steak house

noun

: a restaurant whose specialty is beefsteak

Examples of steak house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web One Madison Avenue Daniel Boulud’s first steak house, La Tête d’Or by Daniel, is to make its debut in November in the new office tower across from Madison Square Park’s southern perimeter. Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024 Central Park has a premium steak house, a sushi joint, and a used Rolex that can be bought for $8,000 on land here proudly offered at $17,000. Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024 And after years of a food scene largely dominated by clubby steak houses, the city now boasts some of the country's most interesting and enlivening dining options. Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024 What can Catholics eat while abstaining during Lent? Catholics might want to trade in the steak house reservation for one at a sushi restaurant. Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024 The Bazaar’s conceit is, more or less, turn-of-the-millennium culinary modernism grafted onto some second thing: Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and one of the Chicago locations adopt the trappings of a steak house; the D.C. Bazaar brings spheres and foams to classic Americana. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023 The downtown Wilmington steak house, which sits adjacent to sister restaurant Bardea Food & Drink, is designed as a choose-your-own adventure into the land of rare cuts of meat. Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2023 Mister Charles is Dallas, a big-spending pasta and steak house with customers dressed to the nines and the design turned up to an 11. Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 21 July 2023 The 1,400-plus restaurants run the gamut from iconic steak houses (Charlie’s, Crescent City Steaks) to Vietnamese stalwarts (Tan Dinh and Dong Phuong) to Creole (Dooky Chase’s) and Cajun mainstays (Cochon). Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2023

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'steak house.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Word History

First Known Use

1762, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of steak house was in 1762

Dictionary Entries Near steak house

Cite this Entry

“Steak house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steak%20house. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

More from Merriam-Webster on steak house

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!