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Super Steakhouse Smackdown!
The city heat is spiking, the pool parties are bangin' and you're beginning to feel the symptoms of primitive urges. You've felt them before (a feverish hunger, a tingly dry-mouthed pant) and you know they mean one thing: It's time to get your meat on.
Fortunately for you Los Angeles is having a bit of a Steakaissance, with an impressive stream of brand new meateries opening their doors to hungry carnivores. This list serves up the recent players along with a healthy slice of the old standbys.
This luxe Beverly Hills steakhouse typifies the L.A. experience. It’s swanky and high-end, crawling with celebrities, and the food’s as good as the scene.
It’s easy to dismiss Wolfgang Puck as a celebrity chef who specializes in Oscar-party crudities and self-promotion. Then along comes Cut, and we remember that he is indeed a masterful restaurateur, adept at melding great food with a decadent experience.
The best martini in town can be found at the oldest restaurant in Hollywood.
Where else, outside of Las Vegas, can you get prime rib done just so, with a baked potato and a Manhattan at 4 in the morning? And in an old-fashioned railroad dining car no less.
Acclaimed restaurateur Laurent Tourondel brings his popular NYC French bistro/American steakhouse to the Sunset Strip.
Dan Tana’s intimate, New York-style atmosphere as well as its popularity among studio heads, industry insiders and celebrities have made it one of L.A.’s local legends.
Hidden beneath a Blockbuster in a modern strip mall, this fabulous steak and seafood house is a Costa Mesa institution.
The steakhouse meets "Gilligan's Island" at this almost 70-year-old institution. Dine amid fake palm trees. Sip a dangerously potent chi chi or mai tai. And on Monday nights, take $5 off any cut of prime rib au jus. Don't do red meat? There's shrimp, either deep-fried or skewered and slathered with herbed lemon butter.
Behind Jar’s characteristic brick wall waits a dining room designed for comfort—both for the palate and for your dining body.
Another feather in the Patina Group’s cap, Nick & Stef’s Steakhouse is a city-slicker version of the old Midwestern steakhouse geared towards the after-work crowd.
At Arnie Morton's everything is big -- and not just the steaks. It's a place where, guaranteed, you'll never stare down a tiny portion wondering how a restaurant has the chutzpah to charge so much for so little.
Recently relocated from its cramped digs in the Grafton Hotel to a much larger space a few blocks west, Boa is still the steakhouse for Hollywood scenesters and young industry players.
New York restaurateur Wolfgang Zwiener has brought a version of his elaborately decorated Park Avenue steakhouse to Beverly Hills and opened it up near Wolfgang Puck's steakhouse Cut.
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