Golden Steer Steakhouse

The Golden Steer has been serving steak on West Sahara since 1958 — the oldest steakhouse in Las Vegas, and the one where the history is the tasting menu: Sinatra, Elvis, and Marilyn's preserved red-leather booths still carry their names, tuxedoed servers still build the Caesar tableside, and the bananas Foster still goes up in flames beside your table.

The food plays classic and honest: a 16oz New York strip at $77, the 24oz bone-in ribeye at $105, a 50oz porterhouse for two around $265, with the tableside Caesar ($21 a head) as mandatory ritual. Call it $60-120 per person — Strip-quality spend for an off-Strip institution. The Infatuation's 2026 list includes it with the honest caveat: you come for the room and the lore; purer steak exists elsewhere.

The booking reality is the modern twist on the old room: OpenTable opens six months out and prime dates genuinely vanish — weeks-to-months of lead time for the dining room. Two escape hatches: the 21-plus bar and lounge serves the full menu first-come, and reservations bought through third-party resellers are refused outright, so book only direct.