Las Vegas’s great steakhouses
A visit to Las Vegas isn't complete unless it includes a meal at one of the city’s legendary steakhouses.
“As long as anyone can remember,” a visit to Las Vegas hasn’t been considered complete unless it included a meal at one of the city’s legendary steakhouses, said Max Jacobson in Saveur. “Beneath its neon veneer, Las Vegas remains the Old West,” so it’s only natural that business and pleasure have often been conducted there over a choice porterhouse. A new wave of steakhouses arrived about a decade ago, and they take their heritage so seriously that in today’s Las Vegas, a 35-day dry-aged steak can seem “almost prosaic.”
Charlie Palmer Steak Chef Charlie Palmer and this first of the city’s modern steakhouses helped establish Las Vegas as a world-class dining destination in the late 1990s. The result, he says, is a steady flow of discerning customers who “care about everything from the beef’s heritage to the aging program.” Four Seasons Hotel,
3960 Las Vegas Blvd. S., (702) 632-5120
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Carnevino At this Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich “steak palace,” the porterhouse is aged 260 days and thus “tastes of rich meat and blue cheese.” Executive chef Zach Allen insists you should eat it rare, sliced thin like an Italian tagliata and dressed with sea salt. Palazzo Hotel, 3325 Las Vegas Blvd. S., (702) 789-4141
Jean Georges Steakhouse The Rangers Valley Angus wet- and dry-aged New York strip here qualifies as the very best steak in town right now. “The grain-fed meat, cooked on a wood-burning grill, is intensely beefy,” with “a finish as long as a premium Pomerol.” Aria, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. S., (877) 230-2742
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