This restaurant is a throwback to the days when green-coated servers pushed guéridon carts through fine dining rooms. A magnificent oval bar anchors the restaurant, the fifth location of the Des Moines, Iowa–based chain.
Highlight: The USDA Prime beef here sports equally prime prices.
Best Value: One of the most expensive restaurants in town offers one of the best deals: At 801 Chophouse, the Sunday prix-fixe menu is $33 for three courses.
Insider Tip: During happy hour, from 4–6 p.m. Sunday through Friday, both 801 Chophouse and 801 Fish discount by-the-glass wines by 50 percent and offer the biggest and best cold shrimp in town.
Beverage: The wine list is a perennial recipient of the wine world’s equivalent of the Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
Dish: Oh, that beef: perfect searing, concentrated flavor, and that ultimate texture, through which a knife glides with just the right amount of resistance.
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