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Steakhouses in Manhattan: Twenty-Three Rooms on the Midtown Spine

Manhattan Steakhouses, New York

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Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street, Manhattan

Thirty-one rooms on this page, and twenty-three of them stand between 34th Street and Central Park South. That is the shape of steak in Manhattan: a Midtown spine running from Royal 35 on East 35th Street up through Sparks on East 46th, Gallaghers on West 52nd and Quality Meats on West 58th, with the Grill's prime rib trolley in the Seagram Building at its eastern edge. Downtown holds two — MarkJoseph at the Seaport and Wolfgang's on Greenwich Street — while Union Square, the Village and the Meatpacking District carry six more, from Buenos Aires on East 6th Street to STK on Little West 12th. Five of the borough's most-cited chophouses already have place pages on their own neighborhood guides; this page names them and links out rather than repeating them. The Bronx's six rooms are folded in at the end.

  1. West 52nd Street, a block from the theatres. The aging locker is the storefront: walk past and the beef is hanging behind glass at eye level.

  2. East 46th Street between Second and Third, five minutes from Grand Central. Order the sirloin; the wine list is the other reason people come.

  3. Third Avenue at 49th Street. This is the original of the six-city group, and the butchering and dry-aging happen in house.

  4. East 41st Street beside Grand Central. The vaulted ceiling and the ten-foot working fireplace come with the century-old Chemist Club building the room sits in.

  5. East 40th Street, one block south of the first Benjamin. The same USDA Prime dry-aged program, and the sister restaurant's signature dishes carried across.

  6. West 58th Street below Central Park. The butcher-shop fit-out is the point: pulley-and-hook chandeliers, white tile and steel, with the double rib steak for two on the menu.

  7. East 58th Street. The Selimaj family works the room, and there is live jazz at the front on Friday and Saturday nights.

  8. 1 East 35th Street, the southern end of the Midtown spine and a short walk from the Empire State Building.

  9. Three floors at 1221 Sixth Avenue, near Radio City. Floor-to-ceiling windows onto the avenue, and Japanese A5 wagyu on the menu.

  10. East 42nd Street in the Chrysler Center. The chain's Grand Central outpost, dry-aging on site rather than shipping in.

  11. 551 Fifth Avenue, entered from East 45th Street. Morton's Manhattan room, a short walk from Grand Central.

  12. West 41st Street between Seventh and Eighth. One of the group's three Manhattan rooms; the original on Park Avenue sits on the Murray Hill guide.

  13. West 54th Street. Founded by Peter Luger alumni, and the USDA Prime dry-aged porterhouse reads exactly that way.

  14. The ground floor of the Helmsley Building at 230 Park Avenue, so the view from the table is straight up the avenue.

  15. West 44th Street, two floors and 180 seats in the Theater District. Beef and shellfish in equal measure.

  16. 1271 Sixth Avenue by Rockefeller Center. A Mexican steakhouse: the Prime cuts go into a Josper and come out with fresh tortillas.

  17. East 52nd Street, inside the Seagram Building's landmarked dining room. The prime rib trolley is the thing to watch for.

  18. West 49th Street in Hell's Kitchen. A rodizio room: the skewers keep coming until the card on the table is turned over.

  19. East 44th Street, in the base of the EVEN Hotel. Back at its original address after the building was rebuilt around it.

  20. West 53rd Street off Fifth. The salting technique the group is known for is half of what people book for.

  21. 1285 Sixth Avenue, in Midtown. Sixteen steaks and chops on the menu and live musicians every evening.

  22. Central Park South, inside the JW Marriott Essex House. The northernmost room on this page, and the one where the beef is butter-poached.

  23. West 47th Street, despite the name. Dry-aged porterhouse on one half of the menu, pastrami dumplings on the other.

  24. Water Street in the Seaport, down a cobbled block. One of only two steak rooms this page publishes below Canal Street.

  25. 409 Greenwich Street. Wolfgang Zwiener was Peter Luger's head waiter before he opened the first of these rooms.

  26. East 6th Street in the East Village. The one Argentine parrilla on the Manhattan page; the borough's other belt of them is in Queens.

  27. One Fifth Avenue. The newest room here, open since January 2026, according to the operator's own announcement of the New York opening.

  28. Charles Street in the West Village, down a short stair. About ten tables, and they are booked out well ahead.

  29. East 12th Street off Fifth. Red walls, black-and-white photographs, and the strip steak the room is named after.

  30. East 22nd Street, in the United Charities Building's Assembly Hall. Live-fire charcoal, and beef from family-run farms upstate and in New England.

  31. Little West 12th Street, with a fourth-floor room above the ground-floor one under a retractable glass roof.

Midtown: 34th Street to Central Park South

Twenty-three of the thirty-one rooms below sit in the twenty-four blocks between 34th Street and Central Park South, which is why this page opens here rather than downtown.

The East Side runs on Grand Central. Sparks has been on East 46th Street between Second and Third since Michael and Pasquale Cetta opened it in 1966, and the family still runs it. Benjamin Steakhouse is on East 41st beside the terminal and Benjamin Prime a block south on East 40th; Ben & Jack's is on East 44th; Bobby Van's takes the base of the Helmsley Building at 230 Park Avenue; The Capital Grille is in the Chrysler Center on East 42nd; and Morton's is on Fifth Avenue with its entrance round the corner on 45th. Further north, Smith & Wollensky holds its green-and-white corner at Third Avenue and 49th, The Grill carves prime rib from a trolley in the Seagram Building on East 52nd, and Club A runs on East 58th. Royal 35 anchors the southern end at 1 East 35th Street, a short walk from the Empire State Building.

The West Side is theatre district and Sixth Avenue. Gallaghers dry-ages beef in a window-fronted locker on the West 52nd Street sidewalk. Del Frisco's Double Eagle takes three floors of 1221 Avenue of the Americas; Mastro's is at 1285; Cuerno grills over charcoal at 1271. Wolfgang's Times Square room is on West 41st, Empire on West 54th, Nusr-Et on West 53rd, Hunt & Fish Club on West 44th, Brooklyn Chop House on West 47th and Churrascaria Plataforma on West 49th. Quality Meats sits on West 58th and Bourbon Steak is in the JW Marriott Essex House on Central Park South.

Keens is on this stretch too, at 72 West 36th Street, and Wolfgang's original room is at 4 Park Avenue. Both are published on their own neighborhood guides and linked below.

Downtown: the Seaport and Tribeca

Two rooms, and they sit either side of the island's foot. MarkJoseph is on Water Street, down a cobbled block just north of the South Street Seaport, built on a USDA Prime dry-aged porterhouse served for two, three or four. Wolfgang's Tribeca room is at 409 Greenwich Street, with the same cut on the menu.

The Financial District's other steak room is Delmonico's at 56 Beaver Street, which reopened in 2023 and is published on the Financial District guide rather than here.

Union Square, the Village and the Meatpacking District

Six rooms below 23rd Street, and no two of them are the same kind of steakhouse.

Hawksmoor took the restored Assembly Hall of the United Charities Building on East 22nd Street and sears dry-aged beef from family-run farms over live charcoal. Strip House is on East 12th Street, red-walled and hung with vintage black-and-white photographs. Golden Steer brought the Las Vegas format east in January 2026, into the street-level room of the One Fifth Avenue building. 4 Charles Prime Rib is a small basement room on Charles Street where prime rib is the house dish. Buenos Aires is an Argentine parrilla on East 6th Street. STK holds Little West 12th Street with a second dining room on the fourth-floor roof.

Two more rooms in this stretch belong to other guides: COTE, the Korean beef room at 16 West 22nd Street, and Old Homestead at 56 Ninth Avenue. Both are linked below.

The Bronx, folded into this page

The Bronx has six verified steak rooms against a bar of eight, so it gets a paragraph here instead of a page of its own. It fails on count rather than on shape: three of the six are a real cluster in Riverdale — Jake's Steakhouse on Broadway, Arnauld's Steak & Seafood and Riverdale Steak House — and they are published on the Riverdale guide. Fiorentina on East Tremont Avenue in Throgs Neck cuts USDA Prime dry-aged beef and belongs to the Throgs Neck guide. Willie's Steak House on Westchester Avenue in Parkchester and Parrilla Latina complete the six.

NYY Steak, Lobel's and the Audi Yankees Club are not counted. All three sit behind a stadium gate on game days, and a room only counts here if a reader can walk in and dine on its own terms.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a room a steakhouse on this page?
Steak has to be the menu's center of gravity, plus the beef-centric genres — churrascaria, Argentine parrilla, Japanese wagyu counter, Korean-style beef room. A restaurant that merely serves a good steak is out. That is why Churrascaria Plataforma and Buenos Aires are here while Minetta Tavern, with its famous burger and a good steak, is not, and neither is Balthazar: steak frites on a French menu is not a center of gravity.
Why are Keens, Delmonico's, Old Homestead, Wolfgang's on Park Avenue and COTE named here but not listed as rooms?
Because they already have place pages elsewhere in this site, on the neighborhood guides for the Garment District, the Financial District, the Meatpacking District, Murray Hill and the Flatiron District. A room is published once. This page names all five and links to the guides that carry them, so nothing is lost and nothing is duplicated.
Why does a Manhattan page carry the Bronx?
The Bronx measured six verified rooms against a bar of eight. It has a nameable cluster — Jake's, Arnauld's and Riverdale Steak House are all in Riverdale — so it fails on count, not on shape, and folding it into a note here was judged better than either a thin page or silence. The Riverdale three and Fiorentina in Throgs Neck are linked to their own neighborhood guides.
Are the national chain steakhouses included?
The fine-dining ones are: The Capital Grille, Morton's, Smith & Wollensky, Del Frisco's, Mastro's and Bourbon Steak all have Manhattan outposts and all are on this page, each written about the room at its own address. The casual national chains — Outback, LongHorn, Texas Roadhouse — are not, because they are not destination rooms.
Is COTE a Korean barbecue room or a steakhouse?
Both, which is why it appears on two food verticals. COTE at 16 West 22nd Street is a Korean beef room, a genre this collection admits, and it is also a tabletop grill room the Korean BBQ collection covers. The place page lives on the Flatiron District guide; the Korean BBQ guide for Manhattan is linked below as well.
Which rooms did this page check and leave out?
Uncle Jack's on West 56th Street and Tuscany Steakhouse on West 58th have both closed, and Angus Club on East 55th could not be verified as trading. The Palm at 837 Second Avenue and Palm Too at 840 Second are permanently closed. Rooms whose current status cannot be confirmed are left off rather than published with a hedge.
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