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Steakhouses & Chophouses in NYC
Hand-picked by Gothamly and checked against each place’s own site. Nobody paid to be here.
- Since 1868
The Old Homestead — Meatpacking
56 Ninth Ave · Open since 1868 — Texas-size slabs of prime-aged sirloin, porterhouse & filet
- Since 1879
Gage & Tollner — Downtown Brooklyn
372 Fulton St · An 1879 oyster & chop house, revived in 2021 — the Sunken Harbor Club tiki bar upstairs
- Since 1885
Keens Steakhouse — Herald Square
The legendary mutton chop under some 90,000 churchwarden pipes
- Since 1887
Peter Luger Steak House — Williamsburg
Porterhouse for two, thick-cut bacon, no substitutes
- Since 1927
Gallaghers — Theater District
228 W 52nd St · Speakeasy turned Broadway’s first steakhouse — dry-aged prime over hickory coals, meat locker in the window
- Since 1966
Sparks Steak House — Midtown East
Dry-aged sirloin, burgundy walls & a sidewalk with a notorious place in mob history
- Since 1969
Bobby Van’s — Park Avenue
The Bridgehampton original’s Manhattan outposts — a banker’s porterhouse, properly poured
- Since 1977
Smith & Wollensky — Midtown East
Third Ave at 49th St · The 1977 original — prime beef dry-aged and butchered in-house; Wollensky’s Grill keeps late hours
- Since 2000
Strip House — Greenwich Village
Red-velvet room, black-truffle creamed spinach — the sultriest steakhouse in town
- Since 2004
Wolfgang’s — Park Avenue
Luger’s legendary headwaiter under the Guastavino tiles of the old Vanderbilt Hotel
- FiDi landmark
Delmonico’s — Financial District
56 Beaver St · Where Lobster Newburg, Eggs Benedict & Baked Alaska were born — America’s first printed menu
- Reserve ahead
4 Charles Prime Rib — West Village
4 Charles St · A clubby, low-lit den for salt-crusted prime rib — English, Chicago or the bone-in King cut
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