Where can you find the best steak? A perfectly cooked steak is a thing of beauty, with its seared edges and pink-to-red interior oozing salty goodness onto the plate. Anyone can throw a steak on a grill, but it takes consummate skill to watch it and capture it at the exact right moment so that the flavor is sealed in. To ensure travelers find the best steak house in their destination, the World’s 101 Best Steak Restaurants compiles an annual list.
It’s probably no surprise that the No. 1 steak restaurant in the world, Parilla Don Julio, is in Buenos Aires. Argentina is famous for its beef, which is free of hormone or antibiotic treatments and grazes on rich pampas grassland, which infuses its flavor into the meat. Argentina also created the “asado” barbecue method, where steak is cooked over an open fire. At Parilla Don Julio, there’s not just exceptional steak in-house butchering, grilling, and dry aging but also an impeccable wine program.
The rest of the top ten list worldwide contains restaurants in cities ranging from Sydney, Australia to Madrid, Spain and beyond. But our interest is piqued by the fact that there’s a U.S. restaurant in the top 10: COTE in New York City. With a communal fire and Korean barbecue techniques, COTE also offers an in-table smokeless grill where guests can watch tableside grilling of USDA Prime, American wagyu and A5 Japanese Miyazaki. It’s a lightly theatrical experience that provides entertainment as well as a supremely prepared steak.
There are 18 other U.S. steak houses on this list in the cities of Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, Austin, Detroit and Chicago. We note that Australia seems to be the next most frequent country, with 17 restaurants listed in Sydney and Melbourne. The U.S. restaurants include a scattering in the top 20, and then a huge volume in the 40s and in the 70s. The 19 U.S. restaurants are:
10. Cote, New York
13. Asador Bastian, Chicago
17. La Tête D’or, New York
43. Gwen, Los Angeles
44. 4 Charles Prime Rib, New York
47. Knife, Dallas
49. Niku Steakhouse, San Francisco
52. Jeffrey’s, Austin
58. Keens, New York
60. The Bazaar, New York
63. Minetta Tavern, New York
69. Prime + Proper, Detroit
71. Swift & Sons, Chicago
73. Gallaghers, New York
75. American Cut, New York
77. Bavette´s Steak House, Chicago
78. Izzy’s, San Francisco
84. Nuri Steakhouse, Dallas
88. Gage & Tollner, New York
The full, ranked list of the 101 Best Steak Houses in the world:
1. Don Julio Parrilla, Buenos Aires
2. Margaret, Sydney
3. Laia Erretegia, Hondarribia
4. I Due Cippi, Saturnia
5. Burnt Ends, Singapore
6. Bodega El Capricho, Jiménez De Jamuz
7. Casa Julian De Tolosa, Tolosa
8. Lana, Madrid
9. Ag, Stockholm
10. Cote, New York
11. Ibai, London
12. Rockpool Bar & Grill, Sydney
13. Asador Bastian, Chicago
14. The International, Sydney
15. Born & Bred, Seoul
16. Firedoor, Sydney
17. La Tête D’or, New York
18. Victor Churchill, Melbourne
19. Carcasse, Koksijde
20. Porteño, Sydney
21. Capa, Copenhagen
22. Gillis, Gent
23. Hawksmoor, London
24. Brat, London
25. La Braseria, Osio Sotto
26. Elisa, Vancouver
27. Nikuya Tanaka, Tokyo
28. Los 33, Madrid
29. Regina Bistecca, Florence
30. Tributo, Quito
31. Amaren, Bilbao
32. The Gidley, Sydney
33. Beefbar, Monaco
34. Anahi, Paris
35. Fogón, Buenos Aires
36. Aalia, Sydney
37. Steer Dining Room, Melbourne
38. 11woodfire, Dubai
39. Lutyens Grill, London
40. Miyoshi, Kyoto
41. Aragawa, London
42. Clover Grill, Paris
43. Gwen, Los Angeles
44. 4 Charles Prime Rib, New York
45. Gimlet, Melbourne
46. Kitan-in, Osaka
47. Knife, Dallas
48. Asador Nicolás, Tolosa
49. Niku Steakhouse, San Francisco
50. Fireside, Hong Kong
51. Shell House, Sydney
52. Jeffrey’s, Austin
53. Bistecca, Singapore
54. Koki, Hanoi
55. Blok, South Wales
56. Elena, Buenos Aires
57. Matilda 159 Domain, Melbourne
58. Keens, New York
59. Cut By Wolfgang Puck, Singapore
60. The Bazaar, New York
61. Char Fuego Y Brasas, Tenerife
62. The Cut Bar & Grill, Sydney
63. Minetta Tavern, New York
64. Grill Royal, Berlin
65. Beef & Glory, Vienna
66. Shatōburian, Singapore
67. Holsteins, Mexico
68. Firewood, George Town
69. Prime + Proper, Detroit
70. The Devonshire, London
71. Swift & Sons, Chicago
72. The Grand Bar & Grill, Helsinki
73. Gallaghers, New York
74. Maven, Antwerp
75. American Cut, New York
76. Jacobs & Co Steakhouse, Toronto
77. Bavette´s Steak House, Chicago
78. Izzy’s, San Francisco
79. Beef, Kyiv
80. The Steak House, Hong Kong
81. Sala De Corte, Lisbon
82. Williams Butchers Table, Zurich
83. Niku Kappō Jō, Tokyo
84. Nuri Steakhouse, Dallas
85. Porter & Rye, Glasgow
86. Okadamae, Tokyo
87. Vuur, Stellenbosch
88. Gage & Tollner, New York
89. Guinea Grill, London
90. Meatguy Steakhouse, Jakarta
91. Meatmaiden, Melbourne
92. Grill Americano, Melbourne
93. 20 Chapel, Sydney
94. Fife Lane, Mount Maunganui
95. Herma, Buenos Aires
96. Fukutatei The Ukai, Osaka
97. The Blockman, Johannesburg
98. Sugita, Tokyo
99. Bistecca, Sydney
100. Wagyu Mafia The Butcher’s Kitchen, Tokyo
101. Brutus Tavern, Athens