Louisville, KY
For Steakhouse in Louisville, the local food press points to Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse, Louisville, Le Moo, and Brooklyn and The Butcher. Picks from LEO Weekly, updated July 2026.
Editor’s picks
Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in LEO Weekly. Updated July 2026.
Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse, Louisville · Downtown
LEO Readers' Choice 2025 Best Steakhouse. The Fourth & Main Street white-tablecloth room that locals send out-of-towners to for dry-aged Prime and the Louisville power-dinner room.
Le Moo · Cherokee Gardens
LEO food critic Robin Garr's steakhouse pick and a 2025 Readers' Choice top finisher. Quality steaks in a room with a Drag Brunch and a Lexington Road identity all its own.
Brooklyn and The Butcher · New Albany
LEO critic Robin Garr's across-the-river pick. The New Albany steakhouse-and-raw-bar hybrid for chops and shellfish that he counts in the Louisville-metro picks.
Repeal Oak Fired Steakhouse · Whiskey Row
LEO Weekly readers voted it first in the 2024 Readers' Choice steakhouse category. Indiana beef and Wyoming wagyu cook over bourbon barrel oak staves inside Hotel Distil on Main Street, and the reviewer said the vegetable sides were worth ordering on their own merits. A steakhouse that did not treat the rest of the menu as an afterthought.
Pat's Steak House · Clifton
A Brownsboro Road holdout since 1958, run by Pat Francis since 1976, and placed second by LEO Weekly readers in the 2024 Readers' Choice steakhouse category. Robin Garr scored it 90 out of 100 for hand cut steaks served in a room that never left the 1950s. Cash only, Tuesday through Saturday, and entirely uninterested in changing.
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