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Staghorn Steakhouse - City Dining of the Highest Order

Not all of New York’s finest steakhouses are in its fanciest neighborhoods, and Staghorn Steakhouse well illustrates the point. It’s a handsome, high-ceilinged, wood-paneled place with an impressive wine room that also makes its own steak sauce and delivers smooth, professional service along with its dry aged USDA Prime beef.

Staghorn Steakhouse NYC

In addition to the porterhouse, T-bone, rib eye, skirt and filet mignon steaks, six seafood selections, three pastas, and nine side dishes—as well as chicken, a 12-ounce veal chop, and double cut lamb chops—dot the menu.

Although it’s not on Park Avenue, it is convenient to Madison Square Garden, Macy’s, Penn Station, Javits Center, and the Theater District. It’s in a real neighborhood where real New Yorkers actually live. There’s a nail store, a health club, and a Chinese restaurant on the same block.

Inside, the two-level, elegant and modern setting and its promise of a urban dining experience hosts everything from a young bar crowd to private parties upstairs, to the very polished wine service in the main dining room.

In addition to the meat entrées, most steakhouse mainstays can be found on the menu, including shrimp, lobster, and crabmeat cocktails, oysters and clams, Caesar salad, hash browns, creamed spinach, cottage and French fries, onion rings, cheese cake, and key lime pie.

Staghorn Steakhouse NYC

The diner who ordered the tender grilled calamari appetizer pronounced it “the best calamari I’ve ever had” and got no argument from his three companions, all of whom sampled it. The hearts of lettuce salad—or two substantial wedges bathed in blue cheese dressing—more than passed muster.

Both steaks, the 22-ounce rib eye and the T-bone, were juicy, tender treats. They were sprawling rather than tall and thick versions, easier to cut and eat. Fish, too, continued the successful dishes encountered. Two jumbo crab cakes containing little or no filler and Chilean sea bass, with a lightly crusted surface, more than satisfied.

Nor were there any dessert strikeouts. The tart, intensely flavored key lime pie, fluffy light tiramisu, huge, warm apple crisp with vanilla gelato, and especially the rich, sinful warm chocolate melt down with plenty of whipped cream were all home runs—as is the Staghorn Steakhouse.

315 W. 36th St. (8th-9th Aves.), 212-239-4390; staghornsteakhouse.com

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