Louisville's Best Steak Restaurants

the waterfront is not a la carte & the prices are very reasonable, including the wine list. sure, there are the big bottles that you have to offer for the big fish, but in general you can get a three course dinner for two with a bottle of wine for about $50 a head, not including tax & tip.

the waterfront is not a la carte & the prices are very reasonable, including the wine list. sure, there are the big bottles that you have to offer for the big fish, but in general you can get a three course dinner for two with a bottle of wine for about $50 a head, not including tax & tip.

at that location you do get a salad and potato with your steak. you also get that at the Tropicana, but not at Jeff Ruby's, Precinct, and Carlo & Johnny's. At the Waterfront if you get the cheapest steaks, the cheapest bottle of wine, and split a dessert, I think you could have dinner for two there for $100.

Here's the menu:

I still think that Jeff Ruby's (even the Waterfront) is so dissimilar from Pat's as to make them hard to compare.

Pat's is more like the Pine Club in Dayton, OH.

The waiters at Pat's been there since before Moses - no? These guys are professionals.

Pat's is a local institution with loads of tradition....criticism here is like calling your mother ugly.

The Waiters at Mike Lining's have also been there since before Moses, so does that make them professional? I've never been impressed with the Waiters at Pat's but I have at some of the other local steakhouses.

Maybe Pat's is a local institution and has lots of tradition but it has failed to keep up with changing times. Not that some tradition is good but change is also good

Maybe Pat's is a local institution and has lots of tradition but it has failed to keep up with changing times.

This is what I love about it. It's what sets it apart from Texas Roadhouse, Outback, Stoney River, Ruth Chris, Morton's, et al.

http://www.jeffruby.com/index.php?affil ... waterfront

http://www.jeffruby.com/index.php?affiliate_uid=waterfront

It's good. I eat there a lot. Wish I could swing it for $100 though. I just can't pass up the Jeff Ruby's Jewel.

hmmm, maybe that's where I'll take my wife tonight . . .

I didn't even have Pat's in my list because more often then not I get something else like pork chops, fried chicken, or fried oysters. The sides are like grandma's house.

I think the waiters are professional....but they are from another century. Maybe you have to be from here to get that place. IMO it's in another universe from all the other steak places mentioned and isn't really in competition with them as Ron said.

Basically I agree with everything Ron said.

Basically I agree with everything Ron said.

It's safer that way.

Basically I agree with everything Ron said.

It's safer that way.

I'm learning.

I'll give you guys the heads up when I'm going to be wrong so you can disagree then.

the waterfront is not a la carte & the prices are very reasonable, including the wine list. sure, there are the big bottles that you have to offer for the big fish, but in general you can get a three course dinner for two with a bottle of wine for about $50 a head, not including tax & tip.

at that location you do get a salad and potato with your steak. you also get that at the Tropicana, but not at Jeff Ruby's, Precinct, and Carlo & Johnny's. At the Waterfront if you get the cheapest steaks, the cheapest bottle of wine, and split a dessert, I think you could have dinner for two there for $100.

Here's the menu:

I still think that Jeff Ruby's (even the Waterfront) is so dissimilar from Pat's as to make them hard to compare.

Pat's is more like the Pine Club in Dayton, OH.

My wife and I go to the Waterfront a couple times/year. We normally have drinks, and then split a crabcake appetiser, a large steak, baked potato, salad, side vege (ala carte), and a dessert, and with tax & tip walk away under $100 and stuffed!

On Stoney River: the Outback Steakhouse has three different steak restaurants: Outback is the cheapest, Stony River the mid-priced, and Fleming's the top of the line (designed to compete with Morton's and Ruth's Criss). I wouldn't really compare Stony River to Morton's, as it is not designed to compete with them!

On Stoney River: the Outback Steakhouse has three different steak restaurants: Outback is the cheapest, Stony River the mid-priced, and Fleming's the top of the line (designed to compete with Morton's and Ruth's Criss). I wouldn't really compare Stony River to Morton's, as it is not designed to compete with them!

i know about the fleming's relation, but i thought stoney river was owned by o charley's.

Maybe Pat's is a local institution and has lots of tradition but it has failed to keep up with changing times. Not that some tradition is good but change is also good

They haven't failed anything, they've chosen to stay where they are, if you don't like it, don't go.

Tom Sizemore wanted to know. So, have we figured it out? Tom, are you there? A lot of names have been bandied about.

So, whose steak reigns supreme? We have some chains in Morton's, Ruth's and Jeff Ruby's. Ruby's kills the others here. We have the local high end places such as Z's, Jack's and Del Frisco. I believe this is a personal choice, they are all fantastic. Then we have the place that time left behind. Pat's. So, I call upon all forumites, whose steak REIGNS SUPREME?

the waterfront is not a la carte & the prices are very reasonable, including the wine list. sure, there are the big bottles that you have to offer for the big fish, but in general you can get a three course dinner for two with a bottle of wine for about $50 a head, not including tax & tip.

at that location you do get a salad and potato with your steak. you also get that at the Tropicana, but not at Jeff Ruby's, Precinct, and Carlo & Johnny's. At the Waterfront if you get the cheapest steaks, the cheapest bottle of wine, and split a dessert, I think you could have dinner for two there for $100.

Here's the menu:

I still think that Jeff Ruby's (even the Waterfront) is so dissimilar from Pat's as to make them hard to compare.

Pat's is more like the Pine Club in Dayton, OH.

My wife and I go to the Waterfront a couple times/year. We normally have drinks, and then split a crabcake appetiser, a large steak, baked potato, salad, side vege (ala carte), and a dessert, and with tax & tip walk away under $100 and stuffed!

That sounds correct to me. The steaks are plenty big enough to split. I'm just not sure how easy it would be for each person to have full three courses and a bottle of wine and stay under $100.