed when opening his steakhouse in 1934, just a year after the repeal of Prohibition, to "serve a great steak" and "pour a generous portion of whiskey." After decades of doing just that, plus his promise of "attentive service," those core principles remain. True to his word, the steaks are legendary, and whiskey free-flows as if Prohibition and the Great Depression never even existed.
There's a certain comfort in the predictability of holiday food. Thanksgiving is designated for turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and green bean casserole. Easter is lamb and ham, with spring vegetables like asparagus and green beans making their entrance. Summer occasions like July Fourth summon burgers, hot dogs, potato salad, and corn. However, Christmas is, ironically for all the lights, in a bit of a gray area.
For many of us, it's white tablecloths, servers in button-down shirts and aprons, big honkin' cuts of USDA prime beef alongside sides of glistening roasted potatoes, creamed spinach, and wedge salads covered in blue cheese dressing. However, not all steakhouses are created equal, and that's what makes this city and La Tete d'Or so darn special. Opened in November of 2024, La Tete d'Or is the brainchild of Daniel Boulud, a world-renowned French chef who has made New York City his home.
If you have been in the Midwest, Southern states, or along the West Coast of the U.S., you may have dined at Logan's Roadhouse at some point since the 1990s, when the chain first opened. And if you've also dined at Texas Roadhouse, Outback Steakhouse, or any other popular steakhouse chain in the country, you may have noticed one thing about Logan's Roadhouse's juicy steaks, and that's they taste smokier than the competition. You're not imagining the flavor difference at all, since every single one of Logan's Roadhouse's steaks are grilled "over an open flame with real mesquite wood," according to the chain's website.
Revival Restaurant Group (Little Betty, Uptown Cantina, and the Family Dog) is ready to show off its shiny new interiors and menus for steakhouse Luella, which opens on Tuesday, November 25, in the former Ivy Buckhead space. Luella is billed as a "steakhouse inspired by European sensibilities," so there are slabs of premium beef and wagyu cuts, but the restaurant also offers plates of pasta and a few sushi rolls, because why not throw those in, too?
Guests enter the restaurant through the main doors of the Westin and land in the Bourbon Loungeformerly Clock Bara cinematic expanse of marble and brass, with coffered ceilings lit by sparkling spherical chandeliers and warm globe lamps that illuminate soft leather stools. A party of Gatsby impersonators would blend right in. You could linger here all night sipping craft cocktails that nod to Mina's legacy of restaurants.
This steakhouse comes to us from Times Square. They also have a location in FiDi, so we're not sure why Brooklyn is in the name at all. Their Miami location is on the seventh floor of the Moxy Hotel (also not Brooklyn) and their "Asian-inspired" menu has dim sum, peking duck, and spicy kung pao chicken. You'll also find some straightforward steakhouse dishes, like a dry-aged ribeye and a seafood tower.
With high-end beef offerings being overshadowed lately by cheap and cheerful cuts, it's important to remember that you get what you pay for, writes our critic Chateaubriand, cote de boeuf, filet mignon, New York strip, porterhouse, ribeye, T-bone, tomahawk - these are all hallowed words but ones that are fast disappearing from restaurant menus this autumn, except of course at dedicated high-end steak houses serving equally high-end cuts where, believe me, you pay accordingly.
The Stockyards attracted everyone from local cattlemen and ranchers to bankers and politicians. Now one of the oldest steakhouses in the United States, it was carefully restored in 2004 with an eye to historical preservation and the Old West architectural style. The building features a carefully remodeled 1889 Saloon, along with a period-inspired dining hall, and the ambience is distinctly '40s Western-casual.
Capital Hours attendees will find a small roundup of $10 cocktails, including the Greyhound Martini, the Old Fashioned, the Peach Bourbon Smash, and the Classic Margarita, and $8 wines, like Silver Gate Vineyards' Sauvignon Blanc and Screen Press' Pinot Noir, by the glass. In some parts of the country, it can be tough to find even a well drink at a dive bar for under $10, let alone an ice-cold martini made by expert bartenders and topped with blue cheese-stuffed olives.
Every Sunday at Be.Steak.A, located in the Pruneyard shopping center, a $135-per-person buffet featuring about 130 different items takes over part of the dining room, the bar and even the kitchen. There are omelet, Belgian waffle and carving stations, a self-serve caviar bar and an over-the-top dessert selection. "We're doing something that nobody else is doing in the Bay Area at this point," said chef and owner Jeffrey Stout.
At La Tete d'Or, he scattered French touches throughout, including the classic Lyonnaise salad as a nod to his hometown, tableside carts, and potatoes served eight ways. Plus, there are plenty of exciting options for those who opt out of ordering steak. Frisee rillons - a steakhouse-worthy salad topped with chicken liver croutons and a runny egg. Prime rib - it costs $130, but it's a showstopper carved tableside from a cart, and comes with three greatest-hits sides: creamed spinach, pommes puree, and a popover.
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Our critic joined the queue to sample the offering at this new Dublin 2 steak house, but the food disappointed Last Friday evening, I spent over an hour queueing for a table at the walk-ins only Entrecôte Dublin, which had opened a couple of days previously. If you missed the flurry of excitement around the restaurant, the schtick is that it offers a bread and butter, salad, steak (two servings) and chips (bottomless) meal for €29.95.
There is no wrong steak to order in a good steakhouse, but there are some cuts whose reputation exceeds the actual experience. You may know ribeyes and New York strips, but if you are not a steak obsessive, you may not know what actually makes one or another desirable. In that case, a reasonable assumption is that the more expensive cuts are the best ones.
The menu spotlights Moroccan dishes such as tajines, couscous, chicken-and-almond-stuffed ayah pastillas, and showy tableside-prepared whole fishes and racks of lamb. Cocktails include the intriguing Climbing Goat with mezcal, the restaurant's own pistachio liqueur, goat cheese, honey, and rose. The lush space features archways, carved tables, and velvet curtains spread across three dining rooms and the bar. Ayah will also have late-night hours until 2 a.m.
This spot's cozy leather booths and plentiful wood trim give its dining room an old-school steakhouse vibe that's perfect for date nights. The menu is all about dressed-up comfort food, like the crispy, spiced-just-right curry fried chicken, or the lightly charred petite filet mignon. Steaks are served with your choice of butter or demiglace-go for the miso-honey butter. The bar program showcases housemade syrups, bitters, and tinctures, which make even the simpler cocktails taste elevated.
1587 Prime, officially opened its doors on September 17, 2025, marking a significant expansion into Kansas City's competitive dining scene. This contemporary American steakhouse, born from a partnership with Kansas City Chiefs legends Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, represents more than just another celebrity restaurant: it's a masterclass in strategic brand expansion and community integration. The Power Play Behind the Partnership The collaboration between Noble 33 and the NFL champions goes beyond typical celebrity endorsements.
