13 Best Steakhouse Restaurants in Boston
The best steakhouse restaurants in Boston — Rare Steakhouse, Eddie Merlot's, Grill 23 & Bar, and Oliveira's Steak House and 9 more, reviewed by TastyPals editors.
The best steakhouse restaurants in Boston are Rare Steakhouse, Eddie Merlot's, Grill 23 & Bar, and more. Start with Rare Steakhouse if you want the strongest overall first pick.
How we picked: We weight beef sourcing and grade, the char and crust off the grill or broiler, sides and sauces that earn their place, and whether the room justifies a steakhouse cheque.
Top picks at a glance
Practical notes
What to plan for before you book — spend, reservation strategy, and who should skip this guide entirely.
- Expected spend
- $$–$$$$ per person — plan on $90–160 a head once a steak, a side or two, and a glass of red are on the table.
- Booking strategy
- Reserve one to two weeks out for prime weekend windows, especially in Boston. Early seatings are the easiest walk-in.
- What to order
- Order the cut the kitchen is known for and take it medium-rare unless you have a reason not to; split a larger format — ribeye or porterhouse — for the table and add one house side to share rather than one each.
- Skip if
- you want a light or budget meal. A steakhouse is a splurge format — for value-first dining, our cheap-eats picks are the better call.
Who this guide is for
This guide covers the highest-rated steakhouse restaurants in Boston. The picks are sorted by Google rating and review volume to give you a reliable shortlist. Picks span Boston, Somerville and Back Bay.
Quick picks
On this page
- 1. Rare SteakhouseView →
- 2. Eddie Merlot'sView →
- 3. Grill 23 & BarView →
- 4. Oliveira's Steak HouseView →
- 5. Abe & Louie'sView →
- 6. The Stockyard RestaurantView →
- 7. Ruth's Chris Steak HouseView →
- 8. Mooo.... Beacon HillView →
- 9. Mastro's Ocean ClubView →
- 10. Morton's The SteakhouseView →
- 11. Smith & Wollensky - BostonView →
- 12. Davio's Northern Italian SteakhouseView →
- 13. Del Frisco's Double Eagle SteakhouseView →
How the restaurants compare
How we chose
We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →
Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.
We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.
The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.
13 ranked picks
Rare Steakhouse is an easy yes when you want somewhere that feels considered rather than fussy. It also holds a 9.4 rating across 2,108 Google reviews.
Eddie Merlot's looks like a good night-out option in Boston because it reads polished without feeling overly formal. It also holds a 9.4 rating across 2,028 Google reviews.
Grill 23 & Bar has occupied its Back Bay address long enough to become part of Boston's civic furniture — the high-ceilinged, dark-wood room where the city's deal-making and milestone dinners have reliably landed for decades. The setting is deliberately formal: white tablecloths, a wine list that serious collectors reportedly treat as a destination in itself, and a room that draws suits to the bar on weekday evenings. The newer chophouses that have opened around it are, by most accounts, still measuring themselves against what Grill 23 established.
The kitchen's reputation rests on dry-aged beef handled with evident discipline. The dry-aged ribeye and the filet mignon are the menu's centerpieces, and what distinguishes Grill 23 from more casual competition is the reported commitment to in-house aging and careful sourcing — the kind of investment that shows in the quality of the cut rather than in tableside theatre. The sides operate in a classic register: the creamed spinach is a longstanding fixture, and the lobster mac represents the richer, Boston-inflected end of the steakhouse canon. Diners consistently pair these two alongside whichever cut they've chosen, and that combination appears to be the canonical order for good reason.
This is a room built for occasions that justify the cheque — a formal dinner, a negotiation worth closing properly, a celebration that calls for a dressed table rather than a counter seat. Reserve well ahead and expect, and plan for, a deliberately paced multi-course evening rather than a quick turn. Begin at the bar with a martini if the timing allows. When ordering, anchor the meal on a dry-aged cut, and let the creamed spinach and lobster mac do the work the sides here are known for.
Oliveira's Steak House works for date night in Somerville because the room and the food both help the evening land. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 4,122 Google reviews.
Abe & Louie's looks like a good night-out option in Back Bay in Boston because it reads polished without feeling overly formal. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 2,931 Google reviews.
The Stockyard Restaurant works for date night in Allston because the room and the food both help the evening land. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 2,389 Google reviews.
Ruth's Chris Steak House is an easy yes when you want somewhere that feels considered rather than fussy. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 1,833 Google reviews.
Mooo.... Beacon Hill works for date night because the room and the food both help the evening land. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 1,446 Google reviews.
Mastro's Ocean Club works for date night because the room and the food both help the evening land. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 1,386 Google reviews.
Morton's The Steakhouse works for date night in Seaport because the room and the food both help the evening land. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 1,248 Google reviews.
Smith & Wollensky - Boston works for date night because the room and the food both help the evening land. It also holds a 8.8 rating across 1,679 Google reviews.
Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse is an easy yes when you want somewhere that feels considered rather than fussy. It also holds a 8.8 rating across 1,530 Google reviews.
Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse looks like a good night-out option in Boston because it reads polished without feeling overly formal. It also holds a 8.6 rating across 2,019 Google reviews.
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