The Best Steakhouses in Las Vegas, and How to Get a Table

Where to go, by what you actually want. For the best room and serious beef in the same place, Bavette's at Park MGM. For a Strip flagship with a floor show attached, SW Steakhouse at Wynn. For the view everyone photographs, Prime over the Bellagio Fountains. Best value at the top tier: the $99 three-course menu at StripSteak. And for real Las Vegas history rather than a themed version of it, the Golden Steer on West Sahara, open since 1958.

Most lists stop at the ranking. The details that decide your evening sit one layer down: when each reservation book opens, which terrace carries a spend minimum before you order anything, which bars serve the full menu to walk-ins, and what really leaves your account at the end.

Michelin published its first Southwest guide in 2026. Four Las Vegas restaurants took stars: two for Joël Robuchon, one each for L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Restaurant Guy Savoy and é by José Andrés. Not a steakhouse among them. Vegas beef rooms run hundreds of covers a night on theatre and consistency, a different craft from the one Michelin rewards.

Strip classics that still earn the money

Bavette's is where a lot of Vegas restaurant people eat steak on their night off. Hogsalt built a dark Chicago supper club inside Park MGM: red leather, low jazz, murals worth staring at, and a 16oz Chicago-cut ribeye at $78 that needs no wagyu upsell. Plan $130 to $180 a head. Weekend tables go two to four weeks ahead and parties cap at twelve. The bypass is the back bar, which seats walk-ins and serves the complete menu. Honest caveat: the middle of the room gets genuinely loud once it fills, so ask for a perimeter booth when you book.

SW Steakhouse at Wynn is the only restaurant in the United States serving Watanabe Oguni wagyu, and Forbes renewed its four stars for 2026 under chef Mark LoRusso. The terrace faces the Lake of Dreams, so a well-timed reservation buys you a multimedia show between courses. Dinner starts at 5:30pm, the dress code bars athletic wear and flip-flops, and $150 to $300 per person is the realistic range. Interior tables see none of the show, which is the trap. Ask for the terrace and the evening's show times when you book.

Prime has held the same Jean-Georges jewel box at Bellagio since 1998, and the soy-and-chocolate-glazed short rib has outlived most of its competition. The terrace sits directly over the Fountains. It also carries roughly a $175-per-person minimum, books two to three weeks out for weekends, and has to be requested explicitly; asking at the door does not work. The dress code is one of the few on the Strip that actually turns parties away. Budget $150 to $250, more outside.

Delmonico is the wine pick. Emeril Lagasse's Venetian room has held Wine Spectator's Grand Award every year since 2004, a distinction fewer than a hundred restaurants worldwide can claim, and it was the only Las Vegas steakhouse on 2025's 50 Best in North America list, at number 37. It serves genuine lunch, 11:30am to 2pm, with a prix fixe from around $50. Purists find the room traditional next to the newer arrivals and the Creole accents beside the point. Hand the wine list to the sommelier with a number and that stops mattering.

Chef-driven rooms and the new wave

Beef sold by the pound is the tell at Bazaar Meat. José Andrés moved the whole circus out of Sahara in September 2025 into a 20,000-square-foot Palazzo room arranged so every table faces the open fire. Caviar cones, the ibérico taco, whole suckling pig, Vaca Vieja Black Angus at $90 a pound. It rewards a group grazing wide and punishes the solo steak-and-potatoes diner; $150 to $275 a head with discipline, more without. Request seating near the fire kitchen, which is the actual show.

CUT sits in the Palazzo's waterfall atrium with Forbes four stars and the least clubby register of this group. Snake River Farms wagyu short ribs and a whole Maine lobster in black truffle sabayon both beat the standard cuts. Entrees run $50 to $120 and sides are separate, which puts dinner at $120 to $200. The bar rewrites that math: happy hour daily from 5 to 7pm, wagyu sliders and handrolls around $12, no reservation.

At 14,000 square feet, Carversteak is the largest luxury steakhouse in the city and the winner of Las Vegas Weekly's 2025 readers' poll. Chef Daniel Ontiveros runs Flannery dry-aged beef, a martini cart works the floor, and the prix fixe starts at $99 against $150 to $200 a la carte. The kitchen now closes at 10pm Sunday through Thursday and 11pm on Friday and Saturday, with the bar running an hour later, so it is no longer the midnight option older articles promise. And the main room is loud on purpose; the Strip-view terrace is where the same menu comes with a conversation.

Maroon opened at Sahara on April 24, 2026, the most original steakhouse to arrive here in years. Kwame Onwuachi built it around a custom jerk pit burning pimento wood: oxtail-and-caviar patties at $40, a 16oz pork tomahawk off the pit at $75, an Oxtail Wellington for two at $120, and Texas beef aged with rum and molasses. Dinner runs 5 to 10pm, to 11pm on weekends, at $90 to $160 a head. The kitchen is only months old, so expect opening-year variance, and Sahara sits well north of the dining corridor.

Don's Prime is Fontainebleau's marble-and-gold answer, with gueridon carts handling the Caesar, the $98 sole meunière and an Old Fashioned built at your table. Pat LaFrieda dry-aged cuts anchor the beef list. Reviews flag the occasional uneven ribeye; the tableside classics never seem to suffer it. Children under five are not seated. Full dinner is $200 to $350 a person, though the circular bar's 5 to 7:30pm lounge menu delivers the same room for $50 to $80.

Two rooms that break the steakhouse format

Brooklyn's 1887 porterhouse religion reached Caesars Palace in November 2023, and Peter Luger put a 4,000-square-foot dry-aging room under the dining floor to support it. The menu is deliberately narrow and porterhouse-first, the service carries the original's blunt style as a feature, and dinner lands around $100 to $150. Two Vegas-only upgrades matter: this location takes credit cards, and lunch Wednesday through Sunday brings both the half-pound Luger-Burger and a $49.95 three-course Power Lunch. Neither survives into dinner, so a burger pilgrimage means a midday reservation.

COTE opened at the Venetian in October 2025, the first West Coast outpost of a Korean steakhouse whose New York flagship has held a Michelin star since 2018. Staff grill four premium cuts at your table as part of the $88.88 Butcher's Feast, which arrives with banchan, sides, stews and soft serve, and is still the smartest order in the building. Reservations open exactly 90 days ahead at 10am Pacific and prime weekend slots disappear that morning. The room runs DJ-loud, which purists should hear coming.

Off the Strip, downtown, and away from the casino floor

Since 1958 the Golden Steer on West Sahara has kept the booths where Sinatra, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe sat, and the names are still on them. Tuxedoed servers build the Caesar at $21 a head, the 24oz bone-in ribeye is $105, the bananas Foster still catches fire, and dinner runs $60 to $120, well under the comparable Strip rooms. The booking window opens six months out and prime dates vanish, but the 21-plus bar takes walk-ins with the full menu. Book direct: reservations bought through resale sites are refused at the door.

Downtown's answer is Oscar's, inside the Plaza's glass dome at the head of Fremont Street, named for the mob lawyer who became mayor and serving USDA Prime cuts named for his former clients. Dinner is $70 to $120 all in, same-week reservations usually work, and the Monday-to-Thursday happy hour covers the entire 5-to-10pm evening in the bar and lounge. The theme is applied with a trowel and the cooking is solid-classic rather than surprising. The garage is free with validation, a sentence no Strip steakhouse can print.

Bourbon Steak is the only luxury steak room in Las Vegas with no casino between the front door and your table. Michael Mina took the old Charlie Palmer space in the Four Seasons, which occupies the non-gaming top of the Mandalay Bay tower with its own lobby and valet. Duck-fat fries arrive before the menus do, and the salt-baked, hay-smoked tomahawk is carved at the table. Prices are not published online, so plan $130 to $200 and up. Tell your driver Four Seasons, not Mandalay Bay, or you walk the long way in.

The cheap seats inside expensive steakhouses

Nearly every room above runs a second, quieter pricing tier, usually at the bar or at lunch.

• StripSteak, $99 for three courses. Michael Mina's Mandalay Bay kitchen butter-poaches every prime cut before finishing it over mesquite. The prix fixe with the $24 bone-in ribeye upgrade is the strongest structured deal at this tier; a la carte runs $110 to $180. Order a touch under your usual doneness, because the poach carries residual heat.
• Don's Prime lounge, 5 to 7:30pm. $50 to $80 at the circular bar against $250 in the dining room, same room and same service.
• CUT bar, 5 to 7pm daily. Wagyu sliders, handrolls and cocktails near $12, walk-in, no reservation.
• Peter Luger lunch, Wednesday to Sunday. $49.95 for three courses, plus the burger you cannot order after dark.
• Delmonico lunch, 11:30am to 2pm. Same dry-aged program, prix fixe from about $50, Grand Award cellar open at noon.
• Oscar's happy hour, Monday to Thursday. Five hours of it, 5 to 10pm, in the bar and lounge.
• Walk-in bars with the full menu. Bavette's, the Golden Steer's 21-plus lounge and Bazaar Meat's bar all serve the whole card without a reservation.

Tables worth booking for the view

• Prime's terrace, Bellagio. Directly above the Fountains, roughly $175 per person minimum, requested at booking two to three weeks ahead.
• SW's terrace, Wynn. Facing the Lake of Dreams show; worthless if you end up inside, so specify.
• Carversteak's terrace, Resorts World. Strip views at half the volume of the main room.
• Oscar's dome, Plaza. A 270-degree window onto the Fremont canopy. Request a dome window table; some catch the late sun and run warm.
• Mastro's Ocean Club, Shops at Crystals. Dinner inside an 80-foot wooden "Tree House" sculpture, live music nightly, warm butter cake at the end.

How to book, and what dinner really costs

Reservation windows vary more than the food does. COTE releases tables 90 days ahead at 10am Pacific; the Golden Steer opens six months out; Bazaar Meat, Carversteak and Don's Prime want one to two weeks for a weekend; Prime's terrace and Bavette's weekend tables want two to four; Delmonico and Oscar's usually take same-week bookings. Book direct, and when the dining room is full, check whether the bar takes walk-ins before giving up on the place.

On the bill: a Strip steak entree is roughly $70 to $135 before anything else, sides are a la carte, and per-person totals land at $100 to $180 in the mid-tier rooms and $150 to $350 at the flagships, plus sales tax and 18 to 20 percent for service. A terrace minimum, a wagyu section or a second bottle can double any of those numbers without appearing to. Menu prices in this guide come from our own restaurant pages, checked through the summer of 2026; steakhouse menus move, so read them as the shape of the bill rather than a quote.

Steak is one night out of several. For the rest, our Las Vegas dining guide covers the chef rooms, the buffets and Chinatown, and Las Vegas nightlife picks up after dessert. The full restaurant list carries hours, dress codes and prices for every room named here.