steakhouse

American  

[stayk-haus] / ˈsteɪkˌhaʊs /

noun

• steakhouses
  plural

1. a restaurant specializing in beefsteak.

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steakhouse British  

/ ˈsteɪkˌhaʊs /

noun

1. a restaurant that has steaks as its speciality

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• steakhouses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of steakhouse

First recorded in 1865–70; steak + house

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Example Sentences

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We were sitting at a wooden table near the bar at the far end of Bukowski Grill, a kitschy American-style steakhouse, with faux deer heads mounted on the walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

At a dinner Anthropic hosted at a San Francisco steakhouse Thursday night, venture capital investors’ chatter turned to Amodei’s safety warning and the news cycle it created.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Raising the level of decadence, the next year, Freeman had his first “show dinner” with Heyward and veterans such as Eric Hinske and Chipper Jones at a steakhouse in Seattle called El Gaucho.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

I met Jacob Fendley, Chud’s attorney, in Nashville at a June bond revocation hearing related to Eatherly’s alleged dine-and-dash at the steakhouse.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

In the early eighties, before I was born, he opened one of the first integrated restaurants in Johannesburg, a steakhouse.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Downtown has totally changed - small businesses were replaced by bespoke steakhouses, high-end retail chains and stores selling custom cowboy hats for tourists.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

But he says they have upped the ante, and have started booking these seminars at steakhouses.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

It was a boon for Kentucky, bringing more infrastructure, fancy steakhouses and transplants, some of whom hoped to strike it rich making what the industry calls America’s native spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

In the 18 decades since the Bella Union’s opened a kitchen, Angelenos never lost their beefsteak appetites, and 20th century steakhouses arose as haute cuisine, with steak places arrayed along La Cienega’s “Restaurant Row.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

Now, however, those opulent emblems are taking up real estate in more casual-dining rooms, from brasseries in Miami to steakhouses in Boston.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

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