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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.
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.
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.
The steaks are haute at trendy Sunset Strip eatery BOA Steakhouse.
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.
